AlwaysInTraining

Do the comp you'll only think "i could have done that" later on and when you go - go to have fun and test yourself rather than think "i must win". Beside the training for it will be pretty good and age has nothing to do with anything.

I think i may have a mild understanding of this. Are you describing that whenever you are sparring and you become focused you do not see what you are doing but you are just doing it? If that is the case then it can be likened to total focus. Its like when you start your first match in a compertiton and your so focused on it that all of a sudden its over and you have no idea what you have done or what the result is. Its not a your going to die thing because quite simply your not its your body and mind becoming one. Your mind lets go and lets your body take over to do the things it has been trained to do. However if your not doing that and are seeing white spots in your head then obviously its something else. Hope that helps.

p.s if you want good kumite then go to the kyokushinkai karate club in weestcroft on thursday

Hi YC I live in Croydon so the local clubs are: There is a taekwondo club at the bottom end of Church street in a church hall next to the dule carrageway around the corner from Trams at the bottom end of the high street. If you go into wallington 410, 407 or 157 bus from croydon bus station go to westcroft sports center on thursday and kykoshin karate class is on there from 7.15 until 9 (This is my club by the way) If you move into sutton then opposite B and Q is a karate dojo that also does other styles but does have a shotokan class available. After that you have to start moving into Cheam and Purley and there are clubs further on from there. Hope that helps Dave

In that case guys i do stand corrected and take back what i said.

The staple diet of the orient is fatty and unhealthy (e.g noodles, fried pork, fat rich sauces (e.g sweet and sour), etc etc). There is also the problem of genetics where those prone to heart attacks are going to pass this genetic trait off to their children. In these cases, where the japanese only have one child, there is very little genetic diversity so a minor problem over one generation will become a serious one several generations later. However it is proven that exercise and activity increase your health and your lifespan so these masters will have been traing all their lives and as such will have become healthier and so lived longer. Unfortunatly if they over do it and are still predisposed it is likley that strain and stress take over and so they could have a heart attack. What we do have to remeber, however, this is not true in all cases and these things may be just cases of bad luck.

Any news on what it was after all? thought id check up

yep i do it

I started wanting to do martial arts around the age of 5 when my dad used to let me stay up late and watch old Jackie Chan and Jet Li films unfortuantly dad wouldnt let me and I forgot about it until I was 15 when I bought Tekken 3 on the Playstation. This re-sparked my interest. Unfortunatly again I didnt do anything about it until I was 18 when the idea came back into my head. This time I thought ive got nothing to loose and (going by my favourite character in Tekken) I hunted down a TaekwonDoe class near where I live. I stuck with it for 6 months and although I never graded or anything like that I suddenly found I enjoyed the disapline and feeling of being fitter than I had been. After the 6 months I was short on money (being a student at the time) so I left (but grudenly) but after 2 weeks a GKR karate recruiter knocked on my door and offered me a karate class closer to home and half the price of my TKD class so I signed myself up straight away. In karate I found something completly diffrent to TKD and found that this was the art for me (very diffrent from Horrang in Tekken). I stuck with GKR for 6 and a half years got fit and confident. I left because I was unhappy with the club itself. I used to go to Gradings and be ready for them by knowning the katas the moves and everything needed but I always passed with people who were mediocre at best and didnt put any effort in or didnt know everything/anything they needed (in all my time there I saw only 2 people fail a grading). This coupled with a very large row with my instructor over the poltics of the class caused me to have enough and go. Its here that I started Kyukoshin Karate (about a month after leaving GRK) and found what I was missing from GKR (No Politics Yahoo!!). Ive stuck with this since and although I started from 10th kyu again I have driven myself back up the ranks and im at the level I was at when I left GKR. I plan to stick with this style and my art. Karate for me keeps me fit, gives me disapline and a zest for life that i simply have not found anywhere else. Ever since ive started MA ive always felt that this is something I will do for the rest of my life and I intend to keep it that way.

I agree with Senai8. Its not what you do its how well you do it.

Like Tori said get checked out. Also include a blood test for anemia as well. To be honest i think you are fine and your body is adapting but it is better to be safe than sorry. With that said after reading all the above try not to panic because that will cause everything to get worse even if you are perfectly fine. Ive gone through a similar thing.

I also wrote an email to them (they never replied). Every answer to the questions they have given seem very arogant as though they are saying im "harder than you" to everyone. Also they wont take on MMA people which indicates that there is a flaw in their style because as there are no specific rules that you can fight with and you can do anything why wouldnt they take on MMA?

In Kyokushin we have 2 styles of tournament there is 1. Clicker and 2 Knockdown. The way in which these work is that points are scored by gaining what is known as a clean hit on your opponent by getting your strike/kick in and out as quickly as possible. Now instead of getting the hit in and out and then stopping to ackowledge the point by the refferee (like a lot of shotokan karate styles do) you continue to carry on getting as many clean hits as possible (points) for the rounds allotted time (usually 3 mins). This means that every point gained can be countered by your opponent because he has exactly the same agenda as you 2 get as many points as possible. This creates a very fast flowing fight with attacks and counters and counter counters which is scored by 3 refferees watching up close everything that is happeninng. With Clicker this is done with the minimum of contact which means that more points are scored because you are able to go faster. Knockdown is full contact (accepting for various areas of the body) and is not as fast due to the strength and power needed to get points. Now either style of compertition (Clicker or Knockdown) doesnt really lend its self to a defenceive counter style as the main point of it is if you get one point get another one and another and another and so on inorder to win. Reading from what you have said here: "However, when my opponent (traditional uniform, green belt) leaves himself open, he soon finds himself on the ground. After two tied rounds, the center judge decides in the favor of my opponent. A lot of people from many styles, including Kyokushin, have told me I won that fight in all reality. For the longest time I thought I got points taken off from the backfist to his head. Then I heard it was because he was backing me up." As your opponent was making you back up it, although you had tied for 2 rounds, the fight was given to your opponent because of the fact that he was pushing more. To the judge he appears to be trying for that point and another and another more which is much more the spirit of the compertiton. By the way im not in anyway saying that you werent trying its just that is my interpretation of what has happened. The tournament that you went to on the 11th of October was our regional Knockdown. As that is full contact when you took that kick in the ribs it was at a much higher level of contact than you were probably expecting hence why it caught you off guard. Anyway to answer your questions 1. Does the style of Kyokushin's typically-offensive tactics create a bias to defensive tactics in the Kyokushin sport? No it doesnt we practice both offensive and defensive stragies when training but have you ever come across the saying that to attack is the best defence. 2. What (in your opinion) is the ratio of offensive-scale to defensive-scale fighters in the Kyokushin sport? 70/30 Offensive/defensive at times depending on the fighter. Like i said we do train for both and in a compertition however the pace of the fight can lead you to beleave that the fighters are doing nothing but attacking. However most attacks are followed by counters from the opponent which if the fighter is good he will block defensively. Thus createing a flow and balance in the fighting style and fight. (Ive just realised this sounds very complicated contact me if anyone doesnt understand) 3. How often (in your experience) does the offensive-scale fighter trump the defensive-scale fighters, or the defensive-scale fighters defeat the offensive-scale fighters, in the Kyokushin sport? The aim in the compertition is to get a point and another and another and so on until youve won. The best fighters are more offense orentated in order to do that. The answer is probably 70% of the time the more offensive will win. 4. Is a Kyokushin sport competition the place for a defensive-scale fighter at all? I dont beleave so. If someone scores a point against you they will try for another and so on and eventually you will get overrun. 5. If no, what (in your opinion) is the best kind of full-contact competition for a defensive-scale fighter? Try Shotokan Karate. Everypoint gained the round is stopped and the score recognised. (if there are shotokan practitions on here that disagree with this pleasse correct me but i did Shotokan for 4 years and thats how we did it) 6. If yes, what can a defensive-scale fighter do to improve his offensive skills or work towards Perfect Medium? If you want to become a better balanced fighter then i suggest that you try many diffrent styles and as many diffrent ways of fighting as you can and learn from them all and above all practice as much as possible. Anyway hope that helps message me if anyone doesnt understand or wants points clarified. P.s I do these comps myself in kyokushin just in case anyone was wondering.

Glad it went well. Happy training.

This situation has actually happened to me but the other way around as I was the guy going too hard. Im my situation the only mitigating factor that I have was that the person in question never ever said anything to me at all thoughout the entire time meaing that I was completly unaware that anything was wrong until it was too late and it left me very surprised and upset. Subsequently when it was too late and I realsied that I was in the wrong I appolgised profusly to the person in question and to my instructors and to anyone else that it may have happened to (I was feeling very very guilty) and then I changed how I worked and am now much aware of what im doing. I have never wanted to be associated with that sort of attitude in martial arts and I have always maintained an attitude of no malice throught all my training (Ive always wanted to just have fun and train well). My advice to you would be first to tell your partner whilst you are training that he is going too hard and to modify himself but remember he may also be unaware that he has been so treat it kindly but firmly so theres no room for missinterpretation. Secondly if he ignores you (which i doubt he would) then alert the instructor and change partners. Finally also be aware that these things do happen. We are all in a situation where we are training hard and want to do well and with adrenaline and endorphines pumping through our bodys we can all lose track of what we are capable of and we dont want issues and problems dogging us in the dojo. Good luck in your training and hope it all goes well.[/u]