bushido_man96

Constant refinement and improvement should be the norm in martial arts training, and not a novelty. When the arts were soley used for fighting, things would have evolved all of the time. That is how it should be.

Very nice. Is this indicative of the officiating in judo?

the reason you don't see a lot of blocking is because being in such a passive defensive mode can get you hurt. Sure, blocks can also be strikes, but the defensive nature is the same. with evasions and parries, you are doing things like moving out of the way, setting up other shots, making angles, etc. It's active defense. That's a good way to put it.

The secret to Lee's success was practice, hours upon hours of practice. Oh, yeah, and he practiced a lot, too.

Yeah, try not to lock your arm out completely when you punch.

Well done!

By upside down push-ups, I assume you mean hand-stand push-ups. I have tried these, but am not good at them.

Which is probably as it should be. No McDojo there! I see that quite a bit in class as well. I have to ride some of the kids now and then, to get them to do what I know they can do. It is frustrating to see, but it makes me feel good that I know that I am giving it all I have, even if it only 50% of what some natural athlete is doing when he is slacking off. That is the epitome of integrity.

That is some really good advice. Whenever any of us receives feedback from a grading we always are told that basics are the foundation of the exam and if you've failed you need to work on them. Everything else falls into place. Exactly. We had one of the highest ranks in the ATA at our school last year, and I was struggling with part of my 2nd degree form at the time, so I asked him for help. He had me "joon be", and when I did so for my form, he said "No. Joon be for Songahm 1" (Which is our white belt form). When I looked at him quizzically, he said "Everything you struggle with in later forms can be fixed by doing the lowest ranked forms", and he was exactly right. By doing my colored belt forms (We call it the Songahm Star, all of our colored belt form patterns laid on "top" of one another form an eight pointed star), I was able to fix my 2nd degree form. Aodhan The foundation is the most important thing.

You could condition them on a Makiwara board.

All I ever saw of dim mak was in Bloodsport.

Hey, Sohan. When you bench, did you say that you have a pretty wide grip? Because I tend to grip the bar just outside of my shoulder width, being a farily narrow grip I suppose. Do you think I should stay with it, or change, or just personal preference?

Well, don't boxers do a lot more running as part of their training? If so, this would give them a pretty good level of cardiovascular endurance, even if the fight itself tends to be more anaerobic.

A word of advise, don't play any pick-up basketball games while healing.

Welcome!

I can relate. I had a 2nd degree black belt in the ATA, and then moved, and had no school. I took up TKD in the TTA, and am now a 2nd degree again. Get to test for 3rd in April. Time in TKD: almost 14 years.

Yeah, that video was bad. I don't know what they hope to accomplish. I've got kids in class that make more contact than that. People want to take all of the risk out of everything, eliminating most of the fun. In my opinion, there is no strategy involved in this kind of fighting. I hope these guys aren't being deceived into thinking that they look good.

Both UseoForce and Jiffy are making well substantiated points. I will not express my feelings either way, but I will say that the main point does still stand: You can't accomplish anything in the martial arts without working hard at it.

That's me. No idea whatsoever.

It is hard to walk away sometimes, especially when you give a guy a chance, and he just won't quit. Then, it seems like he just needs to be dropped, and lets face it....you only got two cheeks to turn!

Sounds like a good plan to me!

Do some cardio work like running or swimming. Try to find a partner to hold target mitts for you, and explain what you want them to do. Who knows, maybe you will end up training your next training partner in this fashion. Good luck in the competition.

NUTS!!! I think that would kill me.

Very nice! And so very true. I love watching the commercial on TV, the latest in my area is Hydroxy-cut. "I lost 45 lbs on hydroxy-cut!" And what they don't tell you is that they scalped their diet, and exercised for AT LEAST 30 minutes a day aerobically. When I see pills and such to lose weight, I just scoff. I don't even mess with protien drinks or muscle building compounds, or anything like that. Not that I don't trust them, I just don't use them.