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lol, true

so whats is a traditional MA? Has anyone figured this out yet? Whats the opposite? Modern? So whats a modern MA?

Dont get too excited man your still a bunch of losers.

well done KK *, now if youve got the dangly bits lets see you get in the MT ring. But, yeah, well done.

Ive a read many posts of this vs that. The arguments go backwards and forwards and people give examples f fight theyve seen etc. Now, stop me if im wrong but surely the easiest way to think these things through is to look at them more sceintifically. For example the Does size matter? thread, heres how i look at it. take myself , imagine i clone myself, make the clone 1 foot taller. make them fight each other who would win? See what you guys always do is throw in all these other factors. But to truly test you have to do some reasoning in your mind. You could do the same for style. take someone yo know that doesn do any MA. Imagine you clone them and send them to learn different styles with extatly the same level of training and the same instructor. now make them fight. Now i know you have to do this in your head but i think you can work out the answers to what are often some very simple questions in this way. Of course if you are biased in your head then you wont get the right answer. blah blah blah

Hope someone can help with this. Im thinking of training in Thailand for up to a year full time. Im currently looking at Fairtex and Lanna. In a way id rather go to Lanna for a few reaons. It will be much cheaper, which i have to take into consideration and it will get me up to Chiang Mai for a bit as ive neverbeen there. Im wondering if Lanna is a good camp compared to the camps in bangkok. The bangkok gyms are known to be the best but Lanna looks very professional. Anyone know anything?

fear getting to you is it devil, MT too hard, oh well. Not all of us can be real men i suppose

muaythaifreak , i cant help wholehaertedly agreeing with you but it might be an idea to remember that there are some on the forum that may find your coments a little offensive, although you have pointed out that TKD has some good points.

lol, been to lumpinee a few times (got the ringside keyring! lol), agree with you completely.

Hey Delta so did the scan confirm that you are a CAT or are you bordering on human?

yeah but dont try and sell it to het, tell her what you get from it. try and make it relate to what she feels. so she can feel she identifies with you.

cool i wondered where it came from, thanks for that, its one we use alot as well as: "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up." which is vince lombardi "Some people dream of great achievements, others stay awake and do them." - Beth Lukens and others but i side track.

i understand what your saying cross but just as someone that only swings hook is is easy to counter so is the straight blast. I have done the straight blast as i was taught it whilst doing JKD. I find it easy to counter by quater turning and countering. If you end up covering up you can still throw a good low kick and that stops it, in fact you can stop a straight blast by throwing a pwerful counter immediately such as long knee as their rapid forward movement works against them. I think the straight blast is useful but i dont bother with cos i dont need it and dont find it useful for myself, i can make better opeings in other ways.

Um knives, i thought the question was grappling vs striking. Actually i thouht on first reading that this was about the best way to beat the living cr@p out of this guys cousin just cos he was drunk. now im confused. Personally if i could only do one it would be striking as 100% of fights start standing even if 90% end up on the floor. However, i think its a silly question. Not just because there is no real point to it. But primarily because the the person asking the question thinks the answer is both.

Humm this is interesting, i think there is a confusion between traditional and modern MA. Some styles of karate only date back to the 1920's i would classify anything in the last 100 years or so to be modern. Modern vs Traditional doesnt make any sence Traditional isnt the opposite of modern a tradition can be only 10 years old. MT is a traditional system All MA are. I think the quesition here is many questions. But i could summarize with a few breif ones which would make this a more logical conversation. Is your art stationary. I.e. is it still evolving. is it adding new techniques? in this regard MT is seen as a modern system because it adds new stuff all the time. OR has it been the same since it was created. Was your system evolved over time or was it created by one person? do you spar full contact? these are the real questions there may be more. Quite frankly modern vs traditoinal makes no sence and neither do the arguments on this thread as its quite clear you guys cant distinguish what these two are because you are asking a question that means different things to different people.

I think we are roughly on the same line but my understanding of it is as i said. As for Bruce Lee, ive never seen him fight so i cant really comment. I have no idea if he can fight well or not, i have studied JKD , not extensively.

some people call it a rabbit punch, it is a fast left right straight punch done rapidly and continuously whilst moving forward quickly. It doesnt have power and is in fact not necessarily meant to hurt. Its designed to confuse and create openings, to make your opponent cover up or turn in confusion. Its disadvantage is that it is linear and therefore easy to counter, the technique must therefore be very fast and hence the name straight blast.

Its hard to answer without offending anyone. Im not trying to offend. Personally i think that unless you train the techniwues full contact on a regular basis you have very little chance of using them succesfully. Unfortunately you made the assumption that kempo does not feature in UFC. it has done and has done ok, I have one fight on video and the guy wins cant remember the name of it. I maintain that UFC is the closest we have to the real thing. If you were going into it wouldnt you want to have the best chance of winning? there is something telling me that people assume UFC guys have little skill and use brute force. Remember these guys train full time and under THE best instructors in the world. http://www.wrestlingkingdom.com/ufc/ufcmain.html if you look through the UFC results here you will find some Kempo wins.

Maybe do it in steps, some reason this reminds me of that episode of freinds where chandler is getting married to monica and on the day he keeps hiding and running away. Roass talks to him and gets him to just do one step at a time. So here it would be to get her to realise she wants to do MA. Then just get her to fill out the form, no more. When shes has done that refocus on the fact she wants to do MA and get her to send the form in. then once she is that far she may be prepared to do ONE class, and thats important. Tell her only one class, no pressure otherwise she will never know. When she has done one class see what her reaction is and go from there. In the end chandler did get married and it was only at the alter and he was actually doing it did he realise it was the best turning point his life had taken. lets hope this will be the same for this troubled young woman.

lol you didnt get it, read it again, its a thing we say at my gym when some complains we say use mind over matter, they say what do you mean??? we say if you dont mind it doesnt matter.

designed for those with limithed fighting ability. easy to counter with hooks ok against someone that doesnt know what they are doing

lol good stories, by the way the wasnt meant crying thing wasnt meant literally, unless you did cry.

There are not many rules in UFC, what sort of thing did you have in mind ?

because UFC fighters dont just do a style then go into the ring. They choose systems to study nad then use them in the ring, for them to choose a system it has to be affective, oftent they will try things but due to their wealth of experieince they can quickly see what will and wont work.

When you reach that point in training where you want to give up either through pain or exhaustion whats goes through your head. Do you stop or practice mind of matter, if you dont mind, it doesnt matter? also, what was your hardest lesson ever? what made you