bushido_man96

Welcome to the forums!

You should do a google search on some of these styles, and also search your area, to see if any schools come up. They can be very good styles, but they are weapon based, as opposed to empty hand based. Good luck finding your style.

Welcome to the forums, Myth! Glad to have you. As far as your training questions go, I think cross training in judo would not give you too much trouble, as they cover different aspects. However, there is a lot of other good advice given here, so think about it, and decide on what you think is best for you. Good luck in training!

Well put for someone who does not practice bunkai. I would agree completely. I am hoping to perhaps start developing some of my own bunkai for the forms in my system. Surely I can come up with something. I am not overly creative, though, so I may need to get a brainstorming group to help out. Different takes would be a good thing, I think.

I love this dew commercial with the Temple and hand slap game set up. I get a kick out of it (no pun intended! ). Remember the Bruce Lee/Karate Kid commercial from several years back? That was a great one, too.

Both of these are good grappling styles. I think judo is a little more restricted in some aspects, as it tends to lean toward competition. It probably depends on the instructor, though. BJJ is a nice style as well. I think judo concentrates on throws more than BJJ, where as a lot of BJJ randori will start from the knees. I think Judo randori starts from a standing postition. I think it would be great to try both, and do a live comparison. I would love to learn throws, but also like all of the locks and submissions of BJJ. Boy, I think I would do both if I could. Of course, if I had a say, my weekday schedule would look something like this: Monday AM: Tang Soo Do Monday PM: Tae Kwon Do Tuesday AM: Judo Tuesday PM: BJJ Wednesday AM: Shotokan Wednesday PM: Kyokushin Thursday AM: Muay Thai Thursday PM: Boxing Friday: Ah, take the day off. Of course, I would lift everyday as well. Too bad I work for a living!

I was stating similarity in how I approach fighting and/or sparring, not necessarily techniques or strategies. Sorry for the confusion.

I do have a book on Cabales Serrada Escrima, and I liked what was in it. Looked like they did all hands on type stuff. I wish there was a school here for it.

I like the progression of the rules through the ranks here. Very nice. I also like the high rank rules. May have to try them out!

Welcome to the forums! I can't help you much with the weapons in that style, but you could probably get a pair of 'chucks and start working with them on your own. You would be surprised how much you could learn. Even if you don't learn them in your style, you might be surprised to find out that someone there probably knows something about them. Just ask around.

Combat Hapkido is more simplified and combat oriented, based on street defense situations. It utilizes distraction techniques to loosen the grip of the attacker's grip, and then facilitate the defense techniques. I have had experience with it, and I enjoyed it.

First of all, welcome to the forums, SeenThatAgain. Glad to have you here. I have never really thought about woman on woman self-defense. As someone mentioned, most women fights are like cat fights, unless it is with Laila Ali! However, it is important to know how to defend against both the male and female anatomy for the woman.

Do some looking, checking into various schools. Check out the instructors as well, asking questions about how they teach and things like that. It may be a style you want to learn, just make sure you want to learn from that instructor. Enjoy the journey!

I think I need to have a tailor-made gi, because I always have to get size 6 or 7 to fit my legs, and then the top looks funny hanging down so far! Gotta save money for 3rd dan testing first, though....

I saw this one time a guy in PRIDE FC (I think) tried to slam the guy who had his arm and the guy getting slammed turned so when he came down, he landed on his front so the slammers arm got torked by his own slam. I think that broke the other guys arm. Ouch! Have to think of something else I guess.

I never really called anyone about money. My main concern was that if they were a good student and just stopped coming, to let them know that we would love for them to come back.

This is a tough situation here. If it were me, I would make sure the first form was down and memorized before going on to the next one, just to keep from confusing the students.

This is a good thread, guys, with a lot of good points. Remember, keep everything constructive. Everyone is making very good points, and we all are learning something.

These are great so far, thanks everyone. As for those that mentioned sweeps, could you give me some examples of techniques that you use to sweep/takedown the opponent?

What would the translations be for each? Thanks I have learned the kanji for each, but since my mother tongue is neither Japanese nor English, I can only try to hint at a translation: "shin" is written in all three cases with the character also pronounced as "kokoro", meaning "heart/mind" "so" is the character which the online Kanji dictionary translates as "principle" or "prime (number)", I understand it also as "essential, without any additions", so maybe soshin = essential mind "kaku" (not kako) means to wake up, like in "alarm clock" so maybe kakushin = awake(ned) mind "cho" is written like in "to clear, to become transparent" so maybe choshin = clear/pure heart/mind the idea is that of a lake without ripplings so that you can see through to the ground I have been taught the kanji by my hanshi, but possible errors in the attempts at translation are mine I hope this helps. Best regards to all readers (this is my first post in this forum). deshi Welcome to the forums! Glad to have you.

It appears that Funakoshi kind of carried the torch. Funakoshi also did a very good job of nationalize the art of Karate for Japan.

What Funakoshi did was based off his experiences with Itosu, if I remember my history correctly. Inform me if I am wrong. I think, though, that Itosu did it first in Okinawa (introducing into schools) and Funakoshi did it in Japan.

I view fighting kind of like sparring in class. Why wait? In class, you may wait, because the of the rules, and knowing your opponent will give you an idea of what he is capable of. But, even in class, I will not always wait. I think of it the same way in a fight.

I am currently looking into all different kinds of styles, just because I like to do that kind of thing. I was curious as to what everyone's in-class sparring rules were. Be specific about contact areas and levels of contact, and differences between sparring at different ranks, etc. In my TKD school, there is no contact to the back, nothing below the belt, no hands to the head, but you can kick to the head, but no side kicks to the face (mainly precautionary, probably wouldn't matter in a tournament). Contact is pretty moderate at the school, but in tourneys, you have to have body displacement (a lot like Olympic style). I am looking to try other ways of sparring, and will welcome any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance!

Very nice, very entertaining! And, as always, we keep coming back for more, don't we?