TheRenegade

Yea, you can't sum up a style with one technique, I agree. To answer more generally, I'd consider my style's GOAL to be: destruction.

!? You'll never catch me with it not protecting my face with my elbows in.

To be honest, I have never, ever, seen a person doing tai chi that could actually translate it usefully to combat. I have known many peoeple who have done it, a rare few of whom could fight, but they learned those skills elsewhere.

Better than nothing.

I am willing to bet you do not get enough sleep. I get 9 to 9.5. And I notice a difference when I don't, believe me. You NEED that much to maintain proper hormone levels, if nothing else. You may be over training anyway, and with less than enough sleep, you will pay for it. You say you eat a lot, but you do not say that you eat well. Make sure you do, or there is nothing that will help you. Go to https://www.mikemahler.com and read up (and buy) on Vitalzym. Amazing product, worth every cent, and he sells it cheapest.

This is not meant to be inflammatory or insulting, but is it possible that your brand of karate or whatever it is (I notice you said "kyu" for a rank) is inferior to boxing/muay thai? I don't know you from the next guy, so I assume nothing, but I have experienced a LOT of so-called traditional martial artists who may have trained for 10 years that can't hold a candle to a boxer with 2 years experience.

Whaaaat!? Nothing but honey? If you stop to think for just a second, I am betting you will come to the same conclusion I have about that article you say you read. To answer your question, the only health benifits you could get from a pure honey diet today is being admitted to a hospital for such bad malnutrition and being taught the hard way about proper eating.

Get back into training. Forget about all the exercise tips you may read, until you are learning how to punch. You hopefully already know that technique is what makes a good punch. Your punch will never improve more from anything than proper training. Is there a boxing gym near you?

Well, whatever you do, do NOT do leg extensions. Some people say they're low impact on the knees, but that is completely false. If you can, squats and deads will eventually help strengthen your knees, but that is assuming you can do them to begin with. Talk with the doc.

That's not true. Anyway, eating 4 hours before sleeping is not bad, rather, I'd be concerned about someone who doesn't eat for more than four hours before sleeping.

Seems to me that if you are even thinking in terms of circular and linear, you don't have your mind right. It's just so abstract and meaningless when it comes to real fighting. In martial arts, theoretical ideas can never compare to real experience.

Yea, what he said. Keep in mind parkour guys do more than one take, and scope out the places they do their crazy stuff. The videos are cut to make it look like they're little spidermans running around doing what they do, but there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff you don't see. Running away is often an option, but "self defense" sometimes means destroying an opponent's ability to hurt you with violence.

Isn't that a question only you can answer?

Such is the practicality of a lot of so-called martial arts out there.

If you can hardly, or not at all, even execute a closed guard, physically, you don't need to be doing one.