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Just throwing out a version of Naihanchi that isn't done at half speed. Hands are a little "lose" on this guy, and his knees a bit out, but it's the best I could find in a quick search at this hour.

Josh "The Dentist" Neer vs. Nate Diaz = Nate Diaz, sub Mac Danzig vs. Clay "The Carpenter" Guida= Clay Guida, dec Ed "Short Fuse" Herman vs. Alan "The Talent" Belcher = Alan Belcher, KO Houston "The Assassin" Alexander vs. Eric "Ravishing Red" Schafer = Houston Alexander, KO Preliminary Bouts: Alessio "Legionarius" Sakara vs. Joe "The Doctor" Vedepo =Alessio Sakara, KO Wilson Gouveia vs. Ryan Jensen = Wilson Gouveia, KO Joe "J-Lau" Lauzon vs. Kyle Bradley = Joe Lauzon, Sub Drew "The Massacre" McFedries vs. Mike Massenzio = Mike Massenzio, Sub Rob "The Rosedale Reaper" Kimmons vs. Dan Miller =Rob Kimmons, Sub Jason "Hitman" Brilz vs. Brad Morris =Jason Brilz, Dec

Joesteph, It's not a true "X", but they do cross over. Vision isn't impaired, but you get a good shield.

PittbullJudoka on the forums here has seen it and highly recommends it. I have a copy and am waiting to watch it when the girls are up so I can pay attention to it. As to the NPR review panning the acting, the plot etc and still rating it as a good review is odd. However, I've noticed that a lot of critics pan just about anything that isn't basically an art-house type movie. Incert a British accent, some tea drinking and alot of long conversations by a window in the kitchen/den and you have a glowing review in the making.

Take that your kicks may have been seen as more effective and more aggressive striking. Those two factors will influence a judge many times. If the other man is throwing combinations and they are not landing well, that explains a lot of it. As for him unloading in the last 15 seconds of the round, he was trying to close out strong. It's not despiration many times, it's just trying to make sure that that if it's going to the cards, they have some more points at the end. Congrats on the win though, enjoy it and learn from it.

I think Nanhanchi and Kusanku(which I'm really bad at right now). Chinto I love(everything on a 45 degree angle) and see where the angled applications come in at, but if I only get two, I can't say it's one. No. 3, sure though.

I was taught a higher point of delivery that went with the other arm coming straight up the middle, back of forearm out. That put both arms infront of your face during the middle section of the block. You get a basic cross with the elbows and the backs of forearms somewhat presented. The inside hand, that is straight up, comes back down for the chamber, the other rotates on up with the fist to elbow line at about 45 degrees. Keeps the shoulder more in socket and stronger and creates an angle of deflection. You can make the block straight on, and have a wide margin of error with the cross/cover that can take the punches if your timing is off. If your timing is on, you get a light parry from the inner hand on the center line(which protects the nose/center line of the face), and the rise & roll from the outer/blocking keeps things from being force on force and sets up a grab. Works best with some body evasion and stepping. Tallgeese has it with moving and applying a defense. Most of your traditional defense work a lot better that way, so do others. Belt and suspenders. A parry and cover combined with movement is the way to go.

Most everyone beat me to the punch. My favorites are asking them if they have the gun on them. What about all the places they can't carry a gun? Does every threat that you must respond to with violence require killing? Those are aside from the reasons of enjoyment that cause me to train. Those are the reasons that I have that mean the most, but are the ones that people asking the "why not a gun" question respect the least, at least in most cases. This, despite a Springfield and a couple of archaic Colts that would put me in fine standing if need be. I just like the options.

Main Card Bouts: Chuck Liddell vs. Rashad Evans =Chuck Liddell, KO Rich Franklin vs. Matt Hamill = Rich Franklin, Sub Nate Marquardt vs. Martin Kampmann = Nate Marquardt, KO Dan Henderson vs. Rousimar Palhares = Dan Henderson, KO Karo Parisyan vs. Yoshiyuki Yoshida (Off the card due to injury) Preliminary Bouts: Dong Hyun Kim vs. Matt Brown =Don Hyun Kim, Sub Kurt Pellegrino vs. Thiago Tavares =Kurt Pellegrino, Dec Roan Carneiro vs. Ryo Chonan = Ryo Chonan, Dec Mike Patt vs. Tim Boetsch =Tim Toetsch, KO Jason Lambert vs. Jason MacDonald =Jason MacDonald, Dec

Hate to hear that for you man. With any promotion we do, it's an open invite to any black belt or instructor in the schools we associate with. Training partners we know from outside the school can be invited as well if your willing to stand good for them and their behavior.

There was a full break down of the testing for shodan over on the testing forums, but I can elaborate if you like. As to the kata's? You can be required to run all of them, or some, and they weren't in order when the first group went through the promotion. They were called up and kata from the required list were asked of them. They might do 1 or 2 different ones and then sit down while someone else came up and did their's. Then, back up and do more kata. As for the physical requirements, on the run, the ideal is 16min to 16:30. For the push ups and sit ups, there isn't really a minimal number that has been state(100 push ups or you fail!), but if your not putting out maximum effort, your not going to make it. Anyone who hasn't hit 75 or better push ups or set ups in their first round isn't going to make it though. Not with the effort required. Random sets of push ups and sit ups are sprinkled throughout the testing. There is sparring, and grappling and mixed rounds as well. On paper it's 5, 3min rounds of each. In practice you get about 4+ rounds with the instructors and other students that go until you can't continue due to exhaustion and/or being hit. Contact was "medium to hard" with bells rung all around, both in those testing and those being tested. One poor guy got asked if a raccoon taught him to block, with both eyes blacked.

According to postings on mmaweekly, Randy Couture will face Brock Lesnar on November 15. It will be a 5 round fight, which implies that the title is on the line. Okay, where the heck did this come from? Lesnar a title match? I know Nog and Mir are tied up with their schedualed bout, but what? 2-1 record and fighting for a belt? Now, how do you think it will go down? Does Randy have to game plan to beat that big a man? Is there still enough magic left for Captain America to pull off a win one more time?

At a certain point it's about surviving and pushing through with will and spirit. There are enough short breaks to push through and give a chance to suck down some air. But, a lot of it means being in shape. The head instructor wants a ceratin level of physical ability and a lot of technical ability. So, the instructor we're with sets a high standard. The standards are set by the dojo instructor, I got some imput as well. We based it off for what was requred from us, what we thought was needed, and the level of technical ability we felt a black belt should encompass. Just because the shodan isn't the be-all, end-all doesn't mean it shouldn't be a solid fighter and a good practitioner.

For us, and I have to try to keep previous requirements seperate from newer ones now inplace. 2 basic kata 4 Heian, 1 Pinan kata 2 Tikki, 1 Nihanchi Passi and one other kata{swear I cannot remember) timed 2 mile run. 2 3min rounds each of push ups and set ups(1 of each before and after the run is how I think we're keeping it) Preform all self defense techniques in a rote manner, with extensions. Preform self defense spontainously against randoms attacks. Demonstrate the basic throws and joint manipulations both seperately and as part of the spontainous self defense. Use of Basic submissions, tack downs and take down defense. Period of drilling the basics to demonstrate seperate technique,{an hours worth} Several rounds of grappling. Stand up sparring and then full range rounds as well. Usually done at the end when everyone is good and...warmed up(tired) and lose(barely able to hold up their hands). A period of teaching by one of the testing instructors was added into this mix as well to gauge ability to absorb and communicate techniques with each other. Last a couple of hours of throwing,getting thrown, twisting and hitting and getting hit. Good fun day of work. The 1st Kyu and black belt tests were very close in set up. The content was about the same. The intensity and scope, as well as some new material, was required for the black belt though.

I would go with many of the others that say that life just happens to the biggest number. When your young and can still train all the time, getting to black belt isn't that hard, commitment wise. Later though, when you've got a job, one that has to pay real bills, and a family that needs your time, it's very hand to stay in. A lot of people aren't really the ones to quit if they still could give it all the time they wanted to in order to keep training. They just get to the point in life where they get less and less time to keep up and they get discuraged. They drop out because they don't feel like they have time to keep up. Others get to black belt and then their school fails them. They have a clear cut path to get to shodan. Once there though, the curiculm isn't laid out in a nice, neat line for them to follow. So, the instructor, not having taught many past the level of black belt, flounders in the effort to find what to teach them and they get bored, frustrated or disappointed and quit.

I've seen ridge hands swell a good mouse on the corner of someone's eye a couple of different times. I cut the same attack to the side of the neck, which can produce a heavy stun, as your talking about. The good thing about it is that the ridge hand, if you miss, either catches the frontal area of the throat or your get the inner edge of the forarm into the side of the neck. The built in safety of distance is a good thing. Downward ridge hands are usually meant to show a motion used for throwing. Think of a left straight/jab coming at you. A parry and 45deg. step to put the punch past your left shoulder and bring that downard ridge hand up and then down in a tight ark. That ridge hand passes over the back a bit, the forarm catches the side of the neck as you tourque the hips toward the right and you get your throw. If you miss it, pivot on the left foot and bring the right hand up to clasp the left as you step belly to back with the attacker and you have a nice choke. The ridge hand has it's uses, like a lot of the other less used hand techniques. But, they are not a one size fits all tool.

You get into some pretty tricky territory there when splitting that hair. SD should be focused on survival above all else. When I think of it, fighting means I want to win. While sometimes lining up, they don't always. Some conflicts you go into with survival in mind, you have to 'win' in order to come out of with as little physical damage as possible. Some conflicts you go into to win and to do that you have to survive longer than the other guy(s). Mind set or intent plays more of a function I suppose? Even when you think of SD as something your forced into and fighting is something you chose to do, it comes down to mindset. I'm conflicted and could ramble at length about this. Heck, I'm certain I have done so RL in the past.

think anyone who's been to more than one tourney has seen politics/judge's bias in action. I had two bad cases hit me about...-thinks- 10 years back? One, a striking tourney where forearms were apparntly legal scoring targets in my first match. Then, as a 1st kyu in the same tourney, where the brown belts were thrown in the the black belts, I fought the lead student from the host school. the guy was a 2nd dan and after three solid front and side kicks to the midsection as he charged in I couldn't score. With chest protectors on, he was stopped dead in his tracks each time. I got warned for unsportsman like conduct when he charged in, I side stepped and side kicked him in the kidney hard enough to put him on his face. That was when i stopped, took out my mouth piece and asked if that was a point. The people there cheered, the judge gave me a penalty point. The other was a USJJA tourney in the grappling section. I kept my brown belt on, the rest of the field went and put on white belts. I got asked by the judge seperating the weight classes how I was a beginning grappler with a brown belt. I told him I didn't train in a grappling style. He, with a very cocky tone, asked just what that style was. My response, "Good old fashioned, stand up Shorin Ryu." The same guy was asking people their weights and he told three guys, that he called by name, that they had surely dropped the 5 or 6 pounds that put them in the next weight class up, that they would be in the lower class. So, yeah, it happens, reguardless of style, tourney or format. Sad really. Some set ups though, help keep more of it out of the mix. Dropping high and low scores in forms etc.

I could say that it was an adiction, because it certainly is. The cool factor helped start me out. It put me in the dojo on that first day. After that though it was the challenge. I've enjoyed hard work and discpline all my life. Martial arts put that there in front of me as well as the intellectual challenge of streatching my mind around the techniques that I was working with. In addition I think I like the push physically. That getting in there and mixing it up is a personal challenge. It's not competition in the direct sense, but gy God, I'm not going to give in, quit or back off just because I'm tired, hurt or over matched. Because of that I know I've got to train harder, think a little more and work on getting my technique a little bit cleaner than they were the day before. So...I can't quit training. Sure, I may never put them to use in a real life situation, though I did apply a few things once or twice at my last job, but like others, it's better to have and not need than need and not have. I also enjoy the honesty and commardery of the training. I've got a great bunch to work with, skill, hard working and without the sense to quit. I was talking with one of the guys I train with after a work out. What came out of the conversation was that you really, really get to know the people you fight and train with. Think of the tea house fight in the second Matrix movie. you never truely know a man until you've fought him. Train hard enough and long enough and your in the same boat. The person your assured to get to know is yourself.

That would be Matsumura that has the strongest ties to White Crane Bushido_man. Wanshu, Chinto and several other kata have a heavy Chinese influence. Roys15, by most closely resembles, do you mean in appearance or in concepts/application? After that you get into the differences between real Japanese karate and Okinawan systems. So are you looking for the Chinese style that most "looks" like the Japanese style your doing. Or the Chinese style that most influenced the founder of the Japanese style or it's kata? What style are you training in right now to give everyone a better idea of where to start?

I think your lening from the first day of class. But, like many others, I think your learning from the level of black belt on as well. It's not that you just 'have the basics down'. It's that yourhave enough of a base to pick what you want to delve into. After you've hit shodan, you can really start to personalize your art. Yes, your doing this before as well, but you still have to stick more with seeing how things work from a straight up, by the book application first. If you don't, your likely to miss something. Sort of like ignoring everything past the fifth page in your science text just beause you've figured out how to balance a chemical equazion{man I can't spell today}. The level of a learning past shodan is just as steep, sometimes steeper, by your own doing, than it was getting there. But, a great deal of that comes from your own wish to really dig into things. At white belt, you learn ho to throw a reverse punch. By green{mid-grade for whatever it is}, you know how to start putting hip rotation in. At brown your gripping the ground with your toes and dropping the shoulder a bit to set the body into place. At black, your seeing ways to cut down on the time/distance of the hip rotation and still have it in place and still link the rest of the body with the punch. 2nd dan+ your looking at ways to set the hand into the target and create openings so you can really apply that power you spent all that time developing.

In the same way that you can have say, a military historian who has never served in the military, I think you could have an expert who isn't a practitioner. People with plenty of knowledge in style histories, life stories of masters and lineages are great to have on hand. Those with a lot of knowledge of what tactics were supposed to be employed are nice to have on hand.

No, it's not true. Though no matter how hard people try to put this one down, it just won't die. Now, if things to to trial for an assault charge against you, then a smart defense lawyer will try to use your training background against you. You're likely to be painted as some sort of cross between Bruce Lee and a crazed killer out of a C grade action movie. So, to recap. Dan grade recorded at home dojo=/= more jail time for assault or higher charges. Sneaky lawyer + your training =Him making your look like a violent, highly trained sociopath looking for an escuse.

I'm going to play a bit of devil's advocate here and go on an old school end of things that isn't so popular anymore. So, with that disclaimer out there. Why should you tolerate someone running their mouth if it comes to threats of violence or abusive language? Why should you tolerate them more when they are threatening your friend, yourself or say a wife/significant other? Do you have to wait for them to take the first swing before you can take action? There reaches a point where verbal threats an assualts are enough justification to act when paired with threatening posture and agressive behavior. If you wait for that first attack, the other person is already taking all of the advantage to their favor. They know when the attack is coming, how it's coming and where it's going. You don't get to know any of them. And no matter how much you've trained, your reaction starts out a half step behind their action. That significantly increases the chance that your going to get clocked. While as an outside observer you may think they could have just blown it off, you may not have the whole picture and their action may have been the best they could take under the circumstances. It's pretty danged easy to play Monday morning quarterback for any fight, self defense situation, conflict. So, do you really know if they could walk away? Do you know if they had the full clarity at the point of the fight to know that that was their option? To paraphrase something often said, a lot is lost in the fog of conflict. Now why don't they call the police if they are in the right? A lot of times involving the police, even if you are 'justified' is not going to help you, or anyone else out a great deal. We'll skip over how it will eat up your time and money if you end up in court over anything. There is the chance that the person being the idiot, and needing action taken agaisnt them, has more buddies present and when the cops show up to take satements, a half dozen people are telling them you sucker punched that one guy who was just minding his own business. The people who weren't paying too much attention to the loudmouthed idiot and didn't hear him threaten you repeatedly or see him getting in your face and trying to back you into a corner just saw him stagger back and maybe saw the second follow up punch. Suddenly, your the bad guy, your the one going to jail. Or, everyone goes to jail. Your the average joe, you just wanted to go out somewhere and relax. This other guy started running his mouth. Now your both sitting in jail, and you could lose your job, pay fines etc. Now, having plaid the devil's advocate, I'll throw out something else to chew on. How many people run their mouths. Make threats and puff out their chests and make threats precisely because they are sure no one is going to do anything to them about it? No one is going to say anything to them or do anything about their agressive posturing. That they may be able to get away with slapping someone around or shoving people around without the threat of concequence. As they say, for evil(or agression/disrespect) to prevail, all that has to happen is for good men(or women) to stand by and do nothing. Now, I'll step back and wait on the fur to fly.

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