Zaine

I wasnt aware that there was an okinawan style of punching. But i suggest knuckle pushups, and makiwari training.

Thank you for clearing that up, but that post wasnt directed at you alone, but i get it now.

Our animals are so intertwined with other core basic principles & philosophies of Hung-Ga, I don't know if they could be of any value as a separate system. I'd look further into how Shorin Ryu has intergrated the crane into the style. I have and Shorin Ryu is a system that utilizes conditioning and was ment to be a powerhouse system i suppose. But, i think that white crane was added in so that they could balance it out, but power behind the cranes grace

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I am going to have to disagree with that to an extent. On one hand, maturity comes with age, most okinawan masters werent able to achive that rank untill after 35, and it still is that way there. But to say that an 18 year old doesnt hold the maturity is wrong. You cant know that, that is a steriotype and it is wrong just to flat out say something like that. Not all 18 year olds are bumbling idiots who do only drink and smoke. There are some smart and mature ones out there, you just need to look. But as for the master thing, i wouldnt give it to someone unless they had a solid understanding of when to use and not to use karate. I can understand where yall are coming from with the comment, but you have to look past that for some people, or your just going to be one of those people that goes around thinking every teenager steals, smokes, and drinks.

TKD is a versitile art and there isnt a lot of things that wont go well with it. But go with Aikido

You can only learn so much from reading things, my suggestion is to find someone in your area that can teach you it.

only if your keeping it concealed in your car or something, but even then, those rules only apply to some places

It is important if you earn it. A black belt you have gotten from signing a two year contract isnt something earned, it is a sure thing that you will get in two years. A black belt earned by hard work and sweat and pain is a black belt well earned. And that, is a black belt that is real.

This is something that happened to my aunt's friend while she was talking to some witnesses of a fight in a police station. The friend asks, "Now what happened?" The other lady looked around and said, "Officer it was crazy," and starts singing, "Everyone was kung fu fighting." so this lady is drunk and singing about what happened!

Let see, you kick at a range...hmmm. Im gonna go with crowd him, so he cant get the kick in and he is forced to punch

It all depends on the tournament you go to. In some they will be looking for the strength and effectivness on the katas. And in others they will be looking for the flashyness of it.

Well...approach the teacher about it. There is room for sport and realistic karate. But the realistic needs to come first. You could try talking the teacher into doing a sport karate class and traditional class. But other than that you got two options, either go with it, or find another school to learn in.

You know...it is sad news...but i bet he wouldnt want us to mourn for his death, instead i bet he would want us to do karate and train. Its foolhardy to rest on someones death, no matter how sad and how dissapointing it is. But to mourn, no, dont do that.

Tong Il Lo is a MMA (mixed martial art). It mixes various things such as TKD, Aikido, and other arts. The ICMAA stands for The Internatinal Combative Martial Arts Association. Tong Il Lo's tournaments are continuous contact fighting and other creative things such as superfoot and sumo judo.

Not really, the whole pointof break falls is to not land hard on your back, or side, or really anything.

Oh yeah, one more thing, it Hakusturu started with Nabe Matusumura

Very excellent point Skeptic. I have seen other times where that has happen i.e. flag dancers and bo forms, drummers and escrima fighters.

Um, i dont think that at all, a white belt against a black belt, for one, the first sparring match i had was against a guy a foot taller than me and 300 pounds. And he was against a black belt, they tend to have control.

Shotokan would wreak havic on your knees, there are low stances in some forms and that wouldnt be good for em. In your area i think the best to go for is Xing yi or Dachengdao, although i know nothing of Dachengdao, it probally is still better than Shotokan.

Fight back. Do everything you can to getthem on the ground and walk away. If someone does that to you and you dont do something back then that gives them that much more reason to pick on you.

Yeah, the whole point of the WCL is to break away from the UFC thing. Where its everything ends up on the ground, this is a more street fight brawl thing where as if you get a bigh gash on the top of your head and going to your forehead, (which actually happened in the last one) then you better guard the gash because it is a weakness, well, i think it airs in march of 2006, so, look out for it.

Never underestimate a boxer or striker. In a ground fighting situation a whitebelt could choke out a black belt striker, in a groundfighting battle. But when your in something where the striker strikes and the grappler grapples. I have seen many occasions where the striker wins because the tend to have more speed than the grappler.

You know I have heard that as well. But I attended a Ken Penland seminar and all we did was the Hakutsuru Kata. I have heard that Kise was suppose to be the only one who knew it, but if that is the case why can you buy videos of Hohan Soken performing it? Or is there a possibility that the one Kise knows is like Hakutsuru Ni or something? Oh well. Tomo That would probally explain it, there are different ways to do a kata depending on who learned it, people probally just freaked out because they though you ment a certain Hakutsuru. Its no big deal though. But to learn it from this Ken Penland in a seminar is bad unless it was a black belt seminar. You see, in my system Crane katas such as Lotan bet and Lotan Alef a.k.a Chinto 1and 2 are learned after 2nd degree. That is bad if you teach so many people a White Crane form so early in there training, its just bad teaching.

Although it is a great theory. Think about it, you do a trink and your in the air and the guy rushes at you, he gets to you and hits you the second your feet touch the ground. Your screwed if you get hit in the right spot. So my overall judgement, tricks, good for competion, back for fighting.