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You can't just throw students into a full spar. The easiest way to defend yourself in 'sparring" is to jump around like a kite in a storm and that teaches abysmal habits. The best way to score is to...

I don't know about horse stance in particular, but I usually recommend long holding of various stances as an error correction method - see if something aches or is strained that shouldn't be....

That 'running out of the ring' thing was what upset me the most. It might be more an aesthetic from my art, but exiting the ring for any reason whatsoever should count against you fairly heavily. I'd...

These sorts of close calls happen all the time and we're still here. "headed right towards us" is a pretty vague definiton really, it just means "We have a vague idea where it's going and there's an...

Most of the self defense situations i've heard of or seen applicable to people I know is one unarmed person, usually but not always female, attacking unarmed or with improvised weapons to injure.

Gotten as far as I can in this regard. I hit the point of "Sorry, i've told you all -I- know about how to do that particular set of techniques" and don't know that i'll be able to get in touch with...

I am not quite certain I understand the entire answer. Further, I have to be careful with terminology - the art is actually different, however, i've exhausted my usual sources for how to improve the...

Yes. These are crescent kicks of various types.

To reduce the danger to the knee. There's no muscles really that can take the strain off of the lateral of the knee, and tension tends to result in damping the returning shock from the impact so that...

I need advice on how to remove that last little bit of tension out of the legs during circular kicks so that the striking leg can be limp from the pelvis down while in the air. Anyone have any...

Nah, Darwin awards have always included those who removed their ability to reproduce. It's just that that often occurs as a result of dying an absurd death.

Changing arts slows one down. It's not like you just pick up new material and suddenly you're more effective - no, the new stuff always conflicts horribly with your old stuff. Even going between arts...

If I wasn't in college I would be. After I graduate I may end up there again. I'll be there all next month, in the Valley and Anchorage. Not a CMA person though.

We have a mostly blind student.. not actually much in the way of changes in how to teach. Different exercizes and letting them examine movements by touch mostly. They do fine.

Hmm..
Retreating Martelo Enganhosa: Step back and collapse back onto the back leg. Slide the front leg to open up on the inside. When you land sitting on the heel, fall sideways onto the lead leg...

Oooohhh.. I don't check the forum for a few days and people get into a discussion of my favorite range of combat. About a third to half of the stuff I do is in this area, it opens up all sorts of...

Or it could be like a lot of our throws.. really sweet, but exceedingly hard to sink on someone in the same art..

...Well, yes, if you define "External" as "Body mechanics that suck" then yes, internal hits harder.. that's the only way i've seen it described, though. Honestly, as described, Boxing and Muay Thai...

What do you have with "Power is generated by the torso in a curling/uncurling fashion and directed by the movement of the hips and pelvis"? I mean, there's lots of ways to generate power, and not...

Ugh. "Spirituality".
I go to my teacher not because he's a great spiritual leader but because he's a good teacher of martial arts.
All those supposed benefits of martial training on the...

It appeared to be that for the first several years, you gain skills in hitting really hard. After several years, all the other material starts to click in and become workable techniques, and you no...

The usual place I end up in when startled is ginga esquerda (sp?) with my weight 65/35 on my left front foot, back leg straight back, feet about the length of my leg apart, on the ball of my back...

I honestly despair as far as working with women goes. In my experience, it takes 6 to 18 months of hard work before they accept that they might be capable of actually generating something vaguely...

I would NOT study BOTH.. As you said, they are similar, this is precisely WHY you should not mix them. They may be similar, but they will most certainly have many, many subtle differences. I have...

If you're worried that you might have to face someone with a certain kind of weapon, would you prefer to just have a vague idea of what it anecdotally does? Or would you be better off being familiar...