MizuRyu

Having recently graduated High School, I looked into many colleges. I wasn't sure what I wanted to do, but I knew I wanted to open my own business. I was talking to my Ving Tsun sifu last evening and he brought up the ways of old fading, and how he feared that tradition would soon die. It really got to me, because I knew he was right. It kind of hit me then what I wanted to do. I've wanted to be a doctor for as long as I can remember, but what scared me was the pressure and difficulty of it all. So I for a time considered some alternative medicines, but acupuncture never really came to mind. I called the admissions office of Jung Tao School of Classical Chinese Medicine today and really did discover that this is what I want to do! I'm very excited to start and I'm now looking into schools. Finally some direction in my life lol

Of course, if by end a fight you mean kill them, a blade hand under the side of the jaw with a good deal of force can definatly make a difference lol. I always enjoyed grabbing the hair close to the root while punching them in the face with the other hand. It's a good way to get a gorilla to beg.

4 years old eh? Your motor skills must be insane...

In our particular school of Wing Chun we don't have any. We're just taught proper breathing and the like.

Up the food intake. A lot of people equate food with fat, and that isn't true at all. Eat 6 small/medium meals a day consisting of lean, healthy things. Apples, turkey sandwiches, tuna sandwiches, salads, PBJs, peas... things of the like. Do a lot of cardio, I personally recommend swimming, giving your metabolism that little leg up really cuts the fat off. Especially if you're working hard for it.

We use Chinese in Ving Tsun and used Korean in Tang Soo Do. I enjoyed it, I've always believed in preserving the history and environment of an art.

My friend Rob probably has the worst attitude of any human being I've ever met. If he gets really cornered in an arguement he goes as far as to pull "well my guy goes back in time and kills your guy" type childish stuff. Stuff that gets under your skin. When he spars, he doesn't spar, it's like he's fighting to PROVE something, he opens up 100% with NO control. One day I got fed up with his attitude during a sparring session, I opened up on him, and he fell right on his tailbone. I stopped the heel of my foot an inch away from his nose and said "my guy goes back in time and kicks yours in the face, I win". He hasn't trash talked me since. Gotta put em in their place.

I was on the swim team my sophomore year... we shaved every square millimeter.. lol

I feel you totally there. When I started training I weighed 118 pounds! I weight 183 as of this morning. The trick is the dedication and the diet. Keep on truckin man, soon you'll be a monster!

My TSD uniform was a hand-me-down because I was too cheap to go off and buy a new one. I bleached it and it looked pretty close to new. A friend of mine took the same style w/ me and also got his uniform from a friend.

they're make great distractions no doubt... but harmful weapons? Nah...

If you haven't, watch that video in one of my earlier posts. That man puts Dillman to TOTAL shame. I'd like to see them in a nice little scuffle... I'm sure it would be a trianwreck and a wake up call for Dillman.

Purchasing a knife is very understandable. The chances of defending yourself effectively against an attacker armed with a knife without a knife yourself are VERY VERY slim. People fail to realize the damage knives do, they say "oh, I can take a few slashes".. but don't stop to think that their tendons, muscles, veins and arteries cannot. You get your inner wrist slashed, the tendons could be severed, which means no grip, there's a massive level of bloodflow in your forearm, if any one of those vessels is severed you'll bleed out nice and fast, which means shock, light headedness, and a paralyzing adrenaline dump. I used to carry a knife whenever I was in Detroit or Saginaw, I may have about a decade of martial arts experience, including knives, but are those techniques practical when someone's trying to kill me? I'll put my money on probably not. Better safe than sorry I suppose.

I've personally used pressure points a few times.. but only on the ground. Unless you've trained for an ungodly amount of time in a real combat situation for it, you'll probably find yourself too busy attempting to strike a point the size of a penny to think about the fist rocketing towards your temple. If the touchless knockout were real, Dillman should definatly step into a boxing ring... wouldn't THAT be ridiculous : P

I've used macs and very much prefer them over the hunk of plastic I'm slamming away at right now. Too bad I don't have $3,000 of disposable income : (

High kicks need to be used with very strict attention to opportunity. I fought this kid my sophomore year in high school in the locker room after he pulled my stuff out of my locker and decided to get in MY face for it. He threw a wide left hook so I paaked it to my left and nailed him in the side of the head with a right side kick... came reaaaal close to giving him a concussion. If the opportunity is there and you think you can pull it off.. use at your own risk. My personal favorite for a self defense kick are the front and side kicks from Wing Tsun. Low, hard to telegraph, very powerful, and straight to the point. I'm also an avid fan of the good ol' TSD Ap Chagi "HUP!"

My personal strategy has always been to just not care. I put my goals up high enough that I tend to just ignore pain and injuries until I'm done doing what I want. When I first started BJJ I rolled my hand and heard a pop and ignored it. Turned out I broke my pinky

But I could SWEAR I saw it on Naruto...

All pressure points have physical explainations but some can be quite scary in their application or precision... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs8mblcgTsk&search=dim%20mak

I played hockey for a long time and part of my summer regiment was to find a nice steep hill, rip up it, then practice my turning and braking on the way down. Great workout. Or do a mile, like you would with running, striving to get lower times.

Every system can be brutally effective, that's why they're martial arts, they were developed for martial purposes. Typically speaking, Shaolin takes a good deal of time to be proficient, but it's a highly varied and very adaptable system. It's extremely rare to find a quality traditional Shaolin teacher, and even harder to gain even close to the level of proficiency of the actual Shaolin monks and secular disciples, due to the fact that they train 7 days a week, nearly all day long. It's a powerful system with ancient and fascinating roots, I'd personally love to take it but there are no schools in my area.

I just train my hands and adapt the palm strikes to my current martial art experience. I think Bagua has a large array of palm techniques...but I'm not entirely sure.

It can if you fight like you spar. The reason sparring doesn't exist is because Wing Chun focuses are too harshly on those vital points and things can go very wrong very fast. There is a degree of Gor Sao.. or light sparring, but the eye gouges, throat strikes, knee breaks, neck breaks, ear boxing, and crotch shots are usually taken out completely and it's just a basic practice of strike placement; the drills fill in the rest. It's never the same as beating the crap out of someone with gloves on, but it serves a shadowing purpose.

There is no 'correct' form of ANY martial art for one. It's what works for who's using it. Some would go into the roots of wing chun and the system origins and blah blah, but what it comes down to is what works in a fight and what doesn't work in a fight. Let us also keep in mind that a good 70% of the strikes of Wing Chun (most lineages) are directed to the throat, knees, groin and eyes, hence the lack of 'sparring' in nearly all of the systems, and I say sparring in the sense of TSD or Karate. The bottom line of the WC is it seeks to exploit the obvious weaknesses of the human design and crumple them in the shortest time possible though a series of concepts developed to fit that purpose. It feeds on the fact that your opponent may very well be much larger than you and possess a greater fighting skill than you do, and to treat every opponent as your equal or superior and fight him on that same assumption.

I've pretty much fallen in love with palm and backhand strikes. I've basically eliminated hooks in favor of them and even use them at my job as a stocker in a pet store to flatten out stubborn bags of dog food haha. Anyone else here apply them frequently or have any input?