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I was wondering if people who practice chinese martial art spar in class and do you go all out or do you pull your punches/kicks/knees/elbows and so on. I mean Full contact sparring, not point sparring.

SubGrappler, why is it in practice i see karateka practice low horse stance and punching from the hips and when they spar they use none of it, even 3rd degree black belts? Why am i taught this stuff and told to use different stuff when i'm fighting(like don't leave your hands extended, keep your hands up, move don't be a stationary target and so on so on)? I'm asking here because i am afraid of asking my sensei. I don't want to offend him.

hi all, can someone tell me why in karate we do forms and kata but when we spar we use boxing stance and throw jabs and round house and uppercuts? why don't i see anyone at a karate tournament use the moves from the kata? Can someone please explain? thank you. sorry if this is a stupid question.

I believe in thai boxing, it seems really realistic, moving away from an attach, not extending the arm to block. I don't believe in blocking with your arm extended. I believe that if you block, than that is your move(action) and now it is your opponents action or move. I would love to learn jkd,tkd,karate,kung fu, krav etc. but i have yet to see any martial art that has a good/realistic counter to a punch then boxing/thaiboxing. i've been searching the net and i have taken karate for a short period of time. My sensei in karate taught me katas and forms and i see him practice kata and form but when i saw him fight/spar he did none of it, he started boxing. what happen to all the stuff he was teaching me? when you say hit and move, and multiple strikes, isn't that boxing? With no time to respond? The guys I have fought somehow seem to respond quicker than I could respond to him, and they never took martial art. They just went crazy on me. I am realistic, I don't expect to beat 2 guys at the same time, I would be happy winning against one. I practice bjj now, and i am just a blue belt. I found that i am able to beat guys that out weight me by 60 pounds or more fairly easy. They just didn't know what to do when we ended up on the ground. Now if i can find an art for the stand up then i would be set. is JKD like karate or is it like boxing? I box a little and can do ok against guys my size but with bigger guys it doesn't work. I would hit them 5 times with my body in the punch and i don't even move them. But when they hit me to the shoulder and go flying to the ground. It is hard for bigger guys to hit me, but after a while they do, and I end up on the ground. I don't mind getting hit, but i can't take the punch very well from big guys. what should i do? I don't want to learn martial art to fight guys my size, because no one my size pick on me, only guys much bigger and sometimes faster. there must be something i can do/learn.

if you are in a fight and his friends are there and they want to jump in, it doesn't matter if you are on the ground or not you will get stumped. if 2 or more guys that is about the same size as you or bigger want to take you to the ground and stump you, that is where you are going. all this talk about multiple apponents is full of craps. if 2 or more guys want to kick your butt and you can't run fast enough then you better hope they don't beat you too bad. Its best not to fight back cause if you do, you are in for more of a beating. I am a small guy, 140 pound, 5'8; most guys that want to fight me are 6 feet, 190 and up. I have never met anyone smaller than me that wants to fight me. I live in a bad neighborhood and i am asian. people want to kick my butt just because i look different. I've been attack for no reason, by people i have never met or spoken too. I've even been attacked from behind by people I have never seen for no reason. I have been knocked out 2 times. Maybe I can't take a punch, but being 140lb and getting hit by someone that outweight you by 60 pounds does major damage. I train martial art to defend myself, but I am realistic. I know if I get hit with a solid shot I am done. I've also know that my punching power isn't great. I can bench 205 but still I am 140 lbs and the guys that want to fight me is usually 190 and up(once it was with a fat guy that weight like 260). I've notice that most guys that think they can beat people with puching and kicking are usually 6' tall and 200 lbs. hey if I was that big i would stand and punch and kick too. its always the guy that weight 250 pound that is telling me "hey you need to through your body into your punches". He wants me to stand there and trade punches with a guy that is 110 pounds more than me. give me a break. I've been in enough fights to know that I can't take a punch from a big guy. has anyone notice that most martial art always has one guy through one punch and the other guy would through like 500 different moves at the attacker while the attacker stands there. Read this carefully: In real life no one will stand there while you punch him in the face, twist his arm, kick him in the groin, sweep him, and god knows what else you imagine in your head. I believe and have experience that if two people are standing then it is one action for one reaction and vice versa. as soon as you through a punch, your opponent will either punch back , move, grab, kick etc. He will not stand there while you do your demonstration. look back at your technic, do you have any technic that will work one for one or does all your technic require you to do 2 or more action for his one action. Unless you are flash, what makes you think you are so fast that you can pull off 2 or move actions(moves) to his one. i am a beginner so please forgive me if i have offended anyone. this is just my thoughts.

i need to find a jiu-jitsu school in vietnam to train. if any one knows please reply

if you order the masters text you will get the basic book also. I bought it and it is pretty good if you use it. if you don't then its like buying an excercise machine and not using it. The books are pretty good. if you learn everything from it then you will be very good in jiu jitsu. you will learn many was to pass the guard, mount, turn overs, take down, sub-missions, alot. its a good book. but if you can, buy videos, they are better.

I started bjj last december and it was nerve recking so you can imagine how scared i was to enter a competition. My instructor Mike from MBJJ told me to go for it and that i would have fun. He also told me that i would learn alot from it. I wanted to learn so i took his advice and entered the grapplers edge challenge this past sunday and won 1st place with all three matches by submission. The guys I competed with were really tough and i was scared out of my mind. I'm really happy not only for winning but for the experience. So if there is anyone out there who wants to compete, i'd say go for it. Everyone in the tournament was really nice and i just wanted to thank everyone for being so nice. I can't wait for my next competition at the end of this month. And a big thankyou to everyone on this forum for all the knowledge they have shared.

I just started BJJ 2 weeks ago. I've read almost every article on this forum and found a school about 30 minutes from my house. the academy is upstairs of a building on the second floor. it was a little hard to find but i found it. I was scared but i said what the heck, i'll never learn by staying home. now i wish i had done it sooner. The instructor's name is Mike whom is a super nice guy. everyone was so nice to me i couldn't believe it. i've learned so much and i even decided to quit smoking because i want to get better. Everyone there trys to help the other guy. i love that. its like a big family. i can't wait until mondays class. the cool thing is the moves that Mike teaches really work. wow. i just started and i can do the moves. its so simple and so effective. I just wanted to thank Mike Mrkulic my instructor for everything and i encourage everyone who wants to start to go for it. i'm 30 years old and its great. check out https://www.MBJJ.com. the academy is in Montclair NJ. i'm posting this because i've search all over for a school around my area and couldn't find anything. Thanks everyone here for giving me so much information and courage to start BJJ. this forum is fantastic. thanks once again.