Radok

when we say big, are we talking about bone size and structure or muscle mass? I think muscle size is why the have different wieght classes, not because of how tall or wide a person is.

We hit as hard as we can at our dojo. My Karate instructor was world champion kickboxer one year and has also been Canada champ. He is a seventh degree black belt, so we have pretty good sparring.

I think TKD would be good if you took several years to master the techniques and got really fast. Kung Fu would be good after a LONG time of practice, like 6 or 7 years. Grappling like judo or jui jitsu if you r really strong, and Karate if you want to be the best.

An Okinawan style of karate, {shorin ryu} and traditional jui jitsu for extra grappling.

Okinawan Shorin-Ryu Karate Do-Strong points-good standup striking and grappling. weak points-little ki, no ground fighting

when it comes to sparring,7. when it comes to katas,3-4.

I never knew there was so much to know about a period...

If Karate goes to the olimpics, I'll wind up there, if not I'll go to other big time events, but I'm not sure which yet. Short term goals are bench 200 when I turn 15, and run a mile in 5:40.

I used to post at adcombat, but then I found this sight.

I used to have asthma, but I stopped drinking milk and went to a chinese docter, he gave me some herbs and it cleared right up.

I do power lifting and strength training, and I am certainly not slow. plus, I can nearly do the splits. I haven't seen anything negative ever come from it as long as you practice your tech. so they don't get sloppy and you stretch so you dont lose flexibilty.

I have naturally really good coordination, so I've never had this problem. But I would guess that the fast action in sparring would force your coordination to improve.

Practice standing in your fighting stance holding 5 or 10 lbs in your front hand.

I did them, and I did look back, because I need to be strong for a short period of time AS WELL AS having less strength for a long period of time. That is why I do body weight exersizes and heavy weight lifting.

I have been taking Okinawan Shorin-ryu Karate do and I can say Karate takes longer to be proficient in, but once you are, it is alot better for self defence than kick boxing. And I mean WAY better.

Actually (in my style at least), Karate does have an ax kick, but I haven't heard of a "cut kick".

When I say body weight, I'm refering to Matt Furey's book. That type of stuff. Keep your kool, Eye Of The Tiger. I realise endurance is important, (as I said) I'm just saying you need strength too, to hit really hard a few times, and that is built through heavy weights. I'm not dissin calistenics or nuthin.

Bruce took training dead serious. He'd drop Jackie like a fly. And By the way, JKD is martial arts.

Actually, I did stop lifting and only did body weight exersizes, and I only got more endurance, but got weaker.

No. doing over 5O is just endurance. I'm not saying endurance is unimportant, I'm a cross country runner. But get it to where you can do 150 push ups straight, and never lift weights. Then see how much you can bench. it won't be much higher.

I sleep with my eyes open, so I get that pain too. It seems that if I just look upward slightly, it feels better.

I'm 5'9 and it hasn't given me any problems.

I'v figured out several kata aplications on the toilet!

over the coarse of a year, you become proficient in karate, and it then surpasses full-contact.

I just think about when I get in a bad fight. There's that deciding second, when your at equilibrium, I I just think, "that second could depend on this."