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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.

Learn the bo as a starting weapon and work your way up. The bo is the most basic weapon there is and is easy to learn. The king of all weapons, some call it. The kama is just an extention of the hand and the nunchuku is to hard to control to learn as a starting weapon .

Well, its a kata, its no big deal. All i can say is that if Bushi made it that just one more thing he made. Its not like he wanted to keep it secret or something. But the big deal about it is that supposedly only Fusei Kise knows this kata.

Practice makes perfect. You got to just stand on one foot all day or do something that takes balance.

LOL, alright well lets go over some of them. For one, there is an episode at karatekast.com that tells about this, this is my masters website. Alright, no blackbelt ever has to register his hands as lethal weapons. Two that is a wierd way to kill someone, cause them someone to go in a coma because he was afraid of his own personal demons. Three, not all masters are calm and sincere. Four, some women are better then men. Five, a blackbelt is not a master. Six, a blackbelt cannot take on a crowd of people. Seven, American TKD, is only 50 years old for starters and Tong il lo is fairly. Eight, tradition martial arts work very well. well...you get the point, and it was stating myths, but thats funny im gonna have to get that issue.

Its taken me 2 years to get to a 6th kyu and im close to going up for 5th. Id say two more years till i achieve black belt.

Its all about the maturity. My school wont let someone who is immature get that high. If they cant handle that responibility then they dont deserve it, no matter how good they are.

Yeah take say 20 white belts. Now atleast 10 of those are going to make it to 7th kyu before quiting. 5 of those are going to make it 3rd before quiting. and 2 of those are going to make it to black belt. So if people hand out belts, its just losing them money in the first place if you think about it.

I agree with JusticeZero. Master one form of fighting before doing another one. It is good to have a good foundation and train from there. If you do different ones at the same time, it get confusing and you get mixed up.

ya know, that question isnt really fair to ask. It all depends on the fighter and the instructor. If the instructor is bad, then the fighter will be bad. And if the instructor is good but the fighter isnt, then your screwed if your the fighter. In UFC ive seen strikers beat ground fighters, and ive seen the exact opposite. It all depends.

Just before a kata, take deep breaths and think of something else, personally i like to think that im fighting a group of people. Well, anyway, just relax, its not the end of the world if you screw up, take deep breaths, and go through it.

No its not, unless you get hit by someone thats been using a makawari board,lol, but if your using it the wrong way, like say if your going out and hitting every a lot every chance you get, then yeah, but if you use it right, then it can be better for your karate

Yeah your right, a grappler would beat a stand up fighter anyday, my sensei went to a school to learn some grappling and he went up against a white belt, the white belt choked him out, and my sensei was a black belt, not to mention a pretty big guy, so grapplers do have the upperhand, always, you would have to be a pretty good fighter, a really good fighter to beat a grappler

I agree with Jay and White_Warlock, but if your were to intervene, you would have to to be careful not to get into a fight yourself and if you did, you better trust yourself enough to win, cause if you dont trust yourself, there isnt a big chance of winning...

Well...Why_Worry...i dont believe in chi, at all, i believe that to win a fight takes strength and giving it all you have, chi, what is that all about, making chi balls, (which is impossible,) and...you kinda have a point with the distance thing, if you can pull it off, but, the strength and tecnigue is how to win a fight

Since i dont know if thats a comment or a question, ill answer it...yeah if your a good sparrer you'll have somewhat of an upperhand in the fight, but if your not a full contact sparrer, then it could hurt you because your using all these technigues but there is no power behind it, now some people might read this and say, well then they'll just put power behind it, but thats not really 100% right, when someone is used to a certian way to spar, for example, if there school is a soft contact school, the they will be used to pulling punches, this is why it is smart to go to a full contact school, ya see cause karate wasnt invented to be used in competions, it was used to defend someone, and nowadays there is too many schools in it so they can look pretty on stage, and there are other schools that are in it for the money and dont care if they they get there black belts in a year of 50 years, so, in short, you can be a good sparrer, but it all depends on the insturctor teaching to either pull punches, or hit the opponet full on