47MartialMan

A friend of mine went to Korea. TKD is trained much harder there.

I had onle briefly read about it. Anyone have a good link on it?

but then, in my few years i have l have learnt sufficient to answer questions that you could not. Just because I ask questions and make statements does not mean I do not have the answers. Although no one KNOWS ALL of the answers. like the old adage goes; it's about quality, not quantity. Through time and age come more information. take your posting for instance. in three days you have notched up 200+ posts, most of which are practically pointless/useless/meaningless. Perhaps. Or I may have a hodden agenda. i think i have yet to see one bit of useful info in your posts...... Useful to who? You seem to have a answer for everything. nice example of quantity, not quality. Quality for whom? Who are you to judge quality?

You dont need to train in them to know about them... Good point

Not trying to impress, just sticking things out there for responses, opinions, and feedback.

Good do you practice this?

I used the common spelling, I knew of the others.

Good in matches, but can they be used un Self Defense/Street Fighting applications?

I agree, but apkido was developed AFTER JJ. The founder of Aikido went to Japan and studied Takeda(something like that) Jiu Jitsu. He is recorded as a student there. I came across something like this while doing research on Korean Martial Arts. Also, Korea had a art called Yudo. Did you know that?

The first and most obvious is that vessel walls weaken and strengthen (in different parts at different time) over the course of the day. Bascially something like that I was trying to state. Another obvious falining is the assertion that clots in the blood stream do not normally travel. They do. I said they traveled Finally, this ignores the visceral reality of the nature of many of the dim-mak stikes (and, indeed, non-strikes); which are not of a force or location to accomplish said activity. Explain further???? That said, one most certainly can cause clotting (or in older victims like myself, simply release plaque) with a strike to a large artery... it's one of the dangers of doing the "side of the neck" knock-out strike. Any such blow could do this. Acutally, if a blood clot does not kill you relatively quickly, then your kidney's will filter it out... that's their job. Agreed Having personaqlly hit and been hit with energetic attacks which get worse over time; they are generally fixable in the same manners they are inflicted. "Energetic"? I have... I've done double-blind testing on aspectes of non-contact qigong. I'm sorry to hear that he is appealing to his own ignorance that he not seeing it means it's not there. I certainly welcome you to the school... I have a few that are pretty obvious to feel. We (he and I) are talking about those Qi Gong parlor tricks like breaking, bed of nails, etc. I felt those stimulis and do not think its a mysterious energy.

Qi Gong (Chi Kung) with demo pics...watemelon slcing, swora, spear...stuff like that

OK let's see..... What Karate system had the swastika as its symbol on the Gis and do you know why?

I agree

TKD is not a ancient art like people have been led to believe. Bascially it is a art comprised of other Korean instructors at the time that wanted to unify a sport or common subject for nationalism.

Isn't Hapkido from Japaense JJ?

What? Yes, lets have more color choices. Maybe they should match the belt, the uniform, the walls, your car, your hair......

Good point

It is not. But, it has influenced many other martial arts systems, esp Karate.

Problem is, it the oponent is large and exprienced, you would not have enough time to apply one.

Interesting article, do you have others/links?

Yes, those are just to name a few. Look up some old Chinese masters. Check Master Pan.....etc...Shuai Jiao......etc....

Contact you later

I had trained in a school that had a concrete floor (which you fell on hard). The instructor was so involved with fighting, esp streetfighting, that he would set a "cooking timer" for 3 minutes a let combatants go at it..no pads and you better get off the flooor if you fell. Worse, for advanced students, he would wheelbarrow and shovel parking lot gravel on the floor and students go at it. Many nasty bruises and scratches from those sessions...and not many from the opponents. Needless to say, there were no juveniles and written combat agreement.

Schools are for Educational Studies, not fighting studies. DM, that photo keeps freaking me out

go forth young man