nine_weapons

the competitors are from various style backgrounds. My coach has been training muay thai for years. He just chooses to conform to the rules of this venue. I'm sure there are other muay thai guys in the wcl also. the biggest complaint kung fu guys have had about mma over the years is the limitations it places on striking targets. Your complaint on the wcl is no different. Muay thai has kicks, punches and knees. it's not that big a deal that you can't kick the legs, really - you just have to adjust your training to that if you want to compete. Pretty much nobody in north america allows elbows (there are some orgs that do), so that's not a big deal either.

it's a name, I wouldn't make a big deal out of it. ULTIMATE fighting championship? same thing. he may not want that. Heck, if he did, he could just go team up with k-1. MMA shows lack big name fighters too, unless you are talking ufc, pride or kotc, mainly. There are plenty of smaller shows for the up and coming competitors - sounds like this is the same thing. kickboxing lesson - in some organizations, pants are used to denote that you cannot kick the legs. I don't like footpads myself, but some orgs like them and in some they are optional. No big deal there. there are a lot of different ways to knee. You don't have to clinch to knee, only to knee consecutively. lead leg leg kick / right cross / hook lead leg leg kick / uppercut / hook etc. it's not an mma venue. I can't use judo in a tkd tournament... All muay thai techniques are exciting except for long, drawn out clinches - those allow for stalling and people resting, in addition to the strikes thrown. And if you notice in the wcl rules, they are promoting non-stop action, no stalling whatsoever, or there is a penalty. That is why they don't allow clinching.

It's not big on clinching and leg kicks because it's Chuck Noris' show. He isn't MMA, he's Karate. Although I do think they should either allow it any time or disallow it. That part doesn't make sense to me either. {/quote] considering he's a brown belt in bjj and a black belt in judo, you could call him an mma guy...

my coach fights in the wcl.

for gaining strength, lifting light weights will not help unless you are a newbie to weight training. lifting light increases muscle endurance. You want to lift medium to heavy.

you can add more protein, but it will likely take more than that. You need more food in general, not just protein. Remember, there are 3500 calories in a pound, and you won't be taking in THAT much protein. In addition, you will need to back off the cardio somewhat - the body cannot be in both an anabolic and catabolic state simultaneously - it's one or the other. You WILL have to back off of the cardio - look at your routine - riding, skipping, running and bagwork (to an extent) are all cardio related. It's hard to gain when your training is focused on burning.

fit it in. If working out is that important to you, you will find time. It's really that simple. I have a family and I have four jobs - literally - 2 jobs I am at in person and two I perform over the internet. But I still work out at least 5 times per week, 45 mins to an hour each session. If you have to get up earlier, do it. If you have to eat luch at your desk so you can run to the gym on your lunch break, do it. If you have to join a 24 hour gym, do it. If you have to get equipment in your house or do body weight training, do it.

I heard about this a little over a year ago - I think it's a very interesting idea.

Nine: I would respectfully disagree with this. I have never been intimidated by the size of an opponent. Maybe it is because I am too stupid to be scared, but I would rather think that my personaliy doesnt lend to being intimidated very well. I would think that the "1000 yard stare" is more intimdating than size. A person (regardless of age,size or sex) who looks as though they are looking trough you can be unnerving. My students accuse me of this all the time during sparring. We call it "total commitment" in our system and infact is what Zanchin (our schools name) means. it varies from person to person. on my job, I have ended confrontations before they started merely because of my size. I have even had guys tell me they would whoop me if I wasn't so big. size is a very powerful intimidator.

I'm not saying only criminals train MA. I am saying that people have a notion that all martial artists are upstanding citrizens who follow some honorable warrior code. In most cases, this is not true. It is NOT the MA that make us "knights and gentlemen"

it is basically a vertically fisted hook - which is actually much safer than the horizontal variety - why do you think it wouldn't work without gloves?

So you've seen purple belts coming after blue?? Even more evidence that they're just to hold up your pants anyway. in most karate styles I've seen, purple comes before blue. However, I have never seen a bjj school that ranks blue higher than purple.

However he is doing karate kata, with the Japanese names.As I said elsewhere, differences in style do not make up for bad body dynamics or poor technique. true, but not all techniques are the same, thus you may see differences. you see something similar to a bow and arrow stance in capoeira a lot, but it is a dynamic position and you are supposed to lean. when I trained jung fu, they told me my roundhouse was wrong - it came from muay thai and hard contact karate.

while this is easily said, I would wager that most people here would NOT actually kill when faced with the decision. to kill takes a certain type of mindset - a mindset that training MA these days actually trains OUT of people, not into them. I have seen several MA freeze in streetfight situations. The same MA would definitely freeze is posed with the need to kill as well. I am not sure why people think this... it is very untrue. If you look at the history of martial arts, it is generally associated with a criminal element. china - triads, tongs and other gangsters. (ever hear wing chun referred to as gangsterfist?) brazil - capoeira was associated with thugs and criminals, which is part of the reason it was banned. france - savate was associated with thugs the list goes on. I would argue the opposite. removal of mind is more important. if you are referring to someone on this form, it may have been me. I related it to training in the thread about the minimum age of black belts. In response to a comment about things getting easier after you get your black belt, I said something to the effect of 'black belt doesn't make it easier, years of training does. regardless of rank, the more time you spend training something, the easier it gets"

there are six taikyoku kata which funakoshi created - most styles don't teach all six, which is why most people don't know of them.