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| bio | website | techfilth.blogspot.com |
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| location | New Zealand | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 3 months |
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I have been training for the last 20+ years in a Okinawan derived style called Bushin Ryu.
In that time I've also dabbled in some other arts and had the good fortune to train under some excellent people.
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Feb 1 |
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What material should be covered in a rape-defense course? inserted link to referenced post |
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Feb 1 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Jan 29 |
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What material should be covered in a rape-defense course? Sorry @Dave, but it's not a one-in-a-million shot. I've been there, I've been on the receiving end as a training partner, I've taught it - it works beautifully. Of course it shouldn't be the only thing they know and rely on, like any other technique it does have its chances at failure. Your challenge is to teach them simple effective techniques that they will hardly (if ever) practice between the occassional session with you. |
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Jan 29 |
answered | What material should be covered in a rape-defense course? |
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Jan 17 |
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Designs for a Board Breaker / Board Holder? Nice :) From your article: Matching the two sides of a board from a pile of halves can be a challenge - the solution is to break more boards, thus producing more options :) Moar!! |
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Jan 15 |
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Amount of force to do X Good question :) The neck is an interesting one - it is suprisingly hard to break unless you use the exact right angles - then it becomes quite easy. The actual amount of force to break an arbitrary rib would also be influenced by the density of the muscle/fat covering the area. |
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Jan 13 |
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Martial arts with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)? edited tags |
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Jan 12 |
answered | Martial arts with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)? |
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Jan 12 |
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Martial arts with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)? Something I've heard and you may want to look in to is that weaknesses in some of the knee ligaments can be overcome by strengthening the quads (this morsel of goodness comes from rugby players, they are prone to knee ligamnt problems). |
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Jan 12 |
answered | Value in Breaking Boards? |
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Jan 10 |
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Getting Punches in stomach as practice in kick boxing @John Think of it as a drill. When you spar, have you been caught in the stomach area unawares? If not, maybe you only need to do it occassionally now. This sort of drill doesn't build the muscle or increase your physical capacity in any way, it simply trains you to react and fortifies you mentally to tolerate pain and discomfort. Do you think you are ready to move on from it? |
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Jan 9 |
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Getting Punches in stomach as practice in kick boxing I agree. You need to experience pain to learn to conquer it, but there is a limit to how much stomach-beating you need. |
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Jan 9 |
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Is it good to practise punching a wall? No place for punching bag edited body |
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Jan 9 |
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Is it good to practise punching a wall? No place for punching bag added image from link |
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Jan 7 |
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Are handwrappings used only together with boxing gloves? I would suggest that this is because of a crucial difference between boxers/MMA fighters and traditional martial artists - while boxers & MMA fighters spend a lot of time hitting a bag they don't spend a lot of time conditioning the knuckles like traditionalists do (maybe some of the old school MMA fighters do, but only because they come from a traditional background). |
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Jan 7 |
awarded | Fanatic |
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Dec 31 |
answered | Is it good to practise punching a wall? No place for punching bag |
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Dec 28 |
answered | How to get rid of fear of fighting |
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Dec 5 |
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Injury during training session, after 2 months still feel the pain You haven't described the pain. |
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Nov 27 |
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What universal structures or recommendations are in place for TKD advancement for children? @balancedmama Something to try in this case is to shop around (if you have other arts around). Different instructors/schools will run things differently and your daughter's skills will be at least partly transferrable (i.e. she will start from the bottom again but will pick up the new art quickly). Cross training is generally an excellent way to build out your martial skills and you'll get to sample the new crowd/environment. |
