jj19902003

what are those? the b kick and b rwist and volley/540?

ok sure. its built just like a regular one but its smaller. about 5-6 inches by 8 inches or somwhere around there. it just needs to be big enough for your hand to hit. you hold it with one hand and strike with the other. glad to be of some assistance!

as for the makiwara you can builda personal size one. meaning it is about the size of your hand or slightly bigger. this size one is meant for being carried around so you can train when your bored like in a doctors office or something but it would still be ok in your situation. yes finger strikes are primarily for soft vulnerabl areas of the body. you would perform a finger strike to a bony surface like the forehead . yes linoleum would be bettrer then nothing and better than carpet. and as for your formula basic physics says force= mass*velocity. and the smaller the area applying the force(the two front knuckles) the more concentrated, powerful the force. so i hope that helps.

yes they would and either on hardwood floors or concrete. another hand conditioning exerciseis wrapping a peice of wood with some thick rope and punching it.

Or, some people can't do it, or just don't like it. I like the Caporiea stuff, but I can't do it, so its usefulness to me pales in comparison to what I know that I can do. I would still like to learn how, though. yes every move does has some purpose. all the ancient masters wou;d not have invented moves to show off. the masterts were so into it there was no such thing as showing off so yes every move does has an effect wheater you know it or not

yes i know i was just havin some fun lol im bored!

yes i do use a thrusting once in a while like with my snap kick i thrust into their abdomen/chest. that is a kick you really cant snap or it defeats the whole purpose.

thanks i appreciate that!

i am so going into the ufc when i am older! i know that alot of people say that but i actually mean it. i am taking(going to) school wrestling just to improve that aspect of my fighting and ill have to cut my hair and i love my hair so ill do just about anything to learn martial arts and to get into the ufc! keep a look oput for justin jenkins youll see him (me) one day! srry for the off topicness!

I think my style would call it "showing off."then your style may have a more limited view of defense than chinese styles. in longfist styles, one use of the butterfly kick was to jump over low sweeping weapon attacks. it may have also been used to evade a dragon tail sweep. (iron broom in some styles) It actually had a purpose beyond merely "showing off" limits in martial arts suck in my view. because if you limit your martial arts you are bassically limiting yourself as a martial artist. just a random though on limits. srry for being off topic

at my old tae kwon do eveyrone was like family it was awesome i wish we didnt have to move. and all you had to do to help teach a class was to be a higher belt rank than the class you are helping to teach. it was awesome.

yea i wouls like to learn some new aerial kicks as well i currently can do the chinese butterfly and the tornado kickand other basic aeril/jump kicks. i could probably do alot more but idk any! help!

Yes, definitely a difference in the styles. I can't do the Chinese version very well. i can do both the chinese and the tkd tornado kick

oh yea most definetly

this assumes that the martial athlete has inferior skill to the martial artist. quite possibly a wrong assumption. where in indiana are you? I've got family in hammond, gary and nap, so I am there on a pretty regular basis. elkhart