I use a 65cm gym ball as my weights "bench" for such things... though that's with dumbells - I don't think I'd like to try it with a bar.
Right moments turn up by themselves very seldom. You have to make them.
Karate (Seido): White, Blue, Yellow, Green, Brown, Black Karate (Seidokan): White, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black Ju Jitsu...
I always tend to think of green as the "properly starting to get somewhere belt".
Looks like I'm the first one in Spain ... though apparently Oviedo (210,000 people) and Gijon (250,000 people) are both invalid, so I had to enter...
Anyone here experimented with a stability ball for dumbbell workouts ... they're meant to be good for building up your core/supporting muscles. I...
I'm curious ... don't you find that your time is spread too thinly to do all of the styles justice? Or perhaps you just have more free time than...
In ten weeks (30 hours of training), you won't build up the reactions needed to use these techniques effectively. So, why try? (unless you want...
What for you are your best techniques for Street based self defence. This is different from sparring and which you like best but what do you feel...
I think in terms of self defence, their main advantages are 1) psychological ... if you are up against a group and you do manage to take out...
There's also western fencing ... up to you if you class that as a martial art, or solely a sport.
jimorthon --> huh? Roadkill = Labyrinth Damn, beaten to it... OK... Latter Days = Superman
Increasingly, people will take up épée without training foil first (although I've fenced épée 12 years, and did do a year on foil before that)....
I don't really know Kung Fu, but of those the best self-defence/fighting styles are probably Muay Thai and Boxing - though of the list I'd most...
You don't say what your intention is ... do you want to improve your self-defence / general fighting abilities, have a more rounded physical...
A Target is a type of shield. IIRC it's a large round shield, as opposed to the buckler which is a small round shield. The bills and hooks are...
Some fuel for debate; 2003 figures for net contributions to the EU in Euros per capita UK: 46.6 France: 32.1 UK unfairly paying too much?...
I'm assuming he's quoting from Silver's Paradoxes of Defence which, as it was published in 1599, should be out of copyright by now :-p
Western Broadsword? These guys run seminars (or regular classes in London, but that's not much use in Derbyshire)....
I think in Scotland, they would have returned the verdict "Not proven"...
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