ckdstudent

You want to be careful not to break the elbow too hard though, or you'll probably stab yourself in the chest as their arm comes down.

1) You can deflect just as well with closed fist, you just don't have to. 2) Nope, haven't seen a bare knuckle full-contact bout. I've seen a few street fights though, a couple of them involving fellow students, and closed hand blocks seemed to work fine for them.

One which I break regularly and have never yet (touch wood) regretted, I digest food quickly.

I love push hands, its also a great way to practise dodges, the movements used to avoid the pushes and pulls are almost identical to those you can use to slip away from techniques. Only real difference is that you can feel a 'strike' coming rather than just seeing it.

I wonder if that's part of the problem. In striking competitions you can't take someone down, so no one tries to, which means that people who compete in those have no real concept of how hard it might be to stay standing. Of course the reverse applies in grappling competitions.

Not could. I guarantee that it will.

Is that crime in general, or gun crime? Switzerland has the lowest crime rate in the world, there are two basic reasons for this. The first is the Swiss temperament (something which people seem to class as irrelevant to statistics, sadly, is the national personality). The Swiss are very much a calm people, living in one of the most pure democracies in the world. The second is the fact that almost everyone who owns a gun in Switzerland has done national service, been trained in its use, been trained in safety, and also has to do several months each year training as a refresher course. I'm not disagreeing with this (in fact I love the idea, I've got no objections to national service especially in the way the Swiss run it). I believe that Israel has a similar system, though I'm not sure about Norway. The southern provinces of Italy are practically a third world country, almost like Russia, naturally gun crime is higher. Add to that the mediterannean temperament which is usually fairly hotblooded and you've got murders.

Actually there's no martial art that'll stop you being squashed by a bus if one hits you, and the only weapons you could use would get you arrested for attempted or actual mass murder. Where does the bus come into the whole thing?

Did you eat a lot of sugar before class? If so then you probably just had a sugar rush combined with exhaustion and adrenaline from the class. If not then its most likely because your stamina has fallen, a month out does that unfortunately, and you tried to push yourself too hard too fast.

Damn right I'm afraid to defend myself because of the laws we have over here, I'll do anything I can to avoid a fight. If one happens though then I won't even hesitate to finish it.

Actually you can stop people from taking you down, its quite easy to do. You get out of their way and keep throwing techniques whenever they try to move in. That prevents them from taking you down quite effectively.

And what's to stop them from kneeing you as you grab them around the hips, or kicking you as you try to move in?

Depends on how much you like your ceiling. The standing ones have the edge that they're easier to put up.

Usually ours start out with only about twenty or thirty people watching, but by the end of the demo if its at a fete or something we'll have most of the people there. The reason? Noise, we make lots of it.

I think they should hand nunchaku out to all the muggers who want them, I'll keep sometime nice and simple like tonfas for myself thanks, they can be the ones who learn by knocking themselves unconscious.

Closed hand blocks are slower, due to the extra tension, but more powerful and easier to perform, especially when you're beginning since they force you to get the mechanics right. Open hand blocks are much faster, but people can get lazy doing them and fail to block properly. Plus they're weaker to a degree.

Same, everyone in the school is either 'sir' or 'ma'am', when you're calling someone by name we usually use Mr or Ms as well, then the surname. Of course Choi has a somewhat military background which may be part of the reason.

Most of the weapons I'd use are simply stuff that I'd carry and/or wear every day anyway.

You're probably thinking of General Choi, who founded ITF, unless there's a Grandmaster Choi in WTF. CKD itself is geared more for streets than the ring, mainly because we don't actually train to compete at all, merely to defend ourselves. Competition is not part of CKD.

With an aggressive technique into the technique, with defensive across and to the rear of the technique. Not rotating into the technique decreases your power immensely, by around half.

If you weigh 150lbs and want to lose 75lbs then you're trying to lose half your bodyweight. 150-75=75 150/2=75

Actually I was bullied for being white at school, and the school couldn't do anything about it because that would have been racism. The current generation around their twenties or so seem to be a lot more liberal about such things, so we'll probably see in future.

More people in the martial arts can't be a bad thing, at the least it means more people being healthy, and learning something about defending themselves even if it isn't much. You do have the McDojo problem, but that's just the price to pay.

Just over nineteen.

If you'd been telling him something wrong and she'd corrected you I wouldn't see a problem, but if you're just helping someone out telling you to shut up is the last things she should do, if you were doing it wrong then she should have just corrected him afterwards, probably by saying something like 'Or you could...'.