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If you punch or hit someone in the jaw hard enough(pending on the person) theres a chance thell go down.

My dojo has a camp but only for the senior belts in the U.S., but im not an instructor myself and i havnt attended so thats all i know...

ok thanks where could i go to find out? Would it cost money?

ok then where good i go to find out? Would it cost money?

The coolest exibition i saw was one about feudal japan, very interesting however i havnt seen very many exibitions anyway

Defitnaly except all my reasons have already been takin lol, well actually i wanna say i find the biggest weakness that tends to come up time and time again with most boxers i have met is their cokyness, it sometimes helps but alot of times they get in trouble, however a real expert boxer iam sure knows his strentghs and weaknesses.

What would you say is the best overall work-out? I voted swimming

Iam not sure if this has been mentioed but i know swimming is really great for toning...

well when i first wanted to get into martial arts there was a kenpo gym that charged $574 a week!!!!!!!!!!the more surprising thing is how he got people to train under him..........but i dont have any problems with a teacher teaching for a living and i actually respect it greatly.

is it actually true that if you have a certain amount of sugar and other things unhealthy without moderation like a chocolate bar will make you lose 20 percent of your days workout in muscle mass?

why is it that generaly i am assuming people can run faster barefoot? or does it just feel like it?

I was just wondering but where/what is the origin of aikido?

ok basicly i dont have a fixed shedule or strict training habits, I just like to train alot and it makes me feel alot better after unfortunate events. I train 7 days a week 2-3 hours meditation in the morning after my 1km jog to get me going. The meditation after the jogging lets me reflect on how i felt during and right after the run. In a day running in summer its 1km in the morning 2-3km around noon 4-5km around 5pm and in the night i jog till iam exausted I do that 4 times a week but usually get muscle problems prior to training. Medatation whenever I can really, or if iam angry or sad or feel I lost something even though I did the best i could. I have weights and I like to use grip strenthing exercises also. with weights i train 7 days a week but its not very intense, as I usually do them when i watch tv or just in the basement. The punching bag is beatin all during the week whenever i have time to pound on it, I plan to buy some thai pads too. Lately i started swimming across the lake and back for exercise since my knees have been temporarily damaged from excess running. Biking push-ups chin-ups crunchs and all the average stuff is also done all during the week. I unfortunatly can only attend shotokan 3 times a week for training so I like to train and practice kata at home in the night so my sleep can absorb it. I used to paddle for exercise but it got very competivtive so i quit, I remember one time while i was paddling their is a bridge down far away yet still in the lake(it has a tunnel over the water...), it is full of birdwaste and human waste as well its really disgusting anyay my canoe tipped and I was traped under neath the horrible thing and i was trying to push it up so i could start swimming, i couldn't go underneath because i was firmly touching the bottom which wasnt dirt but waste from the thousands of birds all day hovering over it and i was actually sinking into it!!! it ended up me almost breaking the canoe to get out(thats another reason why i quit lol). while running music helps alot so ill always have that blasting...another memerable experiance was my first muay thai match...i entered the place and nobody thought id be able to hold my own for a minute so the instructor to determin my skill level who didn't know i had shotokan training paired me up with a guy, he went for grapple and I punched him in the stomache as hard as i could and he went down, ever since noone at the gym was ever very cocky when about to face me so that was fun. While swimming i had an accident at the lake, a whole whack of paddlers where paddling straight for me and i was in the middle of the lake and i was to damn tired to swim fast enough, they didn't see me and sure enough i was hit hard. Someone saw this from quite a distance(dont ask how) and ironicly a small patorl boat that was supposed to save me hit me and almost killed me with the propelor however i managed to push away from the boat in time... whats weird about my training is sometimes for some reason i think im in the best shape and fighting skill i reach in my life and then a week from then i feel the same however ive gotten alot better so i wonder how good am i really? maybe some other people do the same thing but now i try not to think of skill level and just think about skill.

what i find quite impressive is some of the moves he is able to pull of on the opponent without getting his head smashed in the face....

I wonder i have done alot and still do shin conditioning however like other skills and parts of the body say if you stop for along time, will the shin become soft and again or is the adaption permanent?

I really enjoyed reading that, well done...

well id say bruce lee because i dont know someone who hasnt heard of him, and then the modern day movie stars that people see every day.

I like to do a mix of them but i hate it when my neck stiffins up

I would suggest eagle claw, but I do think tai chi can be effective also. Maybe watch out for grapplin though....

for some reason i cannot back up, lineage is very important to my training.....

maybe...knife hand blocks are very effective ill just say that then lol....

Just wondering but what is sophomore?

I for the most part would have to say that i exercise mostly western, but i do enjoy exercising the eastern way that you have catergorized and favor eastern over western.

I kinda lost interest after the third book, but my sister has the book so ill look through it