bushido_man96

There are a lot of clubs around here. I'm not entirely sure why but I do know that we have an active SCA crowd throughout the state as well as Scarborough Faire. Other than that I don't know why so many develop in Texas but I am definitely not complaining. Lucky devil, you. But I can't fault you at all! We used to have a small but active SCA group, and we'd get together and have a good time sparring, but its not the same.

Harkon72 makes good points about the zones. A grappler is likely to close with you and try to take you to the ground. This means you need to defend his grips and the takedown. If you have ever seen Loyota Machida fight, he is very good at using footwork to maintain his distance from someone, but still be within striking distance himself. He has grappling experience, but he knows his strength is in the stand-up game. So that is how I would try to do it if I had to fight a grappler, and didn't want to play their game. Now, the hard part is negating their game. Grapplers are very adept at getting the fight to the ground.

Keep it up, and keep the updates coming!

Ooh, sounds like a good drill. I will watch the video again, and see about trying that with someone. Thank you very much!

Representative: of what the Martial Arts world is about. Congrats on this milestone, Patrick, and here's to 13 and half more years!

This is great stuff. I'd love to have a group nearby to work on this stuff. The closest thing to it here is with the ARMA, and most of those clubs I see are in Texas.

Ok, Nidan Melbourne, what is a corky?

It sounds like you have some good training ideas there. If I were you, I'd jot down what you have for each of those ideas (form, heavy bag, etc) and then organize them into sets and reps for drilling. Maybe rotate what you do every week. Tabata drills can help build power and speed, especially on a heavy bag. Tabatas are basically picking an exercise, say back leg round kick, and you do it for 30 seconds at high intensity, like kicking a bag, and then rest for 1 minute, I think. If you look it up, there may be more specific ideas for the times, but you get the idea. From that, you could add in some pad work, with kicking shields for side kicks and front kicks, and then target pads for round kicks, front kicks, crescent kicks, etc.

That's not a tool I see used much anymore. Do you have someone teaching you some things, or are you learning as you go? I hope you can find someone to help you out.

Sometimes, all you can do is shrug your shoulders. Look at it this way; this guy learned something from you that day.

I have a few takes on this. 1. When something is in front of you, and you are actually making contact, stances may tend to shorten, and shorter stances will see the heel coming off the ground. 2. I think that the heel flat on the floor aspect of stances in technique has become an aesthetics thing that has carried over into forms, especially competition. I think it has come out from the traditional approach of seeking to perfect things, even when one cannot be perfect, and along those lines has come the refinement of technique, and not just for power and speed, but for grace and elegance, as well. A long front stance with the back foot flat on the ground looks nice. Whether its any more or less practical for generating power than a Boxing stance with a lifted heel for power is a different debate altogether. But these are my two cents on the matter.

It sounds like you had a great experience. Good deal! Your strength and endurance will come along in time. It sounds like you have a good group in the class, too. Keep us posted on how your son does, as well. Its great that he was so excited and asking questions. Sounds like he'll have a good time, too.

Hello, and welcome to KarateForums.com! I think the discomfort you are feeling right now is fairly normal for a beginner. I don't think you need to stop training to get better, but perhaps lay off the workouts outside of class until your body heals a bit. Once your body had become adapted to the new work load it is experiencing, then introduce some more supplementary workouts gradually. Welcome to the world of the Martial Arts! We look forward to hearing your experiences and progress.

Ah, good points on his part.

Do consider it. There are lots of instructors out there that wouldn't be able to put forth their time to have a school if they didn't run it commercially. If the instructor is a good one, then definitely take the advantage of him being there. Then in a year when things open up at the other school, you'll have some foundation under your belt to go with.I look at it this way: if training is available, then why pass it up?

11/19/2014 Defensive Tactics club: 1:30 - 2:45ish pm. Took pictures today, so that cut out some of the workout time. Light jog warm-up. Floor drill kicking: I did one exercise the length of the floor, then switched it going back: Front stance, back leg front kicks Sitting stance, front leg crossover side kicks Back stance, back leg round kicks Back stance, back leg front kick followed by back leg round kick After pictures, I led the class in some review: 3 Brothers drilling: arm bar, to triangle, to omo plata. The reps scale up, so they hit two arm bars, one each side, before moving to the next in line, where they try the arm bar, the other pulls the arm out to defend, and switch to the triangle, etc. So they get reps on them all. Kimura defense and reversal drill, to Americana.

I don't disagree with you at all. I just see where the concern for some instructors comes into play. I think it shows how insecure some instructors are, as well.

Why does your instructor make that rule?

I thank you for sharing it. I won't try to feed an arm setting that up anytime soon, then. I will try to remember that, though, when I do get an arm bar thrown on me.

I would love to study sword in the Leichtenhauer. lineage. Adding the shield would be fun as well. Aside from that, I'd like to be able to learn stick fighting, Escrima or Arnis of some kind.

Sure, at times there is a right way. The point is that you know how to explain why it is right, not just that it is right, and walk away.

I'd start by a strengthening program. Weighted squats, power cleans, and dead lifts will build the muscle in your legs that will lead to powerful kicking. There are some good programs out there that go 3 days a week, and hit the whole body. After you build some strength, you can start in on some plyometrics. There are lots of resources out there on this, and some decent books on the subject, too, that you can look into. You might try to find an athletic trainer that can mold a program specific for you. Typically, plyometrics are done twice a week, and the rest period between each workout used to be recommended at 72 hours. By adding this program in, it might affect how many days a week you lift. The third leg of this stool would be stretching. Start stretching now. Stretch lightly when you are cold. Stretch really hard after your workout. Do static stretching and look into some dynamic stretching, too. If you have a workout partner, you can do so stretching called PNF, which I believe stands for proprioceptive nueromuscular facilitation stretching. With all that put together, there is the kicking practice itself. Along with just basic kick practicing, set yourself up to do some stimuli training. Get a partner who wears a vest of some kind, and do kicks and counter kicks with him. This kind of training will help to build the functionality of your kicks, along with the technique. I hope that helps. If you have any questions, let me know.

In TKD, we have to do the form pertinent to our rank. Right now, I would be doing a version of Choong Jang if I were to compete.

They can sell it how they want. It does have the base of the Japanese system, so they want to adhere to that, because the Japanese system is more attractive than an Australian system.I am kind of surprised that they discounted the existence of a kata like that. They must not believe in any TKD forms. I could never be a salesman like that, either. Just too overbearing. In the end, I don't think its worth getting too worked up over. Everyone has different experiences, and different levels of education, so to speak. These guys obviously believe in what they do, but don't know much about anything outside their box. Hopefully, they will learn about some other arts as they go along.

yes I'm using two hands,,im using a slight angle to cut into the power point of the kick. Are you angling into the kick, or away from the kick? Typically, I angle away from the kick, so I have room for a counter.