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Abhay,
               You had a chance to swim with the big fish. I remember those days you had to be
really tough to compete, and even tougher to win.
Slam Dunk had mentioned Jiu jitsu. I met a guy, he was a Gracie 10 years before anyone in USA
had heard of him. He had just opened a little Do Jo next to a mom and Pops antiques store I used shop
at. I went in and he had no students at the time. so I spent the better part of the afternoon learning one
technique to move in on your opponent like John McEnroe Moving in to the net for a checkmate move.
I had about 15 years 3 different styles under my belt. This showed me the best thing I ever learned in
about 3 hours. My eyes were opened to reality fighting, and fighting close with the intention of ending the fight
in less than 3 minutes.  I should have Joined but did not have the time back than I really regret that.
About 10 years later the Gracie family became famous. I learned to kick and punch with TaeKwondo, block and move
White Crane Kung Fu, but I saw light with Brazilian Jiu Jitsu.
Joe Lewis, Kempo, but Jeff, Chuck, Bill were Korean style. Taekwondo, very hard fast, and effective.

I met Ed Parkers years ago(before he passed) at a tournement in Chicago it was a Ed Parkers tournement. I had my trophy signed by him and have a photo taken with him. I always had it hanging in my Dojo he was wearing this awful hawaian shirt(but nobody would tell him that)

I also was a points fighter but got out of it when all protection pad stuff got manditory...

Bob,
          If not for Ed Parker, Bruce Lee would have just been a foot note in Karate history. Bruce
had such an attitude that no one liked him in the Karate circles. He acted very immature. Ed
Parker was greatly impressed with him and helped him get a leg up. No pun intended.
Bob you look like a person that could hit some one really hard, if you got mad. My brother did
better than me and at one point made his living as a bouncer.

Max:

         My instructor started me off with the words of advice "big guys normaly can already hit hard a can learn to take a punch so you will learn to kick well and fast that they will not expect" So I stretched my living ass off class was 3 hours and half of that for me was stretching. My instructor was a good guy but came up with some of the nastiyist stretchs for me "The Frog" I had to lay with my chest on the floor reach between my legs and grab my ankles and pull my ankles up as far as i could underneath me and then have a student stand with the insides of his feet right in the pocket of my hips and weight on my lower back!!!!!!!!! 20 minutes at a time...   3 sessions a class.

When i was at the top of my division I was 295 and could kick easliy over my head I,ve got a old Black belt Magizine with me kicking at the AKA Grand Nationals in Chicago a guy with a heel hook in the head. And my head was up not leaning over.

Those were the days... and I wonder why my back has 2 bad vertibrates in the bottom... We traveled every where to compete Chicago was home base,New York,Atlanta,Minnieapolis, Daytona,St Louis(the Budweiser Nationals of course) too many to list but it was the best time of my life.

We had a double ended striking bag in our Dojo, they came with one elastic end one rope end my instructor would take the rope end off and put a bunjee cord on that end also and pull them tight you would have to stand with your lead foot right up against the floor mnt and work striking and blocking from there. He would wai till you got in posostion and then pull it back from you at a odd angle and let it loose  at you, either kept it moving or it would hit you at face height and MAN did it hurt... Oh to be young and dumb again...

 Never strike when your mad because your not in control!
I worked as a bouncer for 2 years at a bar in Ohio called "The Palace"years back it was a learning experience but don,t want to do it again.

Bob,
        Regard less of all the tricky stuff I learned, I always fell back on my generic Taekwondo
side kick. It was fast and effective. I would set it up with a fake front kick. It worked about 90%
of the time. Than I saw Benny(the Jet) Urquidez do a spinning back kick... and I said this guy has
a kick. Benny was both Kick boxer and Karate. When full contact came out the bouts all started
out looking like karate, and went into street fighting mode. But Benny never lost his focus, and was graceful,
fast, and dangerous. He should have been than movie star Van Dam was, he was that smooth to watch.

I hope this does not offend but, Van Dam sucks... HAHHAHhhaahah

Bob,
         It does not offend me, I have only seen him in the movies. He looks
like the french boxing style,.. not my favorite.   I know the French, Dutch and Belgium
Military use mainly Taekwondo and Jiu Jitsu now. Some Judo. Jean use Tai kick boxing
to, which gives that flashy look.

Benny was with Ed Parker back in 74-75 I think, you my have crossed pathes.

I had my own Dojo for 12 years, I finally got out because I refused to be a bay sitting service and because There were several other Schools that had opened and offered these 1 and 2 year Black Belt programs(what a joke) . I even had one school that when there Black Belt promotions were getting ready there students would come down and spar at our Dojo for a while. I finally got disgusted with these guys coming down that were brown belt adults and would spar with my purple and green belts and get pissed because they would get hit in the face. My answer to them was always "your a higher belt don,t let them hit you and hit them back"  I hate all this safety equipment they have now students look like the Michelin man.

How do you learn to hit take a hit and fall properly with all this stuff on??? and with all this stuff on you can,t learn control.

Knee up side kick practice exercise. Stand with your side facing the wall and take one average step back (shorter if your better) and kick the wall flat footed over a chair obstacle and back with out sliding back or hitting them chair. Do it bare footed and you learn quickly to keep your foot up and in proper position. 


   

not to change the subject or anything, but did you guys see expendables with all the seasoned actors..just wondering if it's worth the hike it's generating....?
Thanks.