Adonis

go slow get the technique smooth and more it is smooth you can work the speed. Like the saying goes. "slow is smooth and smooth is fast." Work on hitting heavy bag for power. Training should be about building each other up not tearing each other down. So full contact all out power matches once in a while. Most medium contact is good. So your not worried aobut getting your head knocked off you can focus on doing the moves right and getting y our timing and distance work down. You don't want to abuse your training partners to where y ou don't have any one who wants to work out with you. Thats not much fun working out by your self. I believe in training and starting out. The crawl, walk, run theory to be very effective.

good post Elbows and knee's. You hit the hammer right on the nail. I think every style lacks something. Jiu-Jitsu the striking aspects it lacks compared to other arts. As well as there take down abaility. alot of High BJJ players are black belts in Judo also. As well as those doing MMA or submission wrestling that are BJJ work on wreslting alot for take downs. I use that as one example how that lacks as well.

I see your point but I still stand by mine and the makiwara training. I seen good boxers with out the gloves and wrist wraps don't hit with well aligned punches because of the reliances on wrist wraps and what not. Either way I see your point. Maybe I should have used more a clear cut n' dry example instead of that one.

You have valid points sherri but the problem is to many of the instructors in the orginization who DO the belt factory thing and give low quality training as well as certain invidulas doing shady businness practices. Even the valid instructors get blown off as a mcdojo for being associated with that orginization. Just people preception.

thanks

I doubt you will see me at any tournament any time soon I will be in Iraq in 2 months and my stay will be for a year. Who knows after that. THanks any way.

do you go to the Rolla class also?

Hey thas good you went in there. I Know alot of people who are petrified to go even compete. Since you know what you got caught in. NOw you know what you need to work on. Good you got it on tape also. Now you can evelatute your trianing more also. Good Job!

judges can only tell if you aren't crips in your movements or if they know your forms. Since my school at the time was a small shaolin Kempo school. Most didn't know are forms becuase they were diffrent systems. So I didn't worry about if the judges new my form or not. Its keep going stay crisp and sharp in your movements and not loose composure is the key.

Yeah I don't look at the eyes either. They do decieve.

Maybe I think this were we will agree to disagree. Because I believe you can learn from both TMA and Modern combative arts and mixed martial arts trianing. people have applied spinning kicks and what not before in mma. I would agree they aren't fight finishers and most people don't do them if the opponent is fresh. Mostly when opponent is tired. Either way there is a bit you can learn from both. JMO

He might have I Don't know. He was a phyislophy major and related alot of what he did with the martial arts with his philosophy work when he was studying in seattle, washington. Read some of his books and do some research on him to find out.

keep my eyes to there chest and see there chest but I basically keep the whole body in picture. I don't like the eyes they can be decieving. Some one looks up and kicks you low. So I Look at he chest. Some times the feet because how they point there toes or how the postion there legs tells you what they are going to do. Weather coming in for a straight shot or seeing where there weight is at. Which is harder to see some times when they are bouncing around or moving around but it helps. Basically as more you train in sparring with that person and other people more you can sense what they are going to do.

I remember one time I was in my dojo they were grading forms like they did for tournments a few years ago. Same time i have worked out with are sister school that does shaolin Kempo also. The instructor teaches the forms sort of diffrent from we do them. But I never learned there versions. So any way I was doing one of are forms that my instructor knows well. I did a few moves and then I blanked out and forgot were to go so I started making stuff up. At the end they didn't notice I Messed up he thought I learned it from the other shaolin Kempo instructor. I told him no I blanked out and forgot where I was at or the next steps of the forms so I Made stuff up. He was happy and used that as an example. Because the school mostly competed in open tournmanets so most people don't know are forms so he used me as an example not to loose compusre but to keep going.

I don't blame my instructor for leaving that orginzation. He does his own shaolin Kempo school but at the time there as no Villari support back in 97 in metro pheonix, arizona area. So he did his own thing instead of being part of the Villari org. Is in my opinion alot more sucessful for it too

there is in okinawa styles of karate called change body getting out fo the way of attack. Which is an idea prevelent in alot of martial arts. Just that some do them diffrent. Wado ryu people I Messed around with weren't that good at it. Glad to hear your gym is diffrent. Boxing by the way isn't just pure strength there is a lot of technique those punches. typically though thoe mostions of a boxer isn't employeed in alot of tradinational martial arts as part of the style.

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!! I bet you had a mencing smile on your face when your friend wanted to feel a thigh kick. I hope you didn't kick his legs with all your power. LOL!

9 years for 1 class a week. Try OVER 10 YEARS! lol

In all seriousness I wouldn't worry about it. Just some goof ball braging about his skills. People do run there mouths all the time and not worth getting into it IMO. However, if you feel so slighted because of the remark just issue a challage to fight in the next tournament to step up or shut up. He probably will make some lame excuse why he can't go or he retired from tournment training any way. I wouldn't really worry about it.

Just go and compete good luck and its a good learning experience. You win you know your on the right track if you loose thats even better because you know what you need to work on. weather what subs you need to defend, or what more time you need to spend on postion controling or postion escapes. Either way take a video camera and get your self video tapped as well as video tape other matches. Be good for learning and examining your game, your other opponents game and there game in relation to yours. As well as watching other people and seeing diffrent stratgies and goood technique. Good luck to you.

I usualy pass with knee in the middle of the bum and having my lower body pushing against there legs. also keeping there hips pushed to the ground so they can't sit there hips up relieving the pressure on there legs. I then say go to my opponents right side. I will use my right leg to use as passing. I like that then using my closest leg to theres because it takes a few more steps to pass the guard. or using the double under hooks on the legs that was mentioned earlier is good way to pass the guard. Depends on what type of guard they are using. I am just giving examples on the "closed guard" if they have a really good closed guard it is very hard to pass on your knees so I got to stand up to break there legs up and then work on a pass from there.

there things you can learn from both. Martial athelete is more sport oriented especially designed more for full contact sports MMA events, boxing, muay thai stuff like that. compared to point fighting. Because I can clasify olympic tkd practioners as martial atheletes because it takes alot of athleticsm to do those moves to jump spin 3 times in an air and land a kick on some one. same goes with x-treme martial artist like mike chaterruanbut (sp?) Any way there is things to learn from both TMA and contempary popular combat sport arts such as muay thai, boxing, wreslting, jiu-jitsu ect,ect,ect... Take okinawan arts who has good instructors that use the makiwara board. THats a good tool to develop the wrist and alot more harder surface to use to develop hitting power but still is gives enough flexibility as not to damange the hands like you would punching a brick wall. Doing this training in moderation and slowly building up as to not damage the hands where you gain arthritis and can't use them in later years to the same degree is important. I think those martial artist who use that training properly punching power works for them better off then boxers who have to use hand wraps because as to not break there hand. But I see alot of those okinawan/japenase karate arts that use makiwara training and other types use old methods of pulling the hand to the hip for all there punches and what not almost. Its fine if you use the thinking of application for grabing/breaking/unbalancing your opponent. But boxing guard is a good guard to use also that should be more implemented in the karate styles. Boxing uses more bobbing/slipping/weaving which is great conepts that TMA's should use. Some instructors teach it but not on great regular bases. So I don't see the students able to pull them off in there fights compared to how boxers able to use those concepts on a more regular bases. Either way my point is there is ideas you can learn from TMA as well as modern comative and sport combative arts. As to the argument of martial athelete in combat sport arts comapred to martial artist. If both started same time I think martial athelete would dominate more. Mostly becasue of combat sport arts focus more on simple techniques with more stratgey, foot work, and ability to apply quicker then a regular art would. Mainly with more techniques involved in tma compared to combat sports where its on a few punches and kicks but focus is on the combinations to set up an opening to apply them the use of foot work, and angles, and body postioning. As to how they apply the moves. There is also the mind set. people join the martial arts for several diffrent reasons, gain more confidence, to be in better shape, to enjoy a particular art, or to pretend one day they to can be like Bruce Lee or self defense. either way there is tons of reasons. But for martial atheletes in combat sports its usually geared towards competing and fighting and intensity of the work outs are geared towards that. So in the short term I believe combat sports gets you more geared to take hits, and fight quicker then alot of TMA styles but then again that depends on an instructors personal teachings and methods of training. There are arts out there that train hard as well but don't necisarrly compete in competion. Either way both are fun to learn and if you like what your doing do it. I Hate when people preach about how there training is better and every one else should do it also. It reminds me of relgious debates where some one feels there religion is better because of this or that and how every one should be apart of there religion or they will go to Hell! Yeah okay. People have diffrent goals as to why they started the martial arts. IF you like what your doing stay with it.

He dishonered your sensei, your style, and your sensei's students and your self by such comments. Since he was faking it since your sensei stopped competing in 97 and the other guy was 15 at the time. Don't listen to these people avenge your sensei and dojo. Storm this guys dojo with several of your students and avenge your sensei's honor with a fight to the death. It is the only honorable way to to go. STORM THAT DOJO! Remember DEATH BEFORE DISHONOR!

Mercy does not exist on this forum. Mercy is for the weak! If you can touch it, break it! Tear it off and beat them with it. that will teach your freinds a lesson

I think your confusing the fact that were talking about competing in the UFC not fighting some layman. In UFC your fighting TOP LEVEL competion. casual ground work isn't going to cut it. Your going to get taken down and your ability on the ground better be good. OR you will get GnP or subbed. Either way the guy just has to go to local tournments and use that to see where he is at and what he has to do to adjust so he can win. So some day he can get into the UFC