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it's more than genetics, it's lack of weight training. small chest = lack of chest exercises - like bench press. small biceps are harder... lack of weight training, but also lack of protein. The biceps are among the hardest muscles to induce growth upon. You really need to eat to grow them. as for the abs, you HAVE to be more than 9% bodyfat - either that or you have weaker abs than you may think. less than 10% and you should have a visible 6 pack.

it doesn't take a lot to pull the legs up and break your balance. If he keeps your feet on the ground, then yes, you could do that. However, once your feet have left the ground, you can hit him all you want and you will have no power. 1. you are off the ground 2. you are going backward. Even if it's a sloppy takedown, he can still pull it off if he keeps his momentum going forward.

ya know, a lot of people say that in normal, everyday, cushiony circumstances. I truly wonder how many (both christian / any other religion and non religious) would say that when they have a gun to their head or in their mouth. I've witnessed people who claim they don't fear death get all shaken up by something as little as a fight... They were afraid in a fight, not will somehow not be afraid of death? Also, a christian could be a warrior. the bible is full of christians who fought in wars. They were all warriors.

but still? What's the rush? just let it improve over time. Like I said, if you intend on fighting, your main focus should be anaerobic anyway.

I agree with that... I was assuming a different definition of 'complicated'.

we'll have to agree to disagree on that one. Kano's judo beat the best jujutsu school in japan, partially due to the reason we are discussing now. There is a difference between working the MOTION of the throw and APPLYING the throw on someone who doesn't want to be thrown. Kata cannot teach you that. This is why judoka focus on throwing. They don't even start teaching you the kata until around brown belt level.

the point of the chin is knocking a person unconscious. There are alot of nerve bundles there. In addition, the jolt from the chin impact makes the brain rattle around and bounce off the walls of the skull, resulting in a person getting put to sleep. That's why you see so many KOs off the hook punch in boxing. the cheekbone is actually not very hard at all. And though the chin is harder, you are hitting it from an angle where it's not really reinforced by anything - instead of hitting it straight on, you are hitting it from the side. Your hands will be safe enough.

basically, it's the wing chun system as taught by emin bozteppe. As far as I know, none ot the WC systems do any real grappling, other than what some of them refer to as "anti grappling". I have a friend who has spent several years in WT, and he doesn't grapple at all.

That depends on whom you ask. Some people will strike to grapple. If I am fighting a better striker than myself, it would be stupid to strike with him. So what do I do? use my footwork and strikes to get me on the inside so that I can tie his limbs up and throw him. Id depends on whom you are grappling. If you are grappling someone who is a trained grappler, you will not feel this way. If you are yourself not that good of a grappler and you are grappling someone much heavier than you, you will not feel this way.

yeah, but you can't realistically train throws on your own, unless you are doing inner tube drills or something, which we do.

If you are running that much, you shouldn't have a problem... keep doing what you're doing, but increase the distance a little every other day. However, 5k is fine. fighting is largely anaerobic, which is where the focus should be. there is really no need to be able to run any further than 5-7k.

cool. I may have to stop through there sometime.

I like the inside as well, but prefer the roundhouse. That's one thing I don't like about the roundhouse of many styles - the idea of hitting with something as weak as the instep. As a thai boxer, I prefer the shin. depending on your condiitioning, contact to the knee may or may not hurt the shin. Either way, it will hurt way less than instep-shin.

Have you never hit someone in the liver area? that "gut punch" will end a confrontation fast. Heck there are boxers that are famous for dropping people with liver punches. a fist to the xiphoid process is good, as is a fist to the chin.

For the record, I don't like it- at least not the traditional version. It's too straight forward and very telegraphic. There are some variations of it that I do like, however.

harai goshi, kata guruma, hiza guruma

I knew of the first two, but have never seen the third - I will try that one.

Notice I didn't say anything about getting him to the ground. The sprawl doesn't always result in going to the ground. You sprawl on him, then knee him in the head, or do whatever else you want to do. If you sprawl him all the way to the ground, you may have the option to get up and run. regardless, when it comes to defending a double leg, the best way to go is the sprawl. you have to keep in mind that if he knows what he's doing, he's not charging from across the room. He can be nose to nose with you and still shoot in for the double leg. if he moved first, it is very likely that you won't have a lot of time to "meet and move in on his charge" and if he gets your legs, you're going down. Get them out of the way first. Then counter.

sounds good. let us know how it goes. Do you have an idea for your curriculum and class structure yet?

muay thai - a living legacy advanced muay thai thai boxing dynamite attacking judo the art of war a book of five rings I have a book that gets into the physics behind judo throws, but I can't think of the name of it right now...

by throwing them. that's how we do it in judo. Throwing eachother and doing uchi komi. our throws aren't hidden in kata. in the context of kata, I would find the throwing segments, break them out and drill them individually.

It wasn't. it was rare for chinese schools to spar. Naturally, this crossed over to the okinawan schools, and later to the japanese karate styles as well. their "combat training" was more based on chi sao, two man drills, etc. and (I'm guessing on this last one) the experience of people who had been in fights. funakoshi RELUCTANTLY introduced sparring - but that was less than 100 years ago. If I remember correctly, he thought that sparring would take away the essence of the style. Most of the japanese jujutsu schools didn't spar either - even the most notorious jj school in japan didn't spar. Then they were schooled by kano's judo guys - guys who did spar. the jj guys practiced techniques that couldn't be used safely in a sparring environment, and thus did not spar. To this day, there are STILL chinese, okinawan and japanese schools that don't spar. I don't disagree with that at all. My only point with the bulls is that it doesn't show much, other than strength. You can't base his fighting ability off of that feat. (which was mentioned earlier)

I've been taught that, but I wonder about it. I have a second job as a bouncer in one of the more popular clubs in out downtown area. between that and seeing streetfights growing up, I've seen several people who I know are trained MA get slaughtered by people with lesser technique. That points out two things: technique isn't necessarily what matters an empty, quieted mind isn't always what matters. I personally don't try to quiet my mind. I let it fill with whatever emotion is there. If it's anger, then so be it. If it's empty, so be it. Things happen so quickly, you don't always have time to quiet the mind. I like that.

groin shots are overrated. They aren't the fight enders that people think they are. In high adrenaline situations, you don't always feel it. I've taken them in fights - in the street and ring - and not felt it until after it was over.

when bent? It's stronger when bent... when the leg is straght, you just kick it and snap it backward. When it's bent, you have to get it back to the straight position and still must snap it backward. The knee is VERY unlikely to break if you hit it from the sides - your hips tend to naturally move in the direction of impact. If anything, you'll tear some ligaments.