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I didn't see anything that would 'wear him out'. All he was doing was standing and walking slowly with his hands up waiting for her to engage, and she rarely did. He didn't look tired out at all.

Well, the only Kyokushin types I deal with are the ones who post here, and they punch each other in the face on a regular basis when not in a competition. Punching someone in the face is a bad idea that was created as an artifact of the change to gloves in Boxing, which has been a complete failure. Giving boxers gloves has caused a lot of deaths that were never there before. Faces are full of hard angular bones to damage hands.

Five years ago, I had just gotten back from Australia and had nobody to train with. In five years, I hope to be at the least job hunting or to be starting at somewhere else. I'd like to think that I can have my rank looked at by then. (I have horrible luck with being able to get to the retreats where cords are reviewed and awarded.) I'm really just going to be keeping on as my side thing.

Well, the kicks are unrelated to karate. If they were picked up anywhere, it's more likely they came out of African martial arts. They do have some ideas that I like on studying the ways that you can use the structure of your footwear, which you are always wearing, for your strikes. Looking at one of the other videos around, I recall seeing them practicing with something a bit like mea lua de compasso, which we have along with some other bits in their kicking methodology. I also note that chasse bas looks like a textbook benção.

He couldn't do much easily because of her excessive range. She was "on the edge of his range" only if she were a stationary target; a slight flinch puts her completely out of range and so she has to be treated as being halfway across the room and in many ways a non-combatant. At ranges like that, you can get away with bouncing, you can get away with doing the Robot or the Gangnam Shuffle too. You aren't in any danger because it will take a lot of time for the other guy to run after you to try to turn it into a combat scenario again, and since we are supposed to be studying self defense, we don't usually build our tactics on ways to chase down and pounce on a defenseless victim who is no threat to us. What he needed to do was to herd her into the corner, and when she hit her back against the wall, immediately move in and turn it into an infighting match. But his stancework was too high and immobile for some of that to be first nature.

All she wanted to do was dance and kite around at "not combat" range. Every now and then she would skip in and snipe at his ankle. Eventually he had to settle for breaking form and chasing her with his track skills instead of his martial arts skills just to be able to exchange techniques. Calling the fight without a score was the call to make.

Why should I have an alien and non-traditional system from a foreign country.. ..that I know little about and that knows little about where my art originates from.. ..imposed on my students.. ..just so that the people from that foreign country can try to convince themself and others that they can judge how good my students are.. ..without ever having to stoop to learning anything about what I do? That doesn't sound very appealing to me, and I doubt it would be appealing to you if I said "I don't care what kyu you say you are. Here, wear this yellow and green twisted rope tied at the side instead. That's the only way we're going to know how good you are. Maybe one day you might be able to wear a white rope instead!"

Well, what I do isn't Karate. We spend a lot of time on our hands crawltumbling across the floor at high speed. I had a student who was a diesel mechanic. A couple of months in, he called me up to thank me, because he no longer had any pain when he was crawling around underneath trucks. He had new ways to move that were comfortable and easy. He also added that he'd been installing carpet in his house, and had managed to be the most productive person there. Our kicks extend our hips forward, and we use our core a lot for them; this was paying dividends as he installed a lot of carpeting without getting tired or exerting himself much. I used to have to walk across ice a lot. I don't fear this anymore. "What if you fall?" Then i'll put my hands down with my elbows bent at a right angle and roll off of the ground and barely notice. I've done it before. Someone gets in my face and starts getting angry at me. Deep breath in, drop the shoulders, hand near my face. My adrenaline level is now under control. I've had people try to swing things at me. I can deal with that. I have all sorts of ways to deal with someone trying to attack me. This guy is just barking at me like a yappy purse-dog. Seriously? Are you just going to stand there and posture at me for awhile? I suppose I can spare a couple of minutes, but can you make it quick? I have some work to do once we're done here.

You sound like.. well, most of the people who start a martial art, honestly.. usually if you want to start learning a skill, it isn't because you're already good at it! It's because you want to become able to do it. Martial arts are one good way to stop being "out of shape" and get your body to where you feel a lot more happy with how it works. Other easy things you can do as well to help get your endurance up to a point where it's not actively awful that you can start doing right this instant include: Quit parking by the door and park in the first spot you see period; quit driving and ride your bike/walk/ride a bus every chance you can (this means actually checking the schedules and whatnot because most people don't see things they don't use); stop using elevators for any less than three floors difference; walk in place or pace when you're standing around waiting for stuff; drink more water and less soda (if you eat at a fast food restaurant with a fountain, and you must get a drink, the first fillup of your cup will contain water. Save the sweet stuff for the second cup after your body isn't screaming to be hydrated.)

Whenever the other guy has all the cards - 52 pickup.

Honestly? Just go with the honest "Everyone who could promote me further is dead/inaccessable, so I can only get you to a black belt. I'm still learning more, but I can't actually get the rank to show it because it's just me." Use some completely different type of rank token after that point if you must. Or, switch styles to something with an intact ranking system.

When you bow in, deep long breath in, deep long breath out, shrug and relax your shoulders, smile, and look around them. Your breathing rate and to a lesser extent your shoulder tension are things you can control, and you can use those to pull your adrenaline levels down to something more manageable. Smiling keys to a good mood, which is connected to feelings of control, and you want to know you are in control.

That's similar to a galopante, where we turn our body sideways into a lunge perpendicular to the target and use the twist and movement to sling our arm around. Thumb up, arm loose, try to connect with the whole hand centered on the palm heel. Peak impulse based technique, high surface area, low penetration because of the large amount of surface, which means that the tissue that is going to be affected will mostly be surface blood vessels and nerves, though damage to the jawbone or acceleration injury to the brain is not unlikely. If you turn the hand to be thumb down, you are having to pull it in much more tightly in order to present the palm heel at a sufficiently oblique angle; at that point you are probably better off just pulling the hand in a bit further and using the elbow to strike.

recently read a post elsewhere by a woman who complained that her teachers often wanted her stances to be "shoulder-width" at her feet, and this made her unstable because she has narrow shoulders and wide hips. So she made her stances hip-width, a little wider, and that helped her a lot. I wrote a thing recently about how widening stances is better for people who dont have a lot of body mass to throw around, and how the wide stances let people move around fast. Play with footwork and timing and let us know how it goes.

Thus the word "typical", used in a statistical fashion. Your black belt is a big deal. Most black belts, however, are expected to land at an ever-decreasing minimum competency level.

"Boys, if you want to protect me, you should push me harder in kumite, because you aren't always with me." I'm glad we can help, you're welcome to post here any time! And your English is better and less "rude" than a lot of Americans and Australians and people from the UK that we have talked to. The exercise I use, because it's normal for my art, is this: Put a folding chair in a room. Imagine the chair is your enemy, so you have to keep facing and looking at it, and always keep a defense up at it. Now, use the movements in your form to move around the chair in combat range as fast as you can without losing good form or leaving openings. Go back and forth randomly, circle around, and in and out, but don't use the same series of movements twice as you do it. Next, make a circle of chairs spaced widely apart, move around them, and switch to the next chair. You cannot avoid having your back to a chair next to you for a moment, but don't leave your back showing to either of the chairs next to you. They are both a threat. When you have developed that, when you are doing kumite you want to try to learn how to make your opponents run into the wall or obstacles a lot. These help develop the ability to decide to move around the floor and have it just happen, so that you can control the space. For self defense, this means that an attacker is trying to attack you, when suddenly you step out the door that they thought they were blocking and leave. You can train this by yourself outside of class. Also, do not trust in hitting the groin. For many guys it does not do anything at all until after it is too late for you.

If you are attacked, it won't be by a highly trained fighter. It will be by someone who is cowardly and wants to find someone they can overpower. Think of the phrase "I don't have to be faster than the bear, I just have to be faster than you". You are training to be reliably "faster than" a strung out bully by practicing your running with bears and gazelles. Your size means you will never be able to keep up with many of them, but you don't need to, you just need to keep getting better than you were because the 2.1 meter muscular guys in your class are not representative of anyone who will try to hurt you. I'm sure Ev is going to pipe up here at some point, because she trains in a very heavy contact school and knocks the heck out of all sorts of monster guys, and iirc she's shorter than you are. Talk to your teacher and training partners and try to communicate that you need to get better at self defense, because they won't always be there to protect you. Meanwhile, learn how to deliver calm, controlled, smiling, but REALLY FREAKING HARD hits. If they won't take you seriously, keep stepping up how much power you're dishing out until they start taking you seriously just to avoid the bruising. Or get mad at you, at which point you'll actually have something to work with.

Lower cost is usually adults only or large class sizes. What you are describing you have a very small class size with a lot of personalized attention. In my opinion, you are getting very good value for a high price; as such your decision should probably be made based on your finances and goals rather than on whether the school is good.

The commercial stuff is only a Mc sign if the quality of the teaching is shaky and students are getting belts that they dont seem very ready for. Legitemate schools should not be tarred with the same brush just because they are trying to pay their bills.

I disagree that it is a McDojo, though. It's clearly good training by all description, so there is a lot of value to the training, which is completely at odds with a "McDojo". It is, however, a bit of a "Chez Do'Jeaux" in that it is unusually high cost. Also reiterating that it is unreasonable to compare adult class fees to kids class fees. Kids classes have some legal, safety, time, etc. overhead that a room full of old sweaty guys and battlemoms do not have to consider.

Well, if he is actually getting good results, then there is nothing "Mc" about that. A "McDojo" has high costs combined with a very fast belt progression (accompanied by grading costs) but very little pressure to actually achieve quality results - you might grade for a new belt every three months, but if you show up and pay the fee, you'll probably get the belt no matter how awful your performance is. You see a lot of kid black belts there who cannot do the stances and techniques very well. I have no idea how that cost compares to cost of living, etc. in your area. My costs are less because we only have grownups and do not have any of the overhead involved with teaching children, and also because I only teach a couple times a week for a short off hours class because it's my hobby. There are places that are more expensive than what you say, and it sounds like you are in fact getting your money's worth out of it. Whether you personally can afford that cost is, I would think, between you and your balance book.

Not Karate by a long shot, but one of the students i've had found that training with me took a lot of damage and pain away from his work because of all the training in how to move across the ground. He also become a carpet-laying fiend because of the practice in using the torso.

Thompson, G. (2004). Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion (New Updated Edition.). William Morrow Paperbacks. According to Amazon, there is a second edition in the works that has not yet been released. I saw a number of copies for sale here and there while tracking down the reference.

My biggest worry is that this is a prototype crime that will be copied by others. Is there any thoughts coming out as to how better to protect against an attack of this type?

Complete cowardice. To me, it says "Not only do I feel like i've failed, but I am too much of a coward to try to make up for it, so I want to do some ridiculous ritual to bring as much drama as possible to make people feel sorry for me while I run away from the problem forever and leave everything to other people."