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Just tell him that you want to quit. If he asks for a reason, just tell him you want to explore something else. If he gets pissy, walk away.

"If you hit a bag wrong or with no power, big deal. You hit a concrete slab without enough power chances are it will break you." Exactly, I'd rather train safely and smart. Breaking your body on inanimate objects isn't fun and takes away from training time. Sure, it takes focus to make sure you have the accuracy and enough speed to transfer your kinetic energy into the cinderblock at the proper angle, but the cinderblock isn't a moving object and is more brittle than a person. Not a very good training method, if you ask me. I guess it would be kind of kewl to tell people that you can break bricks with your hands, that is if that person didn't know the tricks to it.

Interesting story. What I find very interesting is that the San Soo people claim that their Kung Fu is the most pure form of Kung Fu and encompasses all that the Bak Fu Pai claim also. History of San Soo dates back to "secret Shaolin kung fu" that wasn't taught anyone but priest for the longest time. I wonder how many other "Kung Fu" systems are the most pure and oldest. Hmmmmm

I think it's because I have always cross-trained from the beginning that I have complete mastery over my body. I can train in any art and incorporate it into my own "style". Where I see many times that people that have trained only 1 system have a hard time cross-training into most of the systems I teach. You'll start to notice, as you are exposed to and crosstrained in other arts, that they all start to look the same. Most of the martial arts have the same techniques, it's just the application, set-up and emphasis's change.

Dude, train in grappling and Muay Thai. You'll be hard to deal with by anyone, big or small. For a bigger man, it's not so much the art, it's your strategy that will prevail. I like to cut kick low against taller people. Use your height to your advantage and go after the lower targets that are harder for the taller man to defend. Speed and accuracy are ok, but against a bigger man, a person really needs power to do damage. You can shoot pellets at a tank all day and it won't do anything, but missles will tear a tank apart. I think speed and accuracy are better against smaller and quicker opponents that are hard to hit, a person doesn't need much power to put a smaller guy down. Always train yourself and assume in your training that your enemy will be taller, stronger, heavier and quicker.

Bones aren't brittle like cinderblocks, and neither do they have a grain to break along. The collar bone is an easy bone to break with any attack, but most bones are protected by muscle and tendon. Power, speed and conditioning is better trained by punching and kicking canvas bags. Bags don't hit back, but you can kick and punch them in repetition without stopping.

I llike to train martial arts because it's alot of fun and it rocks!

Havoc is somewhat correct. You have to remember that the San Shou guys train like the Thaiboxer do because they realize the effectiveness of Muay Thai style training. San Shou has been very much influenced by the effectiveness of Muay Thai training and technique. Just look at San Shou today as compared to 20 years ago. They were Muay Thai shorts and have a Thai-style stance. For that San Shou guy to win, I'm pretty sure they concentrated on take-downs and that's how they won. Make it an NHB or MMA event and the results would've been much different. Muay Thai is still acknowledged as King of the Ring.

12 cinder blocks or 3 boards. Doesn't matter. Inanimate objects are not like people. Boards not only don't hit back, but they don't move either. Breaking boards has nothing to do with self-defense and fighting.

Headbutts are taught in Muay Thai (places that don't just do sprt Muay Thai). Also, we learn locks, chokes and throws. Groundwork is really limited to just a couple of chokes and locks but a ton of striking drills. The emphasis is to break your opponent, and break them fast.

I read in the TKD rules of my brother's place while he was training. One rule really struck me as strange "no kicking with the shin". Is this true in olympic TKD? I guess they must know that the shin really hurts to get kicked with.

Every school is different. Every person is different. I am going to train all the current martial arts I train in until I die because I just can't imagine not training. I'm strange, i guess.

Train in whatever you feel. Soft or hard, internal or external, you'll find out that every art has many of the same techniques, just a little different way to do it or set it up. Do what you are interested in.

here is some info on "SCARS" check out the hype at https://www.scars.com Then look at some clips of SCARS at this link http://briefcase.yahoo.com/muaythaiadept That is Jerry Peterson, founder of SCARS, in the clips. What a joke that system is.

I am not much into full-contact sparring. It's a good test of skill once in a while, but you really don't learn from beating each other up. Sparring should be a training method, you need to learn when you do it. Try not to injure each other.

Yep.. obsessed with martial arts training. That's me.

https://www.kickboxing.com Check it out!

Yes, yes it is an art of war. From Krabi Kabrong came Muay Thai. Muay Thai is the empty hand version and has many combat oriented techniques. There is more to Muay Thai than what is in the ring. Krabi Kabrong is a great weapon art that doesn't just utilize the weapon, but also kicks, punches and headbutts. A weapon is great, but your body has many weapons built in also, why not use them in conjunction?

I'm Athiest I like to follow they philosophies of many different religions, but I don't believe in an afterlife, creator or reward other than just feeling happy about what I do.

I liked the Sherdog site, very good stuff. Here are a couple of clips with Kung Fu San Soo and some SCARS stuff. the SCARS stuff is.. not anything I would do. Http://briefcase.yahoo.com/mauythaiadept

http://www.geocities.com/kalipages/ There is a great source for Kali information http://www.martialartskoncepts.com/html/trainingnotebook/notebook.html A great place to learn about JKD

I'm not sure about the toe-knife, but it sounds interesting. They use virtually every weapon in Krabi Kabrong. Here is a list of a few Short Sword with a long handle- can be weilded one or 2 handed. 2 short swords Sword and Shield Staff Shield Sheild and Spear Spear and sword

"Another person told me..." come on Ken you can do better than that, your not telling me that you believe everything you hear are you? I'm wondering where you got this ever changing defenitions from, to make the statement, "the defenition...has changed a few times to suit the need of people who believe..." It comes from people such as yourself in different forums. There seems to never be a definite definition of "Chi". I think that Chi is interpreted and "practiced" in as many ways as the Christian bible is interpreted. It's really crazy.

I heard from Guro Inosanto that the famous "right to teach white people" fight was very sloppy, but not the 2 of them rolling around. From what Guro says, it was Bruce Lee chasing the Chinese fighter with his straight-blast attack. Guro said that Bruce Lee was so tired after that fight that it is then that he decided to come up with the JKD concept.

Chi.. energy that all life flows from. Oh wait, or was Chi just bio-electrical energy? No no, another "Chi" person told me that it's an explanation of how the body works. Hmm, yet another person tells me that Chi energy is the bonding energy that holds the universe together. Chi is just another word for energy is yet another definition. Someone told me that Chi is just positive thinking. How many definitions of "Chi" are there? How many more definitions are going to be created? Another person told me that "Chi" is air. There is yet another definition. Why can't a person come up with one definition and stick with it? Chi is interpreted as much as the Bible is. I think the next "definition" will be that Chi is all of the definitions mentioned above.. actually I'm sure of it. LOL