Muaythaiboxer

a black belt after one year!!! IMHO 5 years is a good time to get your BB 3 years minimum but 1 thats way to fast sounds mcdojo to me.

no im in kansas (manhattan to be exact) and i guess i have not done enough research into the options foe MMA gyms in the midwest a which one would you recomend? i have visted one in oklahama a few times but i was hopeing to find one in kansas or missouri. yes i am below 18 but not for long, but i dont believe i will be compeating for at lest two more years because i want to be ready when i do yes i have hurd of Jeff Ford but as of yet he has not visted the boxing/muay thai gym that i attend. as i dont train wrestling full time i feel that my grapling is what really needs work but my strikeing is not exactly MMA material as of yet although i do have a really mean knee thrust

well most boxers are actual fighters ware as most karate schools are TMA so unless the karate guy trained in kyokushin or seidokaikan then i would definately bet on the boxer. as elbows and knees so elliquently wrote the avg boxer would maul the avg TMA

well if your school of karate is as brutal as my Muay Thai gym than good for your karate school but you say you have seen more brutal stuff in karate? was this full contact and if so have you ever see someone take repeated elbows to the face and then a flying knee to the gut if so i appluad your karate teacher because he lets you train you way karate was ment to be trained but if not you need to go to a Muay Thai gym and see how it really is before you make assumptions.

yes very good training. in my opinion if you want to see how good you are do some MMA type stuff.

there is an actual buddhist temple still in china i thought they where all closed down. some of the monks at the temple where i go are from china and they said that the communists where trying to get rid of buddhism in china

no im to young to compete in pro events (and not good enough yet) but i have been to several events that do MMA type fighting but with no elbow/knees to the head, two where pancrase tournaments in california that i won and the other was the tough man compitition in town (boxing only) that i also won. not to mention the countless taekwondo and wrestling tournaments. actually there is no MMA place in town so i have to train numerus styles to get a decent workout. i do boxing,muay thai, and taekwondo for strikeing and judo and wrestling for grapling. although i am not able to go to a full time MMA gym i still work harder and beat most of the MMA guys from kansas city (the nearest MMA gym is there) im probably going to go to oklahoma as soon as im out of school so i can train full time because i cant think of any thing i would rather do than train MMA full time.

i actually have spared an eight step mantis guy and he is the only person i have ever seen who has made traping work consistantly.

very cool someone should go talk to him with a tape recorder so his knowlage is not lost and if it is true where is his student?

well i really dont like no contact . plus i think that what they teach is to far removed from what i want as a MA, #1, training for MMA. #2, self defence #3, spirtual development, and i just dont think they could meet those needs to my standards. nothing against the school its just they dont have what i want.

i train 20-25 hours a week at variouse gyms/dojos 3 hrs-taekwondo 4 hrs- judo 2 hrs- kung fu (lao hu pai) 8 hrs- boxing 4 hrs- muay thai 2-6 hrs- running/weights

a vey good post. you get out what you put in to MA

i am good friends with an aikido teacher and there is a closeline neckbreak tword the later levels. if someones gun (i hate guns) runs out of ammo and he is being attacked then he may need to use lethal force and aikido is not really for good for lethal conflict.

i really like mantis style and although i never studyed it i cought my self a pair of mantis and watched them fight (i dident let them kill each other) but i learned a little about how i could improve my clinch range fighting

it seemed ok to me i wouldent go there but it still seemed ok and not really a mcdojo

my MA dream is to someday be the best MMA fighter in the sport.

but the idea in the army is to make the person a potent killer as fast as possible and lets face it aikido really is not for killing at the lower levals

yes but it is really bad at finnishing a fight.

i would not go that far but i will say the shaolin monks are for the most part are gone there are still buddhist monks at shaolin that train in MA but they no longer do many of the traditional things that make the shaolin monks unique from other martial monks.

i agree that belts can be a good thing but i see so many people with a BB in teakwondo not to mention the six year olds and i believe a BB before at lest four years is a mistake that is why taekwondo gets such a bad rap is because of the fast grading in many schools.

i still dont see how half of those kicks are any good and in my experience with capoeira you guys dont really do enough hand work or grapling

realisticly you will eventually get tough shins threw training but if you want tough shins quick the sand bad is a pretty good way.

i would never hit a lady even if she had a weapon (with exception of gun) if she had no weapon i would just pary her punchs i would rather take a couple good hits than hit a lady. if she had a weapon i would take off as fast as my sprinter legs could carry me so unless shes a really good athlete she wont be able to keep up. AMITABHA

been there done that. i have been wrestling for most of my life and those BJJ guys are some scary good graplers.

i am afraid that you are mistaken kajukenbopr if you limit yourself to one style you are just puting yourself behind others who imbrace new concepts and ideas.