Then i realized that he had never before grappled or done martial arts in his life. So i felt really like #####, and missed an opporunity to let that man grow and to isolate my own skill set and fight from a bad position. I apologized to him afterward, he really didn't mind. If he had a belt or no ...

Everything has critics.. There are folks who criticize some boxing training.. Every art that I know of has folks punching air at some point.. My answer for this theme is as follows: When you strike you will either hit air or hit an object... So we train it both ways.... This also allows one to culti...

Or why I love Weimaraners ... (They have a special kind of human awareness intelligence) Warning: Gratuitous dog post.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDRYp3qbh3Y And if you need more coaxing to go out and get some exercise.. They're like the terminator of going outside.... Bob will not stop until y...

It's an odd phenomenon where if you hit the jaw, the back of the brain bounces off the back of the skull. It's as if there was a direct hit right on the brain from behind. Perhaps this explains the dynamic of the close range palm strike delivered in an upward path under the chin and driven through ...

I'm not sure you know what you think I think you aren't referring to or thinking Mike... ;) :lol: I just don't see it as having to be either or.. So yes total commitment in ALL our attacks. Or if you want you can think of a total offensive as multiple attacks that are strung together.. Isn't (an att...

That sounds like 'kata punctuation' to me.... Chun training is very much about continuity, it's one of the biggest elements really. We say, face and follow, it's such a big part of the training that I have a hard time with the idea of singularity in attacking mindset... The Chinese don't even like t...

When I was taught Matsubayshi Ryu, focus and commitment were always a given. These strikes that you might identify with Ikken Hissatsu were special. There was total commitment, yes, but also no sense of follow-up with another attack "just in case". Which or what kinds of moves? And how wa...

lol and you think that linear style of pulled punching would win in a ufc contest You saw the clip Mike posted of the guys doing full contact? Where more than a couple got KO'd, yes? No pulling anything there, and yes I've seen instant KOs using similar moves in NHB events... I've also sparred some...

I certainly don't dispute that a single shot can KO...

In Chun Ikken Hissatsu might well traslate as Jeet Kune, the ideal in expression.. But continuity of attack takes precedence most of the time.

But I do see Ikken Hissatsu as more a total commitment in attack mindset.

There's that "Ikken Hissatsu" thing again... IMO this has little to do with killing folks with one punch... No one ever thought that one punch or more accurately one single attacking action must be, will be or should be enough.. Rather IMO it speaks to a kind of mindset and vicious single ...

Sorry Bill... i didn't say we were all in danger of flooding.. I am not even concerned really at this point beyond the caps melting and changing the flow of the gulf stream...blah, blah... But as far as I know everyone seems to agree SL is rising. I thought you said it wasn't at all.. My mistake... ...

Then just search the web.... Here's about a gazillion graphs all going in the same direction... http://images.google.com/images?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&q=sea%20level%20rise&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi That graphic isn't from the l...

Bill Glasheen wrote: [*] Sea level hasn't been rising.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_sea_level_rise

I can see both sides of this one.. On the one hand I had issues with the content and typically the level of understanding of the content in many schools; but by the same token the 'limited material' can be used to devastating effect as seen in those clips.. Very good clips Mike.. I sure wish the 'Ja...

Probably a fairly large difference in focus of students where I came up in Chun... Traditionally in Hong Kong based styles of the 60s there are no belts in kung-fu, no tests per se either... Everyone is at their own level, you have 'older brothers' and 'younger brothers' or sisters, determined liter...