The BB of C

Oh yeah. Especially when everything I get in a google search of Kuk Sool Won is YouTube videos and websites hosted by instructors that are advertising the style.

It happens. Even the best of us make mistakes. I hear stories of people beating their instructors at this/that/or the other thing martial arts related all of the time. Heck, I've done it with two of my instructors at the same time once.

So In Hyuk Suh is so patriotic to Korea that he tends to bend the truth when he speaks? Dang. That's not cool. I admire his dedications but that's almost (if not, is) a step towards the deep end.

I have spoken with many of the seniors on both sides (HRD, KSW, KSHKD etc) I just made it a personal hobby for a while...The resources are around, you just have to search for them I wonder, if I were to sit down with In Hyuk Suh, he'd tell me a similar story. I see. That's interesting. Do you think he started training there?

I like to try to summarize as much as I can, if not, everything in one big 2-4 hour block. That's how I like to train. Don't often actually do it

My beliefs do relfect on the way I train from time to time. For example, I won't train with a certain mindset that would contradict them. Further than that, it's a case-by-case thing more than anything else.

It is pretty good. How did your sources obtain the knowledge of how these styles fomulated?

At the beginning of Judo's history, there were two police academies in Japan. One taught Jujutsu and the other taught Judo. They competed and the academy that knew Judo whomped the Jujutsu academy.

Brilliant

I guess In Hyuk Suh was a part of that Kuk Sool Hapkido group then?

If they have Lei Tai in there then I'd definately try to compete next year.

I've used it to block straight shots a few times. I'd say it works.

I'm going through the same thing because of a pulled adductor muscle. I'm not supposed to be kicking at all. I suggest doing a whole lot of crunches and push-ups.

I don't know much about Judo. However, in my opinion, I think if it is straying from it's original throwing nature and going towards ground fighting it should be brought back to it's original state. Mainly because the difference of throws and ground fighting is what separates Judo from other Japanese grappling styles. There's already a really popular ground fighting sport. It's called Jujutsu

I just love watching a cat fall off of things in a YouTube video.

I'd like to get involved with groin and throat conditioning. But that's aside from the topic.

I think Seisan of Isshin-Ryu and the white belt form of Kuk Sool Won represent those styles best.

I take it you've seen the videos of the Shaolin monks conditioning their testicals? Part of me wants to be able to do that. Part of me wants to never see that video again

Shame. He would have had that too

Indeed.

Funny fact: Every fight The BB of C has ever lost was against an opponent smaller than The BB of C. My friend David would be the perfect example of someone we're talking about. He is 240 pounds (pure muscle), he is a basketball player and a bodybuilder, and he is 6'4. That's sixty pounds more than me and six inches taller. However, he's not a trained fighter, which was also part of the question. He did learn boxing a little from his friend and I taught him the basics of getting a power out of kicks. Because of this very reason he is my sparring parner. I tell him every time "Do not hold back on me and do everything you can to beat me" and he complies. The fights do get pretty intense. Another one of my friends (also a martial artist) was spectating one time and said it looked like he was street fighting me. I've only used a wrist throw on him once, but I've used wrist locks on him several times. I've used spinning sweep kicks successfully on him several times. I've used hip and neck throws on him a few times. I've used finger strikes on his neck and ribcage though I did not use my fingers because they're not strong enough (instead I used the foreknuckle). Also, should your opponent grab your kick, be sure to use your other leg before he can break the one he has a grip on. That's another technique a lot of people doubt but I have used on a number of occasions. David grabbed my foot once while I was going for a front kick. I saw him twisting my ankle towards my right so I jumped up with my left and spun right (in the direction he was turning me, he gave me momentum and it prevented my ankle from dislocating). I kicked the side of his head and knocked him out with my left foot. So whatever you train, some people will tell you to do it or to not do it. Techniques that absolutely don't work in self-defense are few and far between. For the most part it's how and how much you train those techniques.

Is setting them up against an opponent who is probably slowed down significantly and can't move nearly as well as a person who is wearing nothing much different? I was taught that if you are not trained with an opponent who is trying to fight back than you are not training self defense effectively. Going full force without any armor is harmful to student and trainer that could put someone in a hospital (and it takes a lot for me to say that). And putting them against someone that can't move they will not develop the defensive reflexes they may need. So you find a balance in between the two. There is a medium of training very close to full-blown combative contact against someone who is fighting back so armored-up it becomes hard for them to move and training too lightly unarmored against a fully flexible opponent who is fighting back. I was taught that way and am still learning that way. I know a million other people who are learning that way. There's one hundred million more, and people used to train like that all the time. It's possible. I really believe that it is possible to effectively teach self-defense and use hard contact while training to strike vital points and not buy all the unnecissary armor and not kill anyone in training. If you think that I'm wrong than that's fine but I still honestly say I would try that without the armor and I still think that would be a learning experience for everyone.

Brawling is one of the worst strategies in existance. The last thing you want to do is play his game. Naturally, his legs (at and below the knee) and his face will be the weakest parts. You can aim for there. Work on your evasion so you can catch him on counters. Work on lunging attacks or perhaps even climbing. Clapping ears is very painful. Hard strikes to the knees and shin. Slamming the blade of your foot into his insteps. Sweeping the legs from under him. Kicking his shins. I also suggest conditioning your fists, palms and fingers to be able to penetrate his muscles. Most of the time when a strike to the body doesn't work it's because the arm isn't stable enough and the muscles are harder than the bones of your fist. That's how a lot of people brake their hands in fights. Fingers are good for striking vital points like the sides of the neck, behind the ears, into the armpits, but they won't be too effective if his muscles are harder than your fingers. Palms are great for delivering power. I also suggest training leverage and using his momentum against him. Practice a lot of wrist throws and hip throws. Understanding that size is one of thousands of factors that determine the winner of a fight is crucial. I can't even begin to explain how little size matters in a real fight. Especially from me, who every fight I've ever won was against someone at least four inches or fifteen pounds bigger than me. Size is only a problem if you let it be a problem in your mind. Above all - never stop practicing. Just because you can wrist throw someone, doesn't mean you perfected the wrist throw. It can always be better. Just because your shins are as hard as rocks, doesn't mean you won't fight someone who's shins are as hard as lead. Just because your fists can crack through four marble slabs, doesn't mean there isn't someone out there who you may have to fight someday that hasn't had five slabs broken on his ribs.

I really wasn't joking. I'd sign up in a second so long as they pull shots on the vital points. I think it would serve for two good windows: One of them being how much of a beating can you take? The second one being how well this womens' self defense is being taught.

That was really cool. The only thing I didn't like was the Naruto music