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I chose none because Boxing would be my choice.

When I shadowbox the Round kick, i don't stop my kick in the air.. I follow through all the way. Thai-boxers over-turn every kick, that's why it hurts to get kicked by it. Keep your leg relaxed and focus on turning your hip all the way over. When I make contact with my target, my goal is to have my hips turn all the way over.

Because it's a good topic of debate. If we all believed in the same ideals, then we wouldn't be different people, would we?

It is a very hard-core weapon art. They believe in using maximum power with almost every strike. Instead of trying to go around a persons defenses, they will just go through it. It is the Muay Thai of weapon arts and it rocks! A good Krabi Kabrong session will be just as exhausting as a Muay Thai session.

The chest pad has the little targets on it so that they judges can score points.

Chi is a big part of Taoist religion and also Buddhism. It is believed that Chi is the source of all life. If a person strengthens their Chi, then they are improving their spritual self. - source "The Root of Chinese Qigong" by Dr Yang, Jwing-Ming. You see, Chi was born of religion and religious thoughts of the Chinese people. Since then, the definition of "Chi" has changed a few times to suit the needs of people that believe in "Chi".

It's not a way of life for me. Martial arts is just my favorite activity. I don't analyze everything I do in terms of martial arts. Martial arts is another skill and tool that I use.

You will be interested in knowing that there are more ladies training in Muay Thai than I have ever seen before. These aren't big, manly women either. They are cute little ladies just as yourself. It's really scary that these beautiful girls are become really awesome at Muay Thai. Muay Thai can be hard on the body, just as any athletic activity can be. You just have to ease into it and take it slow at first. You might get a few bruises on your shin or elbow, bu that will get better after a couple months of continuous training. As for pricing, that will depend on your area and the school. My gym charges 75/month for unlimited hours of training. Most places in the USA will charge more for only 2 or 3 sessions of training a week. I train about 5 times a week, but I'm insane. You can train 2 or 3 times a week and become able to defend yourself well. My advice is this.. go out and try it. You won't know until you've tried it, whether or not you'll like it.

I'm talking about feeling the the way a person is moving based on touch sensitivity. It really has nothing to do with "Chi". I only say energy because it's a little easier to illustrate.

Shadow-box everything that you can. Do the heavy bag work and keep it live. Make sure that you keep your hands up and use footwork in everything you do. Push yourself... if you can't seem to tire yourself out with time, go for number of kicks or punches. It really is hard to train solo, you have to push yourself and that's hard to do. Maybe you should write out a schedule and keep track of your progress, that may help.

You use the term "over turning" a kick..... Pretend there is no such thing as "over turning" and put your hips into every kick. You'll find that you get extreme power kicking this way. Bruce Lee had great hip power and "over turned" every round kick that he threw.

Get a helmet for the face too, eh? I dunno.. I feel most of the "energy" of my opponent through my fore-arms and not my hands so much. I think I'll give boxing gloves a try and see how it works out. I'll let ya know how it goes.

Right.. well, even the legend of Yim Wing Chun is being questioned by Chinese historians now. The system of Wing Chun is pretty good. I just feels it takes a little longer to become adept at using it than other arts. Also.."Chi Sao" isn't anything really new to Kung Fu, the Taiji people did "Push Hands" for a very long time also. It's great sensitivity training, but other training methods should be incorporated too. I hate doing "Chi Sao" with people that don't understand that it's not a game of touch. I do Chi Sao with the intention of striking my partner as I would if he were my enemy (but not a hard strike cuz it's still just a training drill). Anyone try "chi sao" with boxing gloves on? I think I'll see what happens and try it.

A knee to the groin is very effective and hurts.. Even if a person is wearing a steel cup, it sucks to get a knee there. At any rate, it will cause a reaction which can be taken advantage of.

Well it took me 5 years to become "black belt" in Kali, Jun Fan, Muay Thai and Silat. But these systems don't traditionally have belts. Well, at least we didn't. In Brazillian Jujitsu it takes about 10 years to get black-belt, I think. I really don't care about being a "black belt", I just love the training.

Cool deal.. I can guess that you like figure four leverages. Welcome to the forum.

It's very hard to distinquish between Kali and Silat. They are very similar arts. I wouldn't know any good books on these arts, since I don't really buy any books or videos. I hear that Guru Inosanto just released some videos on this but I have no idea where or how to get them. "if you are true with Muay Thai, stick to that art only" This is the old traditional "loyal" way of training, but c'mon, it's the 21st century. Also, you won't learn weapondry with Muay Thai, will you? Unless your instructor is adept at Krabi Kabrong then you are screwed as far as weapons go. The whole "one art" theory has been proven wrong over and over again. Cross-train and you'll find that you will become better at all of your martial arts training.

Train in whatever you feel like training. Remember this.. The JKD concepts will work for ANY martial art, and I mean ANY and all of them. Keep in mind the concepts and you'll be able to make the most inefficient techniques even work. Shotokan is.. well, not something I would train in, but if you train keeping JKD concepts in mind, then you will excel faster than your peers. Videos are ok to get good ideas, I think veterans of similar systems of the videos can learn from them. Beginners have a tougher time because videos don't give feedback. You can't ask a video questions. Videos won't tell you if you are doing something wrong. It's up to you, do what feels right. Sometimes a person will go through several "systems" of martial art before they find one that appeals to them.

I dunno how Angus does it, but I like to pull people down so I can strike their head with my knee. But I do flying knees sometimes just for fun. There are so many ways to get a person's head in a good position to knee it that I won't get into it now.

Yea... but he was a "kickboxing" champ, not a Muay Thai champ. He has since learned Muay Thai and Brazillian Jujitsu. The Muay Thai round kick was incorporated by Kyokushin and other arts in the recent years.

Nice trick. Anyway, it's still a trick. Believe what you will, but until I experience it, I won't.

If you want weapon training, get into Kali or Silat. If you want grappling, get into Brazillian Jujitsu. There you go. You can get into San Soo also, they'll teach you some good throws. Heck, with Muay Thai as your base, you can cross train in any art out there.

You should just train in Muay Thai and fight in kickboxing venues if you want. You'll develop a much harder kick, learn how to clinch fight, use your elbows and knees also. If you get a good Muay Thai instructor, you'll learn many things that are illegal in the ring, like joint-locks, chokes and throws. What are you goals as far as martial arts training? If you want self-defense, cross-train in some grappling as well as weapons.

Right.. when I said any fool can do a front kick, that means anyone can do it. It's very easy to do and can hurt even without hip power thrown in. The good round kick is really only done by Thai-boxers and certain good systems of martial arts. Many arts call their kick a "round kick" but use more quad strength than hip power. It's rare to see martial artists throw a good powerful round kick. How does a person block a head high kick? You can use your elbow, since a head high kick has less power. Or choose not to block it and cut out the other leg of your opponent instead. Chuck learned the round kick from Muay Thai.. The other martial arts of Shotokan and Kyokushinkai adapted the Muay Thai kick. Nothing wrong with that, it's great that these arts are evolving. Much like Muay Thai is adapting western boxing into their systems.

We give training against weapons, mainly the knife but sticks and other improvised weapons are used and learned to defend against. I teach how to effectively use things like eye-jabs and groin shots to help win a fight. Now I'm giving the typical "just kick em in the jimmy" type of technique. But I do work these things into combinations of moves. We train against ambush attacks like a rear bear hug. Multiple opponents are trained against also. I think that the most realistic thing we do is to punch and kick the bags and pads. This really gets a person to punch and kick realistically. It also drives home to the pad holder that kicks and punches can hurt and gives the pad holder ability to "read" opponents. As for training in street clothes.. we don't like to do that because our students don't like to ruin them. But we don't train in "gi" either. just a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. We point out what techniques work better with shoes on and what doesn't.