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Continuously strike untill your opponent is unable to fight back. If the first strike did it that's better yet. I agree that you can end a fight with one strike but don't rely on one strike.

I was once the owner of a 1970 440ci sixpack Challenger and a 1967 327ci Camaro but I always envied my friend's 1962 Corvette.

I was fortunate enough to have a couple of lessons from Chuck Liddell and I did some light sparring with Dennis Alexio.

10 concrete tile caps with a punch and 1 2" x 2" post with a roundrouse kick. Tile caps had chopsticks as spacers.

I've been asked by several persons on how they can get fit to train in martial arts and my reply is that you don't get fit to train in martial arts, you train in martial arts to get fit.

Submissions and chokes are important to learn as part of your overall knowledge of self defense. Even if you prefer being a striker, you need to know what your opponent is trying to do to you, otherwise it will be easy for him to get you in a submission hold or choke and on the street, there is no referee to break the hold.

I trained a guy in his late forties and he outlasted the twenty year olds when we did sparring. His form was also better than the youngsters. You're still young in your thirties.

The value of the class is dependent upon the individual's desire. I would gladly pay $100 a month for classes which excited me but I am not willing to pay $25 a month for a class that sucks.

Different schools focus on different things. Some school concentrate on developing character and discipline. These will generally be the large classes of kids. Some schools concentrate on tournaments and spend majority of the time teaching tournament techniques. They do a lot of sparring but within rules of what they can or cannot do. Some schools concentrate on street self defense. These schools concentrate on the "dirty" techniques such as groin shots, eye gouges, joint breaking. Different people train in martial arts for different reasons. Find a school that meets your needs.

I shuffled from art to art, many times because the schools that I trained in closed their doors, and sometimes I just lost interest in the art and changed school, however when I started Kajukenbo, I was hooked because not only was the style consisting of five different arts but they were open to any other techniques which were not part of the regular curiculum, therefore I was always learning something new. I think that once you find the school that fits you, you will stick to it.

Sounds like you are not giving enough time for your knuckles to heal. Conditioning is a process of hitting then healing, hitting, healing, etc. My skin almost never tears although when I began conditioning them, they tore and bled all the time.

Humbleness goes a long way!

ditto!!! Works for me!

Nothing can replace training under the supervision of an experienced instructor but I always say that learning from a book is better than no training.

I've always wanted to learn different styles so Kajukenbo fit my desires since it incorporates various arts and it is open to other styles. I was introduced to Kajukenbo by a coworker.