Yes, I agree completely. The trick is to maintain the connection between the drills / kata / forms and combat. If you are studying an art that...
This is why I suggested that the TMA folks work to understand how their drill relates to fighting. And I admit that many people who do TMA, don't...
I never once said that they use an imaginary ball or net. They used a real ball and real net... but we practiced shots from all over, not just the...
I wasn't thinking about team kata... I was more thinking that sometimes its not the punch you need to correct, but the set up before the punch or...
I played a lot of soccer, both for fun and competitively before starting martial arts. I was reading another thread here on language and martial...
Nope... thats why I do foot sweeps... I need the clearance.
This is incorrect. Even Shotokan is full of close range punching and other nastiness. Funakoshi, the founder of the system taught the down block...
Boxing is just as reliant on footwork as karate is. All martial arts rely on their footwork, though their footwork may be different.
If Mr Wallace and you were offering lessons in kicking... I would pay good money to take lessons with one of the two... but since we are not...
I agree. This is why I feel it is important to teach the person being thrown to tuck his chin and take the high back fall correctly. Teaching him...
As a follow up... Judo version of the first throw: [MEDIA] Danzan Ryu version of the second throw: (actually a few variations starting at 2:05)...
Neither of those two throws fit that category. Both are regularly trained by Judo and Jujitsu. I find it more concerning that the person taking...
Just think how much better of a martial artist he would have been, had you been there to instruct him in the proper way to kick... I can't believe...
Wow! The difference in my kicks is huge now. I stopped turtling my back and I am visualizing a good blue print... it even cleaned up my footwork....
Excellent! I will work on that right away. What about my footwork? How do I make my footwork as clean as yours?
Why not teach him to take the fall and then finish the throw? They do that in Judo... with that throw. As it is, the guy being thrown is...
You are right. That kick is perfect. Wow... I wish I could kick like that. Can you teach me to kick like that?
The same way everyone else does... Get into professional fighting athlete shape. Identify the sport you want to compete in. Learn the rules....
This would be the definition of an assumption.
Why is it okay for BJJ and MMA to have choreographed drills that they can use to ramp up the resistance with, until they are rolling / sparring /...
We get it. Aikido is the worst possible martial art to study and should be obliterated and removed from history... The whole point of the...
Its a translation error. The word is "uke." In Karate, uke refers to blocking because of a mistranslation or misunderstanding. In Judo or Jujitsu...
Are MMA eye pokes more effective than karate eye pokes? Really, these cases are just bad luck... no one was attempting to poke the eye, they...
The "Aiki Trap" is not a general strategy or a thing used in MA. It is a term that Tony came up with to describe what happens to people who train...
I have a different take on the "Aiki trap" as you call it. My take on the Aiki Trap, is thinking that Aikido is about the techniques. Aikido is...
[MEDIA] A good eye poke, seems to be very effective, if you can get it in. These are professional MMA fighters being eye poked... some of these...
Its a bad habit with a rationalization. To do a proper hip throw, especially in demo / static form, the thrower should have his hips below the...
Do these. Actually, go back and re-read these posts and try them. I have an "advantage" I have a very hard time memorizing sequences. So, when I...
Thats the point though. You can retract or return your leg either before you make contact, as you make contact or after you have delivered the...
Not sure I could even do a spin back hook kick... but I do retract my foot sweeps. Once I have swept the foot, delivered the power, I retract my...
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