Jay

There are no 'secret' techniques, just hard work. You have to be decisive in life. Pick something work hard at it and get good.

I think the point is that you have to be careful at all tmies not to hyperextend yourself. Has anyone ever gone to hit a target with a kick and then the target wasn't there anymore, it hurts you just have to be really careful.

I found this by accident but nevertheless it is pretty interesting if you like the physics side of martial arts, like on fight science. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1419171/pdf/bmjcred00479-0016.pdf

You could try to imitate Lee, but then, it wouldn't be you, would it? Think about the things he mentions, analyze what you do, and then come to your own conclusions. As time goes on, and you gain experience, and re-analyze, your thoughts and ideas may change. That's pretty much how it works.I'm a big Bruce Lee fan, too, but don't too caught up in the Lee stigma. I wouldn't necessarily agree with all of his thoughts on everything, but all of his thoughts are worth evaluation. I was the same actually. Im still a fan but not so 'die hard'. I mean you gotta do what you gotta do. There is no point trying to imitate him. I mean you can use his techniques which is what JKD is about right but not all of them are gonna be useful. Same with any martial art, theres stuff you like and stuff you dislike. Theres a great quote actually and I can't remember it exactly, but I think he was talking to one of his students. The student wanted to know how he could fight exactly like Bruce Lee. Bruce Lee just said' You don't want to learn how to fight like me, you want to learn how to fight like you because if you fight like me your gonna get hurt'

Its that age old thing, it never happens when somebody is watching

You can only aim at the target you are set if he moves the target what can you do. I wouldn't worry too much to be honest. You will hit alot of people by accident in martial arts, you will probabaly injure a few as well. Its the name of the game. You will probabaly feel bad about it yes but sometime that person will hit you and then you realise that you shouldn't have felt quite so bad.

I usually hit the bag with no gloves and don't have much of a problem, I used to get really smashed up knuckles from just hitting the focus pads. My knuckles are still pretty smooth just thicker. I think conditioning the hands is actually important but I don't do much off it. I mean hands are very easy to break. The more conditioning you do the less likely you are to break them due to wolfs law. I think it depends how competitive you are, If I was a professional fighter I would condition them to the maximum.

I did this about 6 months ago, only recently has my ankle been good. I didn't train for about 3 months because my ankle was sore and not right. It depends what grade sprain you have but rest for 2-4 weeks to let it heal. You don't want to go over on it again (as I did) then it takes longer to heal. My ankle is still swollen 6 months later. When your ankle feels better shoot me a pm or bump the thread and I can give you some exercises for ankle stability that my physio told me to do.

Healing so that I can grapple again. I was working on attacking from the bottom but thats on hold at the moment.

Thats true if you are a world class athlete. Most people have plenty to improve on during application hence to get better they need to do lots of that. It also depends on what facet of training you are concentrating on. For endurance well the best thing you can do is probably your sport as you body adapts best to something it is exposed to alot. You want lots of stamina sparring, then you need to spar because your body will adapt to that particular interchange of aerobic and anerobic rhythm. Obviously strength training has advantages you can't get from sparring, but I think for the most part for point sparring its not that useful, grappling probably more so. I don't think its just true for world class athletes. Surely, if anything, martial arts are about turning your body into a weapon (i.e. making you a fighter) and being the best you can be, as cheesy as that sounds. To get your punches faster you need to build up your triceps & biceps as well as core and build up your explosive strength through plyometrics - so that means fast push ups, clapping push ups amongst other things. You wont develop that from just doing normal class stuff: forms and sparring. You can try all you want to get your arm moving faster but you'll see minimal effects compared to if you were supplementing your training with calisthenics and plyometric training. Same with the legs. For point sparring you definitely need plyometric/explosive strength because its all about speed; who gets the point the fastest. I 100% agree with you that speed is obviously important for point sparring and any type of sparring for that matter because speed is essentially power. Im just saying that I think most people will be better off dedicating the majority of the time toward the thing they will be doing, I hope I didnt come across as everything else is useless because that wasn't my intention. I also think running through forms and sparring can improve your speed alot, speed has a large neurological component so reaction speed and processing speed is the one you can make a big difference with. Actual movement speed you can't make as big a difference because we are largely limited by our genetics unfortunatly. Also lots of reps such as through forms etc can have a large benefit as they improve your neuromuscular efficiency so you use only the nerves required for the minimal amount of movement, plymetrics can also do this but you have to match them as close to the movements you will be doing. Oh and as cheesy as it sounds your right you have to try and improve all the time, something I have forgot many a time you get stuck in a routine doing the same things over and over and then you realise oh I should make things harder.

Thats true if you are a world class athlete. Most people have plenty to improve on during application hence to get better they need to do lots of that. It also depends on what facet of training you are concentrating on. For endurance well the best thing you can do is probably your sport as you body adapts best to something it is exposed to alot. You want lots of stamina sparring, then you need to spar because your body will adapt to that particular interchange of aerobic and anerobic rhythm. Obviously strength training has advantages you can't get from sparring, but I think for the most part for point sparring its not that useful, grappling probably more so.

Sadly I never got up to learning unsu but it is my favourite kata just because of the jump. I did however learn most of kanku sho and I guess the jump is similar to the one in that. I have never really thought of an application for such a move.

Does it give you bad luck if I saw it after 12 because of the time difference

I actually don't think there should be much conditioning. You can get conditioning from just doing more technique training. Plus the best way to train for competitions is just to do lots of what you are going to be doing. Plus with short classes conditioning takes away from the actual martial arts training which I don't like. One thing that I think some classes do wrong is if you going to do conditioning and stretching it should be done at the end. If you do it at the beginning it is at the detriment of your coordination.

Bruce was faster over a single movement we know that because I worked it out, Ali could be seen on regular TV which is shot at 24fps. Bruce couldn't be seen on film at these frame rates, in that particular scene. In combinations they are probably evenly matched. Its a fact in science that smaller guys are relatively stronger than larger guys. Bigger guys take longer to get moving from stationary because there is more to shift. I don't know about Ali faster than mayweather but if I could be bothered its pretty easy to work out. Anyway the greatest in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU2YPXghFkU

Thats exactly the same reason I got into Martial arts. Except I wanted to be the green one. Maybe one day I will get to play him I did'nt really watch Power Rangers until the last couple years. I was 12 when they got started and was already a fan of more adult oriented martial arts films, so I thought they were for 7 yearolds. Now I can enjoy the cheesiness as well as the martial arts and the freaky interpretive dance of the putties. Now I've been watching Power Rangers in Space, and I'm joining the Astronoma fan club. HAHA. I thought it was ironic that at the time I did not know it but a teacher of mine trained one of them.

Front but thats only because thats the way we are set up. In JKD you taught to intercept, you can't really do it with the rear leg. Front leg side kick to the knee is usually the way, I also tend to just lift it to jam them from coming forward. Then you can follow with the rear or punches.

I have a few ideas, its inevitable he will feel a weight of expectation if his siblings are so good. Nothing you can do about that as a guy as well he will try and be competitive. You can try liquid nutrition instead of solid food. Mix him up a smoothie some fruit, yogurt, milk and add in some oats for energy. Also if you know yoga/chi gung get him to do some breathing exercises before he goes out will help with the anxiety and sickness. You can also try distracting him as much as possible right up until the tournament starts, do some homework, play a game, go watch a film. I would say during the tournament gatorade is okay, its a sports drink so this is the right time to drink it. Sugar is good for short term energy. You can try doing a little exercise in the morning as well, maybe 5-10mins it can get the excess anxiety out and then he may feel more relaxed. Plus after the tournament do something nice as a reward, then if he know you think he did well anyway he may not be so bothered about the tournament. You can also reinforce the him having fun aspect of it, say things like you looked like you were having fun, or that looked like fun, ignoring the win/lose element, that can come later. You know I still try to think like this now win or lose if I had fun then thats all that mattered. People forgot about this all the time, the concentrate too much on winning and losing which wasn't the reason they statrted in the first place, you started because you enjoy it.

On the other hand there is the point that some want to train more but can't because of time or money contraints. I am one such person. I would train every hour of every day if I was allowed to.

Thanks, I guess this thread was just to vent my frustration. I don't think im going to be good before I have to leave the club which is a shame, I was very lucky that I didn't tear my ACL otherwise that can be very serious. Probably would never be the same again.

You know it still amazes me with all the training advances we have made, not one professional fighter even gets near his speed. There is a shot in enter the dragon when it was filmed in slow motion at 32 frames per second. He hits the other guy in only 1 frame. Thats equal to 0.03s about the speed we blink. Literally you blink and you miss it.

I have been playing with this. I got some resistance bands with handles and just work my throws with them, really good fun.

I would go for it as well, you will enjoy it, just do what you can and have fun which to me is what MA is about. Your fitness will get better and you will probably find that as you get better your body can compensate for any injurys you may have. I have read of people that have started at 60. Your only here once if it is something you want to do then just do it.

How do you guys deal with long term injurys. I have torn one of the ligaments in my knee luckily its not ruptured but I did the same thing in my ankle a few months ago and have missed almost 6 months of training. I have just been increadibly unlucky and also lucky not to seriously damage myself. My physio has been going well but I don't think I will be back at training for a long time yet until my knee is 100% im not going to risk it because randori is hard enough on two good legs. I don't know what to do with myself plus this is my last few months with this club and I have missed the whole thing.

Anyone else think the guy getting hit in the groin was wearing a cup so kinda negates the argument a bit.