CagedWarrior

Yea, Lennox Lewis is killer. Ali would have beat him, but it wouldn't have been easy.

I'm not advocating the hospitalizing of a little girl or anything... but if someone, anyone, physically assaults me and actually poses a threat, I take them out if I have to. I don't care if the person has different gentalia than I have. If they don't pose a real threat, I'd just physically restrain them- with pain if they make it necessary. Am I supposed to be sorry about that? No one but guys way bigger than me, or with a bunch of friends, or weapon(s), will get to hit me with a golden pass.

Sparring. I guess those "timing bags" or whatever they are (ball tied to roof and floor, all elasticy) are for that, but I've never used one.

Unless your name is Chuck Lidell.

I've been talking to some friends of mine who happen to be short- they all wish they were taller.

BJJ is generally more complete in that, (assuming you're at a good school), you will learn ways to take people to the ground as well as ground fighting. I'd use a wrestling takedown over a Judo throw 9 times out of 10, by the way- and if you're doing BJJ right you should be learning both.

I wish I had plates over my shins....

If you can't do ten, do as many as you can for 3 sets. Don't do any more until your chest isn't sore, then repeat. The numbers should go up, and for now, it's that easy.

You know, with a lot of things like that it all ends up the same anyway. And because Sambo, as well as BJJ, practicioners aren't so ridiculously attached to tradition, they "steal" moves from one another until it's all the same sort of thing (grappling) anyway. Maybe BJJ is known for it's guard work... but any Sambo school with half a mind will be teaching guard work as well.

I have found that the more you concentrate on your hips doing what they should do, the better footwork you have.

To tell the truth, I think you'll find it tame compared to your MT training, and whoop a lot of students supposedly more advanced than you.

There's a fighter in the UFC named Mike (quick) Swick, and he practices Swick Fu.

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Videos really won't help you much.

You can be a fighter and a martial artist. What style do you do? The way I put it, I do striking and grappling. Specifically, BJJ (with some wrestling in it- real BJJ has wrestling in it anyway) and MT/Boxing. Call it MMA.

Telegraph is the word. Teleport means to instantaneously travel through space and/or time. Anyway, forget your no-hip karate punches, they may not be as telegraphed, but they don't hurt, so who cares? (Unless you're only point sparring.) Not necessarily. Often times a guys cross (or "reverse") is stronger.

Striking and grappling, you'll need both eventually. If you can learn both at the same time, great. (Easiest is probably a MMA school. If not, join a boxing gym and a BJJ place or something.) If not, just do one then the other later.

If you block a punch away from your head, you're doing it wrong.

Yea, if it weren't for that nation of Islam thing he'd be the perfect role model....

A hook is an extremely powerful punch if executed correctly, and a lot of "body" can be put behind it. The only other punches that can be harder than it are the cross and uppercut. (Im assuming a lunge punch is the same thing as a cross?) As for the reverse punch- you don't mean the kind that have palms facing the sky when you punch, do you?

If you just don't give a... and go after a guy with true rage in your eyes, most often that will psyche him right out and a lot of your fight is already won.

Practice.

Apparently, according to my friend who heard this from a marine and just recently finally got his chance to try it... if you bring your forarm down into the side of a guys neck he'll go out cold. (Shrug?)

Abs are actually different from the other muscles in your body, and this is not necessarily true. I personally only do them twice a week or so, but there are guys who do them every day, 1000 situps or something ridiculous like that, and have great huge strong hard abs.

Probably true- but that's a matter of talent. Ross trains to box, and he's pretty damn good at it. Bruce trained for a no rules fight, and probably had greater inherent talent to begin with. Fact is, in Bruce's day we didn't know what we know now about training, and Ross probably knows best- especially for boxing.