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My Shodan (1st Dan Black Belt) in Shotokan cost me $35.

My Shodan in Kodokan Judo was free.

I've never paid a dime for a belt in Kyokushin or Daido Juku (club dues only).

Show the 'Rock some respect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wfFlQPGgkQ

Could Royce do that? I think not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWFjvnFCivg

A very good rendition of one of the basic Shotokan katas. It's linear, but no more than, say, some of the Hung Gar forms (that I have seen)...

Kyokushinkai:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7psi625WiWo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4p3WrgbSCEM

High kicks? They don't work...

Stav is still the king of the "ethnic a$$pull" martial arts.....

"Consult the Runes for much buttkicking!!!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syHyD8aPpkA&feature=related

Jew Do.

Monotheist Boxing?

From what I saw of the show (I used to watch it on my PC, while doing paperwork), it was a "Asian/Oriental-inspired" world/universe, filled with people of "nonspecific" ethnicities (some looked...

"Your Kung Fu is no match for my Speedo!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkGP0AM14F0

Been a while since I saw this in a non-Kyokushin setting....


I approve.

30, a few weeks ago.

I've been training for 18 years.

In chronological order:

JKA Shotokan, for 3 years.

IKF-1 Kyokushinkai, 6 years. Still train and compete.

There is a movement afoot in the Karate world to get back to the "roots" (although that is sloppy terminology) of the first couple of generations of the karatekas, who were not exactly strangers to...

Karate kata are misleading, as 90% of practitioners perform them at the dreaded "competition pace", where the flow is artificially slowed so that the judges can clearly see the techniques (and the...

Karate.



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Also, the Allied Nations occupying Germany and Japan during the postwar era should have been banned from the '48 and '52 Games, too.

Context, schmontext!

It did have a bit of a threatening motif, in parts.

At one point (probably when the goose-stepping troops showed up to snatch the flag from the kids), I half-expected the floor of the stadium to...

Human Weapons?

Train as you fight.

because:

You fight like you train.

IOW, if your training program does not include sparring/randori against a resisting opponent, you are going to have problems fighting...

It's from a movie, but is this clip a good representation of the Hung Gar katas?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcNclS-ad0Y

Thanks for the info, guys. I appreciate it.

To paraphrase what has been said already:

Mastery of Basics.

Conditioning (this includes strength, flexibility, speed and endurance).

Intent.

There's about 5 Billion barrels of light sweet (iow, does not need a great amount of refining) crude under South Dakota, in the Bakken Formation.

Note: by "hardest", I meant "toughest", not a reflection of the mechanical aspects. This is, of course, subjective. It's just how Hung Gar is often described in the Karate community.

Having been referred here (from the general forum), my question is:

Hung Gar: What's it like (from a tactics, training and strategy point of view)?

How to the 5 Animals factor in? The Five...

So, there is no Tiger style, per se. Just Tiger Claw, Black Tiger and "X" Tiger systems?

Shaolin 5 Animals (a legit system?) contains the Tiger sets, correct?

Hung Gar contains the...

Is there an actual "Tiger Style" of Kung Fu? As opposed to a constituent sub-system of other styles, like Hung Gar and Xingyi?

Who teaches it, and where?

What's it like (techniques and...