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Congrats,

Has anyone got any videos of Bruce Lee fighting/sparring? I just want to see what he was like outside the films. Thnx.

From what i have seen from the video that Kimbo is just a bully. He is big and can take punches. But i think BL could win because BL is smaller built then him i think that would work in his advantage. But what i think is ironic is when at the end someone says "Now that's F***ing good sportmanship right there" Wow did that guy watch the same fight that was not sportmanship like just because they hug at the end doesn't make up for him carrying on the fight after the other guy had said he didn't want to fight..

Sevenstar, im not saying there is a massive amount of people out there who can do WC and be brilliant at it yet there are some. And they can do it beautifully but they do not have HUGE muscles but they have conditioned bodies. I would deffinately say you would need a conditioned body but i would say bulging muscles is not gonna make you a better fighter. Chi/qi i believe does exist. But people who say they can "summon" chi/qi to do amazing stunts i am a little bit suspicious of. But i do believe that there are people out there who have this ability to control chi/qi and use it while fighting.

Just from reading the initial post, i would deffinately never want to spar an elder just to prove myself. I would want to spar with them to learn and just to say "Ive spared with such and such a body". Plus it is all about learning at the end of the day. I would be a little deflated if i beat an elder in a spar because i would want to be shown my weak points and so on.

I think the only way you can prepare yourself ro hitting someone in the face is to condition your hands (not by punching bags) but really toughen (sp) your hands up.

Ive herd that if you keep pushing down on a tire and do it as a traning tool it helps improve your ability to use your artms more powerfully does this work? Do you understand what i mean?

Im not on about fancy tricks im on about being able to fight with it. Being able to transfer this chi/qi whatever into every punch. Also take for instance wing chun, created by a woman. Normally women are not as muscular as men yet wing chun uses good techniques which allows people who do not have huge physical presence to take control.

Hmm i could go for the obvious Mr.Lee or Guru Dan inosanto, BUT ill go for Chris Crudelli even though he doesn't teach my art i would still like to learn off of him.

Aefibird, do you like rugby? Or are you more of a fottie lover?

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I have seen programs with martial artists who train with chi as well and they are not brilliantly musclular. Yet this ability to control chi with the mind makes them more powerfulo then having huge muscles.

Myself, i think it is good to have a trained body. Yet i think the mind behind it can make a devastating force. In my training we only train the body, yet i will deffinately train my mind when i am older. But im pretty sure some 60+ martial artists in the philipines could take down a 6ft solid muscle machine. I think a conditioned body and trained mind would be quite powerfull.

thnx i will have to try this.

Spring break what is this???? You mean easter holidays? Well this easter holidays im doin lots of....REVISION for my GCSEs 2-3 hours a night. But i wont forget to do my MAs.

Iam 16 and i have never smoked, it has never really tempted me. The only thing i can think of is, think about what you will get out of this. You will be healthy, better off financially the people around you will be healthy (2nd hand smoking is just as bad). AND your fitness for MA training will be better goodie!!!

Can some explain the difference between a horizontal punch and verticle? Is horizontal with the back of your hand pointing to the sky? And verticle with the back of your hand pointing outwards (right hand fist back of hand pointing to the right and the same for left except it points towards the left.) I have herd that some styles only clench their fist just before hitting the target

JKD doesn't have them, but you get a certificate for passing your phases. (at my dojo we are going to have a badge of somekind to show what level we are at but that i think is just my dojo)

Erm we don't have a belt system in Jeet Kune Do. thought i'd point it out.

I think i understand it a lot more now but i have still yet to be taught any katas yet.

Nah i see critisism (sp) as a way of growing. Anyway it always gives you an excuse to hurt someone as well

OR Slap em down and tell em "Kiss my feet you inferior piece of scum"

I agree with remembering their names. My instructer is terrible with names, he looks at the people who have been going for a while and he has to think hard about the name. But he has little sayings for everyones name to remember them. Mine: Simple Simon.

Personally Forest is mentally challeneged but Lennie is even more so. Lennie doesn't even know right from wrong. Forest does. And the facvt that Lennie doesn't know right from wrong doesn't help him land in good situations.

Thnx any advice is welcome hell how are we ment to improve ourselves thnx a lot.