bushido_man96

Funny.

I liked this one. Man, the Joker was twisted. I was telling my wife after the movie, that when you watched the first Batman movie with Keaton and Nicholson, you knew that the Joker was Nicholson. When I watched the Joker in this one, I didn't really think I was watching Heath Ledger. He sold that part, big time. Nolan has the devil's task ahead of him to make the next movie as good or better than this one. It really is too bad that they can't bring the Joker back, with any kind of autonomy in futuer movies. Ledger was awesome. It is curious about Dent, too; as in what happens to him. Didn't see the deal with Daws coming, either. Shocker. Was she an original comic book character? Now, I don't know why, and tell me if anyone else felt this way, too, but when I first saw that squirrely guy that wanted to blackmail Wayne to keep his mouth shut, I thought of Robin for some odd reason. Anyone else? Or am I just weird? One thing I would like to learn is the Joker's disappearing pencil trick.

I have heard that Vista is nothing but a pain in the butt. I have not experienced it myself, but I hear enough bad that keeps me away from it. I would go with XP if you have the option.

Two words: hell, ya!

This sounds opposite to what I have always heard. It is said that we should actually use open hand strikes to the harder targets, like the head, and the closed fist to the softer targets of the body. I know that many people punch to the head, but it can be quite easy to break the hand when punching the head. I just found it interesting that this works well for you, being opposite and all. Cool, though.

You oughta throw some burpees in there, too! Just to be evil...

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Throwdown.

There are lots of bench press type exercises that you can do as well, if you find that you want to work the chest.

Good words on using the tap, and on focusing on rolling for a while, and not short bursts.

According to the info that I received from rmclain, the Changmoo-Kwan came from the YMCA Central Kwon Bop Bu. Was this a "kwan" as well? If I remember my readings correctly, Yoon Byung-in was a black belt in Karate.

Again, this is a form that I don't learn in my school, but the changing of the name to Chang Hon seems odd to me. I would like to see the technical changes made by this organization of the form. What does the "C" in ITF-C stand for?

The push-up conditioning they were doing was pretty cool. Especially that 4-person square thing.

Thanks. I wish I could hit the gym more often, but I get in what I can. If I ever get my work schedule changed, I can use it more.

Both of you are making good points. In the sense of the competition, there are those who have a ground game that pales in comparison to the others. But, to the layman, or even the "lay Martial Artist," if I can use that term, most of them would be considered more well rounded than most.

I prefer closed hands strikes as well. Perhaps it is because I like to punch the bag; I don't know. I feel like I have better power in closed hand strikes. Perhaps it is because of the way the feedback of a fist feels as compared to open handed strikes like knifehands.

Here is his website: http://www.lorenchristensen.com/ I have several of his books, and they are all pretty good.

Going to see it this morning. Can't wait!

I remember that game. Funny stuff there.

Funny stuff.

I agree. Although I haven't seen many of the new zombie movies, I have seen some of the old ones. My favorite memory is from Night of the Living Dead, I think. One of the guys in a room told the rest in the room to let the zombie in, because he was going to "knock his block off." They opened the door, the zombie staggers out, saying "Braaaaaains!!!" and the guy swings the bat like Jose Conseco, and knocks the zombie's head off! Great stuff!

I'm sure it did! Just doing forms really gets my legs fatigued.

I would do my MA stretches for my legs after running, along with the kind of quad and ham stretches that you might see tracksters do. As for the running, you can either increase the distance that you run, or you can do the same distance at a higher intensity. It just depends on how you want to work it. Like tallgeese said, maybe break up long and short runs. You could do the shorter runs at higher intensities, or whatnot. Another idea might be to work sprints into your distance running. I think tracksters call them ladders or something like that. Series of sprints will help with your anaerobic system, whereas distance runs work more of the aerobic aspects. Both are good, and necessary, for MA training. I wish I could run well, but I can't. Lately, I have been walking more, hoping that I might lose a bit of weight so that I can run more without my knees complaining too much.

"Sabaki" in this instance may indicate a competition style. Enshin, along with Kyokushin's other offshoot, Ashihara (I think) all are renowned for their knockdown Karate tournaments. They are high contact, low protection type tournaments. So, if you like contact, you will most likely get it here. I think that learning one of these styles would be fun. I may not get good at it, but it would be fun. Dobbersky is the resident expert on these subjects, as he is into Ashihara, I believe. All I have said above is conjecture, just from what I have read of Kyokushin. So, I leave the right answers to Dobbersky, when he gets a chance to chime in.

Moo Duk Kwon: founded by Hwang Kee. Established November 9, 1945. Kee claims to have begun his MA training with the arts of Taek Kyon and Subak, in secret; no master or teacher is mentioned in the article I read. Later on, 1936 or thereabouts, he studied Chinese Martial Arts. Originally calling his style Hwa Soo Do, he later renamed it Tang Soo Do. After reading in the Muye Dobo Tongi, Kee renamed his art Soo Bahk Do to reflect Korea's ancient MA heritage. The article gets intersting after this: Apparently, when the Korean government was attempting to unify the "resurrected" Martial Arts of the period (I assume this means the Kwans), some of the advanced members of the Korea Soo Bahk Do Association left and formed a distinct branch of the Moo Duk Kwon under the Korea Taekwondo Association. I wondered why there was Moo Duk Kwon TSD and Moo Duk Kwon TKD, and now I know why.

It was ok. I wasn't a huge fan, but I watched them. What they can do with a $100 million budget should be awesome.