Full contact can be either strikes, grappling, or mixed, at whatever contact level (light, hard, medium, etc.), but in full contact you must make...
Have a classmate in the same dojo as me, and about 4 more in my school (in different grades altogether). We normally don't talk about the actual...
Then sorry for taking it too seriously.
What SSB said, and you can also count on both hands how many times they worked succesfully. Nobody said it doesn't work if trained properly, but...
As a teenager, I also think it's kinda sad that others my age and even adults are still in their fantasies that some of the spinning back kicks...
FC is the best way to go to prepare for a real fight, because I think (one of the main reasons), you learn how to put power into your strikes and...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VbrYiy3Xe_A Old video but still serves its purpose. You can just see how the two people (and forget about styles)...
All dead horses, Hiroji :\... but I can't think of many general MA discussions that haven't been talked to death. Pros: Everything. Cons:...
And grappling. I think it's better that any questions asked about striking and clinching from now be locked and replied with a "learn Muay...
The pub brawl is obviously a real fight, but we're talking a full contact match, the most reasonable and logical way to prepare for an actual fight.
Again, just don't call it a martial art. Call if a sport or something, but if you do that and call yourself a MAist, you're giving the rest of us...
Power and proper technique over speed any day of the week. Speed really is important, but definetly not as much as making one, two or three good...
It's not that they're wannabes, they may be well aware that point fighting isn't fighting. It's just that IMO it shouldn't be branded as martial arts.
In general, do not drop hands to meet any kind of high kick. For a roundhouse, try to step into the kick or out of it and block with both hands....
How can you do a knee going from down to up (none of the straight or downward variations) on a heavy bag, at full speed, WITHOUT scraping your knees?
Was rooting for Silva :<. Still IMO the best striker in MMA. Better luck next time.
I think eventually if this mindset spreads, we'll have more or less one way of fighting. I'm pretty pleased to see that the majority of people...
I was jk :P you need to take things more lightly ;)
No need to get racist...
I'll probably be discussing the last day on message boards :<
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