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Don't know the Japanese word. Basically just like a hip throw except you have him in a headlock while you throw him. You can get into pretty easily from collar elbow or over/under clinches.

His band is coming to Soaring Eagle in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan.

As far as I'm concerned, it's not the degree of contact. I can suck it up and eat just about any punch once (With a few exceptions ). The difference is that in point sparring, if you get hit, no matter how hard, you only get hit once. In MMA, if you get rocked, prepare to be hit over and over again.

Personally, I think the gi grappling is more applicable to self defense. This is especially true if (like me) you live in the Northern U.S. wear people wear plentiful clothing 9 months out of the year. Even shorts and a t-shirt, if I am allowed to grab them, change the game immensely in favor of the gi-fighter. There are plenty of chokes and control holds that need nothing more than a t-shirt to be effective. This is not to say theat no-gi is bad. Submission grappling is absolutely one of the best self defense martial arts there is, and it does prepare you for the situation of having a lightly/tightly clothed opponent. Plus, if your instructor is an MMA fighter, you're probably learning invaluable striking skills. I train both, and I can't imagine having to make the choice. Something to keep in mind: If this new guy is so close-minded that he won't let you go no-gi once week or so, do you really want him as an instructor?

I'll be training with Grandmaster Pellegrini later this summer.

Anything by Loren Christiansen

You're probably right.

I think I saw saw Tony Cecchine do this on a DVD, but I couldn't really tell what was happening. Now I know.

Things that make me want to make y'all read Mastering Jujitsu by Renzo Gracie.

Shooting darts=Taser Contact Weapon=Stun gun Two entirely different weapons.

What elbows is saying is absolutely correct. When I first started Combat Hapkido, I wasn't big into weightlifting like I am now. My training partner was/is the bodybuilder type. He used to use pure strength when we grappled, but he has since leanred to relax and use technique, too. However, because he has technique and strength, I have to stay one step ahead of him becuase he has a good 20 pounds or so more of solid muscle than me (and I'm not a weak guy!). He's the toughest guy in my school to grapple with. Technique when you can, strength when you must.

LoL. Well, what I've read is a LITTLE more in depth than that. I don't like the idea of massively restricting food groups either, but I find it hard to argue with their basic logic: The human body is not adapted to digest the food products of a post-agricultural world.

Chokes all the way.

I'd be doing the same as you if I had people willing to practice with me.

If this was true, then I would not hear so many negative things about sport TKD. I consider sport TKD and point (touch) karate to be exceptions to the rule. What is the rule? Judo, boxing, BJJ, MMA, capoeira, freestyle/folk wrestling, Greco, Pankration, Muay Thai, kickboxing, san shou, and catch to name a few.

What do you think of it? If you've never heard of it, google it. I like some of the ideas, but whole oats, skim milk, and whey protein are staples of my diet that I would hate to give up. I also eat natural peanut butter and yogurt (not together) several days per week and I guess I'd be saying goodbye to those. On the other hand, a lot of the claims of the Paleo diet make a lot of sense.

I mean no offense in asking this, it is merely an honest question: Why is there such a strong desire in the traditional martial arts community to differentiate between "sport" and "martial" arts. It has been proven again and again that sport arts can be applied to real fighting with great effectiveness. Can't we agree that sport arts can be (and usually are) very martial?

Exactly. I'm cutting at the time.

I know I'm stressing my muscles more at the time, but recovery is recovery isn't it? Whether I decide to do it all at once or over several shorter periods of time (as I think you're suggesting?)

I decided to run immediately after my strength workout today, my logic being that my muscles would have already burned the glycogen in my body so I would begin burning fat quickly. Does this make sense?

Me?

Mizu, that's a nice story and it is true to a point. However, you do BJJ. You know how hard it is to break someone's neck or crush his/her trachea. Unless you actually do those things, everything is still just theory. I've been gouged and neck cranked many time while grappling, but I have yet to tap from a neck crank and a gouge has never stopped me from continuing the fight. Furthermore, if I hadn't been training in rough-and-tumble BJJ/MMA fashion, I would never had had these experiences and would be unprepared in the event I face them in a real fight.

This is one of those cases where MMA teaches us everything we need to know about the question. Ask yourself: How do the best fighters train? It's a mix of full contact, low contact, and various equipment drills, plus tons of good conditioning. That's it, nothing more.

Jersey hit the nail on the head. Eye gouges are great when the gouger has a dominant position but are almost useless from underneath (except perhaps from the guard). The best rape/sexual assault defense for a woman IMO is to get used to grappling on the floor with someone larger and stronger. It doesn't have so much to do with any actual techniques as it does with learning what a real fight FEELS like.

I didn't really realize that Thanks for all the instruction, I pulled this on one of my friends, who is also my grappling training partner. Anyway, thanks again, I got it down. Now I've got another problem. When I try to do this somethimes my partner clasps his hands and I get get the arm back. Should I keep trying to pull on it or should I give up on the armbar? My other question is, if I abandon my attempt to armbar him, what is the best position to move from if I have my legs across and I'm holding his arm? SHould I try to go back to mount or what should I do? There are many counters to the opponent clasping his hands. One, used your foot (NOT the one over his head, the other one) to break his grip. Or, rotate the bony part of yourforearm into the fleshy part of his arm. It's called a short armbar and it really hurts. I know about a half-dozen counters and if you need more PM me cause I'm short I'm time now. The other part of your question is hard to answer. It all depends on the relative positions of your weight to his.