superleeds

whats a short cudgel?

au au au...You have my respect for a job well done zuluking

I must say that his has been a very inspiering article and thread. It made me reflect on how much my belt means to me...not the belt in itself, but all the effort I put in to it. Speaking of which..I'm off to training..

Depends on how far you have progressed with your karate. But It would be my recommondation to cross train with taiji. It will greatly increase your control.

nice post Shorin...

How does one prepare for full contact fighting and develop muscles that can protect areas like the kidneys?

My karateclub has joined up with the local taiji club to offer us serious full contact training in sanshou. Does anyone here have any experience in sanshou? Regards superleeds

Making an effort and and having fun, are the 2 key ingrediences I think.

ALL the time

I was watching ken shamrock's match at Pride 10 the other day, and wondered why he suddenly had the match stopped?

I think I'll try this myself.

I'm not quite sure. The guy who modified ji-jitsu into "swedish style jj trained quite alot with boxers and karatekas....so there ate basically more kicks and punches...and its apperantly more hardcore than regular/ordinary jj.

we have some dojo's thta teach a swedish ji-jitsu system, I might check that out also....

Well a judo club practices right next to us, so I might give it a go actuallly...

Bergen is by many, considered to be the martial arts capitol of Europe, due to the many olympic,EC.and WC medals that competitors from Bergen (Norway) has achieved in Kickboxing/Muay Thai, TKD and Karate. However after intensive reasearch i have not found 1 single BJJ, Vale Tudo or Shootfighting studios in bergen. This is sooo frustrating! Dont get me wrong, I love my dojo and karate style, but I would have loved to try something different to complement my fighting skills.....

I am thinking of buying a makiwara. Any suggestions?

Breaking boards is excellent if you need fire wood.

Here is the Chito-Ryu "slogan" (I cant remember the exact English word for it) "[/i]we who study Karate-Doh Should never forget the warriors' way Through Peace Perserverence and Hard Work We shall attain our goal" Tsuyoshi Chitose

The leader of the International Chito-Ryu Karate-Do Federation is Soke sensei (which in japanese means "son of founder") Shane Higashi sensei (8th Dan,which is the highest in Chito ryu) leads Europe and Canada. Rune Ingebrigtsen sensei (5th Dan) is the leader of Norway Chito-Ryu and principal instructor at my dojo.

If the mouth piece pops out when you kiai, i can understand that it throws people off

I cant believe that such an interesting topic as this has turned into a "who's who in the WWE!"

What was this thread about? I just read through 4 pages of debate,and lost all my concentration when one of you lads, said that you praciced sau something, which means sheep in norwegian :lol

In Europe and the US, we tend to throw gallons of sause on the food.

You can never have to much shark repellant....I'd say that Batman would beat Bond any day.

My sensei builded a training room on top of his double garage. it gave him approx. 40m2. Good luck with building your karate room