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Nice! good stuff!

I see what your getting at to develop that though takes awhile right now I go for the MMA stuff gets my distance/timing/ and range of fighting quicker then alot more classical/tradional styles I see. I also study under person who does say an old mans karate were you get better with age but alot of those concepts takes alot longer to develop to work. depends on the invidual.

yeah good site. You ever heard of ........I can't think of his name he is the one I heard that has been with parker the longest in parkers later years. He teach's that sub level 4 stuff. I can't think of his name for the life of me. I know one of his students that is amazingly skilled at kenpo up in arizona.

Justicezero, that was an ignorant post.

watching the video's as far as how he moves his body and couple little things in some of the techniques I was really impressed with him. He's know know the basics well. I enjoyed the flying arm bars and the more acrobatic moves. seems the striking was more of karate base. I enjoyed the video's over all though. I hear of alot of higher up grapplers doing yoga. Rickson I know does it and has killer flexiblity as well as with stregthening back muscles and helps with kneed problems and what not that grapplers deal with.

same here as far as my limited knowledge akido doesn't have or if they do probably very limited ground techniques.

Most of the power kickers come from mauy thai/kick boxing back ground. gracie in action shows a fight with a young gracie doing sort of a chalanged street fight on a guy and winning. Other video's are out on the net of the same. I am sure some on on this thread is familiuar watching brazilian surfer in hawaii throwing down on the beach with some one else. If you don't know the ground or how to keep some one from taking you there. (theory don't count) application (credibly testing said theory) does! Judo has good take downs with the gi as far as not using a gi I am not familiuar with there take down ability. wrestling has great take down ability and stopping take downs. alot of fighters are now using wresltling as a key to either do take downs to work there bjj training or strikers using wrestling sprawls and keeping an oppoent from taking them down to stand up and bang with them. bjj/sambo/wrestling/boxing/judo/muaythai/kick boxing is main styles practiced for MMA. I enjoy those type's of art because mma is a good source to test them out safely comapred to just street fights. If you aren't testing the moves consitanly with resitence from a partner who is trying to take it to you also. All you have is theory. granted a fighter who comes from mma and does the self defense moves of eye gouging and other styles I think has a higher percentage of making them work. he is used to the timing/distance and applying moves on a non resitant oppoent as opposed to some one who does them on a compliant oppoent who doesn't offer resitance or countering the moves being applied on them. just My opinion

good luck in the tournment. Keep your distance and use angles don't do straight on attacks. I watched a good old pridefc video of dan henderson working his game plan on renzo gracie alot of good ideas there to learn from. He didn't play in renzo's guard he stood up and escapped and played a good stand up game and renzo tried to shoot in on him he had a good sprawl and and upper cut that knocked renzo out. good stragey's dan displayed.

I trained on some of the Hakutsuru Kata from Mr. Tony Sandoval. Fun training.

some good concepts in statue of the crane I still fill its goofy but you may do it diffrent then how I was taught. I seen diffrent instructors in the villari's linage or break offs do it a little bit diffrently. What ideas or concepts did you get out of those forms you mentioned?

Find an old man 70's 80's who can apply the moves and make them work. Good source to check out there training methods. I believe full contact is neccary part of learning but in moderation and sparingly if done to much and ALL THE TIME then your body is so beat up you can't train that way when your older.

Ninja nurse has some good points. I seen alot of other instructors in diffrent styles do the belt factory deal. few exceptions were people like Joe Lewis who got his in a year but he was a gifted athlete who picked up the info and made it work. If some one can do that in a a year or two then great they deserve a black belt. Just like some one who can do a four year degree in 3 years or 2 1/2 deserve the degree just as much as some one who took 4 years or longer to achieve. but mcdojo belt factory places just gives indviduals fase since of security and really is sad for the student to go to another school and get owned by begging and intermediate students.

Yeah its hard because either the instructor has to figure out some theories to put there or reasearch on where cerio took these forms from and look for the concepts and theories there. Or if you trained enough on diffrent stuff you can add your own ideas. drunken master or octopic. You guys have any particular forms you like. I like Pinion 1 because its simple form. Allows me more time to disasect each move and how many diffrent things/ways it can be applied for. statue of the crane can be fun at times but I feel stupid or fruity looking doing some of those hopping parts.

sam I think we think alot alike. I like your ideas.

Parkerlinage. as for mutliple power sources for diffrent techniques I agree. sounds like your getting some good training.

I would say a nucular bomb would be the most deadly. IMO other then that there are to many factors to say which art is deadly. Let say you found the most deadly martial art out there but you your not good at it. Then you have some one who is good and full contact taekwondo and kicks you in the throat and kills you. At the time the taekwondo guy had the most deadly art. Pick an art you enjoy and learn to apply it and have fun.

andy wang I think is his name. I heard he had a school in Hong kong. Correct me if I am wrong.

I just enjoy my training. Keep in decent shape, and more important then combat/martial art skills. Is to learn to deal with people better. Learn to talk calmly and if you get ino scenerio's of arguing, co worker, boss, spouse, kids, the guy that cut you off and took your parking spot while you were waiting for it. Learn to let go of pride and just avoid the conflict. If your bullyed and feel you need to throw down then just dedicate to doing it. Martial arts don't teach you to deal with every possible enounter. Most are arts they deal with certain limited physicaly and some physcological stuff they don't deal with every thing. Dispite how many people can say there style deals with this that or the other. Take something you like and do it to get good at it and make it work for you. When dealing with other styles exaine them, examine how your stuff you learned can fit to work against them and see if the person in your school or what ever will work with you on it. There is no style that is best or that will beat every other style or martial art out there. take some one who is trained to shoot even say a guy who had sniper training in the military. Is this a martial art. sure its martial look up the defintion of the word in a dictionary is it an art. sure look up the word art in a dictionary so it can be a martial art. weather it fits some ones else is defintion is of no consquence. To me it is and some others as well. but if that person is bent on taking you out. well there aren't really any martial artist or styles out there well equiped to deal with that style. Now I know this isn't a common thing but I used it to illistrate the point no art or style is going to help you defend against every art or person out there. Just pick something you enjoy and do it to get good at it. Enjoy your training and have fun. If your not having fun most likely you aren't going to stay with it for a long time. were not invinicible ninja masters. If people believe this all I have to say is "Ninja Please!" Thats all I have to say.

sam in your profile were it says you want to try a second style. check this out. http://www.martialartsclubs.com/byarea/gloucestershire.php I would go for trojan free fighters but grappling/Jiu-Jitsu is my thing, but there areother styles on the site listenings you may like better.

Its all in the mind. If you ever watch UFC (Ultimate Fighting Champion ships) there is a guy named randy courture who was heavy weight champion lost it and then regained it later on, then lost it agian. Dropped down to Light heavy weight and won the belt. Lost it and regained it again to only lose it. He is 40+ years old now and did things at his age that most people in MMA would consider ifor a guy at his age to be retired from the sport or consider then washed up but he still achieved greatness. Alot of it is in the mind. If you want to go for shaolin (wushu Is what I think you mean) or XMA go for it. You just got to apply your self and when times are hard and you feel like you want to quit. which you will, but don't do it. Ajust your training keep striving for perfection and you will reach your goals as far as what you want to do for XMA or shaolin stuff. your 18 years old right? It's a young age and you can still do alot of stuff just got to apply your self and train for it.

great hope you have fun.

focus pad training, heavy bag training, light sparring, and full contact sparring are all great training tools to develop your ability. so is scenerio trianing and stress adrinline training.

focus pad training, heavy bag training, light sparring, and full contact sparring are all great training tools to develop your ability. so is scenerio trianing and stress adrinline training.

I consdier both villari and USSD guys business men first and formost. more information you expose your self to by doing your own research more educated you can be to picking a good instructor who you are comfortable with, and that you can learn well from them.

I know up to 1st dan. I trained with Jerry shaw who was under keven cincata (sp?) back in Maine. Not sure some times I hear villari was broke of of Nick cerio. How long hae you been studying? does your instructor explian the theories behind each form or kata. as far as the concepts he wants you to get out of them? for shaolin Kempo the forms were based of of shotokan pinions which was off of the shorin ryu pinons. So the ideas were not as clear. since I don't think villari or cerio taught the ideas behind them comapred to those of matsumura linage. Same as where the forms from Kata 1-5 and statude of the crane forms come from? Unknown to me.