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I'd have to say Lennox Lewis. Not that he was a spectacular boxer, but I think he would've fared very well in any boxing era.

It also depends on a person's schedule and priorities. In my case I go two times per week 1 hour and a half each session. That's basically the most I can do and want to do since I also play hockey 2 times every week + my work takes a lot of my time. Is this enough to progress? I believe so, not a the same rate as some others, but I progress at my own rythm, which is the best for me right now.

Gumbi's post seems explicit enough!!!!!

Why do you need to tell your sensei that you want to crosstrain if you don't want to tell him? It's your life, you can do whatever you want with it. And if your sensei gets offended if he ever hears about it well I say he isn't a good sensei first of all and he only thinks for himself. If my sensei would ever get offended because I'd cross train I'd change dojos that's for sure. I say go for it and you don't need to tell him if you don't feel like it.

While fighting any master of a martial art would be very difficult, I believe some people would have more difficulty with some than with others. The style itself is a major factor in someone's fighting ability, so you can't say fighting all masters in any martial art would be the same thing. A master in a martial art might be tougher for someone than another master in another martial art, and vice versa for someone else. By saying it all depends on the individual, although to some extent true, you discredit the differences between styles in martial arts.

AngryMatt wrote: Good courage and toughness, but in your place I would be afraid of how your ankle will fare in your older days if I you continue like this. If your shins turn blue and black, it's because your body is doing something it ain't supposed to. Anyhow, it's your life so do what you feel is best for you.

Traditional-Fist wrote: Do you have to follow everything that anyone tells you? Be objective!! SifuAbel wrote: Oh boy you are right!! By the way I'm no Kung Fu basher, I've done some Wing Chun and I believe it can be very effective if one becomes proficient in it (which most aren't but clearly believe are). I believe with the emergence of MMA and all, Kung Fu needs to re-adjust their things a bit and possibly change some of their old training habits and beliefs.

VinnieDaChin wrote: Not impressed with Wing Chun? Check that out when someone's well trained in it: http://www.fightauthority.com/movies/accion3.wmv

That's what I thought also. dtstiachi seems to resurrect a lot of old posts as of lately. Many I would of kept dead, but others like this one is very interesting to read for us who haven't been on this forum for long.

I somewhat agree with JusticeZero. Martial arts are often systems of self-defence that you are learning, hence you can't simply wipe off a system and get on to another once this system has been forged into your mind. However, crosstraining two completely different arts such as boxing and Judo or any other striking-grappling arts do not alter so much your learning experience as someone who would crosstrain karate with boxing for example.

AngryMatt wrote: I agree on this, I'm not against bowing to the Sensei, it shows respect.

I believe both of you, Sevenstar and Thaegen, have good points. Thaegen is right, in my opinion, when he speaks about MMA competitions and how TMA fared in those. And Sevenstar is also right when he says that a good ground game is important. As for the initial post, I wouldn't simply pick BJJ as my sole art. I took BJJ and it is very efficient one on one, however a BJJ practitioner will want to bring his opponent to the ground, and this would not be my first recommendation in a street fight, unless you are sure it is a one on one fight. This is where I believe other arts who did not fare well in MMA competitions shine, if trained properly. I know people will say 'well you do Judo, it's similar to BJJ'. You're right, but if I ever got in a real street fight, I would try to throw the guy hard on the ground and leave. If need be, Judo has enough ground skills to take out your average Joe. But I wouldn't want to go on the ground unless I was assured no one else would come. BJJ is quite possibly the best cross training art that exists, it surely is the best on the ground, and it could very well be the very best one on one (depends on peoples' opinions), but I do not believe it is the best choice for your number one street effective martial art.

SifuAbel wrote: This seems as the logical next step!!

I think he is full of himself. Not that I don't respect his opinions, but the way he sees it, Shaolin Kung Fu is the most efficient fighting alive. I beg to differ. I'm not saying it is not effective, but to say that other martial arts couldn't beat a Shaolin Kung Fu practitioner is pushing it. He seems to be one sided and that's it. Ridiculous, of course it may take some time to make a throw when two Judo experts are fighting each other, they know what's coming. I'm not sure guy this guy would find it so slow once he'd hit the pavement hard. HA, fool!!! No more comments needed.

Yeah I love it also. And it's a good self defense art also.

Treebranch wrote: You're right, many were just ballet dancing across the dojo.

Perhaps Anton Geesink for me in Judo, and George Foreman for boxing. I think I'd be a pretty good fighter after being trained by these two!!

I'm happy to see that people didn't blast me for my last post, but actually agreed on what I was saying. In no means did I want to bash Tae Kwon Do, on the contrary I defended it on other threads. However, like slydermv wrote, you must also be mentally prepared and this takes a long time in my opinion. And I further agree with slydermv on this quote Because being a blackbelt is something very important in our western society, so only very proficient martial artists should hold one - in order to keep respect in martial arts.

Oopgrub Wrote Athletic fat guys can be very deceiving. Don't expect them to be always slow, they aren't. I would like to see you do this to one of the fat NFL offensive linemen.

Well knee problems can be confusing. I destroyed my knee when I was in high school and since then it has always been weaker than the other one. However, I rarely notice the difference except when (this will sound funny) when I'm in those ski lifts which brings you to the top of the mountain (don't know the name). In those it's like I have a knife going in my knee, and I don't know why but it just hurts. It does occur once in a while (rarely) while playing hockey or another physical sport that I feel its weakness but seldom, it's really those ski lifts and when I'm skiing that I feel it the most. So perhaps you stretched something in your knee back then that has not healed perfectly and you can sometimes feel it. That would be my suggestion to your problem. This may last forever, or maybe with time go, It's hard to say.

I think your instructors were right to make you wait longer. Don't take it personally anyone, but this is one of the problems with Tae Kwon Do these days. I'm sure ITF can be street effective (from what I hear on this forum), but people seem to get their blackbelts very quickly, which does not seem natural to me. Someone even mentioned a year and a few months, I really don't think this should happen in any martial arts. It takes a lot of practice to become proficient where you don't think about the moves they just come naturally - it takes years. Perhaps there are not a lot of techniques in Tae Kwon Do, I don't know, but I doubt it. I suspect that some dojos give blackbelts to people who perhaps are not black belt material. Sorry if I offend anyone, but this is my perception as of now on this subject.

Me too. I wouldn't be surprised if a 65 year old Tyson would punch harder than most of us on this forum.

I agree, under one year really seems fishy if he started out of the blue with no experience. Perhaps a Mcdojo?

Has anyone ever heard of Fang Shen Do Kung Fu? Here's their site https://www.fangshendo.com There certainly seems to be some mix of Wing Chun in there if you look at the video. Perhaps Jeet Kune Do? If someone knows anything about it could you speak up please. Thanks

Goju_boi wrote: What the he**!! 3 year contracts!!! I would never sign one of those, never.