Prodigy-Child

i know alot of people who do traditional martial arts such as karate and tae kwon do and think i am not a good fighter just cuz i dont have a conventional belt in kickboxing. this happen to me a couple days ago at a martial arts seminar i had a bunch of black belts come up to me and ask me what belt i am and i said i dont follow a ranking system. they all started laughing at me and they were kinda trying to intimidate me i just wanna say that i do not get intimidated by people who have black belts........i have beaten a few black belts in open martial arts tournaments and i believe that black belts do not make you and immortal fighting machine.

im the only one in the family who trains my parents and my sister dont really care much about my training........at the same time i think its good because that means that they dont wanna come to the club and see me train or see me fight a bout which puts alot of pressure on me.......i guess u could call me a loner

this is all about terrorism in the practical sense and the person who did this must be punished but from a philosophical point of view.........this all comes down to hatred.....how can people hate eachother so much to use planes as missiles towards innocent people? we have just got to stop hating eachother in this world. we are all created equally. it doesnt matter if you are black, white, brown, orange green blue whatever..........your blood is red like mine and thats all that matters we need to respect eachother as human beings........i watch the news on tv and i see everyone in the world just shooting eachother! i just cant figure out why these people just cannot drop their weopens and stop fighting.......if you hate somebody that much just leave eachother alone there are few people i know at school and at work that i dont like and sometimes i feel like punching them out but the meer fact that i dont like them wouldnt justify the fact that i hit them. the same goes with picking up a gun and killing somebody cuz of their religion i just needed to get this off my chest

be respectful to your sensei even though you want to leave martial arts is supposed to make you happy and if you are not happy with aikido then you gotta find something else in your case it would be wing chun.............. if i were leaving my dojo which i would never do id say "sensei you are a great instructor but i want to look for something new out there so feel that it is in my best interest to search for soemthing new"

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i hate taebo i see all those stupid infomercials with that stupid gimick and all them people saying "now nobody wants to mess with me ill take them out with tae bo" id sure like to go a few rounds with some of those people as for billy blanks from what i hear he isnt as good as people say he is...........our kickboxing coach has fought him 3 times........billy beat our coach the first time but the second and third time our coach slaughtered him! sorry if i just rambled on but i just thought id tell ya all this! latez!

i do canadian style jiu jitsu myself but i recently heard about american and english style jiu jitsu i already know about brazillian or gracie jiu jitsu

i c........well its good to know that some people dont take it as seriously as some of those other american karate practicioners.

well in boxing or kickboxing they judge points but they dont have those little target things.....

i just saw some full contact TKD on tv and i noticed that they were wearing that big chest pad and a helmet........now i can understand why they wear the helmet but doesnt the chest pad take away the "full contact" idea?

im just wondering how all you people feel about point karate sparring? another thing........where did point sparring first come from? id find it quite hard to believe that it came from the orient......

what the hell are the differences with canadian, american and english style jiu jitsu?

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kicking good is a physical thing as much as it is a mental thing when you are sparring just maintain a certain calm and relaxsation relax all your muscles and your mind and it will all start coming along.......i guarantee it almost think as if your feet weigh nothing keep bouncing and throw all your material from a non static movement its working for myself!

im still not buying that i understand that people 50 years ago did it cuz they didnt know what it would do to their health but why do people do it now? with all the education and advertisments telling you what the hell can happen to you after years of smoking ........ doesnt that just click in to your head that you shouldnt do it?

im gonna get a tattoo of a sun but im still not too sure where i am gonna get it

why does someone so talanted and HOT i mean SMOKIN'......have to die?

the weopens defense training i have recieved makes me feel pretty confident in protecting myself in a situation like that. ill tell ya this much if a person does come at me with a knife he/she better be prepared to find it in their neck or chest when im done with them!!!!!

uhm....people who smoke are morons! why do they do it? dont you just cringe at the thought of putting all that poison into your body!!!!!!! jeez!

i see where you are coming from ken but it is kinda hard to do some jiu jitsu and judo techniques without a gi and i live in canada so it gets pretty cold here so you can use a winter coat for soemthing to grab and throw a person

you gotta look for what makes you happy and get past all the advertisments or whatever you gotta shop around and as iamrushman said ya gotta ask questions!!!!!!!

a good example of an anerobic excercise is going on a bag and kicking or punching continuisly 5, 10, 20 or 30 seconds ALL OUT we do those excersices untill our bodies forces us to slow down or stop..........a few people have actually thrown up after doing them which shows how tough they really are

uhm UKE is the victim of the technique and tori is the attacker not the other way around

ive never fought competitive muay thai i dont think i ever will but i have fought compeitive kickboxing and i love it! i do wanna do some sport jiu jitsu soon but i gotta work on my throwing and ground work

im a competitive fighter therefor the cardio classes dont do much for me......it kinda helps with my endurance but my endurance is pretty high from all my running and other fitness activities i do the real work out for me comes from the stuff we do after cardio like the anaerobic work, strength work etc...... i focus more on anaerobic then endurance now because i really need to get those short bursts of energy to finish off my oponent in the closing seconds of the round endurance training is important as well but if you dont got the anerobic stuff in you will pay for it when you cant suck it up and finish off your opponent and you said you do your classes on wave masters? well wave masters are good but we have broken alot of them at our dojo from hitting them so hard.....and we only got one bag at he dojo but we barely use it because the coach of the canadian kickboxing/karate team said that 85% of our training should be focus pad work.......cuz focus pad work covers the simulation of fighting you get from sparring, the power you gain from bag work and technique you get from shadow sparring this is primarily one of the reasons why cuban boxers are so good......if you go to alot of the boxing gyms in cuba you will notice that alot of them do not have heavy bags.....but they just drill constantly on focus pad work so sorry if i blabbed on but i do not get a work out from "cardio" classes but rather from the anerobic, running, weights, sparring and focus pad work we do.........that and the grappling in jiu jitsu