Oh, now I see where you are coming from. You are talking about ballet. You'd like to take the entire point out of this, and pretend you live in nerf world, where everyone is happy and no-one ...
First, the obvious, Aikido is Japanese and Hapkido is Korean. Aikido contains a small number of strikes that are used for distraction mostly. Hapkido contains many strikes/kicks that are techniques ...
Do whatever you have to do to get an edge and don't listen to any immature responses. There is a reason boxers wear boxing gloves. It isn't so that they won't injure the opponent, but ...
Hitting with the palms *is* hitting. The palms are better padded than the knuckles, they are more reisitant to things that would break the fist (elbow blocks) and they are more flexable in their ...
I met an instructor who had black belts in so many arts it was hard to remember. He was black in This-Judo, That-Judo, This-Jujitsu, That-jujitsu, This-Karate, That-Karate, and alot more Karate. How ...
... st got back from teaching Jujitsu in Hawaii at a seminar and we had the mats outside with tarp over head, about 200 feet from the Ocean. The trade winds comming in and was rocking cool stuff.
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Speed? First, yes, challenge your preconceived ideas that you can't have it. The head tells the body what to do. If you don't believe you can, you can't. Speed is not a ...
Intercepting Fist)?
Not really. I'd say the exact opposite. Bruce denounced things like the classical stances in martial arts. Yes, most have no martial relevance. But most have some kind of ...
... ant help but think your trolling around. or you trained aikido with the wrong group and do not know head or tails of chinese boxing.have you seen san shou?thats one style of chinese boxing.
chinese ...
I disagree (big surprise there), IMO a fight on the street has a lot of differences from your training, and training often won't prepare you for a fight against a drunk who's going to keep ...
... tood what I meant. You have a Black Belt in TKD, this is fine. However, in Jujitsu, you go throwing head level spinning kicks and argue that the way you throw a back kick is better tehn the way ...
what's your laundry list for sending someone out in the world? lets say you have a reasonably fit twenty-year old and you want them to stand a fighting chance('surviving' chance?) at ...
Yikes.
As far as I know there is no rule for ear pulling.
It's one of those things where it's NOT what you'd call 'A gentlemans agreement' to be nice, but rather an ...
Hello. I went into training at KIXA 12 years ago, and it was the most intense training I've ever done. I got as far as 1st degree beyond black belt, and progressed several stages in Indonesia.
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The precise origins of panantukan are currently unknown and the throughout the Philippine Islands there is tremendous diversity in technique and name. What is known is that the Filipino art of boxing ...
... ing with the motion of the attacker and redirecting the force of the attack rather than opposing it head-on. This requires very little physical energy, as the aikidÅka leads the attacker's momentum ...
You could always try something like Capoeira - a Brazilian martial art (one of the few (only one ?) surviving western ones).
It's very different from the rigid stances of Karate etc. and ' ...