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Great, the facility should be up and running by this time next year. Ground-breaking is starting in January. Look forward to seeing ya.

Eric Roberts is the worst actor ever.. I wish he wasn't in the movie. Oh well. How do you like Sean Penn's character in that movie? Now that's a brawler.

Right.. if it works for you great! It's all part of fighting. ABC- attack by combination ABD- attack by draw PIA- progressive indirect attack HIA- Hand/hair immobilization attack (Trapping) SAA- Single angulated attack (just kick them!) It all ties in together and some people are better at different types of attack than others. Keep up the good work!

Some Muay Thai pad drills.. basically combo's you can practice. Jab, cross, hook Jab, cross, right elbow Jab, cross, left elbow Jab, cross, right knee (thrust) Jab, cross, left knee (thrust) Jab, cross, right kick Jab, cross, left kick Just go down the list and do this on pads work it in a few rounds and work on form and tecnique. How to make your kicks more powerful. Don't extend your leg!!! Keep your leg relaxed and make sure that it is bent and not straight when it impacts. I have mine bent at 90-degree angle when it impacts and it hits the front of the target, not the side. Step in at a 45-degree angle to the opposite side of the leg you are kicking with. Pivot your foot, try to point the heel of the supporting foot at your target. Turn your hips over, try to get your hips pointed at the ground, the hips are where the real power comes from. Try to get your hips to lead the kick. Repetition is the mother of all skill. Just keep practicing the kick over and over again, this will also condition your shin. Don't do anythign stupid like rolling pins on your shins or beating them, that is just silly. A person doesn't feel pain in a real fight anyway, so shin conditioning isn't all that important. More to come.

I personally don't think Curtis Bush in anything impressive at all. I've seen him fight one of my training partners to a "draw"( his ribs were bruised up and he caught a shin to the face more than once, where our fighter was unscathed) at an event that his martial arts school sponsored. I know who the real winner was. He absolutely refused to fight Muay Thai also, or even allow kicks to the legs, after promising us that he would prior to the match. I was kinda suprised that he is a champion. BTW I just moved from VA Beach to AZ recently, that's why he's fought with my people of my school before. _________________ Just kick 'em, they'll understand. Ken Anderson Apprentice Instructor under Guro Inosanto in Jun Fan Gung Fu and Filipinno Martial arts. https://www.absolutemartialarts.com This Message was edited by: Patrick on Jul 22, 2001 3:14pm

The filipinno martial arts train in weapons extensively. The variety of weapons is just as wide as the Chinese arsenal, if not wider. One thing I learned is that if you learn the fundamentals of one weapon, than you've learned the fundamentals of 80% of weapons. This is what makes Kali a very strong system. They teach so much in so little time.

Well.. i'll take my post on weapons to the philipinno side, since that's where my training comes from. Yes, I am a practitioner of weapons, many weapons from Sarongs to knives, sticks to swords, nunchaku, spear, staff, shield and more. I am very adept at using paired weapons. Anyway, I'll go to the Filipinno weapon thread and post.

First.. kickboxing was developed as a competition platform for karate practioners to fight full contact in the ring. Muay Thai is a martial art on it's own and the competition was developed as a way to safely test their skills. There is more to Muay Thai than what is in the ring. Also, if you look at rules, in kickboxing there are no elbows, knees, clinchin and kicks below the waist. These are all legal in Muay Thai (headbutts used to be until recent). If you look at fighting stances, kickboxers tend to be more sideways, like boxers. Muay Thai practioners stand more square inviting the opponent to come into the middle.

Thanks. Remember, competition is merely another training and testing method. A jab can be taught or modified to be an eye-jab. A front kick to the gut can be modified to the groin. Weapons are easily adapted to empty hand applications and vice versa. It all ties in together. Tactics, Training and Technique this is the "motto" of my new self defense system "RTS- Rhino Tactical Systems". In Scottsdale, AZ, in about a year, we will have a 40,000 square foot facility that will include hand to hand and firearm facitlities, including merchandise, gun ranges and a dojo. I'm excited about it, it will be the biggest public facility of it's kind in the world, as far as I know.

Philip Rhee is a martial artist that I love to see in movies. It's obvious that he does more than just TKD. He has trained in fencing, kali and boxing also. I'm sure "Rhee" TKD has elements of these other arts in it. This is great though, because it means the martial art is evolving and breaking out of it's shell. Check out Best of the Best 3, it has an awesome Kali-stick fight scene in it.

I once had to fight 18 men armed with swords using only my legs because my arms were tied behind my back. My teeth hurt because of all the swords I broke in half wth my bite that day. It was a scuffle, but in the end I was victorious. Those darn ninja's, they are like flies.

that's true, it would've been more fun to toss him to the ground and make him feel helpless than to actually hurt the person. I have done this to navy SEALS and marines that think they are really tough, it really makes them change their mind about what I'm teaching and I retain more students that way.

Yea, that's what I try to do and teach my students to do. If a person throws an attack, just kick them, if they throw a feignt.. just kick them. If they stand there, just kick them. Many guys throw too many fiegnts and are easier to hit because of this.

Good deal, I think you'll find Muay Thai very rewarding and effective. Keep training and never give up!!

Well, it was a terrible movie. I have no idea what the point of the movie was. If they wanted to shed light to the USA of the beauty of Muay Thai, why didn't they actually do Muay Thai in it? It's truly sad that the movie just really turned out to be another "Americans can kick ass in any country" type of movie. What really annoys me is that alot of people actually think what Van Dammit does in "Kickboxer" is what we do.

While the different bodystyles can help determine teh weapon choice, other factors come into play. Culture, society and terrain. In heavy wooded areas, a lance is probably not the best choice of weapons, shorter weapons are more likely to be a better choice. Also, some people just like certain weapons more than other, this is about self-expression here. I prefer knives and think everyone should learn how to use them, since knife techinques can be converted to use virtually anything as a knife just as you said about ancient weapons. Another thing to consider is that a knife is easily excessable, concealable and is very common out there in today's society. Of course, being a weapons fan myself, I realize that once you learn one, you've learned the fundamentals of all weapons.

You should let people know in what venue of fighting style you are talking about. There is a huge difference in tactics between boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai, Bando-boxing, savate, kumite, MMA/NHB and real fighting. This will help you get better tips on what you are trying to accomplish. Example: Instead of saying "how do i counter an uppercut?" you should specify "how do I counter an uppercut fighting in kickboxing rules?"

If anyone thinks I'm serious about quitting martial art and training in SCARS... please go out stand in the middle of the freeway, it's safe, it really is! I'd like to get some SCARS guys to interact here, but if you though I was bad.... well these guys make me look like an angel.

but SCARS isn't a martial art, it's a fighting system. Just ask them, there is a huge difference. If you go to the forum http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/scarscombatfightingforum you'll see why we have all been wasting our time with training in martial arts.

Feignting is a decent attack, it's one of several method of attack. In JKD we call this Attack By Draw (ABD). Sometimes though, you can get the exact same reaction by not faking and actually doing the technique, instead of facking a thrust kick, you do it and then you follow up with the kick to the face. We call this Attack By Combination (ABC). I like to fight/spar with this method. I feel that you are wasting energy when you feignt, but there is a time and place for every movement.

http://www.SCARS.com if you want more info on this 100% unbeatable fighting system. LOL

SCARS is a fighting system developed by a guy named Jerry Peterson. Supposedly it's 100% effective and scientific. Basically it's just another marketing ploy. Peterson held a green-belt in San Soo and when he decided he wanted to make money, he called it SCARS and came up with some "new" concepts and suckered the US Navy to use if for a little while. The Navy saw that they were duped and don't use SCARS anymore, but the SCARS people won't tell you that part.

Yes, there are takedowns that involve the spinning kick type motion in Silat, I have yet to learn it. They can do the kick, take a person down and kill them without the use of their hands, it's a very advance motion to do though, but has been known to happen.

I wanna be a teenager again, mainly because teenage girls are so.. uhm.. nevermind.