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I agree that boxer's guard can be very tight, tighter than let's say Muay Thai. but in the video looks like your blocking your own vision with your fists which would be bad. Maybe your not, but in the clip looks like it. The Peekaboo defense, or having the fist directly touching your head (crazy monkey) I think is vital in boxing training but you need to take some shots to know how to place your hands against yourself if not, your gonna end up clocking yourself when you recieve a hit. the hands are very straight in this video, which is probably making your hook awkward, this is good to start with, I can tell you've beeing studying, but check this clip out it should help, the range is much closer http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kITwbOWP8_I

when your serious about the art of boxing, when it's so competitive, you pretty much HAVE to stay with one side or you are not going to do well. Like in Judo, the Olympic level guys have only a handful of special moves & very specific game plans. If you don't care about competing, gonna train LONG term, and plan to use it for more broad less defined situations, then variety is good, train both sides.

the grape vine(lockdown) is vital. you use it to hoist your opponent & keep them off balance so that you can shrimp (shift) to stay on your side. This takes a while to learn. It is also needed to make passing harder as stated, but also, if you don't, it's easy for the guy on top to get you in a leg lock. Antonio Minotauro Nogueira is awesome with the half guard, but he lost (I think) twice to Ricco Rodriguez in ADCC tournament via leg lock from his half guard. One time for sure was a kneebar. I remember because it happened to me too

I'm an instructor & I encouraged my students to go study at other places. There is no betraying if your intentions are pure & your considerate. If you spoke to your instructor and he said go ahead, and then he changed and started to treat you bad (is this what you fear) then wouldn't you want to know that he would do this?

well I'm not here to convince anyone, it's a perspective I'm offering, by implying the difference between a gym & a school, I'm saying BJJ is closer to a gym. congrats on your purple belt, I'm sure your real technical & skillful. I'm sure you made it to that level partially because of your approach. but think about it, how many purple belts in most schools? There are more white belts. you are rare.

without examination of the lessons of history we are doomed to repeat the same mistakes of our ancestors I believe one of our Presidents said something like that.

I hope so, when I was training BJJ I tried not to distance myself from the Helio way, unfortunately many people thought that his methods were outdated.

to any1 interested in joining a BJJ school, this message is for you. BJJ = combat sport like Sambo, Boxing, Wrestling, Thaiboxing, etc. since it's a sport, you must become an athlete (whatever level you choose). your not gonna be able to learn or survive in class being a couch potato. if your already an athlete then it will make learning easier for you physically. If your not, you have to do that plus learn the skills (double the work) My 2nd point is that since it's a sport, any decent competitor or athlete will get injured if they have been practicing their sport long enough. You do not have to compete, but mark my words you WILL get injured. This could be as minor as some micro damage in your neck so your neck is a little stiff or as severe as permanent spinal damage. Much more common is the popped ligaments and tendons from the joint locks. It looks like a dojo, you wear a gi like in a dojo, you learn techniques like in a dojo, but it's a gym, only the strong survive, it's all about the sparring.

don't get me wrong, I like his movies even the straight to video ones, even his energy drink Lightning Bolt and I PRAISE him for his positive messages on being friendly with other cultures & ethnic diversity. but you gotta see, that he is a tyrant. thats no way to teach. gotta watch out for culty behavior.

I recommend you watch some material... Royce Gracie vs Hidehiko Yoshida 1 & 2 Helio Gracie Bonus interview Human Weapon Judo episode Rickson & Royler visiting Hayward Nishioka's Judo school

yes, quite extensively. at the time everyone in my grappling class was learning his stuff with great enthusiasm so we learned a lot very quickly, and discovered many things. imo, his style of JJ is great to help you understand BJJ better. That is what it did for me. Same way in which Tony Blauer's material helped me understand Karate better. I think the best part of Eddie's system is actually in his half-guard material. When sparring, rubber guard & twister may not come up, but the half guard can almost always come up if you want it to.

I think in each sport there are fighters that prefer inside/outside like you said. Because each sport does both & circluar & linear as well. But style wise I think it has been shown in many fights that generally, Boxing has it's strengths a bit more linear & on the inside. And Thai style circular & on the outside. What's funny is, if you blast a guy with a 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, (repeated jab cross) it is seemingly linear but to me watching Vitor Belfort, studying, Mayweather, Roy Jones, Jr. & wing Chun, it actually has circular motions in it Get close up to a bag and throw an uppercut, does that seem circular to you? I just did one and it seems straight to me I throw a hook from close range & it feels straight. Do a step/lundge hook like Tyson, then it's very circular because of the footwork. circular/linear, inside/outside is very black & white simple concepts, and I think I just brought out the grey areas and made it very complex, but I think that is the beauty of martial arts

most people that talk about linear & circular are usually talking from a Traditional Martial Art point of view, usually those that do combat sports do not think like this. If you look at Boxing, it has both. jab & cross is a very efficient straight line. The ABC of boxing. Yet equally important and claimer of many KOs is the left hook. which is circular. You can see in their foot work that clearly it is not just about straight lines. but do to rule restraints Boxing to me is more linear than let's say Thaiboxing which has many circular attacks. The attacks come in from the outside to the inside unlike Boxing which many of the attacks come in from the inside. for example the ideal place for a boxer is inside the opponent's arms, under their chin, right infront of them, so they can land uppercuts to the chin, heart, spleen, liver shots all possible KO shots. you do that to a Thaiboxer, they will clinch you and knees & elbows will come in. Which are more powerful shots than the hand. The Thaiboxer prefers to be on the outside working you down with leg kicks, or grabbing your head to clinch which is easier to do when you shell up like a boxer. oops I've changed topics from linear & circular to inside & outside my bad

the term combat is quite broad, even street fighting is, having taught military, police & pro-MMA, I can tell you that each one had diff. ideas of combat & required diff. things. This was also diff. from my own ideas & preparation for combat. And it was a great experience for me to have to use what I had learned when I worked as a security officer in a very rough area. but what really changed things was when I was living in bad neighborhoods for almost 4 yrs. this is what lead me to re-evaluate my knowledge and take a diff. direction in my skills to master the knife.

thanx btw, dete is short for detective batman

watch, study, immitate a pro boxer that is similar to your build. I think that's a good start

Kiai is good when your scared to fight off the "frozen state" or slow motion state where you say my body just didn't move for some reason. I couldn't react. If you have to give a speech in public, Kiai may help and get a few laughs break the ice. as you get better at what you do, you will probably do less and less. Boxers make that shhhh noise, forces them to breathe under fire. but a good boxer in his best performance breathes natural or his body tries to.

Burmese boxing is basically not as well sanctioned as Thai boxing, so your gonna have some fights that look like a street fight (Kimbo style) with iffy rules, and others in the ring that look like tough man bouts again, very iffy rules. I've seen a match/festival where they had a Thai boxer vs Burmese boxer, Burmese boxer got KOed REALLY bad early. so they just picked some dude from the crowd to immediately avenge a loss, not very professional, and he got KOed even worse. These guys are fearless. Another one I saw between 2 Burmese fighters in the ring, 1 guy got KOed, the corner wakes him up and they CONTINUE! He KOes the other guy in a worse manner, the corner wakes this guy up and he CONTINUES, but, since he recieved a headkick while dangling on the ropes, I doubt he could continue much longer and sure enough he got KOed. so in some Burmese fights a KO does not end the match. It's when the other fighter truly cannot continue. These guys are crazy. And I thought the Thai s were crazy!

in reality even for those that claim they have the perfect style, it's really the most "convinient style" often times we ungreatfully take from what style that was easily accessibe from. even if you drove a long distance to your school, how do you know it's more "perfect" than some village style practiced in India or Africa? obviously it would be foolish to trek that far anyway for the perfect style because it doesn't exist. funny, for a brief moment that reminded me of "experts" that travel a long distance to do cryptozoology...

Bruce Lee was a huge inspiration for me, a role-model. As I got to research more about him, I found out things I didn't want to know, or care about. I remember I use to turn off the documentaries when they would start talking about his death. So back then, I saw him only as a fantastic martial artist. Today I see him as a human being. With faults mistakes and everything. A much more forgiving point of view. Don't get me wrong I still love the guy. But this more realistic & compassionate view point has helped me grow & improve.

before exercise make sure you think about: -not putting too much stress on the joints. -not taking the muscles & tendons to extreme. -where your increasing the flow of blood in your warmups. I also make sure in my exercise to try and evenly do the work. for example if I do a lot of jumping type exercise, then I do exercises to fortify the arch in my foot, which applies force the opposite way from jumping.

no offense but it sounds like your saying your style is better than his. guys like this (the idiots you saw) are a dime a dozen, pointing out how dumb they are I think are notes you take to yourself and make sure you don't repeat their very human mistakes that we are all capable of in various forms. The rest I think is just how we take things, perhaps your taking it a bit too personal rather than a simple lesson to build better idiology for yourself. I mean no disrespect to you in this comment.

I'm old school too, plus if you cross train or move around a lot like me, then you will regret all those patches. I just had one big one to represent my competition team and I tell you I regret putting that on when I go to other schools you become a target my thick gi top is also very expensive for me $100 range, so I learned the best thing was to just get those patches on the pants, I have tons of gi pants but only 2 tops. anyways I do think that BJJ has some of the coolest looking gi s out there. I think a martial arts fashion show would be amusing.

the way I see it, I'm a nice guy, I avoid being a jerk, acting tough, bullying & fights, if I get messed with, I didn't do anything, something is wrong with them, so for me to fight back I feel is justified. I have no problem doing so. Also, I'm use to living in bad areas so body language is a big deal. With punks you have to let them know that your seriously not worth it in anyway. People generally choose the easy path. hope this helps

the idea of demanding itself is already flawed I think. also trying to convinve people of their opinions. Either they listen or they do not, if you force, this is how fights, wars begin.