Radok

For a blackbelt, I would expect this. "In one go: 200 press-ups. In one go: 500 sit ups. parallel Squat weight equal to your body weight easily for 10 repetitions. Dead lift twice your body weight for 1 to 2 repetitions.)"-UKFightFreak, from fightingarts.com. For cardio, run a quater mile in under 6O seconds, run a 5k in under 24 minutes, and run a mile in under 6 minutes.

The low block's application is not a block, it's a groin strike or part of a grappling technique depending on what part of what kata you are looking at. It is stupid to do a low block to a round kick. I am a 1'st kyu in Shorin ryu, bye the way.

Sorry about that, I didn't mean it that way. You can't hear people's tone over the net, so misunderstandings come up. Anyway, what I was saying was there are fat people who carry around that much weight 24/7 that don't have problems, and I am only going to carry it some of the time, so I am not too worried.

When exactly was I snippety or a know it all?

I am buying a 1OO pound vest off of https://www.weightvest.com in a few weeks.

I have decided to design a kata. I will try to take all the best bunkai I know or can find and compile them into a single kata consisting of 5O moves, which will reflect my personal style of fighting and my veiws on application of Karate. It will focus on throws, groundfighting, and clinch ranges, with long range techniques taking a back seat. What are everyone's thoughts on this? Has anyone else done it?

I was thinking this. First, use bodybuilding to get up to your weight goal. Once there, use powerlifting with very low reps to get stronger without getting bigger. Use callistenics to increase muscle endurance, and for cardio, alternate jumping rope, running, and swimming. That should be good.

If it were that hard on your discs, there would be no fat man on earth with painless backs. Today, I went for about a mile walk with 5O pounds in a backpack, and didn't feel much pressure on my discs, just muscles. When I took it off, I could jump really high and couldn't help but move faster than ussual. The theory is if I join thick sand with 5O- 1OO pounds and walk with 1OO-2OO pounds, it would help alot with quikness. I guess I will keep this thread updated on the results once I get the vest built.

I was thinking about making a weighted vest. I think I could get 2 heavy burlap bags, and fill them each with about 100 pounds of sand and iron plates, and use ropes and backpack straps to form them into a jacket/vest. Then I could start taken longer and longer walks wearing it, building up to a couple miles. Does anyone think it would work? Has anyone tried something simalar?

Haha, bet you anything you like he/she doesn't believe in evolution No offence CapitalKarate. Haha, and I bet you do, don't you? no offence, Fenris-wolf.

Well, coung nhu was my first style, but I was only in first grade, so that didn't last long. But I started Shorin Ryu when I was 13, and now I'm sixteen, so I count that as my first style, since I never made it past white belt in Coung nhu.

You could pretty simply put together a kickboxing style workout. Just search the net to find the techniques. Then get a heavybag so you can do bagwork along with shadow boxing. An example would be 3 rounds of five minutes drilling techniques on the heavybag with maximum intesity, followed by ten minutes of bagwork, and one set of squats, crunches, and pushups, each done to failure. For a break, do a 30 minute run on Saturday and Sunday, so you can have a couple days off your normal routine. This routine won't take that long to do, and would get good results.

You're always so suspicious. It's kinda strange.

That's it exactly, aefibird. Karate isn't a sport, but if there is going to be a sport aspect, it should not be rediculous.

What is giving him pain? Mayby something that addresses his problem would be nice.

Good luck. I'm testing for 1st kyu this weekend, I guess that's somewhat less than what you're at.

Still a sport, true, but it wouldn't make Karate look anything near as foolish as point sparring, and it's a step in the right direction.

I dought they would get anymore injured than they do in the UFC, but you may be right.

Alright, basically I think sport Karate has gone totally awry. I think everything about point fighting is a disservice to the art. But what if someone created a U.K.C or ultimate Karate championship? It would be a full contact tournament specifically designed for classical Okinawan Karate. Throws, armbars and wristlocks, elbows, knees, punches, kicks, all methods of grabs, and any kind of standing grappling would be allowed. I'm not sure if ground fighting should be included or not. I think It should probably be required to be at least black belt in an Okinawan Karate style to compete, but that would mean Kickboxers and MT Kickboxers couldn't join. What does everyone think?

Hey evrybody, I just wanted to see what applications for chinto you got. Chinto is my favorite kata, so I would like to get some good applications.

Yeah, visit a doctor, if it's nothing, you've only thrown away 100 dollars. Just give it time to recover, I've had something simalar.

I should be testing for my black belt in September for Shorin ryu.

I can do 130 pushups in one set, My bench press max is 200, I weigh 145.

I'm sure I could do five hundred pushups over thw course of the day... I think I'll start doing that.

I do Shorinkan, it works for me. My instructor said he did Shotokan before and didn't like it as much. (No weapons, too long stances, not fluid enough.)