marie curie

I'm a girl and I'm 24 now, but I started karate when I was 11, and so most of my fully-developed life I've been doing martial arts, so over the years I've come upon this a number of times with myself, my friends, and those I teach. I completely agree. In my experience, most guys who do repeatedly hit us in the lovelies- and many do and I'm not entirely sure why- if you stop and say "Hey dude- don't do that", then they are usually pretty good to stop themselves- no big, no need for a freak out Yeh, they can in the way for chest-area punches that aren't particularly accurate, but if you are going to hit us in the chest- like where the do-dad on a necklace hangs- it shouldn't be a problem. The solar plexus should also be clear- but I think the issue comes with maintaining your original target when both of you are moving- something that comes with practice. Anyway, the point is that it's going to happen accidentally. It's not unreasonable to try to avoid in practice (we generally try to avoid groin shots in sparring too) but it's something that happens. Which a chest protector, I don't know what her problem was. Were you really beating her and she was embarrassed and wanted to yell about something? Also, what's up with the punishment? Accident's happen and if the teacher saw that you were doing something wrong he should have stopped you and corrected your fighting. I would hope that this is the same for men and children as well Getting knocked in the head 20 times before you get your rising block down may impair your ability to learn anything else Ok, so everyone's entitled to their opinion, but this drives me nuts. Not at first- I understand that girls aren't all on the same level of "ok to be hit", but once I've said, "no, you can really hit me" then that's that. I want to get something out of the sparring as well. I think that 'hitting girls' and sparring in class don't really fall under the same category. Maliciously striking females is not right, I agree. However, this is hardly what is being done under the supervision of an instructor in a dojo. It is a learning environment, and everyone in the dojo should be subject to the same learning experiences. Agreed Well, equal force is acceptable, but, Symphony-X, this would be a good way to get me to ignore the groin as an off-limits area. Side note- Symphony-X rocks - I saw them at Gigantour.

I use bouncing (low, not actually leaving the ground with both feet at any time) usually a ways into a fight, when we are both tired- It usually annoys/psychs the opponent a bit as they are tired and just want to get in and out, and it helps builds my adrenalin back up. Again this is only in the condition that I'm in war with the other person and can use it as a tool. also- if the other person bounces, I don't.

I have a lot of background, but I haven't gotten past brown in any system, so I feel like I'm just a surveyor, though my fighting skills keep improving. I don't know, this is a hard thing to judge on.

KAJUKENBO BRAZILIAN JIU-JITSU Grappling and some takedown work JUDO Sport/art of takedowns and some grappling work Seiei Kan Much like shotokan

My fiance and his friend teach for free, since they don't have to pay for the facilities.

Welcome!

While this may not be a consideration for a person, it does come into play with trained dogs. A typical family dog may very well "Sit" when commanded by a stranger as long as the stranger is calm and commanding. Just a thought.

Hold dumbbells in your fists and do punching drills in the air.

Haha, my judo teacher always says- "You hurt? You have flu? Come do judo! You feel muuuuch better!" I honestly think this depends on what you have and how you train. If you have something relatively minor- not needing all of your energy to fight off, like a cold, and you come in- maintaining a safe distance from any non-sickies and cleaning off any equipment used- and do forms and hit the bag for a while- you may stimulate more good than bad in your body.... but... if you come in and start running laps, doing sit-ups, running multi-step drills- I'd say more harm than good. Note: I have minimal experience in immunology, so these are just educated guesses

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I could be mixing capoeira up with something else- but if I'm correct, I believe that it was a system of training- not particular tricks and techniques used against an opponent. I think that it is primarily evasion with one or two "strikes" finishing the fight. Again, the people didn't develop it because it was the most effective, but because it was the most effective the could get away with practicing in public. Although, I'm sure that it kept them in good shape, with fast reflexes and ready for any fighting that was necessary.

Yeh- the fight right before them was really long and boring, so I watched all of the fights before, slept through that one, then got up for GSP/Hughes, and boy did that one rock! Mostly because neither of them just royally stunk, but I always like to see GSP win

Yeh, maybe not everyone can handle 3 arts at once, but if you've been doing the two for a while and are used to the strain on your time and energy and think that doing another would be fine, I think that trying out one of those TKD's would be a good idea. I personally had 4 yrs experience in karate and had a hard time when I did TKD (for a semester at school) because when people kick me and don't pull it back, I catch. When I make a front stance I want the target that is me to be small, so I turn my body, and that's just not what you do there. So, since it was geared toward the "sport" it wasn't as applicable in my more towards the "art" branch of MA or my now, more towards the "self-defense" branch of MA.

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Also, some arts are American, so using another language would be kind of hokey. Haha I think this hits the nail on the head, that when a guy standing in the middle of some building's basement or gym's back room, or even a proper Dojo barefoot and on mats, in a gi, with a black belt on, and another person introduces you to him as "Professor Something", the assumption isn't that he has completed a doctoral thesis in English or Exercise Physiology or Chemistry, but that he is the instructor or teacher in martial arts that professes his knowledge to others.

Yeh, also mole day exists (like Avagadro's number)- I'm a big geek

He says to 1. Understand the general laws of self-defense and the use of force 2. Understand the specific provisions/statutes to his local/state jurisdiction (there's no federal law on this issue as best I know).

I think this is a good point. The traditional karate that I did as a younger person may not be the best way to fight in the street, but there are many things that I learned to my street-fighting benefit. Plus, it wasn't really geared toward street fighting- more competition sparring. Maybe it's time you switched martial arts for a while, or at least martial arts teachers, just to have a different- more self-defense oriented experience.

Happy Pi Day! I made cookies and wrote pi on them for my differential equations class!

My fiance is just a few weeks from finishing law school- also he teaches my martial arts class, so I'll ask him if he has any thoughts for your paper.

Thanks! No, that was my first test in Kajukenbo- but I have a brown belt in Seiei Kan Karate, so my technique is a little cleaner than that of the typical white belt

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Right now I'm pretty busy, so only twice a week, but when I'm not as busy I try to do 4 days a week.

I must admit, I started because of a boy that I liked... plus of course the Ninja Turtles

I have one from my very first test in Kajukenbo a year and a half ago-excuse corny music- I was having fun with video editing