Luckykboxer

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I dont know which city he is in, but there is an American Kenpo instructor out there named Sharky Lecroy(not sure on spelling) he is a great instructor, hes an old full contact fighter from the 70s... good guy, funny, well trained and a good teacher. I will see if i can find where he is at

hehe Arnold is short too.. Met him a few times, I always expected to look up at him, first time i met him was years ago at fishermans warf in san francisco. guy walking by grabbing everyones attention, and see a very normal sized guy appeared to be about 3 inches or so shorter then me walked right by... i recognized him but it didnt register when it did i kinda laughed and though damn i thought he was bigger. Its funny how short actors are. Sylvester Stallone is tiny as well, and so is Chuck Norris.. I actually got to be an extra in his ridiculously dumb movie top dog that was filmed in my hometown of Poway.... really dumb movie.. /shrug

im surprised i missed this one.. Bruce Lee had to be in the 5% range definitely lower then 8% IMO from my first hand knowledge the lowest my body fat has ever been was 8%. It was ridiculous how low i had to keep my carbs and how much cardio i had to do to maintain this. most professional bodybuilders will peak at 3-4% bodyfat for their contests, and even that is dangerous. Mike Matarazzo collapsed on stage with nearly every muscle in his body cramping up, and he went into shock and was hospitalized and that was just below 3% bodyfat when that happened. You are probably going to have a well defined ab and oblique at anywhere from 8% - 11% or so your obliques will start to disappear after 11-12% depending on how you gain fat and where you gain it you can still have a six pack up to around 15%...but it wont be real hard.... it will be a soft 6 pack. 8-10% bodyfay is healthy but hard to maintain. 11-12% bodyfat is fairly easy to maintain once you get there, jsut hard to get there. 13-16% bodyfat is pretty easy to maintain without any serious dieting. 17% and higher is getting fat and requires either low metabolism, bad diet, or little workout, or any combination of the three.

hey satellite... I was born in Belgium btw anyways... sometimes eys it could be a long fight. But alot of the time I have seen people give up when they see someone basically hitting them in many different spots and ways in a short period of time, and have complete control while making them look rather silly. For some odd reason I have always looked at fighting much like a chess game.. and like chess you can get a check mate in 4 moves, or it can be a grueling long battle.. /shrug

I guess it would depend on the intent as i view it from the attacker.. If the attacker is coming at me with hands and feet only im probably going to block him and try to talk him down...... If he is coming at me with a weapon then i am going to block adn counter attack to remove the weapon(club, stick, etc) If he is coming at me with a gun or knife and has it ina position to kill me, then i will act accordingly, to block, remove the threat as quickly and safely as possible to me and any other bystanders....t aht doesnt always mean i have to try to kill the person, and most of the time my first move wont be to kill them, but if it were to become apparant i couldnt stop him i would have no qualms about ending his life to protect mine or innocent bystanders... but that would be an extreme last case scenario, and only when the rest of my options failed

umm ya Most Solid I have been in far far worse situations, I have lost control 1 time, although i will say that i used too much force at times, but that was way before i had any martial arts training, you seem to make it a habit.... kicking people who are unconcious, kicking others who are down, and thats just two fights..and after you have been trained in martial arts.... While I have never been in the Philipines I have been in some bad areas for extended periods of time in the US, and I spent a long period of time in Brazil and saw quite a bit down there. To be honest I am completely unimpressed with your story, if you had defended yourself and not gone haywire after the guy was unconcious id give you props, but I find you to be a thug, not a martial artist. You seem to thrive on physically injuring your opponents, I find that cowardly. Winning, or Surviving, or thriving in a street situation is quite a bit different then trying to injur others, I look at you as a predator in your situation, I read what you wrote but it seems to me that you look for trouble, I know people who live in the philipines and trained there and not one of them had the same outlook on the area as you had. And I can tell you another thing, Although I am not one to shy away from a street fight, when I am in one, my biggest desire is not to injur my opponent as seems to be your goal, sure sometimes it may be required if the situation is desperate enough, but I think you are definitely tkaing it way way overboard I dont know why i am wasting my energy on this though... I think its apparant you think your a good guy, you think you are in the right, and you think you are a well trained martial artist with the right state of mind. I am almost willing to take bets on how long till your dead or in jail if that truely is how you live....

ok Most solid you are completely out of line. you are living in some drug induced state it sounds like. IF you actually live like you type here then we wont have to wonder if the moderators banned you because you would actually be dead... But i have a strong feeling that you fall intot he other category, the category of people who are the 500 pound internet gorilla.. I think you posted a topic you thought was good, and probably felt a little attacked by the response and then posted a defensive post adn when that was attacked you decided to strike out without fear of any real repurcussions. My advice to you, is to let it go, admit you are posting ridiculously and move on.

umm it wasnt any hells angel, it was Chuck Zito.... who has a Black Belt in martial arts, and was a golden gloves boxer, and is a serious Bad *! basically Jean Claude was talking a bunch of stupid trash.... I have met him he does this..... and Chuck Zito just punched him, Jean Claude didnt respond he didnt want anything to do with Chuck, but then not many people on the planet would also someone else said that Hells Angels are the 1%ers... actually they are the original 1%ers but all Biker gangs are considered 1%ers. But ya Jean Claude is a pompous * alot of the time

that wasnt exactly what i meant soulassassin hehe. I mean that no physical technique you can do short of killing, or completely impairing someone can guarantee they wont come back after you either then or later. But if the person is mentally and emotionally finished, and thinks there is nothing they can do to win(obviously this has alot to do with their moral code) then you have ended the fight. Unfortunately now days, you can beat someone up, knock them out, hurt them and they still dont think they lost, they think you got lucky, and while you assume the fight is over they are just getting started. I personally think if you hurt someone bad, then you better be ready for them to come back after you. Also once you have made your point and the opponent has mentally and emotionally given up, its a good idea to quit and move on instead of press the point and reenergize the opponent.. Far too often i have seen someone outclass an opponent and have the opponent reach the defeated stage, only to see the victor go on and press it for whatever dumb reason and end up pushing the wrong buttons and he has a fight on his hands again that he isnt ready for and he cant win. does that make more sense?

hrmm to me the most exciting is Full Muay Thai... in real life competition. the best in movies would have to be some of the more exotic styles like the Kung Fu styles, or possiblyt he capoeira styles with the fancy jumps and flips...

hrmm thats a tough one. Bruce Lee had incredible kicks, but they were not really flashy... Chuck Norris has always had fairly flashy kicks, and they were effective. Van Dam has purely magical kicks that look as good on film as anything you could possibly see, but they are not very practical. The absolute best line/kick in film history has to belong to Billy Jack however... " I am goin to take this foot, and kick you on that side of your face..... and you know what?..... there isnt a damn thing you can do about it... WHAKKK" So i guess the most entertaining kicks have to go in this order in my mind..... Billy Jack Van Dam Chuck Norris Bruce Lee

you know, I dont know how serious you are about getting in better physical shape, or how far you want to take it, but if you are really interested in immersing yourself into it then I might suggest reaching one of the certifying bodies for personal training. ISSA AIM there are alot of them, but they have courses, usually a take home study kit that you go over on your own time, and then when you are ready they have seminars that go over all the information and test you adn eventually certify you. I got my certification through ISSA, and while i have never used it for work, I got it for my own knowledge on training. It goes into very specific information on body types, and how the body works in relation to building it. It is pretty intense information, but if you are interested it really doesnt get any better.

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Please nothing. I didnt say that everyone should go see the doctor, I said he specifically should. If someone just asked for normal advice then I would have not made this assessment. But when there is an extreme case with extreme circumstances, it requires attention from a professional. I can spout off nutritional information as i am sure many others here can as well, and for most people that is more then fine Now when someone claims they have a learning disability, and there is no idea on how serious or what it entails then it is not a good idea to be tossing out information like that. There is absolutely nothing positive in this situation that we here in this community can give to him other then having him go see his doctor and getting his questions answered directly from someone who knows all about his particular scenario Now if you personally dont understand how dangerous the situation here can possibly be, then there is nothing i can say that will change you mind, and in that case i am wasting my energy even responding. Besides my comments were directed to the original poster especially to get his attention and try to lead him in the direction I consider the most likely to help him, as I am positive everyone else tried to do as well.

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the absolute best technique for ending a fight is emotional and mental devastation. As soon as your opponent knows he has no chance to win and has no desire to continue. There is absolutely no better way to end a fight then you opponent completely stopping of his own free will

I completely Disagree. If you get into a fight on the street and automatically go for the groin and knees.... you are definitely 100% going to end up in a lawsuit someday. Not every situation requires drastic force. Every situation is different. For example. I was jumped one day near a blockbuster video store, I had my car window open and three guys walking buy decided they wanted my car, so as i was reaching down to grab the videos to return from my passenger seat I felt a wizz of air past my face as i half dodged and he half missed. I got out of the car and proceeded to meet my attackers with the force i felt was fine to deal with it... I think the worst damage any of them suffered was perhaps a broken nose tops, and a fwe bruises, and a hurt ego. the funny thing was I was on my way to my karate class and i had my karate GI pants and a karate shirt on, and i had my black belt draped over my shoulders.... I live only a few miles from my school, when i leave the house i have my gi pants, my Karate shirt that says karate on it, and i toss my gi top in the back seat and i have my belt around my neck.... just a habit i got into as an easy way to go from point A to point B and carry all my stuff. The look on these three guys faces was pretty classic when i stepped up from my car.... yes i have a honda accord and sit my seat way back and low so i look deceptively small in my car... yet i guess they figured they had commited and I also am pretty sure they were either drunk or high on something... they were all smaller then me. I could have easily started drop kicking nuts and snapping kneecaps, but I am almost positive if i had there would have been long term consequences from it. Point is? the point is that every situation is different.. if you are in a life or death situation, then a kneecap or groin may not be enough... you may have to go for a life ending technique(hopefully not) and on the other hand, if you are in a situation that can be resolved with less force, then you better use it or you will eventually face the consequences, you are training so that you can defend yourself and regulate your power and skills to handle any situation with appropriate force.... which means you mentally and emotionally ahve to mature and be able to make snap judgements that effect the lives of not just yoruself or your attacker, but all the people associated with them.

welcome aboard hehe Scorpio here btw /grins evilly October 28th

congrats Ramy... I watched botht he mens and womens events.. I have to say i was really impressed with the women, no mistakes really.. they were really focused and consistent Congrats!

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Kenpo Karate is a modern, progressive, street self-defense art originally taught in Hawaii by James Mitose who was born in Hawaii but raised as a youth in Japan where he learned his family art of Kosho Ryu Kenpo. He returned to Hawaii as a teenager and lived there for many years. His national loyalty was called into question with the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. This must have been a very trying time for him but he decided that his loyalty was to the United States of America which had taken him in as one of there own. He began teaching martial arts to the Territorial National Guard shortly thereafter. James Mitose taught his Kenpo Jiu Jitsu (title of his 1947 book) to, among others, William KS (Thunderbolt) Chow in the 1940's. Professor Chow, as he would become known, combined this new Kenpo knowledge with his previous knowledge from his family Kempo art, which he learned from his father, Hoon Chow. He combined all of this knowledge with his experience as a well-known and feared island street fighter and began teaching his Kara Ho Kempo to other local tough guys who wanted to learn how to fight better. In those days Hawaii was a melting pot of many Asian cultures. Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Okinawans, and Filipinos. In addition, American military personal and local indigenous peoples found themselves mixing together in the local neighborhoods. With the levels of pride these cultures have in their fighting arts you could imagine how much real life testing was going on in those days on the mean streets of Honolulu. Rumor and story has it that those were tough days out of which came some very effective martial arts. Professor Chow's Kempo was respected as one of the most fierce and effective arts to emerge from that era. Several of Professor Chow's students went on to evolve their own arts or to expand and evolve what the Professor had shown them. Adriano Emperado trained under William Chow then went on to contribute to the formation of Kajukenbo. Nick Cerio and Sam Kuhoa went on to form their own systems using what they had learned from William Chow as their base system. Probably Chow's most well known student was Edmund Kealoa Parker (1931-1990) who went on to form what he called, and we continue to call, American Kenpo. Mr. Parker's training with Professor Chow would prove to be his calling in life. After high school he attended Brigham Young University in Provo Utah where he graduated with a major in Sociology and a minor in Psychology. He had taught some self-defense courses to other students and law enforcement personnel in the area. Through his connections he received a job offer in Los Angeles. He moved to L.A. where that offer fell through so he decided to open a Kenpo Karate School in Pasadena in 1956. Mr. Parker's school is said to have been the first martial arts school open to the general public in the country. Others challenge this claim but we can definitely say that his was one of the first commercial martial arts schools in the United States. Mr. Parker was a great practitioner and teacher, but he also was an outstanding entrepreneur. He ran a successful school, formed what would become the largest Kenpo organization in the world (the IKKA) and started what became the largest and most prestigious karate tournament in the country, if not the world, for many years. The International Karate Championships became the showpiece that launched the martial arts careers of many well-known practitioners who then became entertainers as well, most notably Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris. Other well known practitioners whose lives and careers were influenced by Mr. Parker include Jeff Speakman, Joe Lewis, Bill Wallace, Bennie Urquidez, and Dan Inosanto, to name a few. It would not be an exaggeration to say that Mr. Parker was the seed from which sprang the most influential martial artists of the 20th Century. He is responsible for discovering and/or displaying the talent that would bring martial arts to the mainstream of American society.

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welcome to the boards!!! I am sorry about your negative experience. My suggestion would be however to go visit your old school, or at least your old style if it is at a different school. there is something to be said for completing something that peopel start. I have seen such a boost to peoples self esteem and confidence when they reach a hard plateau like their black belt! Escpecially those that quit for whatever reason and came back to accomplish it! It might be fun to bring your daughter in and have her join as well... In myu experience family makes it funner and makes it much more motivating!

I have a very strong opinon on this and i think it is very straightforward so here goes... Video Training makes an excellent addition to regular training in person, I think that a combinaiton of video training and personal training is the absolute best way to go. Next would be personal training alone. Next would be Video Training alone Last would be no training at all. So basically if you have no other option i think it can be beneficial for sure. Now for my advice.... try to find a school in your area that teaches Taichi, and hopefully has a video/dvd you can purchase and train with. take the video home and go through it, and as you feel comfortable contact the school and schedule a private lesson or two.. at some point you will get the taichi form down with acombination of video and personal lessons and will be able to follow allong with or without the video. good luck with it i hope you enjoy