bushido_man96

A log roll. That is pretty funny!

I think I own a book of his, on TKD forms. Good book, too. Yeah, he's pretty amazing. When I read the article that said he's built his MA career on a part time school at the YMCA (with 200+ students), I was really impressed! That certainly is saying something.

4-14-08 Push-ups: 3x10...a few of these reps were with my son crawling on my back. Sit-ups: 3x10 Standing chambering legs, alternating: 3x20 TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:00. Good class tonight. Basics wore me down. My form felt good tonight, too. Sparring was good; I worked on some things that the 4th dan in the class helped me with. I worked on closing the gap with some sliding forward side kicks, and then proceding to follow up with more offense. It worked well, but made me tired. I am usually much more defensive when fighitng.

You may not consider them Martial Artists, but that doesn't mean that they are not. I would take training by any of those guys. There is always something to learn.

That is a good way to look at things. Great attitude!

Fedor is like one of the best Sambo guys in the world, though (from what I understand). Even with his Sambo training, he would still get dominated by Saulo?

Thanks for the info. I look forward to seeing more.

Those guys do have skills. Granted, they may not be the same skill set that some of the more flashy or "strategic" fighters have, but they are skills just the same. And they do train them. I am pretty sure that once you get to that level, everyone is putting in pretty much the same amount of training time.

Those are some good staples, but not every style has a rank of 10th dan.

I agree! There are few things as rewarding as teaching.

Welcome to KF! Why is it that you have been kept from opening your own dojo?

My wife and son are fighting that cough now. My wife was up all night, not being able to sleep because of it. It is really bad.

Getting away, especially if you feel that you are still in danger, is not a bad idea. What is a bad idea is not reporting the incident. Once you feel safe, you should report it immediately, for you own sake. That way, you can give a statement from your point of view while the actions are fresh in your mind, and you can justify your actions.

That is a nice poem. Thanks for sharing. I have read Eden's columns in TKDTimes Magazine. She has some pretty good stuff most of the time.

Sometime those lessons in humility really work.

I think that it is important for students to work with as many different partners as they can. I have found that when kids line up with their buddies, it can get a bit too much like play time. I like to pair them with friends, but with different students at times as well. It is also good for them to experience different body types, different target areas, and different ranks in front of them, too.

I think I own a book of his, on TKD forms. Good book, too.

That was freakin' cool!!!Don't forget about dips, either. Those are good for the upper body, too.

Never heard of it. What is it?

Well, you might do it if you have a good pair of shoes on maybe? Oh, yeah! Steel-toed boots come to mind....

It sounds to me like you held your own pretty well, especially having to go against those with that much more experience than you. In the end, you learned something, too. Congrats!

The BB of C is off to a good start. JKD was put together using a set of fighting principles based off of some things from Western Boxing, Fencing prinicples, and Wing Chun, originally. Along the way, there have been different concepts and ideas added; read Tao of Jeet Kune Do to get a really good understanding of what Bruce Lee was trying to do. Many of todays JKD practitioners have made various additions to their training, by doing things like Kali/Arnis along with their concepts, and adding in ground fighting to their practice and the like.

I have been working on my form, Yoo Sin hyung, and have been picking out some things with trying to improve my hip movement in the techniques. After the opening move, the bear hug break and elbows/punches over the shoulders, and I get into the knifehand blocks/punches.....I am trying to put a bit of hip into the knifehand blocks, by twisting the hip of the blocking side forward a bit, into the block. Likewise on the other side. Does this sound good, or does anyone have any other suggestions here? When I step off to the 45 degree angles, and do the outside block, I can get pretty good hip into that movement with the step. In TKD, our body stays squared to the front in the front stance, and doesn't open up like it might in Karate. When I go into the scoop block with the other hand, the body stays facing the angle, and I kind of twist/circle my hips with the scoop block, snapping it into place. I can do this with my legs locked in the front stance, but I have also found that by doing a slight knee bend with the back leg while performing the block and twisting the hips, I may get a bit more snap into it, upon straightening the leg when completing the block. Does anyone else think that the knee bend is a good idea to add power, along with the hip rotation? I think it is kind of a Karate aspect, at least from what I have read in some of the Karate texts that I have. How do some of y'all do this part of the form? Or moves similar to these in other forms? I don't do the sine wave, and I have seen some of the sine wave performers practically dip to the floor when performing the scooping block. I don't prefer the sine wave that much; at least not to that extreme. But any suggestions will be appreciated. Thanks for the help!

4-11-08 Pushups: 5x10 Sit ups: 4x10 I also spent time working on my form again today, doing the first 10 to 15 movements. I was concentrating on using hip twist and body motion to get power in my techniques, and am finding a few things that work, and a few things that I thought I was doing, but need more work at.

Welcome!