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This is it, i would just liek to do a system that was interesting and softer, dont know if youve heard of it but im looking at pencak silat.

The second point really. Too much. I think that once yu know what your trying to do you can repeat it as you say. But to go on and on and on means you never get there. thats the experience i had. Once yur on the right track move on but keep doing basics. just dont explain them as if they are brand new techniques ever damn lesson

Hey Dijjita good luck man, unleesh a whole can of whoop * on them

Yes but how hard aer these techniques. Yes you need to put your limbs in the right place and be correctly balanced etc. But it seems to me it is concentrated upon to a point where it SEEMS harder than it is. Does that make scnse?

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yeah, great. clever answer. Wushu weopons arent bad actually.

Speaking from personal experience i spent some time doing Wushu. I found that the techniques were made far more complicated by explaining them and going into a detail that was of no use. Analyzing until it became meaningless. When i took a break and went back a coule of months later i had taken the time to figure this out and left shortly after. I wonder if in the west we try to look to much into things and make it hardly to learn in doing so.

The prayers were there to protect them, they had a double use, what more can i say.

Yes that is true , prayers are written and roled inside them as well.

Similar sort of effect, the crushing effect on the knuckles uldis bone calouses.Which make you knuckles tougher without the damaging effect on your wrists that punching something hard has. More important than this is strong wrist. Use wrist curls to do this.

Yes this makes more scense. At least it cleared up now. I never thought about using it to the throat, good application.

Have any of you thai boxers out there thought of doing a softer art to balance out your thai boxing, maybe you already do,. I find that because thai boxing is so tough on the mind and body that i feel a need to balance this with something like aikido. I dont quite understand why. Any idea?

Sorry ive come into thsi late but there were comments really early about choosing a ring art over a battle field art. Thai boxing is a battle field art that is also a ring system. Thai boxing has been used for real batttle more than ANY other martial art. Thai boxers used to have blades on their knees and elbows and sword in each hand. In this manner an elbow or knee were lethal. Thai boxing has records dating back to 3000 years ago. So get your facts right. You can still train with the weapons in thai boxing and you can do the neck breaks and ground fighting as well. What you see in the ring is a cut down version. Dont know if you have ever watched a thai boxing match. When they first enter the ring the fighters wear a head band and arm bands as well. The head band traditionally has a brass plate at the top on the inside. This is a tourniquet for the leg which in battle would be taken off the head places on the leg and tightened to close the femural artery. The arm bands have a brass plate between the tricep and bicep. This is a tourniquet for the arms should they be chopped off in battle.

It strikes me from reading the forum that there seems to be many systems that make a mountain out of a mole hill (and other cliches) out of what are basic techniques. I have done a few different systems and now that i think about it i experienced this in other systems(i wont name but leave this as a general discussion). Its as if techniques are made to appear harder than they are in class, not on purpose, as a metter of course. I mean kicks and punches arent that complicated. I guess that is what attracted me to my system.

Savate is a shoe system. By that I mean it is designed to fight with shoes on. The kicks reflect this. As in kick boxing the the foot is in line with the shin, savate has the foot at a right angle so the toe of the shoe digs in. Same with front kick. It also uses alot odf sweeps, to good effect as well. At a thai boxing show i was at a long time ago a french savate guy fought a thai boxer. The savate guy won, mainly through the use of these sweeps. However, it was a bit of an unfair fight as the savate guy had over 50 fights and the thai boxer had 3. LOL but it wasnt bad though. Savate is a good system from wha i have seen and i would rate it above standard kickboxing (seen many shows). I didnt kow that TKD contained Knee and elbow trikes. Can i ask is this a proper part of TKD or just something black belts do once a month. I ask because Knee and elbow are done from day one at a thai boxing gym.

I just tried this is my living room and it seems to me as your foot is bent over sideways that if you landed the front part of you foot by accident you would do yourself some nasty damage.

Fighters at our gym have to do 8 mile runs 3 to 4 times a week with one day with sprints rounds on pads are 5 mins with one min break or 3 mins with one min break depending on level of fighter, other than that the usual

Ok hyperthetical question. Take one person clone them. Train one in TKD for a year full time and the other clone in MT for a year full time. Remove all outside influence. Remember its hyperthetical. Question is, if they were to then fight for real who would your money be on? Im with the MT guy. Asking to show that systems are different and that therefore they will make a difference.

Didnt know they did that, i would be interested to hear the answer as well. I cant think of any reason to do it like this. Unless is relates to somekind of clothing or armour that was worn then that had a narrow gap, but then that would be some silly armour!

Hey angelica do you train in your own time. This help alot. When i train on my own i do it slowly and concentrate on running through everything i know so that i really get thinking. I think this helps alot. I think the key is to do it slowly on your own.

From what i remember its as good as compulsary to do at least 6 months as a monk in thailand.

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yes, i agree too. joint locks are pretty useless. Only good when trying to restrain but if it kicks off forget it.

yes, seven star, i agree completely. Also raises the question what happens of the other guy is throwing "bunches of punches". I personally believe it is not possible to keep a determined punchin opponent out of punching range with kicks alone for any length of time due to the inability to throw rapid combinations. What do you think?

My point is that due to this variation and particularly the speed in which you can throw a combination i would go for punching, if it were a clear choice, as well as the obvious balance problem.