bushido_man96

If he has been training for 45 years, and is under 60 years old, that is raising some flags for me.

Yep, I missed it. Sounds like I should keep missing it!

Its all about what you want to focus on. Incidentally, I would love to see a purely MT stylist in the UFC.

You are dedicated, I'll give you that!

Quote: Do long arms adversly affect the bench press??? I have short arms, and I here people complain to me all the time that I bench well because I have short arms. So, I think, yes, long arms can be a detriment to bench. However, it is all in how hard you work it. I like to think I bench well because I am strong, not because I have short arms. Of course, they don't complain about my short arms when we spar!

Stands for "death touch" I think.

I agree with UseoForce on the resisting opponent applications. When I get into a tangle with an inmate (heaven forbid), I know that the static practice that I have done in the past will not help me much. Judo practitioners have the right idea. I would rather learn all of the safer techniques, and be able to practice full tilt at a low rank, and then learn to apply the harder, more dangerous stuff at a higher rank, with skilled partners. The training would improve 10 fold. This is very similar to high school/college wrestling. Very safe, and they are some of the best athletes in the world.

Try googling jiu-jitsu tourneys. Google is great.

I would guess that you could be a member of both bodies, and then you would be able to attain events for both. The only thing would be having rank in two styles, which might get icky.

Didn't see the bio of the owner. That is a LOT of time in rank to attain those degrees. I mean a lot of time....lots.....really lots....like, he must have never had a full time job so he could go to 6 different schools a week to train lots. Does anyone know how old this guy is? His age might be a tip as to the legitimacy of his claims.

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Good luck to you. Hopefully, you will find that you do want to return to it someday. And, if anything, you could always do it once a week, or once every two, or something. And, if you get bored at home, you can always practice forms! Hope to keep seeing you here.

Are you talking about the show on MTV at night? I heard my instructor talking a little about it, but he was vague.

Yes, this happens, and it can be remedied. When you stretch, I assume you are stretching straight down the middle. Try this: Don't sit on the floor, but stretch down as far as you can, and hold yourself up with your hands on the floor. Then, stretch to the right side by turning your hips over, and stretching the right leg straight, and the left one slightly bent with the knee on the floor (this used to be called the American splits, if that clears anything up). Keep the right leg straight, and the toes pointed up with the heel on the ground. Then do the left side. After doing the stretches, get back up in your splits, and go to the left, and then right, and then back left. The trick is to be as low as you can without having to pull up to get to the left or right. This will help you work through your range of motion. The problem with stretching is that if you don't do some moving, it only stretches one position. So by getting some motion (not bouncing), you can stretch through the range.

Get into a front stance, and prepare to do a reverse punch. Get a partner to hold his hand over your fist, and have him resist as you push out your punch. Vary the resistance to suit what you want. Try doing a 10 second punch as the finisher. Also, don't forget to work your full range of motion, so after you complete the punch, have your partner pull on your fist as you pull it back, or have him push against your retracting elbow.

I want to keep a big block of ice in the living room, and when my wife answers the door for my daughter's dates, the first thing they see when they walk in is me crushing it....and then I'll stare 'em down, and say "10 o'clock."

Kata is the perfect solo workout for the martial artist. I believe that there are advantages to be gained from doing it slow (strenght, focus, concentration) and from doing it fast (speed, anaerobic capacities). The wonderful thing about doing a form is you can take one, and choose if you want to work on speed. To do this, you make all of the moves fast. If you want to build strength, you sit low in your stances and hold them while performing slow, tension movements. And, if you want a cardio workout, you string a bunch of them together, and do them continuously for a period of 15 to 20 minutes. Or, you can just practice one form over and over for this amount of time. Forms are personal interpretation, that is what makes them great. If you practice something one way, all of the time, you lose flexibility in your self. As Loren Christensen said: "You can't do the same thing every day and expect different results. Do something different!"

This is a good question. It would all depend on the level of fighting they will be doing, and how much protective gear they wear. I would say problably older than 8, but I could be wrong.

That is a nice website. Thanks, man.

Sounds like you got a good training thing going for you. How many hour a day do you train?

I was kind of hoping to find a guy named Best as the head instructor or something. That aside, it doesn't look too bad. Nice bios on the instructors, and they have resumes, so to speak. My question is, can you get all of that training from the school, or do you just pick one and go? Or, if you want to do more than one, do you have to pay extra? Personally, I think having that many options available would be great, but I would like to play around in all of it. That is what I would find out.

Very good points. I am pretty sure there aren't many takedowns present in my TKD forms. Maybe some joint manipulations, but not many takedowns.

One free class may not be enough to decide, so I don't blame you there. As far as high kicks go, it may be instructor preference, so check with them.

That is a good point, Aodhan. I thought the ATA's system was very well put together, and the fact that you can earn the black belt in 18 months is not a bad thing. When you get to black belt, it is ok to still have some things to learn. Kind of along the lines of this and the McDojo discussion, I sent my daughter to swim lessons this year. She is in level 4. Well, they had 8 days of lessons, and then they test, and if they don't pass, they have to repeat. Of course, they don't have to take more lessons if they don't want to. Now, we pay for this service, and if they fail after less than two weeks of training, they just say we have to do it again. They actually told us that not everyone passes the level on the first try. Now, if martial arts teachers came across with this attitude, I'll bet people would freak. Don't know, but I thought it might be relevant. At least in the martial arts, if you don't feel ready to test, then you don't have to.

Quote Shui Tora: That being that! Or have I missed the point? Nope, you haven't missed the point. You're good.