bushido_man96

Yes, the KO kick was sweet.

Cool. Thanks, Killer.

Oh no, I'm glad I asked. Your explanation makes very good sense to me. Its just that in my mind, perhaps calling it a front kick that is side facing would tend to shore up any confusions as to calling it a side kick, and then having to guess which side kick it is you have to do there. Of course, doing and having experience with these katas will nullify these questions. But to the layperson watching, it may not.

23 perfect games! She NEEDS college competition.

It is different. Maybe its Wii's way of standing out?

They all look nice, but I'm happy where I'm at.

Some styles and schools will be weapons-based, like some forms of Japanese or Medieval Swordsmanship, or Filipino styles using sticks and knives. Others may have a few weapons to supplement what they do empty-handed. As the others have mentioned, look around and see what they offer. Everyone has a different opinion on weapons training.

To steer off the coversation here a bit, that was one HECK of a kick!

Congrats to Pac. I would love to see him fight Mayweather Jr.

I caught most of the Spartan episode of Warriors, and I rather enjoyed it. History Channel did a pretty good job.

Yes, its hard for me to do anything active in the early morning. The colder it is, the worse it is, too.

Mine is always fairly brief, but explosive, when doing forms. When we kihap during basics, where it tends to get a bit excessive, its just more of an audible exhalation.

Thanks for sharing this information. It is quite intriguing. When you discuss the quick exhalations in the advancing lunge punching example, is there a time to inhale after so many stepping punches, at which you have to break the rhythm, so to speak?

Michi, when we perform the kick in which the kneecap is up/horizontal, and hit with the ball of the foot, we call it a front kick, no matter if straight ahead, at 45 degrees, or to the side. When we do what we call a side kick, there are two specific ways of doing it (thrust, snap), and so it isn't confused with what we call the front kick. It's not semantics or a fixed idea; it's that we have these kicks that are executed differently, and it's necessary to give each of them a name to tell one from the other. Joe...mate, that's the point. "You" may call it a front kick if the knee cap is upermost even if the kick is performed to the side, but the rest of the karate world call any kick performed to the side... a side kick!! WNM If this is the case, then would it be incorrect to perform what we are calling a "side kick" at the beginning of this thread at the 0:36 mark of the kata link, where the "yoko geri" is performed?

This is a good idea, JusticeZero. Ok, this wasn't done today, but in last week's Thursday class, the instructor did a sparring drill to work on angles, and I got to assist in the session: With partners: 1. Clinching drill: just working on getting in close in a TKD clinch, and then breaking from it. 2. Side cut, clinch: from a closed stance, each student would side cut with the back leg, stepping in an angle forward and to the right (the "open" side, I'd call it), and then come in and clinch. 3. Clinch, then side cut away: Partners would clinch, and then situate the rear hand/arm on the outside of their partner's forward hand/arm, then side cut to the open side while using the hips to twist into the blocked arm and force them to turn away; step back into opposite stance, reset. 4. To simplify the side cut, each partner would put their lead hand stretched out, and touch hands. Each would side cut and reset to their open side, keeping distance. This was a good visual drill. When side cutting, it is important to keep the body bladed, so the side cut actually takes you into almost a front stance at a 45 degree angle. The shoulders are facing the direction the feet point, and the body is coiled for a back leg kick off of the side cut.

JusticeZero, I have been wondering about the handstand push-ups that are necessary for building the strength of Capoeira, and how you go about building up to doing a full one? I can stand on my hands to an extent, but doing a push-up is beyond me, right now. What kind of exercises do you use to build up the strength towards it? 100 Push-ups Week 5, Day 3: 13, 13, 15, 15, 12, 12, 10, 30 = 120.

I'm sorry to hear that, Kez. That sucks. But, in my experience, I have seen that people such as this don't get away with it all the time. Eventually, they will get caught, and prosecuted. You did what you could, and that's all that you can do. Stay safe, and keep your chin up.

Not the Colleseum! What!!!!

Very postcard-esque scenes. I think Germany got the most nods, didn't it? Canada had two, at least.

I think I will see it. Looks pretty good. I really did enjoy the first one.

I'm having similar problems with week 5, Patrick. I finished up day 3 of week 5 tonight, but just barely. When I test out next, I'll probably be just bumping up the tier for week 5. But, I like the way my arms are feeling now.

Alcohol or not, a blind side is a blind side, and it may not have made a difference.

I think my point is that one shouldn't be bound by a particular "classification". I am not suggesting that the way your school teaches the kick you are describing is not good, or correct for that matter, but the OP's question was "what is the correct way to perform side kick". I knew what he/she was alluding to, but the whole thread has rung a bell with me because you, (bushi, joe, tg) seem to have to have a rather "fixed” idea of what a side kick / kick to the side is, and therefore always performed. That doesn’t sit too well on my karate register. I don't see anything wrong with having a "fixed" idea as to what a specific kick is. I just like to have a streamlined terminology so as not to develop confusion in training. What many styles have labeled a "round" kick, Bruce Lee coined as a "hook" kick in his styles. I don't like the change, and if I trained in JKD or the like, I would have a hard time calling a round kick a hook kick, because I already do a hook kick, and to me, it isn't a round kick. Just because I don't identify the "front kick to the side" as a side kick, doesn't mean that I don't find it functional, or that I don't use it. Our style has the kick in several of our forms; its just called a front kick. But, its a front kick to the side. Just because I don't choose to delve into the language of a style, doesn't mean that I have only degraded myself to "punching and kicking," nor does it mean that if one chooses to study to learn soley how to punch and kick is doing a disservice to everything that an art has to offer. Reasoning, theory, and understanding of an art can come from just the physical practice and exchange with oneself or other practitioners, as much as it can from learning a small segment of a foreign language. I could look up the term "mordstreich" and find out what it is, but I can't tell you off the top of my head, although the translation "murder strike" coming to the front of my mind. I'm not so concerned about the German name of a strike, but more of the applications and uses of the strikes and blocks of Medieval Combat. Therefore, I haven't delved into language study, but combat study.

Congrats!

4-30-09 TKD class: 6:00 - 7:30. Good class tonight, especially at the end where we got to do some sparring work, working into a clinch and then working angles and footwork. It was some good focused drilling. Then, we had time to spar. The extra half hour of class is going to be very beneficial.