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Cathal, all of our techniques are named like that. Levelling the Clouds, Attacking the Wall, Plucking a Bird From The Sky...

That takes some confidence, stupidity, or a little bit of alcohol. Perhaps a little of each? Good way to end it, but he's lucky he didn't get smashed with his eyes closed.

There's a move called "Revenge of the Fish". Does anyone know it and what it's for? I'm pretty sure it's a fairly advanced move, but I'm just curious about the cool name. <_

Are there any martial arts that traditionally do full contact sparring with no pads? A friend of mine is always going on about some Indian martial art or another and says they did full contact without pads. I think he's lying, but I could be wrong.

For Kenpo, I'd say Mass Attacks, even though I haven't learned it yet.

So, it's okay but not the best? I'm not too concerned with bulking up since I'm at about the level I want to be at. But I used to be more worried about it.

I took a 2-hour Judo seminar at my Kenpo school by Mike Swain. It was really informative which makes me thing Judo would be a good idea. The problem with high school wrestling is that my school has the best wrestling team in the state and it's hard to get onto the team. Oh, and I live in Delaware.

If he's charging fast, get out of the way with good timing and he will possibly lose his balance. I would attempt to leap out of the way into a Cat or something then side thrust him in back/side of his lower thigh/knee.

I've never seen anything posted like this on a martial arts forum before, but that may just be me. I'm the kind of guy who likes to have a bunch of random knowledge like that, even if the odds of me ever using it is one in a million. Such things as 1-hit knockouts (neck pinch thing), how to puncture a lung, or jam their nose up into their brain.

Yeah, I've been posting here for a few hours now, and just saw this board. Well, just gonna introduce myself I guess. I'm Dan, I took about 4 years of TKD, reaching Red belt, and am currently a Purple-Stripe Belt in Kenpo (Tracy system). Love the boards so far, looking forward to more.

Wow...that was some cool stuff. <_

Whenever I see a random fight in school or whatever, it generally ends up being nothing but a grappling match. Though I'm confident in my abilities, I realize this is a weakness I have. I'm thinking of taking like a year of some sort of grappling MA, just to get some basic experience. Which would you suggest for a short term learning thing like that.

I've been wondering for a while: Is whole wheat bread covered in peanut butter a good snack for mass building? It's filling and tastes good with some water, but I dunno much about nutrition.

2 Katanas 2 Longswords 1 Longbow with at least 30 arrows 4 Daggers 1 Rottweiler And my step-dad has a sniper rifle of some sort, not sure what kind, and I have a suspicion it would not be very useful in close combat

Breakdancing?

I can't imagine why you'd really want to get fat. I can understand wanting to bulk up and stuff, but who really wants a gut?

I like to use a crescent kick to the head area with my right foot (out of a right foot back fighting stance) followed up by a spin rear with my left. It's kind of hard to follow that up with any hand motions so I typically like to make my exit. If I wasn't fast, this would be a miserable failure as well.

You mean you have to memorize the school's philosophy? Could you give me an example? I never have had problems memorizing techniques (and all their cool names) or kata, but that may be because I'm young.

I agree. That guy knew what he was doing, and he could easily get in trouble for it too. And no, I can't recall any take-downs in TKD either.

I think I understand your question here, but the others are right, there's no shortcuts. TKD and Kenpo should take about 4 years to get your 1st Degree Black Belt, which is a fair amount of time IMO.

I took TKD for about 3-4 years starting when I was 9. Then I started taking Kenpo last May and I'm still doing that.

I take Parker Kenpo, taught by Jim Clapp, 8th Degree Black Belt, who is on Parker's family tree, though I don't know much about that really.