Elky

C'mon I do karate - reverse punch of course!

Tonfa - there's no conjugation for number in japanese. They add a marker of quantity to the sentence instead. Aaaaanyway... How do you know your karate works? Well, if you test it against other people in the course of training then you know it works in a simulation of combat. Maybe this simulation isn't the same as real fighting, but neither is a car crash simulation in the factory and we still trust our lives to the data they produce. If you aren't satisfies with how close a simulation your class provides, then maybe try finding a closer simulation: MMA or a kickboxing match or become a nightclub bouncer! I'm happy with the simulation myself!

XMA just bores the living daylights out of me. It's like watching someone flying a kite - there's only so many times you can watch a brightly coloured thing spinning in the air before your brain starts to go numb. Boring - that's my assessment.

I think I understand what this guy's saying, and I find it difficult too. When you throw a mawashi geri with power your momentum carries you in a circle. This is made even more so by the rotation of your back foot which makes your hips face sideways. The natural way to land from a committed roundhouse kick is to land with your back facing your opponent which is obviously not a good idea. So how do you recover from a position where all of your previous movements have been driving it in the opposite direction. My only solution so far has been to under-commit to the kick, which doesn't seem a great solution really. Edit: as with everything else in karate, doing this move in the air is much more difficult than doing it on a target. When free sparring it's easy not to over-rotate because you get the other guy's head in your way