Radok

drinking more milk probably won't help. people don't drnk milk naturally after babyhood, and it's calcium is not absorbed by the body very well. Go to google and look for twinlabs products and by there calcium supplement. I have found this very helpful in avoiding the bone pains you are talking about.

ok, thanks for the enlightenment. and no, im not that kind of dumb ass.

Yes I have done quite a bit of reading on the subject. If you want to post YOUR version of the history then go right ahead.

I can do about 85 straight pushups(trying to work up to 200) and a few one handed pushups. I can do them on just my thumbs, but 1 finger is WAY beyond reach for me.

It is definitly more street effective. I know I just stepped on some toes, but I'm not trying to be politically correct. Let's not kid ourselves- all styles were not created equal. Some people knew what they were doing better than others.

If you want some grappling, than yes. If you want just kickboxing basically, than Japanese is.

It it's techniques are alot of closed fists, and it has the aggresiveness of a tiger style.

Heck yes we are! The lineage goes like this. The Okinawans were at war with the Japanese invaders, and were not aloud to use weapons. They figured out they could use farm tools as weapons and made the art of kobudo. Well, the Japs already had there own style of kickboxing cooked up, and the Okinawans adopted it. The Chinese also passed through trading and selling things, and brought with them Kung Fu. The Okinawans mixed the hardness of the Kickboxing with the roundness of Kung Fu to make Okinawan Karate. That's why Okinawan Karate has better grappling than Japanese. Two main schools of thought evolved, Shorin ryu and a competing school. Shorin ryu branched off into the three main Okinawan styles, and the other school developed Shotokan. So our style is one of the oldest Karates out there. We use high stances, and learn the principals to make self defence moves for variuos holds. Once you have a black belt and about four years of experience and alot of hard training, you will have some very street effective material.

Get tekken 4. tekken 3 has given me great ideas for combos.

$49 (US) a month for shorin ryu karate.

Karate, BJJ, and kickboxing would be a kick @$$ style. Kick boxing is intense exercise, karate good standup, and BJJ good ground fighting.

The thing with MMA is they take out the Katas and all the traditional crap so they lose most of the art. They weaken there own style, I don't plan on taking anything out of the arts.

The boxer wouldn't be able to stand up after a few solid round kicks to the thighs.

Since the user name is Karatemaster, I assume we are talking about Karate.

theres always the push in our school fights, but I have had a guy charge me.

four months might not be alot, but if the other guy went up two belts in that time, it must be something in this style.

Yeah. Or maybe not. It might be good for UFC, but with throught punches legal, u can just kill them rather than roll all over the place.

I don't think I'll go for the UFC, just some other full contact, bare knuckle events.

no it's a springy board in the ground with rope wraped around it for padding. It conditions your hands. I have that, a heavy bag, and a bucket of sand to punch into for my hand conditioning.(I'm training my hands to break a brick with a reverse punch.)

I'm a 5'th kyu green.

i put one in my yard this week.

If your planning on spending more than for years in whichever you choose, go with aikido, anything less than that, go with Judo.

It's really more of a pesonal way of fighting using all traditional styles than what a typical MMA is.(muay thai, BJJ, ect.)

It's not a style. That's what Bruce Lee tried to emphisize. It is a mindset, an outlook on martial arts, that gives you the tool you need to come up with your own personal way of fighting. I think it would be a good thing to take, if you can find a good instructor.

your bottom two knuckles are floating knuckles, the top two are locked. so no matter how much hand conditioning, the bottom two will still break quicker.