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A great defense is a very good offence. I feel that when you know that a confrontation is totally unavoidable, you should immediately put your enemy on the defensive. Even if you have to go on the defense, you should make every effort to as soon as possible get back on the offensive. Allowing the enemy to constantly play the role of the predetor allows him to many options, to much time to think, plan, regroup and recover.

Keep your spirits up. Back in the 90's my old boxing coach used to knock me down several times a match, he was much bigger, stronger, and more experienced than me. It helped me in alot of ways because when I was actually int he ring, people my size couldn't hurt me. Also I learned how to get int here and slug. By my getting beat, I have lost my fear of getting hit. and therefore learned quickly to work around other people's punches. Hold your head high. You are learning.

I have been in more than a few in my life. Fortunately, I havent been in a streetfight in quite awhile, one of the reasons for that is having learned more how to control my temper and also to use my head a little more than my fists. There are some things looking back that I have obsereved: 1: there are definately times when if you are ion a fight with one guy, one of his friends may just show up. 2: when people are in danger of losing a fight they tend to resort to some kind of makeshift weapon. 3.Kicks when properly used are great because many average streetfighters dont use them and therefore have not much familiarity with them or ability to defend much against them and they tend to surprise a fighter who is mostly just a puncher. ( I am not talking about high, looping kicks, I am talking about lower sidkicks and front kicks or roundkicks to the leg.) 4. In my personal experience, most of my fights didn't "go to the ground" and therefore going against the so called statistics. 5: if a badguy had a weapon, chances are it is the very first thing he will try to utilize, not the last. 6: I have found alot (notice I said alot, not all) of TMA instructors and students seem to be out of touch with the dynamic of a real street encounter especially when talking about multiple attackers, weapons, etc. In fact many have never been in a real streetfight, yet seem to always be ranting and raving about what "works" In the case of younger people, they tend to draw their conclusions from UFC, etc. 7: Expect the unexpected. 8: There is definately some truth to the saying "a good defense is areally good offence." 9 One of the biggest lessons I have learned is. BE VERY CAREFUL ABOUT WHO YOU ASSOCIATE WITH! Avoid beign around people who drink too much, talk too much, or just like drawing too much attention to themselves and stay out of biker bars, or bad areas of town regardless of how tough you think you may be. Some of my biggest fights have been with people I knew, in fact not many were with total strangers. In my adult life, often those I would end up fighting were underthe infulence of alcahol or other chemicals. So again be careful with you are associating. I also found walkign away can be good but there are definately times not to.

I am with Justice Zero on this one. His post was valid. Sometimes it seems around here that people are making it sound like anyone who stands their ground and fights an aggressor is somehow doing something wrong. I see nothing wrong with meeting aggression with agression at times. The origioal poster didnt say who threw the first punch but did state that the aggressor came at him. Nothing wrong with defending oneself. and I don;t think he should get slack for it.

Teal, there is a school out her emy way in Mt Joy that teaches Okinawan martial arts. Shorin ryu being the main discipline being taught there. I dont remember the name if the school but can check it out for ya if you like.

Yeha I read that. However appernetly they atill teach a style of it today, just waondered if anyoen here knw anything about it./

My TSD instructor Master John Beam has broken cinderblocks with his head. So yes, some schools are into breaking bricks, blocks and boards. I have only ever broken boards although I am not sure how well it relates to SD

Does anyone here know anything about Pankration other than where it comes from? I saw some web sites on it but one was not even in english. Has anyone here trained i it or have any experience with it? Is it really an effective self defense art? From what I have seen, it looks like it would be a pretty brutal sport.

Thats good training. We do alot of the same thing at My Krav Maga school As far as fighting like blindfolded in a sparring match, never saw that.

It's not so much the milk but the calcium. I have read in different places that an increase in calcium has been shown to somewhat reduce abdominal fat in men. It has been recommended that people have at least 3 servings of DAIRY based products, such as low fat yogurt, cottage cheese, skim milk, etc. and that it is shown to help reduce fat.

I found that having a treadmill is great to have during the cold winter months when snow and ice can be a safety concern, also I dont care much for running in very cold weather or rain.

Go for the kickboxing. You can always pick up where you left off in TKD as well. And you may find you like it better and it may open up new doors for you. In any case, it definately would probably support your training.

I am thinking of doing kind of the same thing. Dropping my TSD for JKD. I think JKD is more real world and would be better to cross train with my Krav Maga/Haganah training.

My instructors are slowly beginning to shift us more towards Haganah which is almost identical to Krav Maga, yet adds to it. It also has some different training methods. It is a slightly superior system.

Well said. I don't think this is a question that could really be answered with any real degree of certainy. I have seen guys who have had 8+ years of TKD get into the ring with full contact kickboxers with less than a year of trainign and get their butts whipped. Now granted, it's not a street fight, but if it were, my money would still go to the kickboxer. I have seen guys with alot of MA training get beat up by people with NO formal training. Wierd thing about this forum is there is so much THIS STYLE vs. THAT STYLE, WHO WOULD WIN IN A UFC USING THIS OR THAT, ETC, ETC. Fact is in the street there is absoulutly no way to guarantee anything.

What proves this? Are we talking the ring or the street?

You have the olympic bar across your lats like you would start out with a squat, but instead of squatting, you lean forward, keeping your legs stationary, lean forward to about 90 degrees and slowly return to standing position, you will feel it in your lower back and hamstrings. You must pay attention to form and be careful not to load too much weight on in the beginning, I would say just start with a 45 lb olympic bar just to get the feel of the exersize and get your form down. I would keep feet about shoulder width apart too.

Huntingdon is VERY far from lancaster

You are doing a high number of reps for your squats if you are looking for strength. Use more weight and do less reps. also if you ever noticed, sometimes when you do barbell curls, you will notice it puts some strain on your lower back, you may be using too much weight. Also, you wanna build your lower back more then you should have less probs. Deadlifts and Good Mornings are good for that.

Yes it's sad. He has Parkinson's Disease and his health is starting to really go down. We also worked together in Corrections, and he has had to take permanent disability. Yes alot of his high ranking students are helping to teach the class.

I trained under Master John Beam. He's in the book. plenty of conditioning and training for the real world as well as the traditional stuff for TSD.

I Live in lancaster county as well, there are soem good schools for kickboxing, boxing and TSD, I take Krav Maga in landisville which is not too far from lancaster city, it's the only place around that teaches it. I know how you feel about there not being any good MT schools or BJJ schools though. Check out Terry Nye's kickboxing gym there in the city. I trained there for a good while awhile back. He also crosstrains them in boxing and MDK.

\Well I have seen plenty of street fights, and back in the day i have been in many street fights and they rarely went to the ground. I have seen a few where the two guys have gone to the ground and it was basically when two of them couldn;t fight to begin with. Then again your experience may be different then mine. I can only go by my personal experience and observation. Mayeb you have seen fights where 70% have gone to the ground but to just make the broad statement that 70% of ALL fights go to the ground is makeing to broad a statement.

Sure just surrender, then hand over your money, and then hope he doesnt decide to shoot you afterwards in order not to leave a witness. Actually, most armed robbers will point a gun this close to you..hard to rob you of your wallet from half a block away.

Hapkido is also taught where I take Krav, I can tell you its probably more helpful in the street than TKD. Yes there is a belt system, there are no forms though in Hapkido, its is alot of throws, sweeps, joint manipulation, etc. There are plenty of strikes and kicks, but not as fancy as TKD usually.