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Apparently he made appearances on Japanese professional wrestling (Puroresu) shows, as well as the now-defunct RINGS's MMA promotion. For how long in each I dont know. He also is a special character on Tekken Tag Tournament, and has fought Antonio Inoki. Not sure whether that was scripted though.

Would anyone like to share some interesting drills they perform when utilising the TKD-style paddle targets? Here's some I have used: 1)Angular Push Kick-Spinning Hook Kick Here, the person holds two paddles in their left and right hand. From a fighting stance, they approach with you with overlapping paddles covering the right side of their pelvis (whilst slowly performing a right round kick). You use your left leg to perform a Lead Push kick, with your foot at an angle of 10 degrees pointing outwards (or however far you wish) onto the overlapping paddles. Dont push too hard, or ask your partner how much force to use.In my opinion it should be moderate. A good angular push kick to the right side of the pelvis should cause your partner to turn their torso to the right and lean fwd slightly. . After the kicking the padded region of their pelvis, bring the lead leg down quickly and perform with your rear leg, a Spinning Hook Kick. As soon as you bring your lead leg back to the floor, your partner moves the overlapping paddles from their right parts of the pelvis to the height at which the spinning kick will be thrown. Discuss this also with your partner. The purpose of this drill to help you counter a right kick with a spinning hook kick. In short: i) Kick partners padded right pelvis. They should tilt to show that should they throw a right kick, they cannot throw their hip into it. ii)Bring foot down, and perform spinning hook kick. 2)Lead Hook Kick, Lead Round Kick The purpose of this drill is to enable you to utilise a hook kick to pull your opponents lead hand away from their face, and use the opening created to execute a round kick with the same leg to the face. i) Get your partner to stand in their fighting stance, holding a paddle in each hand. Have them extend their arms so as to mimic the distance between hands in a fighting posture, but also protect them from being hit in the face. With your lead foot perform a hook kick on the paddle they hold in the lead hand. ii)After contact, with knee still bent from the hook kick, throw a lead round kick onto the paddle which has been designated as the face region. Dont ask your partner to put this paddle over their face, just about 45 cms in front of them. This may very depending on their height. 3)Squatting Spinning Hook Kick- Squatting Round Kick The purpose of this drill is to respond to an attack that swings with full force to your head region, and you wish you avoid it by attacking the legs. If your are fighting from an Orthodox stance, this is best to use on a person fighting your in the Southpaw stance i)From a standing fighting posture, squat and perform a spinning hook kick on two overlapping paddles held by your cross-legged seated partner, just like how Ryu does in Street Fighter, where you press Down and hold Kick. This is intended to strike and sweep the lead leg of the approaching opponent. ii) After this, two things may happen in a real life situation: either the sweep takes your opponent of his feet and he falls on his shoulder, or his leg is just knocked off the floor, and remains standing. iii)For the former, use the same leg to perform a round kick in a diagonal motion downwards onto tilted paddles which your partner creates. iv)For the latter, utilise a Side Thrust kick into two overlapping paddles which are held by your partner to simulate your opponents inside rear knee. In this series of movement, both your hands should be placed on the floor to help you aid the follow through, and help you stop when ready to perform the next maneuveur. When you chose to stop your spin, allow your kicking leg to keep moving, but only from the knee, so the heel of the kicking foot touches your buttock. Dont keep a straight leg, otherwise stopping to perform the next move will be difficult. From the heel in the buttock, or from an earlier position in the trajectory on your foot, can you then perform the follow up. In martial arts, it can be argued that the techniques you learn are tools. how you use them is up to you. The purpose of each drill above is just how I visualise their usage. You may wish to use them differently, if at all. I hope I have explained myself well. Thank you for reading. Thanks for any responses.

Here is a link with Taekkyon videos. In the first half of movie 1, the video in in Korean. In the second, the text moves to English. Happy watching! http://www.rpi.edu/~kime2/ehtm/ehobby.html

Domawashi-kaiten-geri, or the roll kick is one of the kicks found in Kyokushin Karate. Can anyone tell me of its lineage, as in where is was derived from, and also, what is is used for, and when it should be used and how it should be used. I thank everyone for their responses. Also, I have seen a video showing Kyokushin matches called "The Ultimate Test", where an individual performs what the commentator calls a "Wheel Kick". The best way I can describe it is that he performs a spinning crescent kick (using the outside of the ankle as the striking surface) but both of his feet come off the floor, and the kick travelsin a downward diagonal motion, almost coming down upon the opponent. Is this linked to the roll kick, i.e is it an improvised version of the roll kick to aid to help aid the individual performing the kick to quickly recover into their standing stance once dropping on the floor? Or is it an entirely different kick althogether.

I have just bought 2 videos starring Jean Frenette: -Basic Strengthening Exercises & Leg Conditioning -Dynamic Advanced Kicking Techniques & Jump Kicks. He demonstrated his kicks in the first tape, and continues to do so in the next one. His kicking skills are amazing. However, I am still wondering what style of Karate he belongs to. On his gi jacket is an insignia that seems to resemble the symbol of the Okinawa Prefecture. He is only credited as World Karate Champion, as well as being a member of the World Atlantic Karate team. Unlike most karate styles I have witnessed, he sometimes wears a blue gi, exactly the same colour as a blue judo gi, or sometimes a white gi jacket, with blue gi pants. So what style does he belong to? What style is practised or what rules do the World Atlantic Karate team fight under? Why does he favor his kicking? He uses a spinning hook kick as well, the variant which chambers the leg, something which, in my experience, I have not seen in any karate styles. I understand that the uniform of a practitioner does not always act as an insignia for their art, but I thought it would be worth the mention, in case anyone knows why he does this.

Hello and good evening/morning/afternoon depending on where you are. Are any of you posters familiar with a style/approach of Taekwondo known as "Professional Taekwondo"? My master, who is from Korea, was explaining once to us about Taekwondo competitions. Aside from WTF and ITF, he mentioned about a branch of Taekwondo called "Professional Taekwondo" which, unlike WTF and ITF, employed the use of knees and elbows in addition to its other techniques in free sparring. I have not been able to find anything else on this TKD branch. If anyone does know about it, I'd be grateful if you would list its origins, tactics and strategies in sparring, and techniques which separate it from WTF and ITF (aside from the ones already mentioned). Thanks.

Aerial: Spinning Axe Kick, due to the combined force generated via the centrifugal motion of the spin, and the elastic tension released from brining the kicking foot down from across the body. Another plus could be argued that being in the air helps due to less resistance from an earthed pivot. Ground: Spinning back kick. Here is a nice article that says why: http://www.taekwondobible.com/trainings/basic/bkick.html. Personally, I find the spinning back kick to be powerful in that (similar to above) the spinning motion coupled with a kick delivered in a straight line carries both momentum and power. As the kick travels in a straight line, it is also hard to percieve and thus block. Some say that a turning motion should be used with this kick, rather than spinning the upper body (one of my seniors in TKD) others utilise a spinning of the upper body (Benny "the Jet" Urquidez).

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I sparred with this one kid, and he loved to throw kicks at face height that used the sole of the foot. Problem was he had a family of verrucas and callouses on his feet, so I was very diligent in making sure those kicks didn't connect. I also remember sparring this one individual in Taekwondo. He had a background in Kickboxing, possibly Muay Thai, as his stance was very squared. He throw a kick, and I stepped back, and use this resistance created from the step-back to spring forward and throw an axe kick. It wasnt meant to hit him, but my foot got caught in his football t-shirt, and ended up getting tangled (how, I do not know). I spent 5 mins hopping up and down, while he tried to de-lace my foot from his shirt. In the end, he managed to pull my foot out of his shirt, he was even kind enough to give it back to me.

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Do not sing "Smooth Criminal" everytime you score a point. Never try to impress the females (if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong). When your master asks you to spar, do not scream "PRESS START BUTTON". Above all else dont make those electronic coin noises, and then say "it's Capcom, did you get it?" Don't lose your temper when failing a technique. Do not wear Spiderman briefs under white Gi pants.

Is this assuming you're not going to hit them, like just faking? because if you dont get full extension, you won't be utilizing full hip and you distance will be a little different b/c your reach will be shortened? Or maybe I'm misunderstanding... OK, well when I said not to fully extend the knees, I meant whilst using kicks like front kicks and round kicks, where a potential miss would place a tremendous amount of shock on the knee joint. Actually, it can also be for faking. When throwing kick at full extension, if the kick connects, force is transferred to the target, and no shudder (or minimal shudder) occurs at the knee joint (provided extension occurs right on impact). If the kicks hit at full extension, force is transferred, but for the purpose of retraction, I have always found it better to not fully extend the knee when performing multiple kicks with the same leg. I do not mean to keep the knee very bent, just not fully extend it. How bent the knee is kept is up to you. However, the thread starter said "machine gun" kicks, so I assumed the kicks had to be fired rapidly. In order to perform another kick after you have just delivered one, the foot must be drawn in before launching another kick. By not fully extending the knee, retraction speed is increased by decreasing the arc of travel the foot must undergo, hence increasing the rate at which the following kick can be primed and launched. The greater the retraction distance, the more time needed to retract the leg for a successive kick. Again, as the term "machine gun" was used, I thought the use of a leg that was not fully extended would aid the speed. I also meant that the hips should fully be extended, just the knee that should not. I am talking from the perspective of utilizing the leading leg from the side stance. However, the stance for delivering the kicks depends on preference, the side stance is mine. Please forgive me if I have missed anything. I have an exam on Monday.

You can also use the Bound-Spring Principle if your kicks drop in height. If performing a high lead hook kick, followed by high lead roundhouse, you can always use the same foot to push of the opponents chest or torso to help develop a springing action to bring your foot up to head height. Stay on the balls of your feet as well, as the hopping action will also help you move towards a retreating opponent whilst performing multiple kicks. When throwing the kicks, don't straighten the knees out to full extension either, this will aid retraction of the foot, and thus the setting up another succesful kick.

Raise the rear legs knee to the lead (as if to perform a knee) and couple this action with sliding motion towards the opponent. Then, after sliding towards your opponent, plant the foot for that same kneeing leg onto the floor (so that this foot becomes the lead), and perform using your rear foot an Ushiro Mawashi Geri or a spinning Ushiro Geri. The function of raising the knee serves as a feint to trick the opponent into lowering the guard to the lower torso, and the sliding motion helps close the distance between you and your opponent. The use of the raised knee also allows you to perform a thrusting kick should the opponent try to retaliate mid sequence. Whilst performing this entire motion, it also helps if you use a powerful Kiai from the start you raise the knee. Leave some distance between you and your opponent to be able to generate enough power for the kick. If in close, use the spinning back kick and if further away, use the back roundhouse kick. This will depend on your height as well, so timing and distance will vary. Have fun most of all. I'm not familiar with Shotokan sparring, I have read that it is non-continous, so I have only written on how to set up one strike.

Yama Arashi and Hane Goshi, because of the circular stepping motion implicated in the throw enables the exploitation of a reaching opponent, as well as an opponent who already has a grip on your Gi. I also like Morote Seoi Nage for opponents who are taller and approaching aggressively.

Of course. When I train fencing, I have do to the warmups, the basic techniques (Kihon to some) as well as sparring ( like Kumite). We dont perform kata as such, but we do practice pre-arranged movements, albeit very short in comparison to kata, such as the circular parry followed by a lunge. Given that martial arts are codified practices, each possessing systemized methods of offense, defense, strategy and tactics, there is no evidence to suggest why fencing cannot be classified as a martial art.

You know your obsessed with martial arts when..... You walk into a room, then stop and look left and right slowly, before proceding to get coffee. Your girlfriend puts her arm on your shoulder, and you perform Ippon Soi Nage. You wear your Tae Kwon Do/ Kickboxing pants during school hours. You turn of the lights with an Ax Kick. You think all your favourite actresses would look better in a Gi. You think you can take on the entire police force. Every item of clothing you own has been battle tested. Your trousers must allow maximum kick mobility. Your favourite character on any fighting game is the one who still wears his traditional uniform. When your wife argues with you, you pretend to charge up and go into Super Saiyan mode. You own every historical or groudbreaking documentary on martial arts. You tie your fridge to a rope and let it swing into you, thinking you can take the hit. You think your the Highlander, in that whenever you beat someone in a fight, you believe you have just absorbed his power, and look up to the sky and scream. If you knock someone to the flaw, you scream "FLAWLESS VICTORY" You practice kicks in front of mirrors. Your ideal honeymoon destination is the Shaolin temple.

In these situations, where bullies are involved, its best to get the teachers/police in. If they do nothing, then persist, anything's better than hurting someone. Seriously, try to avoid hitting him. Hitting a person won't take away all the things he's done to you, it will just add to your problems. The next time he does tries to hit you run. If you can't then fight. Do you have a group of friends you can have walk with you. perhaps even stick up for you? If you must fight, then the best technique is deception. Heres one: have a jacket slung over your shoulder, the next time he comes to fight, whip the jacket over his head, to completely cover his head and shoulders and prevent him from seeing anything. During this time, aim a kick to the inside thigh with your shin, or the inside of his kneecap with the toe region of your shoes. Wear two pairs of socks to ensure comfort and prevent your own toes from moving into different positions, and prevent injury. You could kick him in the balls, but the police (if he calls them) will look for the use of reasonable force.

Any technique can be used effectively, if used by a person who has enough training in that technique, and enough faith. Strategy is setting up the technique is also vital, in addition to manipulating the fight situation to provide good distance and timing. Guy Mezger is a 2nd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do (Chung Do Kwan) and uses TKD style kicks in some of his fights: Against Wanderlei Silva: Lead Roundhouse Kick to the head Against Sakuraba: Lead Side Kick to the body and Lead Roundhouse to the head. Thats all I have seen, but there may be more. High Kicks are techniques that require a lot of commitment, especially when the costs of throwing one possibly outweigh the benefits. A high kick can be avoided and possibly create an opening for a takedown, such as grabbing the leg, and using a heel trip or even a shooting takedown (if the high kick is not thrown fast enough or set up properly). However, this could be argued against. Shooting for a takedown past a moving kick also carries high risk, as does trying to grab one. TKD kicks are most likely not used as there are not many TKD practitioners in mixed martial arts, the most notable being Guy Mezger and Vernon White. Some mixed martial artists have taken TKD growing up. To many, Muay Thai striking as a whole seems to be more practical at close range (clinching) medium range (low kicking) and maybe even long range (MT round kick) The rear MT round kick is swung as opposed to snapped like the rear TKD round kick, and hence, even if blocked, a lot of force is still transferred. A TKD kick could knock someone out, but if blocked, the effects could be negated. Bear in mind this may not be true for all martial artists. If an individual trained a TKD round kick for power for a lengthy time, there is no reason why it cannot break through the guard. Another reason might be the training. There are very few places that teach just the striking aspect of Taekwondo. Many school teach patterns which some people do not feel are necessary for combat training, and might be considered a waste of time. Kum Gek Do is a new martial art that dubbed as Korean Kickboxing utilises the kicking techniques of both TKD and Muay Thai. At the moment, it's headquarters are in Wales. If this style comes into prominence, maybe more TKD kicks maybe seen in the world of MMA.

If ALL your kicks come offone leg, then it's pretty predictable. If you sometimes mix a rear leg kick in, you can get them to focus less on the one striking tool.Very true, I love to use lead and rear kick, but prefer to use my lead, as it keeps the opponent at a distance, closes the guard, and hard to interpret. You'd be surprised how many percieve a lead hook kick as a lead side kick. This aids misdirection, and facilitates scoring using high kick, compared to using the rear leg, where side and hook kicks are easily percieved by looking at the presence of a chambering action (as found in a TKD side kick) or lack of chambering (as in the hook kick) I rarely use the rear leg for kick that travel in a predominanlty linear fashion (e.g turning kick) but prefer to use the rear for kicks that utilise a sliding motion with the kick (sliding axe kick) or arching motion (crescent kick) or even spinning motion (spinning back kick, spinning hook kick) One kick where the rear leg is vital is setting up a powerful hook kick. I usually practice a sparring pattern on my own, where a low kick is thrown several times, and on the last, the rear leg is thrown like a low kick, but is then swung across the upper body, and pulled back into a hook kick. I find this useful where leg kicks are allowed. If I spar from the Orthodox stance against a Southpaw, this kick comes past the oppoents guard, and hits them from behind, which is very surprising. However, I usually employ the sole of the foot for this kick not the heel in addition to trying to hit the face, not the skull. Against another Orthodox fighter, this kick attacks the face, where low kicks are thrown to condition the opponent into thinking every next kick is a low kick. The final hook kick is thrown, and if the opponent lower the guard to defend, the kick is aimed at the face. However, many martial artists defend low kicks by raising the knee, and point the toes down to flex the calf muscle (which acts as a better shield than a flaccid muscle). In such cases, where they keep their guard high, I aim the subsequent hook kick for the body. As they are likely standing on one leg, and the other is blocking low, this either pushes all of the body's weight past the supporting leg, and hence the opponent rolls back onto the heel and falls over. There are numerous ways an opponent can be made to fall over, or how to throw a good hook kick, any kick for that matter. This is just one thing I've mused over. Excellent thread, thanx.

OK, so what's a "Crocodile Kick" ? It is a kicking technique in which the kicking leg is thrown 45 degrees upwards above the opponents head, then sharply thrown downward. The downward motion is facilitated by pivoting 180 degrees on the supporting foot. This kick can be seen to be utilised by Kyokushin practitioners, and Muay Thai stylists. Some Taekwondo students throw a kick like this, but to my knowledge, it is taught as a tactic rather then a coined technique. I have seen this kick performed numerous times, but first saw the name for this kick written in a book called Advanced Kickboxing written by Pat O' Keefe. I still wonder if this is the same person who started this site.

The lineage of this style of Jiu-Jitsu can traces its way back to a number of people: Riukiu Miura: Head Instructor for unarmed combat at the Tokyo police, who has experience on Shorinji Kenpo, Judo and several styles of Jiu-Jitsu. Coupling his knowledge of formal martial arts training with his experience with the police, he amalgamated his dojo training with street fighting based techniques to produce Shorinji Kenpo Jiu Jitsu. Matthew Komp: Studied both Shorinji Kenpo and Jiu Jitsu under the wing of Myura. However, Komp was also an exponent of Karate, Judo and Aikido, and further developed Miura's style, which he took to Austrailia in the 1950s. Brian Graham: A 5th dan Jitsuka and 2nd dan Judoka who studied under Komp, renamed the style to Shorinjikan Jiu Jitsu, and brought it to England.

I prefer to use the lead leg, although my subumnim doesnt really approve as he says it makes me predictable. So he says I should use my rear leg. But does that not also make me predictable? The only difference I have seen so far is that rear leg attacks seem to reveal more of the torso and open up the guard. I also tend to utilise some footwork from fencing, which also favours the use of the lead leg. I find the best lead leg kicks are: Lead Hook Kick Lead Side Kick (thrusting and snapping) Lead Pushing Kick Lead Crocodile Kick Lead Rising Ax Kick

Can anyone tell me how students of Tang Soo Do spar, as in what tactics are used, what sequences (combinations of techniques), and any specific techniques that are favoured. I study WTF TKD, and was just curious how the WTF method of sparring differs from TSD's method. I asked a friend, and he said that TSD sparring is heavily geared towards defense, as opposed to WTF TKD. Is this true? Also, do TSD student wear hogus or any other armour? What are the footwork patterns like? Are multiple kicks used, using different or lead legs? In essence, I would like to know how a TSD student typically spars, and if possible, how this differs from a WTF student. Thanx.

That was a very informative post EternalRage. Thanx. I have actually seen this chain punching you mention, hopefully I can post another video to show what I mean, where the thumbs of the fists face the floor, rather than face inwards to the guard. One ITF TKD practitioner Lukasz "Juras" Tomowski (sp?) uses a technique where he raises the lead leg briefly, before sharply bring the foot down and stepping of really quickly unlease a maximum of 3 punches.