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Yeah thats true, its hard to get a work out in while playing chess. lol!

Kind of it looked more like a training session then a fight, with multiple opponents in the mix.

Usually built off set ups. Where they defend one move, and you play off there defense to go for another, ect, ect....

Jason Chambers posts on another website. I see said basically that besides BJJ, and JKD, the way they trained Krav Maga in Isreal it was one of his favorite arts. Any way, I thought the episode was really good myself. Intersting training methods.

I know of bioelectiricty I felt the chi ball before between the hands. However I fail to understand the pracatical appilcation of it. I have seen the touchless KO stuff. However I personally believe its a bit out t here. In my opinion fake. So using for physical contact I still try to understand. Oh well maybe in time I will. I guess I won't worry about it any more.

Or if they drive back for the sweep you can go into kimura. I like the shoulder attack by pummeling under neath the arm pit, you can also sweep them with it.

I believe they moved over a year ago at Legends. He is there though. You can check the instructors section at legendsmma.com to see for your self. Yes 10th Planet is part of Legends now.

True but not all black belts are equa.l Age, maturity development, body compostion all those things play factors in ones ability.

Thanks for the reply. I guess it is a broad subject and hard to pin point what exactly it is. The same with chi/ki all I have heard it to be was bioelectricty. How to use that to effect the effectivess of a nechnique is yet goes over my head.

I won't ask permission. I might let them know of my plans though. However when you do take of two diffrent things, say Shotokan and Ed parker Kenpo. The stance work is diffrent as well as the technique excution it can throw you off, since you might spend more time in one then the other. Especially if you are a begginer and take two of them up. It takes longer to develop them since you are seperating your time. Plus another issue is some students like a certain technique or stance, and they feel the need to share it with the other students at the gym. Or blurt it out in class to the instructor so EVERY ONE can hear. WELL IN THIS SCHOOL WE DO IT THIS WAY, or I THINK THIS MOVE I LEARNED IN THIS SCHOOL IS BETTER! Which is really annoying to the instructor since he has a lesson plan, curriculum he is trying to get the students to work on to develop, and that went that gets interupted it is rude. If you took the instructor to the side after class, and respectfully asked his opinon of what he thought of a certain technique you learned is one thing. However being a Jerk and interpruting class with comments is rude. Where there to learn not to try to teach the instructor. So I seen things like that be an issue before. However some instructors don't like the idea of going to other styles or instructors. THey do have the right to refuse service to any one, as we have the right to go to who ever we choose to learn from. Just keep in mind with martial arts people develop relationships and it can be personel business. So peoples feelings due get hurt. So that will play a factor when choosing to go to another dojo/dojang/academy However I stand by the fact that I go where I please, just as the instructor has the right to refuse service.

I consider it part of the Mental Training process. I have a Mental Training coach. As Martial Artists I believe there to be 3 training areas to focus on. 1. Technical Training 2. Conditioning Training. 3. Mental Training. My Mental Trainining Coach is Paul Green hill. He is a BJJ Black Belt under Lloyd Irvin. For those who don't know Lloyd he is known for having a very succuseful grappling team, his guys are known to be very technically tough. They really work on training the trasitions. He is also known for his Mental Training products. Here is an interview of him if any one wants to check it out. http://www.jiujitsukingdom.com/paul.html I really believe the Mental Training with make a huge diffrence on the mat, as well as the quality of your life off the mat. Any way good training to you all.

sit up sweep from guard, okay cool. Sounds like the same as we call the timing sweep.

What do people mean by Internal training? Are they refering to timing? Sensitivity of your opponents movements by sight example (telegraphing) or by body contact when your opponent moves or before they move you can feel a littel pressure? Or is it bioelectiricty (chi/ki)? Which that is the one thing I don't understand how it helps the physical abialities to perform movement. I never could feel its effects. I felt the warm heat of the engery when the hands are close together, however I never understood how to use it to effect movement. Interal training is probably the least thing I understand about the martial arts. I can understand mental trianing of postive thinking, dealing with issues you may not want to but should to become a better person. Or core training for the body, vizualzation I understand, example if you think of doing the movements fast the body reacts to that thinking and I am able to be a little bit faster in my movement. However defining internal training and exactly what it is well....I have no idea.

Those are fun, I am not good at them though, I usally use it with a timing sweep, or if they just grab the hand to defend, I pummel through the arm pit, and attack the shoulder or sweep from there. Depending how they lean there weight. How long have you been training?

usually a person if your in a stance its for a second or two.

thats what it sounded like to me is a back stance, however seems like his versiion the feet are a bit closer to each other then what I think of as the back stance were the feet are much wider.

what is a flat 90?

I know Eddie Bravo calls it the locoplata when it is done from the mount. The twister is a fun one. The entry's from what I know can be top half guard, side control, turtle, and when you have the back

I keep my self moving and my knee's a little bit bent. When I throw a technique say a Jab (front punch) and a cross (reverse punch) I am planted so I guess you can call that a front stance and then I am moving again.

To be honest though its kind of hard to answer your questions with out training with your and showing you stuff. It will be better if you bring up your questions to your instructor or senior students at your dojo. Maybe they can better answer your questions since they train with you.

"So I was wondering, why is it we only learn the forward fighting stance when attacking with strikes, elbows, knees, and kicks; but use stances such as the crane, horse, and cat stances (and that's all most people in the dojo I attend know, even the black belts) when countering a grapple?" As was said earlier stances are transitional. Idea for beingeers for stances to learn balance. I.e(Front stance, when your feet are shoulder with a part and one forward and the other in the back) Learning to plant your weight and sit into your rear punch, using the rear foot to push off the ground to give your body momentum and drive for power. Any way you can look at the crane stance as being a chamber for for your front kick, or bringing it up to crane stance to check, a leg kick. As for using stances in defense towards grappling. As what was said earlier grappling is dynamic. There is alot of tranistions going on. Alot of it is based on feel. Putting your self in a good postion "at the time" It can only be learned by feel.

If you don't practice you will forget things about the forms, or forget how to do certain movements of the form. This what happend to me. Not that it bothers me to much, I don't try that style any more, and for the most part I don't like doing alot of forms. I remember the basic ones, and I will do those every now and then. Its only a handful though. On a side note, maybe some of the histroy buff's here can tell me. Who was that guy who only trained one form? He was Okinawan and all he ever did was Naihanchi. He had a reputation for being a really good fighter, among other things. As I am writing this a name just popped in my head. I think it was Choki motubu. Was it him?

They do cover take downs, striking both with empty hands, and improvised impact weapons.

Very nice, it looks good. Good job!

I mean Jason would be the one doing the fight at the end on the MMA show. At least I hope so.