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That'd probably be what we call impact shock. I only know a little about soft styles, but I'd have to say that no, they don't overpower hard styles. A soft style may be able to wind you with a light palm strike, but I've seen people lifted off their feet while holding three inch thick foam shields. They can't really be more powerful than one another, simply because both rely on human strength. A hard style encourages you to put all your strength into a blow, I can't see how (forgive me if I misunderstand here) a style that says you should not use all your strength could overpower one which does. Overpower I take to mean produce more power with techniques, not win in a fight, that's a different matter entirely.

Ki - master, I'm simply making a point. Some of the stuff I can do would be described as ki, but I don't believe in it which makes it kinda hard. Now either you can say that good biomechanics is ki or that there are even more impressive tricks you can do using it.

I can throw a one inch punch and lift my own bodyweight (i.e. someone of equal weight) off the ground with it. I can shatter glass bottles a punch without a scratch. Burst a door lock with a punch. I can fly for fourteen hours straight without landing or sleeping (the plane helps though). A few other tricks. Incidentally I don't believe in Ki, Qui, Qi, Chi, Spirit, or anything similar. I do believe in good biomechanics.

Makes very little difference in striking arts though.

Our stance is pretty much the same as the aikido stance, I think. Feet placed about shoulderwidth apart, as though on opposite corners of a square at forty-five degrees angle. Elbows tucked slightly into your side, arms bent to bring your rear arm just up under the chin, front arm up in a relaxed 'v' shape. Its the only actual stance we have, the others are all transitional to help improve your techniques.

{quote] Too true. Now, in 1000 words or less and with no more than 4 visual aids, I'd like to see your plan as to how you would stop child abusers from having children. Since you feel free to criticize, I presume you have a plan. Cruel and unusual punishment, wouldn't stop them having children but might discourage them from abusing the kids. Alternatively castrate and sterilise all known abusers. I should get to decide, obviously. I know what's best for them.

Yes, but I don't particularly like most poetry either. I've never actually got angry over music, seems something of an over-reaction and a good way to get yourself a nice padded room. Then again I have sparred to kung fu fighting just for entertainment value.

I find that rap music makes me want to kill, but that's because I can't stand the stuff (just not my type of music), and my sister plays it at full volume all the time.

Don't know about most of them, but from my own art: -finger jab Jab with fingers straight towards soft targets, eyes or throat, advanced technique since a lot of speed and accuracy is required to make it work. -knife hand Hitting with the outside edge of the hand with the fingers slightly curled, main target is the neck but can be used across the bicep if powerful enough for a dead arm As for the others I have an idea, but I'm not certain enough to say.

We learn to block and attack with full force, we just don't get injured while doing it. When you block you should not be directly opposing the technique, any technique, but redirecting it. In ten years I have never received any real bruising or similar during class (sparring outside of class is a different matter). Neither has anyone else I know. Before people start telling me that this type of training is useless on the street, it doesn't work, and so on, I'll say now that I know from my own and other's experience that it does.

Mine used to be reasonably wide, and then my legs got thicker. Kind of irritating, since the next size up has a waist which is too big for me.

There's gotta be a solution to that trousers sticking to your leg thing, I keep getting it now, and its starting to irritate me.

Learn to deflect rather than block, a lot of martial arts teach you to block hard, trying to avoid being hit by brute force. A better method is simply to shift your bodyweight (putting you beyond the reach of the technique anyway) and block in a smooth circular motion, redirecting the force rather than trying to stop it.

I'm quite happy with mine. Its very comfortable, and easy to train in. And of course, I put a lot of work into gettign my blue instructor's do-bok.

We stay relaxed throughout, tensing up at the moment of impact gives no benefit, and shortens your technique. The better method is the simply follow on through and a few inches behind your target and then let the arm bounce back to rest in guard.

You might want to look at other TKD schools, if your training makes your knees hurt and damages other joints then you're most likely being taught to lock out, and throw techniques badly. Don't get me wrong, the techniques may well still be effective, just damaging you in the process.

Choi Kwang Do is meant to be usable (to a degree only though) from the first class, and effective within a couple of months.

Not quite true. In fact completely wrong. The school fights can be avoided by doing whatever the morons think is right instead of what you think is right. Ever heard of bullying?

Yeah, we get plenty of jokes about that one. The other one is IDEAS: I ntroduction (quick introduction naming and explaining the technique) D emonstration (demonstrate the technique, both at full speed and broken down) E xplanation (explain the principles of the technique, mechanics, and use TWAT) A ction (practice the technique a couple of times, both broken down, to a count, and on equipment) S ummary (summarise the technique, cover the first four parts again, but at speed)

We used to have problems along those lines when we were at a school hall for training. They were settled one time when the rugby club (staying after school) decided to burst in and yell insults at us. We simply kiyapped back, and my instructor produces the loudest students in Choi Kwang Do. For anyone who was at Seni during one of the Choi demonstrations you'll know what that's like. I've never seen a group of people go white so fast. Other than that though we've never had any problems.

For a match I don't know, although I imagine most of the stuff on the street would be applicable. Acting: either intimidating your opponent into believing you are better than you actually are, and so putting them on the defensive, or the opposite, so that they'll have openings in their defense through underestimating you Angling: learning to move around your opponent, shift your bodyweight in unexpected ways, essentially not being where they either expect or want you to be Timing: learning when to throw techniques, block techniques, get out of the way, or simply stand there Reading: learning to watch your opponent to see techniques before they're thrown, not talking about muscle twitches here (usually they'll be hidden by clothes anyway) but shifts of bodyweight and other 'tells' Flow: learning to not throw individual, seperate techniques but rather whole strings, reacting automatically to a block or attack (best one I've seen of this was the other night, swing kick which was blocked with double fore-arm, pulled back into chamber and thrown again as a side-kick)

An acronym we use when teaching techniques: T arget - where you're hitting W weapon - what you hit with (knuckles, ball of foot, instep, etc) A pplication - how and when to use the technique T echnique - nitpicking on details

Absolutely. Naturally aliens come all this way just to crush corn. You know, if they didn't want to be detected you'd think they'd avoid landing in corn fields.

The sine wave movement was one of the best things to happen to TKD, lending massive increases in power to techniques via biomechanical principles. Why do you have to lose it?

Interesting. We use a similar system but more for personal space invasion than general use. Green: if they make a threatening movement then they've still got to reach you, ideal counter techniques being stepping kicks Amber: within kicking range Red: within punching range (also grappling range, we have short range punches) For alertness we're simply told to be on the lookout at all times.