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since you're spelling it jiu jitsu i'm guessing its brazillian jiu jitsu. as far as i know BJJ doesn't involve much striking, its pretty much all takedowns, ground work and submissions. in japanese jujitsu (or jiu jitsu or whatever), you'll most likely get a fair bit of striking training as well as grappling. all the jujitsu schools i've been to teach the basic front kick, side kick and roundhouse kick.

lol, in the last two posts i misread 'suparinpei' as 'super enpi'

newtonian mechanics has been shown to be incorrect, but when you're dealing with a macroscopic system with everyday energies, newtonian mechanics (or its equivalent, hamiltonian mechanics) is still used and gives accurate results. when you have a non-linear problem, the standard approach is to approximate it with a linear one, which is what i did in a simple form in my previous posts. if that doesn't work, then you have to get into the non-linear math, but in this case the linear approximation works very well. but like i said, all the physics can really tell you is that to transmit as much energy into the target as possible, you have to hit the target when the strike has maximum speed, and the strike has maximum speed before full extention. everything else has to be done by experiment, i.e. practice. none of the old masters got out a piece of paper and calculated how to do a punch, they worked it out through practice.

i think most of them are very busy with all the various things they do. maybe they have a look now and then, but i can't see any of them being regulars. i guess we'll never know. if someone says 'yeah i'm royce gracie' i'm not going to believe them

it depends on what exactly you want to achieve. if i want to be the absolute best i possibly can be at shotokan, i will train shotokan at the expense of everything else. that's not what i want though. i want to study two or three complimentary arts and improve my fighting skill as a whole, while still having time to do non-MA related things. with this attitude i'm never going to become a grandmaster or anything, but i don't really want to.

thanks!

the kata convey principles of combat for all sorts of situations. it is possible, at least in theory, to make a kata which conveys those principles better than any of the existing kata. i don't think anyone is likely to manage that anymore though because no one these days spends anywhere near as much time doing kata as the people who created the old kata.

enpi is easily my favorite kata, its got everything i like in kata in it. i've been practicing it several times a day for about five years now. the jump is awesome once you get it sorted.

for solo practice, i usually do some squat jumps, push ups, sit ups, and pull ups to get warmed up, then some stretching. then i get my shinai out and do suburi (this is kendo, not karate, but its part of my daily routine), then to the bag to practice striking. this all takes about an hour. then depending on how much time i have, i'll spend like half an hour to an hour doing kata.

i don't really know it, but yeah, that's unsu. very unique kata, i hope to learn it some day.

you mean like a CV for MA, instead of jobs? i've never made one. interesting idea though.

yeah, that's the one. it was pretty good for a tv program.

nice thread, and good observations!

you have to be light on your feet as parkerlineage said. in and out, circle around, keep changing direction. when your opponent attacks, try to step to his side and evade instead of defending linearly. or learn leopard kung fu.

nice! that's more like what i want to see from kung fu.

the best i did in competition was with enpi, though i could probably do kanku dai better. next time i enter a competition i'll probably do kanku or jitte.

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yeah, i love to have some music when i'm doing bagwork, or doing something painful like loads of pushups. also when i'm stretching. dimmu borgir, iced earth, anthrax, slayer, testament, fear factory, the haunted, soulfly to name a few. this is a bit more aggressive than what i usually listen to when i'm not working out, which is more like nevermore, opeth, and nightwish type stuff. at the moment though, hitting the bag to dimmu borgir is awesome.

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my arguments? i have never said your use of hikite is ineffective. if you're referring to someone else's arguments, sorry, i havn't actually read most of the thread. i don't really know much about kung fu, so i won't comment on it. i'm talking about hikite in karate, which as far as i know is traditionally used as a grasping action. besides the quote from funakoshi, there are other things to back this up. hikite is used in slow kata movements as well as fast ones. if the movement is performed slowly then power clearly isn't an issue, so why use hikite? there's obviously something more to it than generating power. that's very true, but that doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from MMA competitions. the reason they keep their hands up is so they don't get hit, and they can still generate enough power without using hikite. admittedly, you're unlikely to face a trained fighter on the street, but in my opinion its still a good idea to keep your hands up so you don't get hit, and that extra bit of power isn't really necessary. that is just an opinion though. i'll try and find a video. personally, i think using hikite to generate power has three problems. one, it leaves you open. two, its simply not necessary; i can generate plenty of power without pulling my other hand to my waist. three, there are kata movements where hikite cannot be explained as a power adding technique. i respect your point of view, i just don't agree with it. as i've said, the only test is what works for each of us.

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not sure about the jack of all trades thing. i guess it depends on what you call a 'trade', if MA as a whole is a trade then practicing more than one style can help you master MA. but certainly if a particular style is considered a trade, then you will never be as great in that style as you can be if you spend time studying other styles.

i wasn't talking about hikite in that case. i was saying if you pull your arm back before punching, you will get more power, but it alerts your opponent to what you're going to do. i'm trying to say that just because a movement (any movement) adds power, it doesn't necessarily make it a good movement to use in combat. more like one hundred, in the sense you are talking about. it started with itosu when he altered a lot of karate techniques so the art could be taught safely to children. before that, i'm pretty certain that hikite was taught as part of grappling techniques. even in 1925, funakoshi wrote in rentan goshin karate jutsu: "the meaning of the hikite, or pulling hand, is to grab the opponent's attacking hand and pull it in whilst twisting it as much as possible so that his body is forced to lead against the defender." they have stopped doing it in the big MMA competitions. everyone strikes like a boxer with their hands up. like i said, do what works for you. i'll do what works for me.

i don't get to see it until tomorrow night, looking forward to it.

do you have a source for that?