elbows_and_knees

I'm somewhat of a local celeb. I've been on local tv doing MA demos and have given demos and seminars at various places around town. Also, a few people have seen me fight, and others have either seen or heard about me at the club I bounce at. Consequently, people recognize me sometimes. Just last week a taxi driver slowed down as he was driving past me. he stopped and said "Hey, aren't you a martial artist?" I told him I was. He then goes "Yeah, you're a thai boxer, right? It's good to actually see you!" and then he drove off. Also last week, I was at work escorting a couple of big guys out of the club. I didn't know what would happen and they were huge, so I had my hand in my pocket in case I needed to pull out my baton. After work, some people who saw the altercation were talking. I mentioned having my baton and one guy said, "Why, you don't need it" so I asked him why he thought so. He said "Don't you teach muay thai? like I said, you don't need it." I've got several stories of such things happening. Now I just have to get famous outside of the city...

yeah, several have posted on sherdog. jason delucia used to post here on occasion. Back in the day, I used to talk to ernie reyes jr all the time. He used to have a message board on his website.

akaratechick, you state that you also train jkd and kali - you don't kiai in those. the kiai is by no means necessary in sparring. All that matters is that you breathe. exhale as you get hit and exhale as you strike. the kiai is optional, but has its benefits: -ensures that you are forcefully exhaling. -draws attention to your attack. I have seen cases where a judge will give someone a point just because of the kiai, even though the technique didn't actually score. When you are close to hitting an opponent and kiai loudly, there are instances where the judge misses the fact that you didn't hit him or assumes that had you tried to hit him with full power, you would have scored, resulting in the judges awarding points.

now, he's probably just punch drunk...

There is no such thing as toning, technically. 10 - 12 reps is for muscular endurance. Tone is really nothing more than residual tension in a relaxed muscle. even if you lift heavy weights, you will look "toned" if you have a low body fat % because of the constant tension in the muscles.

there's another road you can take as well - extremely heavy weight. your "power" comes from muscular contraction. the harder you can contract them, the higher output you produce. that said, heavy weight - the 2 - 3 rep range - is not enough of a stressor to induce the muscles to grow much, however, you are training the neuromuscluar system to contract harder. After your warm up sets, use as much weight as you can do for 3 reps. rest several minutes and perform another set. that's it. If you wish, you can drop back down after that to a weight you can do for 10 - 12 reps and complete 3 - 4 more sets.

wow... I'm surprised to see what I see here. there are some advantages, if your footwork is right. For example, if you and your opponent are opposite lead (one is orthodox and one is southpaw) you want to try and keep your foot outside of his. that gives you both a mobility advantage and the advantage of having your hands and feet outside of his, allowing you to kick his outer leg and punch over his arm. you can punch him, while his punch will miss you. Try this: from the opposite leads, have your feet alligned evenly - both of you throw a reverse punch - you will hit eachother. Now, place your foot outside of his and repeat - yours will land and his will miss.

don't worry about a guide, it won't help you much. learn it from an actual instructor. Drunken boxing is not it's own style - it's a substyle found in various longfist schools, generally. there are some other threads about drunken kung fu on the kung fu forum.

TSD also teaches the naihanchi (tekki) and bassai forms.

Are you still getting beaten, or are you making progress now?

I was gonna reply, but I don't have to - good post, triangle man.

of course he didn't, that would be a sin. I pointed out a scripture above that stated anger was tolerable as long as sin wasn't the result. As with the example I gave, the result of Jesus' anger was him cleansing the temple.

point taken, but I don't know that definition applies in all cases. By definition, the term cross describes the trajectory of the punch - it does not imply that the cross is a power shot. However, as we all know, the cross is used as a power punch. Hook, uppercut - same thing. They describe they trajectory, not the amount of power associated with it.

I guess we can do it phonetically - tomato, tomahto...

agreed. but books can be helpful. Prior to starting bjj, my friend and I had a copy of the fighter's notebook and watched every mma show we could. We trained together 3 times a week, and on this alone we got to a point where we could beat everyone at the CMA school we were attending at the time.

Striking is NOT what he does best... he was one of the best wrestlers in the country... his grappling is what makes his striking so good. Think about it - if he couldn't defend the takedowns or was not good at getting back to his feet, how well would he be able to use his strikes? Fedor is a grappler by trade - he's a sambo guy. Loiseau is also a TKD guy. vanderlei silva and pedro rizzo should also be on the list.

He'll be in my prayers

you can still fight, even without muay thai. Heck, you live in the amateur boxing capital of the world. So you can start competing in something. In the meantime, if you are able to travel, you can attend muay thai seminars somewhere nearby and take what you learn and work it in with your current training. Try to hit at least two seminars a year. It's not the ideal method, but at least you can learn the techniques and have something to work from.

boxer sonny liston was known for having a very strong jab.

and by definition, a backfist is a snapping strike. I've never been at a school that taught a follow through backfist unless it was a spinning backfist. One style I trained - chun kuk do - taught a backfist - snappy, and a follow through version called a bottom fist - the palm faces the ground and you strike with the bottom of the fist instead of the back. However, that doesn't mean you can't modify a simple backfist to follow through.

the points may indeed be the same, but like I said, different orders - cycle of destruction, cycle of life...

you can do all of those things with a jab... how do you follow thru a jab? a backfist can be used as both a quick snap, or a driving power technique, a jab, by definition is just a jab. (duh) http://www.google.com.au/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=SUNA,SUNA:2006-10,SUNA:en&q=define%3A+jab the jab has follow through when you put your hip behind it. several boxers have a stiff jab. As I said before, I won my first fight dropping a guy with a jab. when I teach, I teach a jab and a power jab. the power jab it just putting the hips into it, unlike the standard probing / defensive jab.

yup.

the side kick when used defensively serves the same purpose as a lead leg tiip. I use it all the time. The problem with it is that it's slower than the tiip., because you chamber it. On the positive side, it's harder to block than the tiip and not all thai fighters are used to dealing with it.

you can do all of those things with a jab...