bushido_man96

Thanks, Joe. That helps. It sounds interesting, too.

.....that no matter how many times you've seen it, you have to stop and watch it again if you see that it is on? It could be more than one, I guess. For me, Aliens is one of them. So are the Predator movies. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, along with either of the Hulk movies ranks up there, too.

That what is cool about getting together with other Martial Artists; getting a chance to pick other practitioners' brains. Its part of the reason that I started the Training Log thread...

Welcome to KF.

3-20-09 Weights Bench press: 225x7, 8 fail Row: 180x6, 7 fail Military press: 125x6, 7 fail Lat pull-down: 170x5, 6 fail Machine curl: 55x6, 7 fail Triceps push-down: 180x4, 5 fail Ab wheel: 12, 10, 6 Cable trunk twist: 70x10, 80x10 each side 3-22-09 Aikitaisos Irimi: 10 each side Tenkan tenkai: 3x10 each side Tenkan w/step: 2x10 each side Shomen: 2x10 each side Shomen w/step: 2x10 each side

Yeah in ITF we only ever use "pattern" or "tul". Rarely anything else. Not even "form". I wonder if this is perhaps a regional thing. I don't hear the word pattern used a lot, other than some reading. But I have always heard the term form.

That's a solid arguement, Bob. Have there been any incidents where an instructor has been taken to court for an instance like this?

Congrats, JohnKeats and kkennedy219.

I am referring to sparring in my opening post, so it is looked at from a competitive, sport aspect. Sorry for any confusion. It is pretty much a competition-directed question.

I am not against this. In fact, seeing as being a Marine basically makes you a representative of the armed forces, then it would behoove them to attempt to make people realize that if they screw up, it can make the Corps look bad. And if MA schools want to take this route, too, then I don't have a problem with it. But I don't think it should be the guiding force behind learning the Martial Arts. As you point out here, we try to begin early on teaching these values to society through our children. I think that this is a more appropriate avenue than trying to accomplish it through training at a Martial Arts school.

Thanks for this explanation, tallgeese. That helps to open it up a bit. I see what you are saying here, Joe, but I think it is important to view this from the legal aspect of the affront, and just the emotional aspect of what we feel is right or just. This may sound strange, coming from me, but it is a good idea to ask these kinds of questions to cops or attorneys, or even a judge, to see how they view it.

I'm having some trouble visualizing this, Joe. Could you give another example of how this is going? Sorry to be difficult...

How so? Do you try to bait them with techniques? Do you let them make the first move? Or do you just fight your game, and see how they react?

Anderson Silva vs. Thales Leites.............................Silva.........KO Chuck Liddell vs. Mauricio "Shogun" Rua.................Liddell........KO Brian Stann vs. Krzysztof Soszynski........................Soszynski..Sub Luis Arthur Cane vs. Steve Cantwell.......................Cantwell.....Dec Denis Kang vs. Xavier Foupa-Pokam.......................Foupa-Pokam.....Dec Jason MacDonald vs. Nate Quarry...........................MacDonald.........Sub Ed Herman vs. David Loiseau.................................Herman.......Sub Mark Bocek vs. David Bielkheden............................Bocek........Sub Sam Stout vs. Matt Wiman......................................Wiman.......KO Cheick Kongo vs. Antoni Hardonk............................Kongo........KO T.J. Grant vs. Ryo Chonan......................................Chonan.......Dec

Carlos Condit vs. Martin Kampmann.........Condit.......Sub Efrain Escudero vs. Jeremy Stephens.......Stephens....KO Ryan Bader vs. Carmelo Marrero.............Marrero......Dec Cole Miller vs. Junie Allen Browning..........Miller.........Sub Tyson Griffin vs. Rafael dos Anjos............dos Anjos...Dec Ricardo Almeida vs. Matt Horwich.............Horwich......Sub Brock Larson vs. Jesse Sanders...............Larson........Dec Jorge Rivera vs. Nissen Osterneck............Rivera........KO Rob Kimmons vs. Joe Vedepo...................Kimmons....Sub Tim McKenzie vs. Aaron Simpson..............Simpson.....KO Steve Steinbeiss vs. Ryan Jensen..............Steinbeiss..KO

3-19-09 100 Push-ups: exhaustion test - 30. I really feel like I wimped out on this one. I was hoping to get closer to 40. TKD class: 6:00 - 7:00. I tried to work some angles and closing in during sparring. It went ok, but I think I'm going to do some more drilling on these things outside of sparring, so I can get some work on them.

This is not a real good view of it but it is the only I found when I typed on youtube. here it is it is a very short kata; That is a short form. It would be a good one for early on, to help students learn to move and transition in turns.

Thanks for the links, sensei8. You can see the politics involved there.

MMA gets that "mixed" tag that you mention, Bob, but other styles, that aren't called "mixed" are just that. Take your style, for instance. With the combination of the striking and the tuite, wouldn't you say that it could be constituted as "mixed," as well?

I like this point of view. Its a good way of putting it into context.

Couldn't you view being pushed as an attack? This kind of surprised me, but I've been wrong before. I just feel that a push tends to be a lead-in to a more focused attack.

With sensei8's permission, I'd like to use this little quote to ask a question that likely pertains to many of us, when either sparring or rolling in class or in a competition. What do you do to "size up" an opponent when sparring/rolling? Do you take a certain amount of time, like the first 30 seconds of a match, to feel out your opponent? How do "feel them out?" Do you throw out some attacks to see how they react? Do you wait for them to attack, to see what they favor? I await your responses.

If it is the movie Taken, I imagine that the "style" used is more along the lines of military or LEO type combatives, like an RBSD set-up. That is what I see it being portrayed as. Now, it could be that they had some accomplished TMA stylists do the choreography for the movie, so its hard to say exactly. I think that when fighting arts are transcribed to a game setting, like for Tekken, then I think they try to take what things look like of the art from the outside, and tranlate it to the gameplay. With Hwaorang, for example, they did a good job of emphasizing the kicking aspect of TKD, and of even giving him an extensive arsenal of kicks, including 360 kicks, ax kicks, etc. With Eddie Gordo/Tiger (one of my favorites...), I think they did a good job of bringing out the spinning, circling, and hand stand movements of Capoeria, but I agree that the applications would likely leave a little to be desired. The character Paul Phoenix? was to be a mix of Karate and some Judo, and they did a nice job of giving him throws and counter-throws as an emphasis. But the problem comes down to having all these different characters that can really interact in only one way with different characters, so I think it becomes tough to really bring out the depth and applications of the styles at hand. Still, it is a fun game.

I'm glad you like it, Joe. When I first started teaching in the school I attend now, I had to start reciting the Korean terms so that I could learn them. You think when you hear them all the time, that you know them, but when you get up in front of that class, things change.

The thing is, we can't just respect anyone without knowing who they really are. With the way the media is today, it seems like people want to take more liberty in assuming what someone is like by seeing them on TV, or what they do in a 5 minute interview after a fight. Its isn't right. If you want to respect someone, then you take the time to get to know them, their principles, their likes and dislikes, etc. Not watch them in a pre- or post-fight interview. I don't see MMA as a McDojo draw at all. In fact, I think it would be tougher as a McDojo draw, because the skill set is so comprehensive that it would be more difficult to incorporate it at any level of success. I agree.