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Judo vs. Wrestling against heavier, stronger strikers?

May 31, 2016, 10:15 pm
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Robson Moura vs Street Fighter

June 1, 2016, 2:33 am
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What would other martial artists (Karate, Aikido..) be thinking about Jiu-Jitsu when

June 1, 2016, 8:19 am
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http://www.facebook.com/brazilianjiu...4151886176774/

Ok so I stole the title from BJJ Eastern Europe facebook page.
While I lenjoy this sorts of BJJ it to me was a good question.
Of course the tag line with the video
-Jeff Glover Dance-Jitsu! Don't be fooled by his monkeying around. This man is very dangerous!
Is very true
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Sport and steroids

June 1, 2016, 1:51 pm
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Today I woke up with one mind. Is the real to get success in mma or any other sport without steroids?
I think if you want to be successful you need to break the rules and use some cheats.
I'm bodybuilder and mma is just my hobbie. I use anabolics, use some aminoacides, 'cause I wanna be a big guy My first steroid I bought 2 years ago on thepharmacom.com and then I first time visited a mma trainings. I gave a lot of hateful sight on me, when people found that I use anabolics(OMG).
I don't wanna be a professional mma warrior. And what would be your reaction for the sportsmen, who used steroids.
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Jim Shipley at Clermont Family Martial Arts

June 1, 2016, 4:58 pm
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Does anyone have any information on Jim Shipley?

He claims:

My name is Jim Shipley. I am the owner and senior instructor of Clermont Family Martial Arts Center. I am a second Decided black belt in Chung Do Kwon Tae Kwon Do. I also hold belt rank in Ryukyu Kempo and Arnis.

at shipleykarate.com

This guy wont let me see my son workout. I wonder if it has to do with him marrying my ex wife. The ex wife and my agreement allows to do to any extra sport activity but Mr. Shipley will not allow me inside his place. What a class act he is.
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Confessions of a hobbyist black belt

June 1, 2016, 11:03 pm
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Entering tournament last minute, 3 weeks to prepair any tip?

June 2, 2016, 6:19 pm
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I'm entering a country backswording competition in 3 weeks, only found out about it a couple of days ago so wondering if anyone has any advice to help prepare.

For those of you who don't know country backswording is a combat sport where you win by hitting your opponent in the head with a thick hazel stick. Traditionally you won by drawing an inch of blood from your opponent's forehead but in the modern sport you wear a fencing mask and it's generally first to land 3 solid hits.

One of the common strategies is to strike your opponent's arm until they drop their guard before landing a strike to the head. Last time I competed it was a tiny tournament with 4 competitors so I only had to fight twice. I won both fights but ended up with some nasty bruising. This time it'll be considerably larger and I may have to fight 10 times against tougher opponents which is likely to be a lot worse.

Is there any limb conditioning worth doing in this last 3 weeks fully recover in time for the tournament?
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My take on knife tapping

June 3, 2016, 11:40 am
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First let me say that I certainly do not wish to have to do this in the real world. If you find yourself having to do knife tapping, something has gone wrong.

In Pekiti Tirsia, I see knife tapping as our version of Immediate Action Drills (IAD's).

Here is what I mean. Infantryman don't want to have to react to an ambush. But ambushes happen, so they have tactics to deal with them when they do. If the ambush is set up properly, either running away or staying where you are will get you killed. The only things left are to: 1) assault the ambush, get fire superiority, take out the threat, and get out of Dodge before more bad guys come; or, 2) break contact in organized fashion while putting rounds on target. In the infantry and in most special operations units, these drills are practiced over and over again, not because they are complex or because you want to do them, but because if you have to use them in real life then it is a safe bet that things have gone bad. Therefore, you better be able to do your IAD's well, without much conscious thought, and while under very high amounts of stress. If you can't, you're toast, and so is the rest of your unit.

The knife is an ambush weapon. If the person attacking you has set thing up properly, they will have both the range and timing as well as the element of surprise. You can't turn around and run faster than they can attack, and you can't stand there and do nothing. What's left is to attack them, starting with the knife-wielding arm, give 'em "the business", and then get out of there if you can (break contact), or draw your own weapon if you cannot (assault the ambush). Furthermore, knife tapping should not be a passive parry, it should be an attack. You should be trying to punish someone's arm, not just redirect the energy. Just as with the Immediate Action Drills that we talked about above, if you cannot perform this under high levels of stress and without much in the way of conscious thought, you are in trouble, big time. As such, things should be kept simple, particularly for beginners. There are only so many angles that a knife attack can realistically come from anyway. If you want to look good for the 5-o'clock News, the flowery crap can come in after you have hammered their arm, perhaps destroyed the elbow, slammed their face into a corner or a wall, etc.

Anyway, that is what I've got.

Cheers,
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UFC 199: Rockhold vs. Bisping 2

June 3, 2016, 2:27 pm
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UFC 199 PPV Main Card
185 lbs.: UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold vs. Michael Bisping
135 lbs.: UFC Bantamweight Champion Dominick Cruz vs. Urijah Faber
145 lbs.: Max Holloway vs. Ricardo Lamas
185 lbs.: Dan Henderson vs. Hector Lombard
155 lbs.: Bobby Green vs. Dustin Poirier



UFC 199 FOX Sports 1 Undercard
145 lbs.: Cole Miller vs. Alex Caceres
145 lbs.: Clay Guida vs. Brian Ortega
155 lbs.: Beneil Dariush vs. James Vick
115 lbs.: Jessica Penne vs. Jessica Andrade


UFC 199 Fight Pass Undercard
170 lbs.: Tom Breese vs. Sean Strickland
205 lbs.: Luiz Henrique da Silva vs. Jonathan Wilson
185 lbs.: Kevin Casey vs. Elvis Mutapcic
155 lbs.: Dong Hyun Kim (the other one) vs. Marco Polo Reyes
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Muhammad Ali, dead at 74

June 3, 2016, 9:33 pm
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.

RIP Cassius.

One of the all time greats.
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The worst way to lose, also a pretty crummy way to win

June 4, 2016, 9:49 am
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Feeling at odds with some of my classes, would like another perspective

June 4, 2016, 1:19 pm
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Ok, so my gym runs the following classes

Karate (family classes, so mixed age ranges from kids to adults)
Kickboxing (adults only)
MMA (Adults and kids classes seperate, though sometimes merged)

Anyway, Im noticing a pattern that Im becoming dissapointed in some of the classes, particularly the mixed karate ones. We do spar at least weekly, but even the adults completely wimp out and dont want to do it. Theres attitudes of 'Im too old for this,' 'I dont like bruises' 'if we're not learning kata whats the point?' (someone actually said that in class). My sensei is of the opinion that they need to toughen up as senior grades but Im becoming frustrated because non of them actually push me. I get that in the MMA and Kickboxing classes but it's like nobody wants to be able to fight in the other class.

Now, Im enjoying learning Karate and I understand full contact isnt for everyone, but considering my training goals, I could drop a night or two and train harder in the MMA and Kickboxing 3 days a week and put more time into my weightlifting and other training to get stronger.

If given choice, what would you guys do?
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1965 Chinese Military Hand-to-Hand Manual.

June 4, 2016, 2:49 pm
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https://www.scribd.com/doc/314814238...ual-Color-Copy

A full copy of the 1965 People's Liberation Army (PLA) hand-to-hand combat manual. This pre-Cultural Revolution publication reflects much of the Soviet body of training for military personal combat from the 1940s. During the 1940s and early-1950s there was a lot of Soviet investment in training in the Chinese military and security services. Then there was a falling out and a termination of the relationship. In 1966, with the Cultural Revolution, there was a re-emphasis on Chinese Wushu in the PLA. Post-1966 publications reflect this.
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Do you think Kung Fu and other TMA ever "worked?"

June 3, 2016, 5:17 pm
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I'm sure something like this has been asked before, but I thought I'd give it a go, since I've been thinking about it lately. Anyway was watching a UFC documentary the other night and they were talking about how things evolved, and it got me thinking about the general criticism of traditional Kung Fu and other traditional martial arts as not being effective in a real(read: as close to real as the UFC gets) fight situation and it got me wondering if those martial arts were actually effective 100's of years ago or whatever and then got watered down over time? I mean CMA for example has an extensive history. You've got the Shaolin Temple and a ton of different styles over a period of 100's of years, was it all bunk? Or did the lack of use lead the styles to slowly evolve into ineffectiveness?
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Training Options in Tulsa/BA?

June 5, 2016, 9:08 am
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Hello All! New to the site. I've trained in karate for several years but am wanting to learn another art. I'm getting older (just passed the big 4-0) but don't want to stop yet. :-) The two arts that I keep gravitating toward are Krav Maga and Jeet Kune Do. I'm not sure why I'm interested in those but I am. Are there any truly good schools in the Tulsa/Broken Arrow, OK area that teach these arts? I've not been able to find any consistent KM schools and the only JKD school that I've been able to find is seemingly a "bad choice" based on a very long forum thread found on this site. I'm not mentioning any names and trying not to be negative because I don't want to get a nasty form letter..... ;-)

Thanks for any advice and if this is in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it.
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Farewell to Ken Pfrenger

June 6, 2016, 2:52 pm
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The international HEMA community mourns the recent and untimely passing of Ken Pfrenger; musician, raconteur, family man and modern pioneer of 19th century martial arts revivalism.

With a background in Muay Thai, Jeet Kune Do Concepts and Filipino martial arts, Ken’s strong interest in Celtic fighting styles prompted him to start the Western Arts forum in 1998. Western Arts became a key online meeting place for many others who shared Ken’s fascination with reconstructing historical European fighting styles.

Ken’s work in this area was highly influential, particularly his careful, pragmatic recreations of Irish martial arts and combat sports such as shillelagh stick fighting (with reference to 19th century scholarship such as the works of Donald Walker and R.G. Allanson-Winn), collar-and-elbow wrestling and bare-knuckle boxing. In a sense, Ken’s early example “offered permission” to many other revivalists in the niche field of 19th century martial arts. His interests later expanded into Eastern European systems including SAMBO wrestling and the martial use of the long-handled axe.

Prone to out-of-left-field adventures and anecdotes, Ken was a regular and highly popular teacher at WMA/HEMA events including ISMAC (later CombatCon) and the annual “Recreational Violence” weekends hosted by his own training group, NEOHEMAS – the Northeast Ohio Historical European Martial Arts Society. He also authored a number of articles on subjects ranging from Iron Age Celtic sword fighting to 19th century pugilism stances.

Our thoughts are with Ken’s friends and family at this very difficult time.
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UFC 200 Dana White vs Ariel Helwani

June 7, 2016, 8:03 am
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It's things like this that seriously make me wonder if it's the goal of the UFC to slowly become the WWE. http://www.bloodyelbow.com/2016/6/6/...g-com-mma-news

Dana sure does get butthurt easy. But what gets me is that Dana had pretty much said that Ariel was banned for as long as he was in charge. Now he's un-banned after two days??
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PSA: CPR Etiquette

June 7, 2016, 9:15 am
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Gracie University does away with online blue belts, creates Gracie Combatives belt

June 7, 2016, 9:47 am
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Here are Rener and Ryron with Rickson and Pedro Sauer.



From the description:

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Published on Jun 7, 2016
Jiu-Jitsu has reached a critical point in it's evolution. On one hand, it is one of the fastest growing sports on the planet, on the other hand, it is at risk of losing its identity and suffering the same fate that has negatively affected nearly all other martial arts. What made made jiu-jitsu famous in the 80s and 90s was its unprecedented effectiveness in real fights, yet today, most jiu-jitsu academies do not teach the elements that make the art applicable in a real fight.

In this groundbreaking gathering, Rickson, Pedro, Ryron and Rener sit down to discuss the current state of jiu-jitsu and the critical steps that must be taken to preserve its original identity as a complete system of self-defense. Acknowledging that the formative years are most critical for any jiu-jitsu student, Rickson discusses his vision for the "perfect blue belt" and the critical roll of a structured curriculum in preserving this path.

To fully align themselves with the Jiu-Jitsu Global Federation, and Rickson's vision for the perfect blue belt, Ryron and Rener have made three significant changes to the Gracie Academy belt system:

1) Creation of a "Gracie Combatives” Belt
All students who complete the Gracie Combatives course, which takes approximately 12 months, will earn a "Gracie Combatives” belt as a symbol of their foundational self-defense proficiency. The belt is white with a navy blue stripe running through its center.

2) Sparring Required Before Blue Belt
Upon earning the Gracie Combatives belt, a student will start the Master Cycle, the Gracie Academy’s advanced jiu-jitsu program. In the Master Cycle, the student will learn techniques for defending against a jiu-jitsu trained opponent while continuing to enhance their arsenal of street self-defense techniques. Most importantly, the student will develop resiliency and adaptiveness through live sparring against resistant opponents (with and without strikes). Only after 6-12 months in the Master Cycle, will a student be considered for promotion to blue belt.

3) No More "Online Blue Belts"
The Gracie Combatives belt is the only Gracie Jiu-jitsu belt that can be earned through the Gracie University video evaluation process. The fact that the course is comprised of set number of techniques (approximately 75), which are exclusively designed for an non jiu-jitsu street aggressor, means that an experienced instructor can effectively verify a student’s proficiency visually, in person or via video upload. All other belts, including blue belt, can only be earned via hands-on live sparring evaluation at an authorized Certified Training Center.

For more information on the Jiu-Jitsu Global Federation visit http://www.JJGF.com

For more information on the Gracie Combatives program or to find a Certified Training Center near you, visit http://www.GracieUniversity.com
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Pictures of your babies (10 years later)

June 7, 2016, 9:42 pm
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Well here we are...

Is it really 10 years later?

It was rhetorical, of course it has been 10 years.

Last time we all got together and shared pictures of our loved ones it went ok, considering a moron started the thread.

Today the USPS subbed in for the stork and brought me a new wee little 17.5 inch bundle of joy. I had been looking for a good replacement machete and I have always been intrigued with the parang and kukri. Since the first thread was inspired by my sweet little kukri I thought it might be nice to do it again and celebrate the new additions to our lives and remember those who are not with us anymore.

So far I have cut nothing but air with her but I am extremely impressed with the lil sweety right out of the box. Definitely a little more tip heavy than I expected ( I know, all parangs are tip heavy) but on the same note it is over all heftier than I expected as well. I needed to work my grip and wrists more and I do believe she will help in this as I continue to clear land this summer.

I will throw some photo's up of my new loved ones tomorrow.

Anyone else have any new additions to their families?
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