Ben Martin

personaly i dont like being tested but its more of a mental thing for me. always had stage fright since i was little, so the though of doing the techniques and then being in the ring while everyone stands around judging me and looking for my faults scares me. the only reason why i do grade is becuase i would love to teach. the biggest test for me is the stamina factor im a temp green so i have to work from the two sylabous' green and blue and i have about 8 rounds to do after ive shown my techniques then some exercises after and that is hard.

I wouldnt be so sure yeah i agree, i think the worst pain is when it hits your stomach after you have been kicked in the groin. on sunday i forgot to put on my cup and i got a kick to the bottom of my groin and put pushed it up but it didn't hurt at all and it was a hard kick. wow maybe i have balls of iron maybe i could sell this online and clame i posess enourous powers of chi the slogan could be " Never whear a Cup again" im sure some people would by it lol

god i hate puking when training ive neva done it but ive come realy close and had 2 stop lol

you should just tell him. but try to do it in a way what wont offend him. you could say somthing like when i train i really need someone to motivate me and push me to my limits so when we are doing the pad drills could you do that for me please.

not as good as the clip i posted of him. he does all that and more;)

You suck....you suck...you suck....you suck lol they even chanted that when he was a baby face and the crowd loved him, it goes well with the tune. i love angle so much i got a producer to sample his song and put a rap beat on it so i could spit to it.

when i started kickboxing i found it really hard to do 10 so i practised them every time i went to the park and trained now i can do atleast 50

i read your post but u didnt ask anu questions you just told us how u started thai boxing what am i ment 2 reply with 'ok'? if you got questions ask them and they will most prob get answered

Kurt Angle is the BEST wrestler that has vea lives OH ITS TRUE ITS TRUE! im so biased im gona say that kurt would win. i can't stand wrestling any more i used to love it when i was younger even had a hard core backyard wrestling federation with barbed wire and stop signs n stuff it was crazy as hell. but back to this that would be a great match. i used to idiolise angle have like 5 figures of just him, his book ;which has some great pages for motavaton about his training running up mountians with his trainer on his back and videos and stuff. i used to drink loads of milk too lol. Kurt Angle is #1 lol

Riding a bike is the best cardio exercise with a broken toe as you dont need to use your toes when pedaling.

1) yes 2)if you want 2 wear pads you can but it will prevent you from toughing up. but if you do wear them you can practice your kicks on a heavy bag with out them and that will condition them but will take longer. 3) anything that doesnt fall appart. all my kickboxing stuff comes from playwell. 4) it can be hard to pivit in bare feet but you will get used to it and find it easier in time.

yeah man thats so stupid of you. you need to theink about it propperly do you want to train as soon as possible or do you want to be able to train propperly in the future. i broke my big toe at the end of nov and the doc said give it 2 months before you do any sort of martial arts. so thats what i did and even then still it was troubling me so o waited another week so 9 all together and now my toe is fine. my sensei was telling me that one of the students was acusing me of slacking off. but to the the truth i couldnt care less what anyone else says i want to know im fully better before i start fighting again. i do understand how hard it is to not train but what you could have done insted was do weights and build your self up so your stronger when you go back.

i tried this thismorning in the park b4 work i done a few rounds as a warm up and it was verry good. gona try the ultimate ones in the next few days.

from this sunday im gona be training in all three.

thaks man, im gona try the burpee interval out to mo morning. i used to do a similar thing where i would shadow kickbox for 2 mins and then do 25 burpees and repeat it until i can't any more but i havent done that in awhile. i think ill try 1 rounds of boxing then 1 round of kicking then 1 round of both twice tomorow. that ultimate burpee looks sick.

my sensei was telling me that here in england that if you do martial arts and you have a street fight you can get done for assult with a weppon dono if thats a black belt or not.

ive only had one tourney and i was soooooooo nervous, ive always had stage fright since i was little i had doing anything infront of crowds, thats why i bottled rocking the stage with my mate at a rap show. i was well proud of my self when i done the tourney, even though i lost i won the battle that ment most to me and that was going there and fighting. so i have my losers medal haniging above my pc. i have my second tourney on the 17th of april and i know ive done it once so i can do it again and i can't weight.

trainig with people who are better then you will make you improve quicker thats why my sensei is making me grade with the higher grades even tho im not one yet.

Na my sensei is cool he only hits you as hard as you hit him. the only time he went for me and didnt use any controle was one time when he did a spinning backfist it was so quick that it only just missed and i was F**K. he then put his guard down and apoligised sand said he just wanted to show me the correct technique as i had done it twice in the round and hit his shoulder. if when any of us in my class hit the other extremely hard we always say ous and carry on or if u can see the person is dazed with touch gloves and then go back in.

yes im really happy at my kickboxing class great teacher and there are no dickheads in the class. but im not at my thai boxing class.

yeah thats how we are ment to do it to but i can never remember it when im at lesson.

i cant lol so i neva wear it.

like i said read the sticky post

you shouldnt be doing sit ups any way its bad for you back. if you wana work your stomach u can do leg raises and crunches. have a look at the abb sticky post it ahs all the answers to your questions there.

Karatekid. dont 4get karatekid 2,3 and the next karate kid, there might even be another one but im not to sure.