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Greetings,

I trained with Master Reid for 8 years. Though I'm no advocate of the Shaolin-do/tao system these days, Reid is very good at what he does, is **** strong, and is a professional...

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=5800&perpage=15&pagenumber=1

These occured in Atlanta in August.

It just so happens that I wrote a mini-review of this book a while back. It can be found here...

http://www.bullshido.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6439

Yah, judo kata are all two man affairs though. It's generally just the formal practice of the techniques. Also the self-defense techniques are taught in kata form.

While I refuse to learn judo...

Personally, I do MA for two primary reasons. One is because my style (judo) is so darn fun I couldn't stop if I wanted to.

The other reason is that MA is what separates us from the people who do...

I would not attend a school that teaches this way. Not to say it doesn't work or anything, but if I'm gonna pay somebody to teach me MA, I wanna learn the actual techniques as they were intended. ...

1. Under what situations do you move from one range to another?

* Always move to biting range


2. For a knockout, do you generally prefer a single strike or
multiple strikes?

* Biting Que...

I saw these comments on the Mullins board a few days ago and tried to reply, but my email address has been banned(?).

Anyway, I think these comments smack of inexperience with proficient...

I found those 2 links via google. First I searched for "hypertrichosis china" and got the Li Baoshu pic. Then I searched "hypertrichosis su kong" and found the other 2.

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I must say...

As far as learning to take down w/o being taken down, you have to practice with live partners. Get some people at your school to spar with only takedowns. That is, the goal of your sparring is to...

I was looking for more on Su Kong and I found two non-sd sites that mention him...

http://evolution.massey.ac.nz/lecture4/docs/hypertri.htm

http://mcb.berkeley.edu/courses/mcb41/lecture14.pdf...

No, most people who suffer from hypertrichosis do not look alike. Su Kong had a very "chewbacca-like" look to him. Li Baoshu also has this. Most people who have hypertrichosis that I've seen are...

Check this out..

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-10-83-811.jsp#12

Scroll down a bit to the pic of Li Baoshu. He looks a heck of a lot like Su Kong.

Heh, this reminds me of a guy I used to work with. This guy claimed to have taken part in designing the stealth bomber (now working for $7 bucks an hour in security), and he claimed to have...

Has anyone ever seen Sin The fight or spar?

Greetings,

Myself and several others from www.bullshido.com are getting together in Atlanta this weekend to trade ideas, spar, etc..

Anyway, I'd like to extend the invitation to anyone in the...

Aye, I contacted David Lin a while back, but where he teaches is like 30+ miles from where I live. I currently take judo with a former olympic judoka however.

I'm trying to document as many...

I'm looking for examples of techniques immediately following throws.

For example, my opponent is on the ground after a shoulder throw, I have his right arm in my left hand, now what?

I'm...

Check this link...

http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-78-811.jsp#12

Scroll down to pic of the the guy named Li Baoshu. Is that a different pic of Su Kong or a completely different...

I'm 6'4" 260# myself. My suggestion would be to take a simple, readily practical style such as judo or shuai chiao first. Then, after a few years, you can move to the more "elegant" stuff.
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Greetings redskanite,

I was wondering what you hope to gain from martial arts. Self-defense? Forms? Just a hobby?

The reason I ask is because a lot of schools are geared towards hobbyist...

Hmmm...

Looks like that guy has a dog in a head lock. ;)

Practical Chin Na by Zhao Da Yuan

Here's a site with some similar tricks...

http://www.bodymindandmodem.com/CoolKi/CoolKi.html

Hairy,

I live in Atlanta myself and was curious about the bagua training methods of your school. That is, do you guys do a type of push hands? Free sparring? Isolation sparring? Full contact?...