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You probably never had the pleasure of training with Philipinno's in the flexible weapon category. Lemme tell ya, it's something else.

your kickboxing instructor must not have been very good. Power is generated from the hips and waist. I'm glad your karate instructor taught you correctly, although I still think I could teach you more powerful kicks than karate.

I like to watch "The MAN show" and "South Park". what a riot!

Hmm.. i wonder if i could throw down with Lance to get a piece of Aya. hehhe. sorry, i'm just a perv guy after all.

Yay to welfare! Yay to taxing the wealthy that have worked hard for their money. Yay to giving the money to lazy punks that don't want jobs but love to reproduce. Sorry, I just moved up a tax bracket and am paying a higher % of tax on my income. It pisses me off. Despite that there are some things in the USA that blow chunks, it is the greatest place in the world to live. Go USA!!

Learning the nunchaku is just one of the many flexible weapons that a person can master. It can be very practical for self-defense. A purse can become a pair of nunchaku, a belt and even a sash. Of course fighting with these clothing accessories will take a little adjustment but in the Filipinno martial arts, these are taught in th flexible weapon category.

LOL. that's funny. "True Karateka" "generate more power than they could ever imagine" whew. it was a nice laugh, thanks.

Angus, saying genetics won't let you have a six-pack is just an excuse. I hear that arguement all the time as to why a person has a great body and another doesn't. To me, it's all BS. You can have the bodyshape that you want, you just have to go get it. To get a six-pack takes more than just crunches, you need to eat a high-protien, low carb diet to get there. People tell me i'm only big because I have genetics. IT'S CRAP!!! I worked very hard to get my body the way it is. And let me tell you, if any person works out with me they will get bigger too. People have told me "I work out really hard and can't get big" and it's always turned out to be false. One workout with me and they really learn what a workout is and how to be smarter about it. Don't ever let genetics hold you back. When was the last time you looked at your genetic code? You have no idea what the limits to yourself are. If you hold yourself to your "genetic limit" you may as well just give up.

Science does not discriminate. Religion and people do.

Salt Lake City, which is a 12 hour drive from Phoenix. It was a great seminar and I feel my grappling skills have improved another step.

You may not believe that man created god, but it's true. It was man that created religion. I may not know of the things in the Koran but I will look into it since you believe that it is such a great book. Men of faith tend to ignore other people's views, I am not a man of faith so I will research what you have said. As far as homo-sexuality, I don't understand why it is sick and wrong, I think it's gross myself but people should do what they want to do as long as it doesn't harm others in doing so. My wife is bi-sexual and she is awesome, we love each other to death. There are lot of misunderstanding of the homosexual/bi-sexual lifestyle that people don't know about, that's the only reason it is considered a sin to religious folk.

He didn't kick correctly, that's why it broke. If you notice he doesn't take a 45-degree angle step into the kick and his leg is somewhat straight. This causes the force of his kick to wrap around and come in from the side causing his leg to break when it hit the other guys shield. A proper Muay Thai kick comes in from the front, driving through the opponent. Poor mechanics made this guys leg break.

Teaching belief is fine. Do your little religion things, but to expect others to believe what you believe isn't right. To prosecute others for not believing what you believe is not right. Sending terrorists to kill the "white devil" is not right. How many innocent people have died in the name of Allah? Too many. It is the same with other religions also. What you should keep in mind is that man created "God" to explain the world, it wasn't "god" that created man. Man also created religion as a sort of law to control the masses, either in a good way or in a bad way. Religion is just another tool of powerful, charismatic men to use. The guy that wrote the article probably had a bad experience with martial arts. Therefore, he went to the bible for some answers. He found that the bible says martial arts are evil. Now, if he had a good experience, then the bible would tell him that it is a good thing. The bible is written so poorly that anyone can interpret what they want from the stories as they see fit. It still happens today that people use the bible to prosecute those things they don't agree with. Mormons tend to thing that black people are descendants of Kaine and that interracial dating is wrong. Muslims, middle-east muslims, tend to think the USA is an evil empire that stand against everything in the Koran. Christians tend to think that homosexuality is evil and wrong. My point is that religion is just something people use to justify their own views. This isn't wrong, more power to you. But when those views and actions start to harm other people's lifestyles then the religion is becoming just another cult.

If you are sparring, the goal should be to learn, not to win. I have this happen all the time, I'll spar with a karateka and he'll tag me all over the place. The thing is, the way he tags me is not realistic since there is no way he could get power with his little backhand attacks. I throw a Muay Thai kick with no power and he'll block it with his hand, I know that if I threw it with power his hand would be broken. If you spar with good form and technique, winning will be hard against a person that is just trying to touch you anyway they can. When the karateka and I sparred full contact, he decided he never wanted to spar with me again because he couldn't hang. He claimed I was just too tough for his punches to phase, but it wasn't that I was too tough, it was that he didn't have any power behind his punches. Yes, he still hit me many times more than compared to my hitting him, but it is obvious who was using more effective techniques. Oh, and he didn't block my kick with his hands more than once when we went full-contact.

I feel that Kali is one of the more extensive weapon arts out there because they train in every type of weapon imagineable and some that a person may not have thought of. Traditionally the FMA teaches the use of 2 sticks first, then they move onto long and short, 1 stick, 1 knive, 2 knives and more. Sticks are actually teaching sword work. They also have throwing weapons, missle weapons and flexible weapons (nunchaku, sashes, belts and sarong). It's great learning how to use your own clothing as a weapon. Polearms are covered, flails and pretty much any other weapon is covered in this system. The hard part is finding an instructor that is adept at all 12 parts of kali. In FMA the empty hands are taught after weapons are learned, mainly because of culture. In the filipinnes people carry knives everywhere. Also, they figure that if you lose your weapon, then you are probably dead-meat anyway. And that's about the art...

I just spent the last 3 days at Pedro Sauer's Brazillian Jujitsu Summer camp. It was truly awesome! There were some really great martial artists there, including Pedro. Frank Cucci, my former instructor, and Greg Nelson were in attendance. It was great because there were several black-belts from different brazillian jujitsu families sharing knowledge. Pedro Sauer did most of the teaching, and I'm glad, because he is the #1 brazillian jujitsu instructor of the world as voted at Ahbu Dhabi. Anyway, I just wanted to say I had a great time and will definitely make the long drive again to attend more camps.

Did anyone actually read the article we are talking about?

Cuz Don Dragon's' movies are boring. He's an ok kickboxer, but he still doesn't admit his defeats in thailand.

I believe such miracles never happened, and that's why they don't happen today. I think that evolution makes much more sense than creation, and no that doesn't mean we were created from apes. There are holes in the theory, but that's why it's still theory and not law. Man created both religion and science to explain the world. I just prefer to go the scientific route.

The bible is interpreted by many people to meet their own ends. Christianity, along with many other religions have been used to control people. Today, it's not as predominate but it is still there, Church&State are not totally seperated.

I think a great strategy is to KO the opponent with basics first. Then throw the spinning kicks after he's lost. That way you get to show off and still be safe.

Now you are just adapting your definition of Chi energy. Everything can be broken down into energy, mass can be converted to energy. Your arguement is a fallacy. If I were religious then I could use your arguement to "prove" that demons give people energy. Brains have electrical patterns, therefore it's energy, therefore it is from demons. Get the drift? You haven't presented a good arguement that last post. The energy that people have is generated by the digestion and breakdown of food, which is then converted into chemical energy and then electrical energy of the neuro-system. There is no "CHI" there.

Such things can only be contemplated on and speculations made. The proof is never 100% and when "chi" power does work, it is rarely (if ever) able to be duplicated.

This 3-day seminar is 300 dollars. It's worth every penny. Pedro is one of the best priced instructors out there, he is the best teacher and he doesn't take all of your money.

I don't understand what belts has to do with fighting tournament or not. What should be looked at when matching fighters is weight and experience in fighting.