martial arts and life..

[hand2handCombat]

i found myself using ma everywhere i go and in everything i do. today i was playin basketball, and one of my friends was posting up on me, i found myself choking him.

another time, in the shower, the shampoo fell and i threw a push kick at it.


can u guys relate?

[fissure]

today i was playin basketball, and one of my friends was posting up on me, i found myself choking him.

can u guys relate?
NO!

[artful dodger]

Originally posted by hand2handCombat

i found myself using ma everywhere i go and in everything i do. today i was playin basketball, and one of my friends was posting up on me, i found myself choking him.

another time, in the shower, the shampoo fell and i threw a push kick at it.


can u guys relate?

Yeah, I can relate although I probably didn't need the visual.

[Bob Hubbard]

Heh....

I've done tai-chi in the mall while waiting for my GF to get done shopping....ya get funny looks. :)

(probably the funniest from those who know what I'm doing, but are fighting the urge to 'fix' my technique.) :D

Have used finger thrusts to open boxes, kicks to close car doors, a roof-block to deflect a falling cardboard box...

Sometimes instinct kicks in.

[GouRonin]

Originally posted by hand2handCombat
can u guys relate?

No. You're just a freak. Sorry about your luck.
:shrug:

[hand2handCombat]

im a freak? u didnt have to respond to the post.


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[Wertle]

I've found practicing breakfalls particularly useful, especially when tripping in the hall with an arm full of books, and rolling out of it to rescue my face. Then walking on like nothing ever happened in the first place ¬_¬

[fissure]

I've done tai-chi in the mall while waiting for my GF to get done shopping....ya get funny looks.
Tech. practice in everyday life ,I understand.Choking our my friends for no reason?That the part I (and apparently GouRonin) don't get!

[Hansson]

Originally posted by hand2handCombat


another time, in the shower, the shampoo fell and i threw a push kick at it.


can u guys relate?

Well, just don't use your mad grappling skills when your buddy drops the schampoo in the shower.:eek:

[GouRonin]

Originally posted by Hansson
Well, just don't use your mad grappling skills when your buddy drops the schampoo in the shower.:eek:

Dood...you are officially the KING OF THE DISCUSSION BOARD today. I laughed so hard I actually fell off my chair. KUDOS!
:D

[GouRonin]

Originally posted by fissure
Tech. practice in everyday life ,I understand.Choking our my friends for no reason?That the part I (and apparently GouRonin) don't get!

Well, if I am attacked by shampoo bottles in my shower I hope he'll accept my call because I won't know what to do.
:rolleyes:

Anyway, I was joking. I have no clue if you're a freak or not. How many toes do you have?
:confused:

[Nightingale]

Hmmm..... I had someone accidentally push me down a flight of stairs in city hall. I tucked, rolled, and landed on my feet in a neutral bow stance. The guy's mouth was hanging open. I just kind of shrugged, picked up my briefcase, and walked away. I was heading downstairs anyway. (and if I had to repeat that feat, i'd probably fall flat on my face. it was mostly luck.)

[Kenpo Wolf]

Originally posted by hand2handCombat

i found myself using ma everywhere i go and in everything i do. today i was playin basketball, and one of my friends was posting up on me, i found myself choking him.



If you mean that you were checked a little too hard in the game and lost your temper enough to get violent with a friend, I seriously think you need some kind of help. This has happened to me in basketball as well as football, and I just shined it on rather then retaliate with violence which is a very immature thing to do.

[Master of Blades]

I do find myself practicing in front of the mirror and practicing angles and strikes with knifes and pencils. But choking my freinds playing basketball............not unless its MY rules :D

[7starmantis]

Um...yah, I would say choking my friend would result in him not being my friend anymore. Instinct like catching your car door with a shin kick before it hits the car next to you, or catching the glass vase with your push kick before it hits the floor, are one thing. But loosing control and chocking someone would not quite fit into the instinct category, that would be controling anger, and you would need to get a handle on it, before it ruins you.


7sm

[fissure]

But loosing control and chocking someone would not quite fit into the instinct category, that would be controling anger, and you would need to get a handle on it, before it ruins you.
My sentiments exactly!

[hand2handCombat]

i didnt really choke him, i didnt even get mad. how it happend: he was dribblin face to face with me, then he tured around and posted up, pushing his back on me, i fell back a little and grabbed his neck and choked him for a split second and let go.

[KennethKu]

He could have knelt you in the groin :D

[7starmantis]

Ah, cool, I hear ya. Its funny, I find myself, most the time when my hands are full, useing kicks and blance to do various things! I'll close the refigerator with a reverse kick while getting a plate out of the top cubbard. weird stuff like that!


7sm

[fissure]

i didnt really choke him, i didnt even get mad. how it happend: he was dribblin face to face with me, then he tured around and posted up, pushing his back on me, i fell back a little and grabbed his neck and choked him for a split second and let go.
You should have stated it this way to begin with - it would have saved you from a lot of flack!
Sounds like you lost your balance and instinctively grabbed something ( his neck!) to regain it.
Thats a whole different scenario!:EG:

[hand2handCombat]

its not a different scenario, i didnt loose my balance, just got pushed back and inch or two

[7starmantis]

Originally posted by hand2handCombat

its not a different scenario, i didnt loose my balance, just got pushed back and inch or two

This is begining to sound strange now! Lets try to keep on topic.

[fissure]

its not a different scenario, i didnt loose my balance, just got pushed back and inch or two
O.K. its not a different scenario. In that case 7starmantis' comment stands and you should get help for your mental lapses that cause you to choke people out of the blue.

hand2handCombat :
i fell back a little
Its usually hard to 'fall' without losing one's balance.

Maybe you should learn to accept people's willingness to let you out of the holes that you seem to like digging for yourself.

[GouRonin]

I might need him in case my shampoo bottles attack me in my shower!
:rofl:

[Damian Mavis]

OMG I totally relate to you hand2hand! Sometimes, when my cat walks in front of me all purring and being annoying and stuff, I get into a low ninja stance... do a forward shoulder roll and spring up as fast as I can while screaming at the top of my lungs and kicking her using a cross between a front snap and a round kick with the top of my foot sending her about 15 feet. Its times like that I realise i'm really good at martial arts.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[Bob Hubbard]

Does the cat get into a 'cat stance'?

:rofl: I'm sorry...I couldn't resist...

[Deathtrap101]

OMG I totally relate to you hand2hand! Sometimes, when my cat walks in front of me all purring and being annoying and stuff, I get into a low ninja stance... do a forward shoulder roll and spring up as fast as I can while screaming at the top of my lungs and kicking her using a cross between a front snap and a round kick with the top of my foot sending her about 15 feet. Its times like that I realise i'm really good at martial arts.

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



Does the cat get into a 'cat stance'?

That wasnt funny.........cats are always in a cat stance

[Nightingale]

poor kitty.

I really hope you're not sending her flying 15 feet like you posted. Cats, although they may appear quite agile, are very fragile.

[7starmantis]

HAHA, you know what I just realized that I do! I was outside the other day at the gardens here in town, and this bee began swarming around my head and all. I immediatly went into "MA Mode" and pull of a great hammer fist crushing block, knocking the bee down towards the ground, and pulled off a great snap kick ending this bee's reign on terror on me! Then I was like all embarrased looking around hoping no one saw me spar the bee! :rofl: My wife was like, "honey, the bee doesn't know Kung Fu, go easy on him!".


7sm

[Damian Mavis]

omg, Nightingale go read some of my posts...... do you really think I ninja'd that cat?

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[Nightingale]

was hoping not....

[KennethKu]

Whew, I am glad Mr Mavis cleared that up :D I started to like the guy and then I was ticked off after reading that BS post :mad: lol Any one who hurts animals, I would split his skull with a crowbar. Code of honor among MA be damned. :D

[Damian Mavis]

for the love of god guys... cmon... how could you not sense the blatant sarcasm and humor! Damnit I'm not as funny as I thought argh. I was trying to write it like a 14 year old boy would.... I thought I was dead on! ah well, I was just poking fun at all the silly questions the younger guys seem to ask these days like "who would win a fight? Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?"

You guys have ruined my self esteem as a comedian....you suck.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[MartialArtist]

Well, I do wierd drills using everything. I used an office chair, my desk, and a medicine ball to using dog chains.

[GouRonin]

Originally posted by Damian Mavis
for the love of god guys... cmon... how could you not sense the blatant sarcasm and humor! Damnit I'm not as funny as I thought argh. I was trying to write it like a 14 year old boy would.... I thought I was dead on! ah well, I was just poking fun at all the silly questions the younger guys seem to ask these days like "who would win a fight? Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?"You guys have ruined my self esteem as a comedian....you suck.

Dood! I thought it was funny and I got the joke. Probably because I'm not terrified like most sheeple are of being seen as Anti-Politically-Correct, and also I think that most cats need a boot in the @ss.

Ha ha ha!

[Bod]

Damian I am so disappointed.

I knew you were probably joking but secretly I hoped the story was true.

I hate cats.

Especially Persians and Siamese and other Poodle-cats.

[Damian Mavis]

Thanks guys, er... at least Gou....Bod, your one sick Mo fa'ka. Stay away from kittens uhmkay!

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[KennethKu]

Originally posted by Damian Mavis

for the love of god guys... cmon... how could you not sense the blatant sarcasm and humor! Damnit I'm not as funny as I thought argh. I was trying to write it like a 14 year old boy would.... I thought I was dead on! ah well, I was just poking fun at all the silly questions the younger guys seem to ask these days like "who would win a fight? Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?"

You guys have ruined my self esteem as a comedian....you suck.

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

LMAO :D Hey, we still think you are cool lol

[theneuhauser]

but in all seriousness,
cats suck

dogs rule

[Nightingale]

my cat is a master of kit-kat-do... and he heard you say that!


my neighbor's dog (a 120 lb white lab) took one look at my cat, whimpered, and high-tailed it out the dog door in sheer fright.

[Deathtrap101]

"who would win a fight? Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny?"

Thats a good question....

[Kenpo Wolf]

I have a cat who's a real psycho. He often lays between the front room and the kitchen and when I try to raid the refrigerator at night, he attacks my leg. My wife tell me that she trained him to guard it and help me stay on my diet. Funny thing is that I never see him attack her:)

[MinnieMin]

Originally posted by hand2handCombat


another time, in the shower, the shampoo fell and i threw a push kick at it.


What's push kick?
I asked a guy, who is blue belt in our Kenpo class, also was black belt in TKD, to show me push kick yesterday at the class, but he said that he never heard of such kick.
I can kind of imagine that kick, but it seems need a little bigger space than a shower. Would you or someone else out there describe it for me please?
Thanks :asian:

Min
UKS

[7starmantis]

A push kick as I know it is basically whne you pull up your knee to your chest, and kick straight out with your heel while the foot is pointing straight up. Thats the technique behind it at least. Does that makes sense? I could show you easyier than explain it! :)


7sm

[MinnieMin]

Originally posted by 7starmantis

A push kick as I know it is basically whne you pull up your knee to your chest, and kick straight out with your heel while the foot is pointing straight up. Thats the technique behind it at least. Does that makes sense? I could show you easyier than explain it! :)


7sm

Yeah, I can visualize the technique very well, but it will be even nicer that you would show me in person. :wink:
*sigh*, wish I could do it. :D
Thank you for your response. :asian:



Min
-UKS

[7starmantis]

I don't know how many styles use the push kick, but it can come in handy. He may have been refereing to a deifferent kick, but in Kung Fu thats the push kick we use.


7sm

[MinnieMin]

Yeah, I believe this push kick being used in many styles; I think I saw this kind of posture in Chinese Gong Fu also, but just don't know what's others function for, except catching a soap in a shower? :rofl:
In what situation this technique will be used in handy?

Min

[7starmantis]

Originally posted by MinnieMin

Yeah, I believe this push kick being used in many styles; I think I saw this kind of posture in Chinese Gong Fu also, but just don't know what's others function for, except catching a soap in a shower? :rofl:
In what situation this technique will be used in handy?

Min

Well in the mantis system we use it for very powerful "soft spot" kicks. Most of our techniques are performed in a small space. We use the example of fighting in an elevator. The puch kick allows for a powerful kick at very short range. Its also good for controling kicks as well.


7sm

[MinnieMin]

Originally posted by 7starmantis



Well in the mantis system we use it for very powerful "soft spot" kicks. Most of our techniques are performed in a small space. We use the example of fighting in an elevator. The puch kick allows for a powerful kick at very short range. Its also good for controling kicks as well.


7sm

It is a very powerful kick! I hope I can do it in the future.
Thanks again, 7sm. :asian:

Min

[Zenmaster]

I work on the 11th floor and practice techniques in the elevator going up or down if no one is riding it with me.

[Nightingale]

hehe. I do the same. We must be an endless source of amusement for the guys that monitor the security cams.

[Bod]

I work on the 11th floor and practice techniques in the elevator going up or down if no one is riding it with me.

Surely it's more fun if there are other people in the elevator?:D

[GouRonin]

Sometimes when I get off the elevator as I am leaving I will press all the floor buttons just to piss people off if it's crowded and no one wants to be nice and make room.

But I never fart and leave. That's just wrong.

[Kirk]

Originally posted by GouRonin

But I never fart and leave. That's just wrong.


Some people have on appreciation for TRUE comedy! :mad:

[fist of fury]

here's a few things I like to do in an elevator:

Grimace painfully while smacking my forehead and muttering: "Shut up, all of you just shut UP!"

Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"

Stare at your thumb and say "I think it's getting larger."

[Damian Mavis]

omg

Damian Mavis
Honour TKD

[J-kid]

:confused: :soapbox: :shrug: :D

[Master of Blades]

Thats kinda funny................

[Kenpo Wolf]

Originally posted by fist of fury


Grimace painfully while smacking my forehead and muttering: "Shut up, all of you just shut UP!"


LMAO!!!! I have to remember that one. Sometimes when I'm in a elevator, I like to do the zombie thing. For those who don't know what I mean, get as close to the door and act like you are trying to claw your way out while
making a zombie faces. One time, me and several of my friends did this at the same time and got some hilarious reactions.