obiwansbane

Shotokan: learned how to pwn ppl

well im going to be stereotypical... but here goes... wushu, fast hands work on getting there first karate, mixes it up gets cocky quickly work on solid crisp techniques out do some of the added flash and speed TKD, kicks and loves to watch you kick, constantly twitch ure front leg and raise ure knee slightly, attack with lots of hand techniques kempo, havnt had much experience but kick and chamber for another kick lots.. kick their chambered leg to offbalance them and then go in for quick attacks.. i hope i got the main ones, like i said these are stereotypes mixed in with what i myself have seen in the many open style tournaments that i have gone to... people say this is stereotypical and not true as well but for the tournament circuit it is 100% true... small guy = speed... they train for this... make sure to use lots of kicks against people smaller than you.. it will help keep them away good luck and let us know how it goes for u

go to walmart buy a black belt and wear it when hes not watching lol jk, since you have tried talking to your instructor about this, i see nothing else you can really do... if your tournament circuit runs by years, you will be sparring the blackbelts anyways so that isnt a problem, (provided he teaches u katas for more advanced than your current belt... heian yondan against a basai dai? aint happening...) you are a much bigger man than myself as i wouldve quit a loooong time ago... but if you are determined... prove yourself, perfect your katas to the point where he cannot point out any minute errors... he has no choice but to promote you... also outdoing higher ranks (as mean as it is and i know u shouldnt brag about it but it works) in your forms and sparring will make him see that he has a student with higher potential than somebody with 3 ranks on him... once again... if hes a good instructor, no choice but to grade.. i have a feeling that your instructor likes to go with time trained for belts as opposed to a standardized list of can this person do so and so techniques, do they have stances that are good, nice speed, nice power etc... our school has a little pamphlet that shows you what is expected of each belt level. Ask your instructor for a short little listing of what he expects from his higher belts and then next class show him that you can do those and much more good luck

this is gonna be repetitive but im gonna say it anyways if you feel that your instructor knows what he is doing as an instructor, and that you are in a good solid dojo. If your instructor feels you are ready to test, you obviously are ready to test... nobody said to get a blackbelt, but to prove why you are ready for your blackbelt, he is telling you that if you continue as you are now, he feels that you will soon earn the priviledge of showing him how well he has taught you and how you can apply that to teaching your own classes one day.. i say continue to train hard, dont let it phase you, think of it as a goal now, your sensei has said it is possible, and honestly hes the only person whos opinion matters on this, he knows you, knows your skill, knows your dedication, we dont... good luck with your training man

even within shotokan there are different ways of doing the belts, i know my sisters old club had 2 purple belts and 3 browns... my club goes White Yellow Orange Green Blue Purple Red Brown Black

like miller said, having an 8th kyu would not be something that would take a whole lot of deliberation to honour for another organization.... im pretty sure that they will do it, and if you think that it is a good club, it may be worth starting over if thats what they think must happen because you will grade quickly back to your former grade anyways

Over the years of my training i have come to see many different kinds of chinese weapons through tournaments... and one thing seems to be almost a regularity is that the weapons bend... how much they bend varies but they all have some bend to them... ive been told that this is to slightly off set and confuse your enemy, yet when i watch a kata and see a thrust in which the sword goes "pshshshshsh" i seem to doubt the practicality of it... i know there must be a reason and it must work otherwise they wouldnt make it... but i just cant find it, so i was hoping somebody could shed some light on why chinese weapons bend

dont know what kazushi is and im too lazy to check so i wont comment on that.. but even though i know that its not necesarry to train kata, it does have its uses... for beginners learning a new kata gives them a whole sense of accomplishment, kind of like gettin a new belt, although u dont have to wait month or years to get it... i myself find kata as a great form of just lettin loose and going all out and forgetting myself while concentrating on the "fight" i dont know why but i always feel better for it im gonna stop now as ive said all i have to along with being outta ideas ill keep watching this thread though its interesting

bearich just said everything i have been trying to say in one post... if it benefits someone, how can it be useless? sure there are other ways, but why use the other ways when you could use kata? quite similar really to saying why shadow box? you never get hit back in shadow boxing so you don't know how to fight back after getting knocked a bit ureself.... im not saying its wrong to train shadow boxing as i think it helps quite a bit, but it is the same concept as kata... as for having a "catalouge" in my brain of all the steps in kata.... i have never yet faced myself in a situation where ive been hit due to thinking "Oh noes which move from which kata should i use!" you just do it, and then maybe in hindsight you will see that it could be compared to a step from a kata...

meh once you go for a class or two you should be able to tell if its worth it or not... so it isnt too bad... that is kinda funny though

ah... if only i had read thislike 4 months ago... theres a good 15 bucks wasted... oh wel the book was interesting nontheless

i beg to differ... when in a fight adreneline takes over... you have no time to think about executing your techniques with the perfect form... you are not modifying the way you do the technique intentionally... it just happens... like i said.. the move clicks and you execute it as best as possible within the given time... how close to form your technique is depends on how much you have practised and how confident you are subconciously in your own skill... if you train something that you feel doesnt work you will modify it subconciously to what you think will work... if you train with the knowledge that executing a technique will work, you will execute it with close to if not the same form as any boxer executes the moves they train

u missed that part.....

because the bigger guys generally work on power as opposed to speed... little people work mainly on their speed hence being faster in most cases... not saying all but most (from experience) so yah... also aerobic or not... it hurts like hell...

cant say i can help you... ure best bet though is to get ure hands on a phone book and search both the yellow pages and if u know what u want you might find the odd club in the white pages if u check with the right words

Chroniclez instead of jumping vertically just bring ure knees to your chest... it doesnt work ure legs as much but some compromises have to be made i guess.... i hate burpies with a passion... normal i could prob clear 30 - 40 a min easy... but then they get you to do them in reverse ... sit back on ure hands dont let ure butt touch the ground kick ure legs out bring them back jump up, repeat... i despise those

rofl... soon u will be addicted and get a blak belt..

hence 26 katas.... fights are usually short and end before they really begin, there is hardly a chance for u not to be able to react... nobody said kata was the soul reason, and the bunkai for certain katas can be different even if its the same move so scenario changes... kata doesnt full train you for a fight, and that is why it is not the ONLY thing trained... that would be like saying for example all u ever train for ure boxing is shadow boxing... u will win against someone inexperienced... but when u get in a real fight u will be toast... multiple things are needed to be trained together to get the maximum benefit... and that is why kata is incorporated into the system

one again i bring it back to muscle memory... if people tell you that there are no blocks in karate then tell them that they are obviously not doing karate... in a tense situation nobody can be expected to perform perfectly.. but if one trains technique perfectly, the muscle memory will even if it lowers the standard, produce a good block at opposed to perfect block... if blocks were trained lax like they are actually performed you would get hit every time... Boxing involves taking hits that do superficial damage in hopes of landing a hit that deals maximum damage... in karate all u are doing is directing some elses attack away from ureself and using their off balanceness to land a nice hit... therefore even the slightest flaw in the block will just allow them to redirect the punch to hit u right in the face... That is why perfect form is trained... so that in a situation where u cannot use perfect form, ure reactions will save u with blocks that do the job

well then! i shall try this tomorrow sorry for not gettin back to you on this i mustve skipped over it last couple times i checked this forum

once the seat belt signs are turned off... ask the air host or hostess to come over and tell them that u are going to practise self defence technqiues... practise them on the air host(ess) till the seatbelt sign comes back on then sit down u should have completly voided the chances of gettin it again... good luck and i hope u get the courage to go travelling again soon!

low stance lowers ure center of gravity, if ure fighting an opponent tradtionally u would opt for the low stance... it honestly all depends on how you are fighting your opponent... if you are going to go to his level and go for the street fight u shouldnt bother taking martial arts anyways... if u are going for a grappling approach then by all means do what you want... but kata is trained to perfect the art of fighting an opponent through traditional martial art means... it mixed various different movements and patterns to build an elevated sense of muscle memory in which the brain mixes and matches certain steps in certain patterns to the fight... we shall use heian godan for an example... if i was fighting an opponent and they fell to the ground, instead of just kicking them while they are down i would go for the palm/shuto however ure club teaches it to the groin on chest, because once u learn the bunkai ure brain matches certain scenarios to certain techniques so u just remembered it and execute... if you are training in a TMA that teaches kata, you are obviously expecting to use what you learned for self defence, so this way of using ure knowledge and turning it into muscle memory cannot be see as anything but beneficial... that is my rant... sorry if it doesnt make sense im lazy and dont really use much punctuation ever

haha congrats to u and everyone else that competed! continue pwning some nubs

i shouldnt be replying from school... but i just had to! punching is intimidating for a lot of girls so dont worry too much about it.. one thin u need to find is a bigger person in ure club that will encourage you to actually hit them and make contact in sparring... this will help build up your confidence about fighting bigger people and u will find that you start to make a lot more contact in sparring as opposed to throwing aimless punches that u know will not be even close to hitting... once u reach this level of confidence the one thing u should work on is becoming lightning fast and deadly accurate... two things i myself have worked on... (im not a girl but im pretty small 5" 6' 130 pounds) so i can relate somewhat... for me when it comes to body shots in sparring its solar plexus, kidneys or nothing... once u have the aim and speed u will feel that bigger guys and girls, even though they are stronger wont have a chance.... nobody can fight winded.. and even if they still can... they will still be worse for it andallow for u to just repeatedly hit them... thats for a street situation... in class just use ure speed to deliver the same shot (solar plexus, kidneys, head etc) but then pull ure punch in a snapping motionand go in for another shot... this will wake up a lot of people and see that u can pwn them good luck and i hope u continue enjoying ure martial arts training

ok im just going for 3 types here in my analogy of course there are hundreds more to choose from... Karate - a hard style, lots of snappy movements, mostly straight forward linear attacks, very traditional with forms, belt rankings, philosophy may also be a part of training etc, yet u may find a school that goes to tournaments and also teaches weapons... this is preferably the best choice because you learn a little bit of everything along with some measure of actual fighting training. Kung fu - a softstyle, motions are much more circular with a lot more flow and grace to them, once again very tradtitional... weapons are taught, these weapons are native of China and are usually bendable, such as the tai chi sword, spear, wind song, broad sword etc this usually involves some degree of flexibility Any Form of Boxing - seems to be the route more and more people are taking.. straight forward, deals with hard solid attacks while keeping an optimum defence against ure opponent.. not too sure how it works but training is geared towards fighting The other two of course do as well seeing as it is a form of defence, but it takes a certain amount of aptitude on both the teachers and the students part to take self defence from that... in forms bunkai can be explained and shown, but sometimes students do not really grasp what it is that is being taught so half of their training (Kata) is lost on them... that is why if you feel that you cannot put a deal of thought and stuff like that into your training, you should go for something i see as more to the point such as boxing, muay thai, kickboxing etc if anyone can correct me on this please do but this is how i see it... if u can give us the options that u have maybe we can give u a more indepth look