bushido_man96

Breath out on the lifting motion on nearly all lifts.

I have always wondered that myself. However, I now don't have the room to even consider one. I think that they would be great, though.

Thanks for the clarification, Martial_Artist. I would have to look into other states terminology to see what it says there. Where I live, they are seperate.

One that I liked was holding to barbell plates together for a specified period of time. He also had an exercise where he drilled a hole in a baseball, put string through it, and hung a weight on the end, and would hold and swing it.

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Absolutely. One must keep in mind, however, that the attack must be a justifiable one.

It depends on how much prior experience you have with the Martial Arts, and joint manipulation in general. There are a lot of nuances that you can't see and don't get explained in videos that you will miss. Those things come with time and experience. You could always try it and see, but you will need a training partner, and you will have to be careful not to hurt your parnter. Having an instructor is always the highly recommended route to take, though.

Loren W. Christensen's book Solo Training 2 has some good exercises in it on strengthening your grip.

Very cool.

in the state judo shiai a few years ago, I won 2nd place with that throw. Very cool. I would have payed to see both instances!

Yeah, like 4 or 5 am, something like that. My brother said he got to see the TKD fights were a really tall Greek got knocked out with a 360 hook kick by a much shorter Korean fighter. It was late at night, though, and I missed out.

I agree. When I competed, I always got so wound up because of the nerves. It is definitely good to get that experience. You also learn a lot, too.

Do you mean like the swords that you see Fumio Demura posing with in the Century magazines? I wondered about the weight and how those things do for training purposes.

I think that this is the norm, but I don't think that doing it the other way is wrong. I can't say for sure, though.

I remember the instance that happened later on, but vaguely. Something about Sam, I think, meeting a "milk brother" of Jon's??? So, you think that it may be Ashara, and that Ned was just telling that to Robert to get him to shut up? It was different because Jon had no choice but to approach. It was pretty well laid out that Cat has no use for Jon, I think. She even feels that he is a threat to her trueborn children, if not indirectly (down the line). I think what upsets her the most is that Jon resembles Ned more than any of the other children, save for Arya. Also of note, Cat stated at Bran's bed that she prayed and prayed that Bran would stay...and that sometimes you get what you want. Jon tried to console her, but she was bitter and rash with him.

That would go along with faking out the opponent. Keep in mind, though, that if you are fighting someone that is drunk or otherwise inebbriated, they may not fall for a fake.

Personally, I don't like the defend-first idea, because when you defend (read as "block") first, you have to play on reaction. Reaction is almost always slower than action, because you have to wait to receive the stimulus before you react. Therefore, you are always playing a constant game of catch-up. Not good, in my opinion, when you are trying to defend yourself. The mindset of "wait for the attack" sounds like "wait to be the victim."

That sounds very cool. It almost sounds kind of like The Human Weapon show does. Those would have been some interesting styles to see.

Here is how I do it: breath in on the decline phase, and then exhale forcefully on the lift phase.

I am a TKD practitioner, and I do some Combat Hapkido as well.

I had a friend who did the 360 round kick with a few little stutter steps that began the motion. He was quick with it, but I am not so. His also came up at a 45 degree angle. The way I do it the best is by bringing the leg around level to the ground, as opposed to the 45 degree. The only problem is that mine is slower, and takes longer to load. I do have power in it, though.

That does clarify things a little bit. Thanks, YoungMan.

Multiple body punches, followed by a back leg round kick, to a spin hook or heel kick, either kick to the body or head. For self-defense purposes, I would keep it simpler, and probably inlcude some punches and a round kick to the thigh.

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I agree. During the last Olympics, I didn't get to see any of the TKD, Judo, or Wrestling events.