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The Burnout for us can be one of many things. Kata - Usually only the kata the lowest rank in class is working on but we will do it over and over and over on my count. I will do several at normal speed some super fast and some super slow. I usually do this drill because I think it imbeds the kata into the person and they get to feel it at differant speeds. We do this with almost no rest. As so as we pull up to finish I restart them. Really good burnout. Other things I have done include 1. Building Leg Muscles EX (squat kicks, duck walks, low stances etc) 2. Speed Blocking and Punching Drills 3. Isometric work 4. Some sort of applied learing using the things we worked on in class. 5. Bag Work 6. Bull in the Ring or Guantlet Drills ETC...

Depends how and where you are being attacked.

The style used by the person who trains hard and understand his mental, physical and emotional ability and weakness.

I will always allow the new students who come in fron other schools to wear the rank they held in that style. I respect that rank but I do not reconize it as a replacement for our belts. If they choose to stay in our class they will go back to a white belt. Black Belts who come in are a differant story. I teach them from step one but I would never ask another black belt to wear a color belt again. Our ranks pretty much go hand in hanrd with what kata you are learning at that time so most students realize where others are at in our system. If a person comes in with a Gold belt in TKD or a Green belt in Judo or a Blue belt in something else I pretty much say thats cool and I find out really qucik if they are on par with our Kuy leval for that rank. Most color belts are willing and ready to start over with a white belt but again a Black Belt means something and once you hold that rank its hard to take it off and I would not ask anyone to do that. Even if I felt they were the worst MA I had ever seen. I respect the rank but I do not reconize it in my class.

You mean Christina Aguilara is in your bed. Sorry man I did not mean to call her slutty. LOL. Thats a good cover o so when she asks what your doing on line so much you can show her that post. LOL. Smart man.

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Yeah we stretch and do basics or some sort of balance / cordination drills about 45mins total. Then I usually break no longer than 5 mins for everyone to get back. Then the core part of the class what we are working on that day. Could be kata, sparring, SD, etc. Anywhere from 30mins to 1 Hr. Then Depending on how hard or fast that goes will determine if I give another before we go into our last 15/20 burnout. Thats just the way I do it.

You can start at the head or the tail or you can make a long cut down the back or belly. Heck I guess you could even scoop the insides out. Ive just made myself sick now. LOL.

The pain is good. That means your probably stepping right unless you have bad feet or a really hard floor. One way or the other it should pass in a few weeks. Water breaks when I trained we were lucky to get one. I personally give about 2. Because I break my class down into sections and that is a good way for me to get the upper ranks off to the side and tell them what I want them to do to help me. But those are not set in stone we may take them we may not. Sometimes the AC unit plays a factor in that as well. LOL As far as what to learn first its your stance. Sounds like you got the stepping down. The blocks and punches will come with reps. You will get plenty of them. The stance is something you will always work on and quicker you can move in a low stance means the quicker you can move in a high one. The only other major thing I stress to my new students is FOCUS. Don't watch other people just do what I tell you to do.

No one can teach themselves. Book, Videos, web sites, etc are great but nothing is the same as having someone show you and work with you hands on. You need the discipline, respect, guidence that only being a student can provide. Books, Videos, etc are aids to help train not a subistute for training.

Thank Funakoshi he wrote it. Everyone says karate will not work becaise of kata, low stances, old ways of training. Facts are that there is more than one way to skin a cat.

Agreed... It don't matter if you do MA or not. If you freeze your going to get hit and hurt. Just react. You may be wrong you may be right but at least you got a chance.

Agreed... It don't matter if you do MA or not. If you freeze your going to get hit and hurt. Just react. You may be wrong you may be right but at least you got a chance.

Gichin Funakoshi said the same thing Read down to number 18. The 20 Precepts of Gichin Funakoshi Karate begins with courtesy and ends with courtesy. There is no first attack in karate. Karate is an aid to justice. First control yourself before attempting to control others. Spirit first, technique second. Always be ready to release your mind. Accidents arise from negligence. Do not think that karate training is only in the dojo. It will take your entire life to learn karate, there is no limit. Put your everyday living into karate and you will find "Myo" (subtle secrets). Karate is like boiling water. If you do not heat it constantly, it will cool. Do not think that you have to win, think rather that you do not have to lose. Victory depends on your ability to distinguish vulnerable points from invulnerable ones. The battle is according to how you move guarded and unguarded (move according to your opponent). Think of your hands and feet as swords. When you leave home, think that you have numerous opponents waiting for you. It is your behaviour that invites trouble from them. Beginners must master low stance and posture, natural body positions are for the advanced. Practicing a kata is one thing, engaging in a real fight is another. Do not forget to correctly apply: strength and weakness of power, stretching and contraction of the body and slowness and speed of techniques. Always think and devise ways to live the precepts every day. "The ultimate aim of karate lies not in victory nor defeat, but in the perfection of the character of its participants"... Gichin Funakoshi

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Shotokan can mix pretty well with most arts. Its pretty well rounded. Judo is a nice add compliment because Funakoshi trained with many great Judo teachers and took a lot from them. Although you don't think of Shotokan as a throwing art we have some and its a nice completion. Nothing wrong with Kickboxing. IMO MT and Shotokan are the 2 most powerful arts and with the 2 combined one could learn to throw some serious power.

2 styles that both focus on kata yes to hard for any new commer. If your learning to fight and doing MT and BJJ maybe nnot.

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No doubt Tyson did not want anything to do with Royce. As far as the weight thing goes that is where a striker has some advantage. Its eaiser for a small man to KO a big guy staning up than it is for a small guy to work a big guy on the gound IMO. Royve never fought Smith did he??? IMO he was not that good anyhow. But your right he was a big time kciker. Again Hackney was the only true TMA strike to be in the UFC IMO.

Mr. Green I understand you point better now. I do agree that MMA will teach you all those other things its just done in a differant fashionl. You learn morals from not hitting a guy who is about out cold or breaking your friends arm. Which is fine its just a differant way to do so. However you would agree that MMA focus is on fighting... If you had to put a % on it I would bet it would be greater than 80. Now here is what I am asking you to understand. Traditional arts give you the option to grow as well. Yes they have certin things you must do like kata. But these are things passed on from the founders not things made up by Sensei Bob and John at McDojo USA.... Once a TMA reaches a certin leval of understaning they will have the option of going several differant ways. Including full contact fighting... Back to your example. Yes we copy the ways many did it before us. However every good artists studies Van Gogh, Michaelangelou, and DaVinchi. Sure you can just pick up a brush and paint and you may be good but most studty the greats then go off on their own. This is what TMA does it shows you how it was done in the past then it leaves the door open for you to add on to it. No 2 people have the same MA. What you are saying MMA does is you just start painting. If you just start with no idea about techinques developed before you then IMO you are not doing yourself justice. I mean heck you may find them along the way but why learn something on your own that has been in use for many years. Again its just 2 differant ways of looking at it. My ideas are not right to everyone just as yours are not right to everyone. Both of us make valid points but to say one art is not as good as another is false because with everything else being the same in the end all arts will even out, they just start in differant places.

Yeah Shotokan and tradition arts have well thought out SD applications but it takes a while to learn them. Its not a fault in the style as much as it is in the back of the book. Ch 50 for us. As to where other styles like MT teach it in Ch 1. Just depends what book you read.

People have been fighting and killing in the Mid East for hundreds of years nothing has really changed.

Well ok lol its been a while since I watched it but I do recall him lasting much longer than most. He lost ot an armbar right.

That was the point I just made that the best fight he had was with Ichihara I did not know his name. But he is a TMA and fact is he gave him a respectful fight even he was in the Gracie Guard the entire time.

Amen