bushido_man96

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.

Pretty cool. I wouldn't be caught dead with one, though.

$30,000!!! Are you kidding me! I don't think it is worth that much.

I have problems with my knees. I think that the main culprit is from my weight, though. Some days, my knees feel pretty good, and others, it just hurts to walk; forget about kicking. Sometimes I'll pop some ibuprofen, but I take glucosimine/chongroidant every day.

Definitely more water, Kez. I try not to drink too much pop, but I have been consuming more of it lately. That carbonation is just asking for reflux. Blander foods may help with the heartburn as well.

Man, I don't think I would be able to walk for a week after that!

The Wikipedia information is sited by some TKD organizations, so I have to view the information with some skepticism. I didn't see the sources for TKDTutor. I agree. TKD has no ancient origins. Now, that isn't saying that ancient Korea didn't have its own indigenous fighting styles; I am sure they did, as would any other country and civilization that has gone to war. It is wrong to attempt to extrapolate an art that isn't even 100 years old from ancient Korea. That is why I am focusing my searches on the Kwans, as opposed to anything relating to Taek Kyon or Su Bak. So is there any point in studying any history, then? Of course there is, because eventually, enough proof can probably work its way forward, and we can see the differences. This is happening in some spots with the studies that have been done with TKD. Hopefully, it continues to happen. I wonder, if the ITF and WTF merge, if anything relating to this will change? You have mentioned the differences in history between the WTF and the ITF, so I wonder.....

Last night at class, upon rechambering a round kick as fast as I could, I managed to tweak something in the area behind my right knee and near the upper calf. It doesn't feel good today, either.