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Just want to know if anyone else shares my other obsession...

You ARE lucky, unfortunatly I dont have the luxury of a Archery training club or organization. Question for myself and the ignorant of archery though; I dont think people can, but is it actually possible to shoot more than one arrow out of a bow at one time and still hold decent accuracy? Although I'm somewhat ashamed to admit it, I've tried this with my recurve (to much potetial to go wrong with my hunting compound bow). It's physics. Stick another arrow on the string, you've just doubled the load. In effect, it's like you are shooting a bow half as powerful. Not only that, but the farther an arrow is from the center of the string (where the bow is drawn), the less force the bow is able to transfer to the arrow. So, even an inch or two of space between the draw point and the arrow is going to hurt accuracy. The best way I can illustrate this is ask you to hold a rubber band like this: o------------------------o The o's are anvhor points. Then, say you draw it back like this: V If you put a projectile anywhere but at the point of the V, you will get bad results. There is not possible way to nock 2 arrows at the "sweet spot" In short, at best, you'll have two slow and random projectiles. At worst, you'll shoot yourself in the hand .

Where I live, there are a lot of archery hunters (like myself). I can get instruction, formal or informal, from a plethora of sources. I guess I'm lucky.

I'd buy a BOB in a seconmd if someone made one for 100-150 dollars.

Thanks guys, I'll check those out.

Well, I have a few points for you. -Yes, I practice archery. -Yes, its absolutely a martial arts weapon. Some of the greatest martial artists of all time were your own English Longbowmen. - More civilized than a rifle? LoL. Would you rather be hit by a bullet traveling 3000+ fps and die an instant death from shock or have a slow, clumsy projectile hit you and cause organ damage, thereby ensuring a nice slow, painful death. Not really much of a choice, but a rifle is definetly more "civilized", as you put it. But yeah, bows rock!

I have it and read it, I'm looking for something with more bodyweight excersises. But it was a good book.

Can anyone reccomend a book on strength, speed, and explosiveness training for MMA? It doesn't have to actually be an MMA book, just as long as the information is applicable to MMA conditioning.

I'd just like to add: Any honest Philipino martial arts practitioner worth his salt will tell you a combat knife or even a tactical folder is more dangerous than a stick.

Absolutely: Guns and knives All impact weapons are farther down the list.

Protein is needed for muscle recovery. If you are really serious about your weightlifting, I'd reccomend using some form of protein supplementation. Talk to a doctor or nutritionist.

Definantly wish I'd wrestled.

Can anyone recommend a good yoga (or some kind of similar bodyweight excersise) book? I'm fairly experienced as far as general strength training and fitness, but a total newb to yoga and similar systems. Thanks. Before the mods move this, I posted this here instead of in internal arts because I am primarily intertested in the physical aspects of yoga. I posted it here instead the Health and Fitness and Training section because its about books, not specific excersises or training disscusion. Thanks for the help.

Of course they're not.

Any style I ever practiced has nothing to do with karate.

Hapkido is not karate... Boxing is ceertainly not karate...

Oh, and right now I work abs every other day, as soon as I am done with my leg, chest, arm or other workout. How often do you do them?

Is there anything wrong with doing cardio and power training on the same day?

And there are slashing techniques with the rapier. It is just that katana is about 80/20 slashing thrusting and the rapier about 30/70.

What about Hawaian kempo, like Chuck Liddell does?

Will it tell me on the package what size to get for my height?

That looks like some general weight lifting guidelines. I've been putting on muscle (and a little fat) for about a month now. I want to lose the fat while minimizing muscle loss. Can anyone help?

The nature of the weapons defines the way you should fight with them. A katana is a curved, slashing weapon. That means an overall circular fighting style. A rapier is a straight thrusting weapon. It should be used predominantly for linear thrusting attacks.

Once you get the fundamentals, you need to let your game evolve. If your jiu-jitsu is not constantly evolving, you will end up like Cesar Gracie last weekend. Or, for that matter, most of the Gracies' fights in the past coupla years. Man, I love the Gracies, I WANT them to win, but if they don't change with the times, it's not going to happen. I'm really looking forward to Royce vs. Hughes. I hope Royce wins, but if I had to put money on it... From what I've seen, the jiu-jitsu style of most of the Gracie's style hasn't changed much over the years. For comparative purposes, look at the stuff Eddie Bravo's doing right now! Brazilian Jiu-jitsu allowed itself to become overconfident and complacent. It needs to adapt to an environment where there are skilled, well-rounded fighters who have seen what an armbar looks like. BJJ can't rely on the suprise factor that allowed it to win so many MMA events early on. So yes, get your basics solid. Then you can start adapting your game to fit your body type, your favorite techniques, the new techniques, your opponent's skill set, etc... My 2 cents.

Tell us how your first class goes.