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Plyometrics and for other strengh exercises do more toning or muscular endurance as you will build up strengh without bulking up and leaving you a lot more agile and quicker.

OK, time to be a little less confrontational. Yes I know some women are very strong theres a girl in my year that can beat me in arm wrestling. My point was that the average boy is stronger than the average girl. I get carried away sometimes soz, try not to let that happen again. But like KickChick said what women would want to be stronger than a man. I agree with the women being able to increase strengh quicker, but all those olympic women well there not exactually normal. I would feel very uncomfortable if my girlfriend was stronger than me. Thank god shes not. lol

I first got into karate when I was 8 as I was influenced by the kung fu films. Later I stopped when I was about 10 finishing on black belt. Then about 2 months ago I wanted to back in. I mainly wanted this because I realized being strong is not better than learning a martial art. I wanted to back in to be the best fighter I could be. I joined kickboxing over a month ago and about 2 weeks after that I joined karate at the same organisation.

My Sensei for karate and kicboxing is very friendly and has a good sence of humour not very loud but not soft. I don't think using fear is a good principle.

searcher, Deirou Kuzan BRING IT ON! I am not sexist I am just saying that women are not as strong as men, and searcher you can shut up I have to take on adults at my kickboxing club full contact, and I have to sustain nose bleed after nose bleed, black eyes. Do I hide and crawl under a rock, no I carry on playing with the big boys something not every women would be cabable of doing.

In my kickboxing organisation (SAMA) we kick above the waist. As far as I know in any kickboxing accossiation you don't kick below the waist.

Thanks, just wanted to clear that up.

Seperating the mind from the body you can acheive your limitations. The US Navy Seals do this in hell week when you are are constantly doing physical activity for a whole week without sleep, with small meals. This is to test that they can push them selves through anything and will not give up no mastter what happens. If you think of the pain you are enduring you have already lost. You have to be somewhere else. This what I do when I train. I just simply don't think of anything and can push my self to the limits. I also think of how much I will grow from each workout and if I dont train hard enough someone is going to have that much more adavantage in beating me so that gives me motivation to push past anything until my physical body gives up.

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I thought you yanks thought of us as snobby little brats with bad teeth and all where unbrellas, or is that just stereotypical?

Can someone tell me the difference between these martial arts or are they all the same with people spelling then what ever way they like. THK for your replys

Searcher, BRING IT ON! Oh sorry I dont punch women WOMEN ARE NOT STRONGER!!! So what if they give birth, they have only been doing for the past million years or something. I'm surprised they still havn't learnt to deal with it!

Are stance is a shotokan stance with both your lesgs slightly bent one foot in front of the other and the back foot being about 3ft away and to the side, one of you hands is tucked by your hip with a fist facing uo and the other hand is in front of you. This gives me some kind of strengh that a short stance doesn't. I( cant explain it, it just gives you a sence of power.

Well my karate style incooperates shotkan and jujitsu into it. Shotokan is probobly the purest form of striking karate with their work being based mostly on kicks and strikes and hardly any locks or holds of any kind. This is where the Jiu Jutsu will help you. With pretty much everything that shotokan lacks Jiu Jujutsu will more than make up for it.Just some knowledge of my own but basicly thats my opinion do what you think your suited to.

Very funny and stupid lol

Okay, to finalise. Women are better at spelling, men are better at everything else, escpecially martial arts j/k If your thinking of women having mental toughness they havn't got that either. They give in to physical fatigue far quicker than a man of the same fitness levels and fuss to much about everything. Take one of the newcomers at my kickboxing club. "we have to hit each other, how rough" "Oh I'm feeling a little faint I think I'l call it a day". The point I'm making is that men are tougher in every aspect of physical fitness. Women can concentrate under pressure better than men, thats why they say cthey resisted the SAS torture better.

20 out of 35, and Zin-Ju no women cant take pain better then men, what are you talking about!? You punch a women she'l probobly roll around on the floor crying where as a man would just take or shout abusive language to compensate for the pain. Women are wqeaker and give in more easily to pain and fatique. The first ever women to get into the RMC got in only on her 3rd time. Women stay at home and wash the dishes

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They are both good. Using closed hand strikes are more powerful espescially upper arm blocks where you leave the attacker open to a strike staright to the stomach which could quite easily kill them. Open blocks are used mainly for a counter attack of a non violant way of defeating the oppenant such as blocking grasp the arm and throw it over your body so he lands on his back immobolized, or jus a quick sweep works.

2008 Olymics, hopefully I'l be in it!

I live in England. If I could I would, I'l take on any Muay Thai fighter, Imay be a kickboxer but I train just as hard as a Muay Thai fighter, maybe even harder.

Hit the bag, preferably a tough one that won't give way easily and just train by hitting it with your shins. As you hit it your nerve muscles around your shins will strenghen your shin, thus toughening it up and les chance of it breaking. Hope this helps

I don't think the no age limit applys to every single martial art. The age linit applys I think to fighting MAs such as boxing, kickboxing, Muay Thai. I mean lets be honest, you wont get you old gran doing Muay Thai fighting. But your not to old to start, so just do it!

Why is it that shotokan karate is so popular. Is it that it is the 'Father of Karate' or its simplicity and its huge basis on basic technique and kata. I actually attended a shotokan class a few weeks back and was surprised at how low their stances actually go. One of the stances had the knee bent while the leg at the back was straight so he was almost doing the splits. He looked so unbalenced, well most of the stances I saw them perform looked pretty unbalenced, yet their style of fighting is to 'unbalance' the oppenant by throwing strikes and at the same time sweeping them. I can't see how you can sweep someone from such a low stance. My organisation incooperates the longer stances from shotokan, but none of them are that low. I do like the fact that they practiced one particular strike throughout the whole class becasuse a few people where getting it wrong.

Looks really cool. I think there is gonna be a show here in England on pay per veiw. I don't know if you can actually get UFC here in England, if so which channel???