bushido_man96

Why do they make her champion automatically? They should get some fighters together and do an elimination tournament over the next few months to have a title fight to crown the inaugural women's champ.

That Brazilian kick is interesting. I remember seeing that video a while back. I'm not sure I have the flexibility to it that way. But I did subscribe to that guys channel, so I'll have more ideas for kicking workouts.

Are the same strikes practiced in a live manner with protective equipment at about half power? And resistance. What I see here are really glorified one-steps. Once the attacker has thrown his initial strike, and it gets blocked, there is nothing else from him but cooperation. I'm not saying there is no value in learning this way, but I think its a step that starts self-defense training, and is good for learning techniques and such, but eventually you have to move on to some type of resistance from he attacker to foul up the plans.k Now, that said, I've only seen three clips of the style, so if there is something more like this, then that's great. I'd love to hear more about the style.

I think most of the stances we see in the Martial Arts, front stance, back stance, horse stance, etc, should be achievable by just about anyone who can walk normally. Some performers get really deep into front stances or back stances; those guys are doing that for show for the most part, and I don't think that is what is practical. But I think with your standard variety of MA stances, anyone should be ok moving in them, with the right amount of practice.

I think the hardest thing to keep up with would be timing, but that's just a guess. You can practice striking alone well enough, but a partner really helps with rhythm and timing.

I used to pick up the Journal from time to time. It was a fun publication to read. A nice change from reading Black Belt Magazine all the time.

Ok. Is this really documented somewhere? I've been twisting in my techniques for quite some time, especially on the side kicks. Is this something that is seen in Shito-Ryu or Goju Ryu that isn't seen in Shotokan? I could be missing it entirely, but I don't really see what you are saying here.

How, and from what position do you deliver the strikes to the eyes or the groin? I also wonder about what kind of sparring you use to create a realistic scenario in which to deliver these strikes. The groin isn't as easy to hit as many are led to believe, and the eyes are a very small target, as well.

Yeah, its a crap shoot. Medieval Weapons stylists have been using a combination of text and picture interpretation couple with sparring and applications work like this to study what was actually being taught all those years ago.

11/8/2012 Having one of those days...locked myself out of the house on the way out to go to the gym. Forgot to grab my keys, pulled the door shut behind me, and it was too late. Luckily, my daughter only had a half day of school today, so I didn't have to wait outside for too long. I always take a book to read, so I had that and my phone with me. But, I did try to practice some forms, too... Kwang Gae x5 Jung Yul x1 Jung Yul is the ATA 2nd degree form, and I really was butchering it. Its got some techniques that require some degree of balance, which I had none of, especially in the yard, on bumpy grass, with shoes on. I must have looked like and idiot, leaning and stumbling around. And also lucky for me, I had a neighbor step out and see me, and when I looked around and saw him, he gave the whole mock arms circles Karate hi-ya crap. What a fun day. Whining aside, I'm going to really have to take some time and break down Jung Yul and get it looking somewhat decent. Along with all other forms...

We don't get charged for the re-test. But a third re-test, I don't know for sure....

Thanks for this information, John.

That's not necessarily the case. Anyone can kick to the groin. It doesn't require a lot of special training. Just different target. Aside from that, the groin is the end all, be all target it is assumed to be. Our body has a natural flinch response to protect our eyes. If I can jab to your face, I can open my hand and gouge your eye. If you go for an eye gouge like that on an MMA fighter who has trained to defend a jab, then it probably won't be highly likely to hit home, anyways. I'm just saying that just because someone fights on a rule set, doesn't make them that susceptible to losing a street fight.

I say if you have the chance, give it a go. It sounds like a good opportunity to cross train.

With consecutive kicking, since my leg is already up, yes, I usually end up going more with the table top method, but the first kick is usually going to be that front kick chamber with lots of power of the hip twist, and then the second from the table top.Now my round kick chambers all come pretty much from the table top chamber.

This is said a lot. If you train for MMA, then you can use it in the street.As far as the popularity in the CMA's goes, I think it tends to be a style that flourishes in more heavily populated areas. I live in rural Kansas, and have the only time I've ever seen a CMA school is in phone books when I travel to larger areas. The CMA's just haven't seemed to have matriculated as much as other styles.

This is going to kind of hard to dig up, seeing as all those fellows are dead and gone. I didn't realize there were restraints on what they Okinawans wanted to teach the Japanese. Funakoshi learned from Okinawa, and I although he changed some things, I don't think he held too much back from what he learned. I'm interested in what kind of information you have here. So, your kind of taking a bunkai-esque approach to digging things out of these techniques, then?

Because most schools will charge for it. I've always had to pay for testings.

11/7/2012 Cardio Treadmill: 10 min jog, covered .76 miles. No walking, except for a brief warmup. Rowing machine: 6 minutes. Love that thing! Stretch Forms Choong Moo x5 Shim Jun x5 Stretch Forms sucked today. Higher ranking forms, with a little more complexity, and the ATA black belt forms are notoriously long. Choong Moo is the TTA's high brown belt/recommended black belt form. Its a fun form to do, but requires some athleticism in spots that is starting to slip away from me as I add poundage, which I hope to fix. Lots of open hand techniques, a flying side kick (that I need to focus on again, as I have to do a board break with it), and a jumping spin that goes from being in a back stance to landing in a back stance and performing a double knife hand block. This form also has a few kicking combinations in it; a back leg round kick followed by a reverse side kick, and a back leg side kick/back leg side kick combo. Shim Jun is the ATA 1st dan form. This form has 81 moves in it, and follows a shape that is similar to an infinity symbol. There are introductions of different "black belt" techniques used in the ATA curriculum, where there are hand techniques done without a retracting arm, so you have to use the hip motion minus the pull-back of the other arm. There are also compound double blocks where one hand will be open and the other closed, along with circular blocking methods and crossed-arm blocking methods. This form also has two front leg jump hook kicks, two jump front kicks, two step-spin hook kicks, a triple consecutive kick with a low side kick followed by repeat round kicks going up the scale. At the end of the form, there is a one step then jumping side kick that I pretty much butchered each time because my legs were so fatigued by the time I was done with the form. 5 times of that, sucked.

No one mentioned an MMA gym for a beating. Guess that brutality doesn't come to mind as often as we thought....

I agree with this. Its hard to come off the back leg and keep that table top position; it makes it long and clunky, and telegraphic bad. I prefer to keep the knee tight, and then burst with the hips and pivot to get power into that kick. But, even when I'm side on, I still tend to bring the knee up into more of the front kick style chamber now, because as along as I pivot and twist, I can still get good hip power into the kick, too. Again, I base my bias here on my body build more than anything, and it feels better to me to utilize my rather ample legs in this way.

I wish there were FMA near me. It would be so valuable.

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Thank you!

I think the point of the grading is to put the pressure on the student to do what he has been training to do. I try to make sure that every student that is going to test is ready to test. But, once they get there, its up to them not to botch it. If they do, then its called a testing for a reason; there is the possibility of failure. Look at it this way; is the reward greater if you know it won't be taken from you, or is it greater because you know you had two options; fail or succeed?