bushido_man96

We used standing locks in Combat Hapkido, but I have not had to use any in a real situation yet. When we train, they are effective, but I would like to practice with more resistance before substantiating anything.

i agree. martial arts is all about discipline and self control. just walk away and only fight if there is no other way out and then just put him in a lock until a teacher or authority figure comes. dont beat him senseless. It is not always easy to just "hold someone in a lock" until someone shows up to help. There are too many things that can go wrong, waiting on someone else to help out.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!

That's how it is in society, though. No one wants to punish the "heros" so they get it easy. It goes this way with people in sports all the time. Look at the incident with the Texas Longhorn players here recently.

I think doing a martial arts sport team in schools would be great. They could do it like some of the college teams are set up, and have a rules set, and travel and take on other schools, like wrestling teams do. As for the students fighting, you have that in almost every sport. Football players and wrestlers are just as bad. Sure, you could tell them not to do it, and punish if they do, but I don't think it will be all that bad.

Great to hear, Shotokan-kez. Keep it up, you can do it!

Make sure that you know what you can and cannot do with your arm. This way, you will keep from hurting it as much as possible. I think it is great that you won't let a physical problem like that stop you from competing. Did you know that Jean Jaques Machado's left hand never fully developed? And he has turned out to be one of the greatest grapplers of all time. Go for it, and good luck to you!

OK, I ordered that book last week, and I should have it sometime this week. I will dig into it, and see what it offers. Hopefully, by this weekend, I will be knee-deep in Korean bunkai!!!!!

If you can find an XMA place to learn from, they are great for teaching trick kicks.

Hopefully everything will work out for you. Good to hear you are sticking with it. Remember, nothing worth-while comes easy.

Hey, man, c'mon! I love the Whopper! But you are right. It would seem that TKD is kind of like Shotokan's little brother.

I couldn't agree with you more on this point. Sometimes competitors will try to get by with just high, flashy kicks and flexibility. I'll take great stances and hand techniques with strong, chest to head level kicks over that any time. In order to have a good form, everything has to fall in together.

With your experience in the martial arts, and having good basic technique, you could probably learn some jumping kicks from books and videos. It will be a good idea to get some feedback from someone who might be able to watch the video demo, and then watch you, and tell you what you might need to do to look more like the video.

This is a good point. It comes down to developing the muscle memory. Once it is built up, adding speed will be easier. Then, once speed has been leveled out, you can start doing speed training to improve it.

I can see some dangers in this idea. I've been shown bunkai by instructors, with no real fighting experience, that was just lame, and obviously wouldnt work against a live opponent. Perhaps it was stuff they made up, or just watered down versions of the real thing. Thats bad enough. But expecting students to just work things out themselves? Thats where this whole mess started. People can come up with all kinds of wonderfull applications for techs that might work in theory, or against willing opponents. But not much of it will stand up in a real fight. For VERY advanced instructors who have lots of fighting experience and exposure to bunkai from various styles I can see how effective bunkai could be created, but students need to get very exact instruction. Thats how they are going to learn the concepts of movement and application for their style. From there they need to practise it against an opponent. Not many students are going to have the knowledge of specific vital points and the precise use of their body tools necessary to make alot of the techneques effective. Not many instructors do either. I like both of these posts. I think that it is important to develop bunkai that is specific to each person, as each person is different, and the same thing does not work for everyone. Drag'n is also right in the sense that it is important to practice your bunkai with a resisting partner, which will help to verify the techniques of the bunkai.

Yeah, and don't forget about ancient Greek Pankration. Perhaps the first MMA event in the history of the world.

I don't think self-defense classes are as physically intensive as regular martial arts classes. The self-defense classes have a lot more interaction with partners, and is almost completely hands on. It is mostly very basic moves, and lots of repetitions to get it into muscle memory. I do agree that it is a better idea to spread a self-defense course out over a couple of weeks, or maybe even a month, with sessions 2 or 3 days per week. A 6 hour course may be information overload for the students.

Hard to keep up sometimes, huh? Things are always jumping here. Heck, I was gone for a day, and there were 2 pages added.

My goodness, I never thought there was a Karate Kid message board. Zorbasan's quote sites were cool, too. Man, I need to get that box set.

Try doing a video search on google or youtube.com. You can find just about anything on there.

You might try washing it. Other than that, you could spend some time tieing and untieing it, just breaking it down.

I think the difference is that the teens are used to a more active lifestyle.

Now rib guards, those I think I could do. I have the most trouble with the protectors when I am doing spin kicks or back leg kicks.

Those are pretty good sources that you have there. Turtle Press also has some kicking DVDs, but I have not seen any of them.