bushido_man96

If they let you throw, then it sounds like you may have found the perfect Karate-compliment to your Judo!

Well said, tallgeese.

I thought that this was kind of interesting: http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/boxing/features/fifty

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Whoa. Cool.

I would be interested to see how they put this together. They could replace Mr. T with Michael Clark Duncan!

That looks pretty cool. I wonder how high it would bounce straight up off the water?

Who doesn't love a free explosion?

That's nuts.

That's pretty cool. I loved that game.

Hehehe.... Keep us posted, Throwdown. It sounds like a good time.

Sounds good. I look forward to seeing the pic.

Sounds like fun. I just wish I had a place around to do some sword work.

Chivalry Bookshelf sells books on fencing, and they are pretty good. Not sport fencing, either; some of the good stuff. You might check some of them out.

Sword and shield.

I would love to see this fight. I have always liked watching Oscar fight. He is getting up there in age, though...

I think that this is what you have going for you, right here. Where your muscles may not get loose enough for you to stretch statically, your legs may be strong enough to hold your leg up higher, and the dynamic flexibility you have probably allows you to kick high. However, make sure that you strive to improve your flexibility through stretching exercises. You'll be glad that you did.

Do a Google search of your area, and see what schools come up. With a list of schools, it would be easier to identify what your choices are, and you could narrow down what you are looking for. Welcome to the Forums! I hope you find what you are looking for.

The way he throws it makes it a pretty blind kick. I think he is basically getting his back to his opponent, and then throwing out the back kick. It can get pretty easy to shoot that kick off to the side of the bag, and it can take a lot of practice to get it lined up right. From what I have seen him do, he is technically correct. It just isn't high. I am not sure if he is very flexible or not, but some stretching would help to not make him look so stiff when he throws it.

The Australian pull ups, I was told, anyways, are when you hang under a lower bar where your feet can touch the ground, and you pull your chest up to the bar. Kind of like an upside down bench press, I guess? Felt really good, whatever its called. 7-31-08 TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:00. Good class tonight. We really smacked the basics hard, and did some kicking on the walls. I did a bit of slow kicking and combinations before class started, as well.

Staying hydrated would be a good idea. Also, ask the instructor if you can bring a bottle of water of something like that to class to drink on periodically.

If you have any certified physical trainers in your area, you should think about consulting them. Tell them what you want to improve on, and they should be able to put together a program for you that will benefit what you do alongside the strength training.

Cool. That list could be helpful for me.

I didn't really think that it was, and I practice a kicking style. It is really a compact kick, and if you want to get that motion going into your opponent, like he was talking about, that little hop can give you quite a bit of extra umph into the kick. It also lets you abandon that little step prior to the setup. I have seen Cung Le use the same step over with the front leg to set his up as well.