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Previews make it out to be funnier then it was. It is still funny parts. Like I said it is really low budget and shot in 18 days.

Just to warn you it is very low budget. However here is a youtube trailer for it. Again it had a lot of potential and could have been better then it was. Still amusingly funny none the less. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=eXaR4wlGu3s

Okay, I will bite. There hasn't been a death in the UFC from fighting. The first Death in MMA in a sactioned event in the United states was 35-year-old Sammy Vasquez. Vasquez succumbed after having spent about a month-and-a-half in the hospital following an Oct. 20,2007 knockout loss in a Renegades Extremes Fighting bout in Houston. Here is a site if you want more details on it. http://www.mmafrenzy.com/2007/12/05/mmas-first-death-thoughts-and-condolences/ There have been from what I know 2 other deaths. One in Ukraine in an unsactioned event. Which was douglas Dedge, who had health problems and if he was properly medically screened shouldn't have faught in the first place. The other one is in Korea same thing guy shouldn't have faught in the first place becasue of health reasons. Even so over all comapred to boxing MMA is more safer IMO.

Any one seen this movie? I thought it was pretty funny. Could have been alot better but it was on a very low budget and shot in 18 days. Even so Nepolian Dynamite was on a low budget and did really well considering. I really liked the part towards the end during the testing time. Where the kid appears to be 16 or so. Finally sturs up the courage to defeat the school bully.

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=7fUZ8DmmWC0 This vid is by Matt Thornton I agree with his point of view on styles/Delivery systems. Some say it isn't the style its the practioner. To a point that is true. However certain styles have certain philosophy's or known training methods that may hinder them.

tallgeese, Cool thanks for the tips bro.

I had to search youtube so you can see what I am talking about. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=qoRm5RPJmAA&feature=related

MMA drills sure, but not competion until later on.

hmmm--- interesting. why do people think black belt is the end?

As what is mentioned before its that programming for guys not to hit women.

boxers and kick boxers do it. They throw it as part of a combination, I wouldn't do it as a single move. I don't like to drop my hands to far from my face before I punch.

Strike first, strike hard, No mercy sir!

+1 thats pretty much how I throw mine. IF I want to hit the stomach I chance levels and drop lower so I can still punch straight with my head covered.

My stance would be on the balls of my feeet, knees bent front foot with the toes pointing towards my opponent back foot, with heal off teh ground, and have it out at a 45 angle. Unless I am punching with my rear hand, then I turn it so my toes are towards my opponet.

Don't remember much of my Kata any more. Probably only ones I remember or some times practice is So, tan Haktusuru, and San he thats about it.

yep, I thought he was going to work on his striking better. After the rampage UFC fight he had he mentioned his trainer John hackleman say he needs to keep his other hand up protecting his head when he throws the hook. Didn't listen and got beat by rampage. Same thing with dropping his hand against rashad and got beat by him too. Chuck pushed for a tighter guard he would do alot betteer. Maybe switch up game plans sense people are catching on to his. He has excellent wrestling and I would love to see Chucks G N P skills.

I went and watched it here. http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=MPPsQjjZR7Q I didn't see any upward block accept for one part where he has his elbow up and his hand was down.

Sportive rules do change an indviduals game. I like watching MMA so I will use that as an example When PrideFC fighter Kasushui Sakraba (sp?) faught in the early prides there was no knees to the heads of fighters who were on there elbows and knees. However later on the rules chaged saying it was okay to knee the fighter in the head. They changed alot for Sakraba as he loved single legs and he would shoot in low if he got stuck in that postion kept moving around working it until he got a better postion. However when he faught Wandereli Silva it didn't work out to well for him since h was a sitting duck to those brutal strikes. So I do believe sportive rules will change the game.

There some applications for it, but I really don't use it to much.

Coming from a military and hearing something regarding that same topic with H2H training, because soldiers have weapons. I hear the same thing. However some times the enemy or a potential enemy is to close in range to be able to quickly engage the enemy with a weapon so training does save lives. Here are some intesting stats on the military h2h. (Portion taken from one of the Armys H2H manuels) When fighting started in Afghanistan, they began to conduct post action interviews with Soldiers who had been involved in hand-to-hand fighting, developing an interview format and procedures to draw out the lessons that might be missed in a simple narrative. What equipment was the Soldier wearing, what was the tactical situation and other questions? In the years since then, the Combatives School has conducted hundreds of these interviews and adjusted the curriculum with the lessons learned. For example, while every hand-to-hand fight documented has involved grappling, there have not been any that involved striking alone although striking is always a part of the grappling. Also, around thirty percent of the fights have ended with gun shots. Fighting in an environment where everyone is armed means that very frequently the fight is over who controls the weapons.

I didn't read all the comments so if this is already posted my appologies. As mentioned before it depends on what range your in at the time, and how good you are from transitioning from one range to another so you can employ what your good at. This all happens in a split second. So It also goes back to training methods of drilling the techniques down until you don't have to think to much about them but more on a reactionary based or automatic pilot stage. Also depends on what you as an indvidual have developed during training. Fine motor skills is the first to go in altercation especially when emotions and adrinline come into play that can cloud the judgement and effect motor skills and reaction time. So basically if you have a resistant partner and you are training with one, getting partner feed back, and developing your skill sets to where you feel strong at or are able to apply that is what is going to be your best defense. Not neccisarly the range. However some people may be more stronger at a particular area, grappling, striking, take downs, and defense from the clinch. Now when you look at altercations for example street fights on youtube and other altercations, people arguing and it breaks out in a fight, as well as what you see in real life, I seen fights where people argue and go at it, I seen sucker punches, I seen the fights broke up as quickly as the start, and fights that go on for awhile, as well as multi opponets and ect... So when you analyze that what things happend as far as physical stand point. Distance, suprise and what not. Basically one area if you go into technique and range building would be the clinch if you are able to strike from the clinch move away from the attacker, take down defense, and able to take down, as well as from a distance, I seen some vids of wrestlers going for the shoot so learning to defend that as well will be hepful. With that skill set you can build off the others. You can stay in the striking zone more effectively or you can take it to a grappling area if y ou feel the person is about to over whelm you in strikes. Either way I think that area will allow you to switch ranges better then just doing striking or doing ground fighting. Some people think they won't ever go to the ground, and some think they can get there opponent to the ground. Have your training parter give you some resistant and slowly build it up. THis way you can have that as a test to see what is working for you what you need improve ment on. Then drill on those weakness.

ps1 I agree, I would love to do that also, to train with both Helio and Rickson, would be an unforgetable experience indeed.

As for Uchi Deshi, this is a neat blog about Roy Dean's experience as an Ushi Deshi, also his instructor let him train outside of the school at a BJJ place. I find his experiences very interesting. From tough decision of leaving friends and family to persue his martial arts Journy, the emotional side, the training experiences and a new found perspecitive. Definetly check it out. http://www.roydeanacademy.com/articles

Never heard of him. Who is he?

They are only well rounded in comparison to other fighters, I am talking about each skill set as good as good compared to there other skill set with other. However I see your point.