Muaythaiboxer

TKD gets a bad rap because 90% of all TKD fighters are frome mcdojos and have no real skill. second TKD has way way to many head kicks and has no punchs the face. not to mention most of the time it is practiced light contact

bricks dont hit back

its never to early to cross train go for it

the shaolin monks do alot of iron body training there was a speacial on the discover chanel about human indurance and they had shi yan ming (a shaolin monk) preform all sorts of painful stuff without feeling pain. as for me i will do pushups and situps untill i have an iron body.

torna-do lol involves spining wildly getting dizzy then falling over (it will laugh the enemy to death)

very true

the peacock is definatly not one of the major chinese animal forms but peacocks are pretty so mabe that is why they are on the deploma

i never encorage any one to hurt anything but someone asked a question and i offered my opinion my mistake jules your post was quite right.

i may not be a cristian but amost any class tought at a religious center is usually pretty good also shows one you cant put a price on a good thing.

spoken by someone who doesent know the first thing about JKD or the philosiphy of it. first of all read the book before you make ignorent accusations. ive been doing MA for most of my life the man knew what he was talking about.

capoeira and Bjj good mix because you are going to get taken down in a real fight trying to use the capoeira kicks, but if you do happen to connect with mayalua decompasa (spelling?) it can so some damage

i started really young but ithat really wont matter much, its how much you put into it if you put in nothing you will get nothing that is why is guess i have gotten this far i always put i 100%

i have never hurd my own philosophy on fighting written in such elliqent terms and for this i must thank you. very similer to the philosophy of jeet kune do

yea MT is really rough compaired to most other styles training wise and as to the baseball bat thing yea most thai boxers can do that.

just because you are a soldier that does not make you a warrior. in my opinion a warrior is someone who does the right thing no matter the cost.

im personaly think that a kickboxer would win semply because of the conditioning and power plus from what i have see kempo people practice light contact.

what i think the pro full contact people are trying to say is not that full contact is the only way but that some forms of training should never be done for instance light contact sparing (tap sparing) it makes it so you pull your techniques and lose power. if all you do it tap spar then you will not be able to use it full contact because you are conditioned to kick soft.

i think we can look forward to seeing a Pride/UFC unified tournament

camon not all street fighters are scum most are just normal guys who where badly treated as kids or have had one to many drinks. not my kind of friend but i have more sympathy than anger.

once again a kick to the knee by an inexperenced person will not do that much damage unless the knee is locked out (most people will have the knees bent) or if they hit really hard (which will be difficult because they have little training) a kick to the thigh will hurt with less power and you dont have to worry about doing any permenant damage. also the knee is a small target and it is diffcult to hit because it is usually moveing the thigh is a larger target and does not move as fast.

my first lao hu pai kung fu lessen i was very put off by what i considered a very unorganised class and a below average skill level in the students, but after the class i talked with the sifu and was very intreuged by the mans understanding of the martial arts, when i asked him to spar he accepted and i was really badly beaten. i then realized that this man was the best MA i had ever met. this was after 4 years in the martial arts and my whole life in boxing and wrestling.

most thai fighters break there shins at one time or another, and shin gaurds wont stop that sort of thing. just dont mess up is my advice on how not to get your shin snaped. PS. send charlie my regaurds (man it must suck to be in bed all day)

my personal opinion is the walk away, then walk away again, then show them why not to mess with you.

one time i was the only one in my class to pass a testing (not being arrogant just telling a story) the board break was a jump spin side kick to break two boards (had to be on first attempt) and eveyone else botched it.

i wouldent place much confidence on a taichi fighter if he was up against a MMA guy or pro Boxer/kickboxer against an untrained fighter i would say they have a good chance