Yeah, it looks like a basic Mei Lua Compas, but he must have just been caught off-guard.
Type: Posts; User: Chazmek
Yeah, it looks like a basic Mei Lua Compas, but he must have just been caught off-guard.
Wow! That was friggin awesome! :eek:
Regardless of the instructor, each individual student's goals should be taken into account.
If they are training for the purpose of becoming an ultimate bad-ass, then yes, there should be ALOT of...
I'm not sure I want to imagine Taryn adding children into her apparently already-stressed-to-hell life....
LOL
Taryn, no wonder you've been so exhausted in class lately! You're using up all that fire on the forum here with the boys :p
70% hands
30% legs
Almost all of those leg techniques are defensive in nature.
My kicks are still too slow to be consistantly effective for offense.
So willows just tend to be effected by more diseases and parasites than other tree species?
It doesn't seem to have much trouble surviving, considering that it has been around for...
Rainfall footprint refers to the dry spot underneath the tree after it rains.
Now, if it WASN'T the last kick of the night, I would be VERY impressed!
lol!
The coordination required to only tense your hand and not the rest of your forearm is also a good thing to train.
I'm not familiar with the term.
Is there a translation of that which I might recognize?
Also, is there a difference between Iron Thread and Iron Wire?
Playing catch with a cloth or canvas bag full of lead shot will do wonders for forearm, wrist and hand strengthening.
Stand a good distance away from a partner and toss it back and forth. Try to...
lol!
I never heard about that!
Since when did you guys use live blades in form practice?!
I live in the Seattle area of Washington State in the USA.
I have trained in alot of different martial arts over the years, but my focus has been in Baguazhang and Shaolin Snake. I have learned some...
Ya know, I just realized something.
Why the hell am I going around on a public forum telling people that there is no magic qi trick to Dim Mak?
Forget everything I've posted above!
Dim Mak is...
Aw man, I go a day without logging in and Sanjuro takes the words right out of my mouth...
Hell yeah, any Hung Jia Quan class worth its salt should get you conditioned up pretty darn well :)
You are correct.
In my opinion, if you just want to learn to defend yourself, go learn Krav Maga, those guys are awesome!
The "delayed death" stuff is probably just myth. If someone dies of...
My own training progessed as follows:
External training
-Striking repeatedly into a container of sand or small rocks with the finger tips. Beginning slowly and gradually increasing the speed of...
You'll get more of Box Form soon enough, just be patient!
:p
Bah, if only I could take time off work to go to NY...
Sounds neat though.
There are two main ways of learning how to strike with the fingers: internal and external.
External will usually render the most quickly-noticeable results, but can often lead to decreased...
So what is Dim Mak, if not using pressure points on the human body?
Am I missing something?
Aw, she beat me to it. :D
Yes, useful tools should not be discarded simply because you find out that they work differently than you originally thought.
So it's YOU who's eating all the food in Ethiopia and leaving none for those little kids in the TV commercials!
[wow, I'm going to hell...]