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note that bicycling applies great pressure on your kidneys on the long run, and they give you less flexibility in your hamstrings i.e. no more high kicks for you if you stop practice

i do all this stuff but i still cannot get rid of what's left of fat around my ab's underneathe my belly button..

heh i remember my first TKD class i was complaining to my teacher that i couldnt do a full cross-split, he told me not to worry and that he'll bring a gun and shoot my back if it doesnt work by the time yellow belt testing comes along... he was kidding, but i only understood his joke a couple of years later! stretch, then go down as much as you could and hold it for 1 minute. get up relax your legs for like 10 seconds and go back down. do not do this every day tho.. make sure your muscles rest, so do it like 4-5 days a week also, if ur bathe (in a tub) or in a hot shower try to relax ur muscles and stretch (or in a jaguzzi if you have that luxury) do it and send us a pic

haha that's funny check this out.. not all of it is funny but some of it at least http://www.mtsu.edu/~mtsumac/martialartsjunkieif.htm

mantis terminology http://www.authentickungfu.com/seven_star/explanations.html

i know.. yah im using this very often but that's not what im asking for example i used to fight with my dad a lot, and confront him a lot.. until i learned to "absorb" his energy and then spit it back at him later.. it actually helped avoid lots of fights with my old man

a coin only helps if you have 4 choices head, tail, coin in a crack, a crow snatches the coin in the air... im a software engineer, so i'd say generate a random number associated with a choice!

did your martial arts change they way you deal with things at work, school, home, with family, with everybody? (im not looking for "i bow to my boss" for an answer)

yah, i thought what's her name something Yoeh was a dancer (the lady in the house of flying daggers)...

actually we were taught to use the horse stance very lowly when doing a side-punch. it does help you control ur center of weight, but it's not as popular as in wushu or something

always keep ur options open and expand ur horizon.. i dont like the mentality of having prejudice to ur MA and closing up ur mind towards others, u know... when i first visited my school the guy showed me the history of the art with illustrations, diagrams, the art's family tree and all that... i think most of the asian cultures (including indian, and middle eastern) have a very good way of documenting what they appreciate in their culture and history

today isnt my day is it?

hmm speaking of that in your opinion what's the point of horse stance to start with?

it looks pretty close, although his stances look lower than we practice (maybe those are stances for practice and they dont use them in real combat.. dunno) thank you..it's a nice site

i was fooling around.. u know have girls there to wash dishes and stuff... something bad to say..sorry anyway I believe most of those movies you see the acrtresses that you see are originally dancers.. maybe im wrong tho!

yah that's what i found in the market too i dont even have much space to put the fram, and it looks like a mistake is deadly if i use one of those... but thanks, at least im not missing anything

lol translate buddy! jk yah, something similar to what's explained here: http://www.themartialist.com/pecom/chisao.htm

by the way, this post reminds me of Aerosmith for some reason!

u can do another thing in a fight u dont have to punch, intead just hand in a 20 dollar bill, and that will pretty much take care of the whole fight

i'd be interested to know what happens, especially if you guys provide a small video or a pic or something.. that'd be cool

without a name?! or at least a serial number!!! what's so special about 9th degree black belt? im joining a school whose master is 9th dan http://masterhong.com/wtc_grandmaster.asp

does anybody here live in CA? how do you have a punch bag in your house? if i put one the ceiling will collapse!!! what do you guys use for practicing kicks and punches? (your answer shouldnt have the word "hanging from the ceiling")

i found a TKD school that has a Hapkido class in the curriculum.. i think im going to try it... Although i challenged my Jr. kung fu master to show me how he could defend hi kicks. The way kung fu peeps do it is they stay away from you but once you kick (they either deflect, or dodge) they jump really close to you where you cannot kick anymore, and you have to use your hands which they have a greater advantage over you. They have an amazing manipulation of your center of weight..

they could hurt at the beginning if ur not used to stances like the horse stance (which they make us do for long minutes) if makes ur legs stronger tho, especially when u feel they're shaking and you can walk or crawl anymore.. btw, styles like wushu do take other styles to the extreme. I can compare it to 7-star mantis.. im told wushu goes as low as two ft in height, which is not something you want to do when you fight vs. standing tall in a tiger-ride in the 7-star mantis gung fu...

well.. ape style is used as the lower body style for mantis boixng too... so if you search for 7-star mantis you should be able to find enough about ape as well i know we use things like the white ape coming out of cave and things like that