bushido_man96

Do you think this is the case for most TKD schools? My instructor is this way as well. The only way I was able to take up Combat Hapkido is because he got his 1st dan in it. If he wouldn't have been teaching it, I would not have had a chance to learn it.

My dad studied Moo Duk Kwan TKD many years ago. He said the forms I do now are the ones he used to do. He also did the old palgwe forms, too. His style was a little more open in sparring, allowing sweeps and groin shots, as well as hands to the head.

I think that the only time you will see a fight start from a stance is in competitions. Most of the time, it is a fairly natural fighting stance, nothing really fancy.

"Will you teach me how to sweep?"

How hard a punch is also has to include what you expect a punch to do. Like a jab--it won't usually knock someone out. A cross can. Or is the prerequisite for a punch just to contact an object with a closed fist? From what postition does the punch have to be initiated? Does it start from the rib, or from an advanced arm base? Does have to travel 12 inches, or just 2? There are just too many variables.

I train for free Must be nice!

I concur. My knees.....hurt every day.

I liked 5 as well....I mean, come on, it has the best street fight ever filmed!!! "I didn't hear no bell!"

Hey, that's great!!

Um, wow. That's just wrong.

You are right, Sohan. It is important to remember, and to cherish what we hold dear. Today is my brother's birthday as well.

Seeing the pics, and reading the explanations by lordtariel, I think that your combat system would be very interesting. You would probably have to use the dao in the lead hand, to be able to parry with it, and then attack with the jian. You would be able to attack with both, obviously, but with the jian being primarily offensive, it would limit some of your options.

Thanks for the pics, lordtariel, and the explanations.

The topic of visualization got me to thinking about self-talk. How many of you do this from time to time? I try to do it every now and again, especially while training, to help get me over a hump.

I have actually used some visualization at work. When just gazing off, I think about getting attacked by a drunk or an inmate, and how I would react, what I would do. I visualize the attack, the parry, then an arm twist and a takedown. I try to vary the attacks as well, and come out with different ends. The nice thing about visualization is that I always get to win!

Just keep posting.....

Very nice pics, Jiffy, all of them. Portsea looks like a load of fun, and being done outside is a nice freshness.

a good startegy is to tell urself to never be in the way of the kick. when they go to kick you shift backwards or sideways to aviod the kick. you sometimes don't even need to block it if you shift away from it enough. I can shift back away from the kicks well enough, but I prefer to cut sideways, to try to gain some distance. It just seems like I can't get the very end of the kick blocked, and I still get snagged by it. I am going to work some partner drills, trying to get my timing and sidestepping down.

In the tournaments i go to, yes. in shotokan tournaments, you only get points for the head, sternum, above the waist and the rib cage area(with roundhouse kicks). if you face sideways and have a good guard, they will have a hard time trying to get in and scoring a point on the more vital targets. if you have any more questions similar or close to this one, will gladly try to help. The rules that I spar in at class and at tournaments are similar to yours, and I find it useful to be able to spar from both situations. You can use it to try to cut off targets, frustrate the opponent, or open up target areas to bait the opponent.

My suggestion is to watch the movie, enjoy the movie, and don't think anything else of it.

One of the best ways to learn new things about yourself is to teach. Although, I don't recommend throwing someone in cold to their first teaching experience. I like to hang out, and help them out. It helps to build their confidence with it as well. It is amazing when you teach how you have to be connected to every part of every move you do, including hip placement, hand placement, target, path of travel, chamber, focus, and all of the little things that you have done for years without even thinking about them. Sometimes I get carried away, like on a rant, and want to just keep dumping more and more information on them, but I have to remember not to overload them all at one time.

Ah, I did not realize this. I will have to give it a try as well. Thanks, Jiffy.

Thats good to hear. I wish my school did some grappling. I need work on it badly.

So, the conditioning just comes through the training process? I wondered if it was that, or if there were conditioning drills. So when you first started, did you get your legs really frogged up, making it tough to walk?