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I'd bet on Hughes, although a Royce upset would be great to watch. I think Hughes will slam him to the mat and pound away. Royce will patiently fight from the bottom but I don't think he'll catch Hughes in anything.

Avoid low carb diets. They will deprive you of the energy you need for Martial Arts and their benefits are not what the media makes them out to be. Start counting your calories. I like https://www.fitday.com for that, but any method of counting will do. A good guideline for a starting point is your bodyweight in pounds x 12 for maintenance calories. To lose weight, gradually decrease your daily calories until you are losing 1 - 2 pounds per week. If you lose any more per week you risk losing muscle mass in the process.

You need to increase the number of calories you are consuming daily. Use https://www.fitday.com to track your diet. Gradually raise your daily calories until you are gaining 0.5 - 1 lb per week.

The kicks you see in full-contact competition are usually Muay Thai kicks, which are generally considered to be the strongest for full-contact fighting (however, kyokushin kicks have also been used successfully in the highest levels of full-contact competition). Kicks from taekwondo and tradiditonal karate, which were once the standard in both full-contact and point competition, have been mostly phased out in the past few decades due to the overwhelming success of Muay Thai (and some kyokushin) practitioners in competition. Traditional karate kicks work. They are a good way of kicking. They hurt. However, decades of competition have shown that the Muay Thai kick is the most effective kick for full-contact fighting, and kyokushin kicks are also very good. So why do traditional karate schools still practice kicks using traditional karate form instead of adopting the latest successful methods in competition? Tradition. EDIT: Clarified word choice

There are several counters for most holds and chokes. Be more specific. EDIT: Here is a site with many BJJ techniques. http://bjj.org/techniques/ Some escapes from the mount for example: http://bjj.org/techniques/intheguard/escapemount2/ http://bjj.org/techniques/intheguard/escapemount1/ Like anything you have to train this stuff to make it work.

By "Jui-Jitsu" do you mean japanese/traditional jiu-jitsu or brazilian jiu-jitsu? If you mean the latter, I made a similar switch from karate to shootwrestling. Grappling is counter-intuitive in many ways, but your instructor and training partners will teach you everything you need to know. But be prepared to take an ego hit when realize just how bad you are when you start grappling.

Work your legs. Add front squats or back squats to your routine.

I think I found your problem. Was there any give to the board (ie was it a proper makiwara, or just a board nailed to a wall)? You should NOT be hitting anything that has no give to it.

The shape of your abs is determined by your genetics. Sorry.

You should absolutely be excersizing your whole body. There are many good full-body routines on the internet. Muscle imballances can make injuries more likely, and will also limit your strength gains. EDIT: By 'full-body routine' I don't neccessarily mean routines that work out the whole body each day. Rather I mean routines that work every part of the body whether on the same day or on different days.

I reccomend the thai kickboxing based on the fact that you are interested in self-defense. Thai boxing usually deals extensively with clinch work, whereas the other styles mentioned will probably not. Fighting from the clinch is an important skill to have, and is probably the most important range for self-defense. While the other styles might do one-step style drills that involve clinching with the opponent, they normaly wouldn't include fully-resisting sparring in this range like Thai boxing/muay thai would. The low kicks, elbows, and focus on pad/bag work and sparring (as opposed to forms and techniques done just in the air) also make it better for gaining practical fighting ability.

I think it makes a lot of sense for someone wanting to compete in MMA to be trained with that in mind. That well he or she will recieve rounded training without any wholes in his or her game. I don't think martial arts by definition require any kind of forced spiritual growth. One may choose to make that part of one's goals as a martial artist, but I see no reason why that is required to make someone a true martial artist.

I agree with "close the distance and clinch."

What are your goals? Personal challenge? Self-defence? Fighting ability? Spirituality? Perfection of an art? Your goals will determine whether or not it is a good choice for you.

I agree that they aren't the best links in the world on the subject. I'll try to find some more. I am interested to read the information you found for your thesis, however, as I had not previously heard of the problems associated with overdeveloped musculature. So it seems like the original poster's growth should not be hindered if he lifts with a moderate routine and diet under proper supervision, but that he should probably avoid anabolic steriods and more intense bodybuilding bulking diets.

Do you have any studies for this, dok? The last studies I read for my thesis showed that overdeveloped musculature at a young age could cause premature closure of the epiphyseal plates. If that's been disproven, I've got some kids I train that I could start on a more advanced weight program. Drop me a PM if you have a lot of links for the studies. Thanks! Aodhan This article from 2002 in the American College of sports medicine claims no risk of growth stunting. http:// http://www.acsm.org/health%2Bfitness/pdf/currentcomments/stretrai122602.pdf As does this from the American Academy of Pediatrics (2001). http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;107/6/1470 I'll check some of the journals I get through my university library to see if there's anything more recent. If newer information suggests otherwise, I will retract my statement.

You absolutely can lift heavy. The idea that weight lifting stunts your growth is a myth which has since been debunked. Weight lifting has many positive benefits for people of any age. So lift big and eat big and you will grow.

Good luck. I will hold you to that.

Nobody is saying that speed is impossible. Everyone is saying that the video is obviously sped up as evidenced empirically by the timecode burn, which progresses through time faster than true seconds. Time it out with a stopwatch to see for yourself. Also, his movements seem unnatural. Not inhumanly fast, just faster than this guy performed the kata.

Looking at the timecode you can clearly see that this is sped up. This could have been on purpose or accidental (perhaps during the conversion between formats). Plus many of his movements seem unnatural at that speed. I have seen people move that fast, but it does not look like that. Plus time out the timecode. It is simply being played back slightly faster than it was recorded.

What exactly do you mean by competition fighting? MMA? Kickboxing? Please be specific.

Forms won't do much for strength. Lift weights.

Cool. I trained for 8 years at various Toronto Wado Kai clubs in and around Toronto.

I have a shodan in wado kai. What's the name of your club?

I voted kumite. I'm never gained anything from hidden techniques or secret nuances of katas where I learned. I feel like I gain more ability from one lesson of bagwork, pad work or sparring than with months of kata.