YODA

"Ok I will stop BSing now and just ask: Since jeet kune do is an ideology, would you jkd practitioners welcome new ideas and practices with open arms as long as the innovations arose via Bruce Lee's method of thinking/filtering/philosophisizing (real word??)." Yes - of course

Hi Tyson if he's in shape & has his brain straight. Delahoya - a power punch is no good if he ain't there to hit. Sure - if the money's right. Let's not kid ourselves about what drives the boxing game!

Hi Been playing rock & blues guitar for the last 25 years. Just starting out on Sax too - yes, it's hard! I can do a VERY good Chewbacca impression on mine but not much alese at the moment!

Ooops..... double post [ This Message was edited by: YODA on 2002-02-23 23:25 ]

There are no side kicks in Muay Thai - modern Thai Boxers may have incorporated it from other arts but Muay Thai does not use it. There are a few spinning kicks but not many. The front kick & round kick are the main kicks, and there are many variations of each - I teach three different front kicks and seven different round kicks from Muay Thai.

Hi psychospaz Interesting website you've got there - don't understand a word of it but interesting

There are 4 key elements to getting "massive" and by that I mean so big that it effects your martial arts performance for the worst - in order of their importance (least first) they are... - Training - Diet - Drugs - Genetics So - if you DO wanna get feakey huge, choose your parents wisely

So let me get this straight - you don't like Mortal Kombat then? LOL!

LOL! I once spent a whole weekend teaching a group of bodyguards how to deal with knives. The use of them & defence against them - This involved a lot of live blade training - in drill format & lots of "flight time" cutting moving targets with VERY sharp blades. All without a drop of blood being spilt. I arrived home on the Sudnay evening & decided to make myself a corned beef sandwich - I cut myself so badly on the tin that I had to go to the hospital for stitches - Doh! So - I am very competent in the use & defence agains all manner of bladed weaponry, but come at me with a half opened corned beef tin & I'm totally defenseless LOL!

LOL! Big muscles are FAST muscles - look at an elite sprinter - do you think he got that body from lifting little weights? Like I said - I'm 182lbs. That's not huge is it? Muscle mass is not a bad thing unless you take it to extremes - lifting big weights for low reps will not turn you into a monster like you see on the front of the Muscle Mags - it takes drugs to do that.

Master Toddy - Wow! Now there's a name I haven't heard for a long time. I used to teach a class at his Muay Thai Gym in Manchester, England. There's a pic of it on my website somewhere.

I am nowhere near as agressive now than I was before I took up martial arts - but I have the capacity to be.

Hey Ramcalgary No weight classes where I train for bud I train with weights - BIG weights, well big-ish anyway (Heaviest lift at the moment is 325kg leg press) - and currently weigh in at 182lbs - not exactly gargantuan _________________ YODA 2nd Degree Black Belt : Doce Pares Eskrima Instructor : JKD Concepts http://www.jkdc.co.uk / http://www.docepares.co.uk [ This Message was edited by: YODA on 2002-02-20 00:39 ]

Same experience here - checked it out lots of times & just found tumbleweeds blowing past

Anyone played Dead or Alive 2 on the PS2? A friend just lent it to me but I haven't got around to playing it yet - any good?

You're on the right track Iron A JKD is a personal process

I think he means that wailing noise like someone strangling a couple of cats - LOL! It grows on you, honestly it does

Getting back to your feet without going to your stomach or knees is easy. Going to your knees or stomach is a one way ticket to a good kicking! Check out any basic BJJ tape for the way to do this - if that's not available just yell & I'll type out a full description.

Yo AD At 14yrs old & 10.5 stone I don't think you have much need of the stuff I certainly wouldn't recommend it at your age.

Post them both

I'd say "Non Classical" refers more to the shunning of adherence to classical tradition for the sake of it.

Yeah - I've heard that too from my Sifu. Have still to see it on tape though.

It only matters if you intend using the dummy as originally intended - to hone & work the basic structure of Wing Chun tools - The angles on the dummy are designed to facilitate correct structure in things like tan-sao, boang-sao, huen-sao & kwan-sao.

Agreement here too - Toughness comes from the inside not the outside.

Sounds like you've found a very understanding club - you'd be starting at white belt in my club You may well progess throught he grades rather quickly but you wouls start at the bottom like everyone else. All start at the bottom - otherwise the top becomes the bottom