26/06/08

I am for the moment in Paris .
Last week i had the opportunity to go and visit the local Kudo ( Daido Juku ) dojo .
http://hellsnakes.free.fr/
I first wanted to take a look and see how a training was build up . I met Sensei Shinya and asked him if it was OK to stay and watch . He told me to participate but i didn't had any training gear with me .

Training was build up very traditional but with a lot new elements . Kihon had a lot of modern...

Azimuth

So I think last night at my seventh Enshin class alot of it starting to click. Between the great Sensei Rhodes and my reading of Koncho Joko Ninomiya's book "The Sabaki Method" its starting to burn in. Lots of great people at this dojo and I highly recommend Enshin if you have one in your area.

MilkManX

i love this forum, it's a great source of info and lots of fun. But it seems that recently 20% of the thread are about "improving kyokushin" i have huge respect for all martial art practitioner and i believe that every style has it's goods and bads. It really is personnal opinion and even more personal are the reason why you chose this one over this other one. Why is everyone one wants to know who's best. what is the ultimate art, who's gonna kick who's butt?...

Ok kyokushin...

mary222

Fighting is an integral part of nature. When not fighting for survival against predators, animals fight each other for dominance, power, and control. When fighting each other, the combat is usually ritual without deadly results. Humans are no different. We fight for survival against rogue humans and other animals and we also participate in ritual combat to determine the best warriors. One type of ritual combat is free-sparring as practiced by most martial arts. Free-sparring has evolved into two...

tmd

Kyokushin's Knockdown fighting ain't realistic cause they don't punch to the head. I have heard and read this a lot (especially on you tube), mostly from practitioners of semi or non contact styles of fighting a lot of which I greatly admire for their speed and timing but who are general missing the most important aspect, this is full contact.

I will explain why I feel knockdown is not only more realistic and more beneficial as a way of preparing you for a real life confrontation...

tmd