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Fiery254 said:
Dojos will differ in the way they train you and the level they train you to. But ask any serious martial artist and they will tell you that you only block to put yourself in a more advantagous position to strike. Ask Lyoto Machida if traditional martial arts works in a fight.

Block and punch all in one;

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Not trying to create an argument or anything but I as I said before, I was talking about the effectiveness of learning traditional martial arts for the sake of self-defense not being a professional fighter. Furthermore, Machida's origin is Karate however, he's training everything just like all MMA fighters of this era do and he's likely sparring quite a bit too. GSP's origin is karate too but he's anything but a karate guy as he is a mixed martial artist who grapples more than anything else.

A lot of "serious martial artists" are great but a lot of them are also full of crap. Many of which aren't fighters or are very inexperienced at actual fighting where they wouldn't really have an idea as to whether they could pull something off or not. In my younger years taking Karate, I came across a lot of them who were full of crap teaching stuff that ultimately wouldn't work out so well in real life but they still teach it since its part of the program. I think f you want to learn how to fight/defend yourself, you need to fight so sparring is an absolute necessity. Kicking and punching air and running through drills can only take you so far. Of course, this is all just an opinion.
 
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toshison said:
Not trying to create an argument or anything but I as I said before, I was talking about the effectiveness of learning traditional martial arts for the sake of self-defense not being a professional fighter. Furthermore, Machida's origin is Karate however, he's training everything just like all MMA fighters of this era do and he's likely sparring quite a bit too. GSP's origin is karate too but he's anything but a karate guy as he is a mixed martial artist who grapples more than anything else.

A lot of "serious martial artists" are great but a lot of them are also full of crap. Many of which aren't fighters or are very inexperienced at actual fighting where they wouldn't really have an idea as to whether they could pull something off or not. In my younger years taking Karate, I came across a lot of them who were full of crap teaching stuff that ultimately wouldn't work out so well in real life but they still teach it since its part of the program. I think f you want to learn how to fight/defend yourself, you need to fight so sparring is an absolute necessity. Kicking and punching air and running through drills can only take you so far. Of course, this is all just an opinion.
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toshison said:
Not trying to create an argument or anything but I as I said before, I was talking about the effectiveness of learning traditional martial arts for the sake of self-defense not being a professional fighter. Furthermore, Machida's origin is Karate however, he's training everything just like all MMA fighters of this era do and he's likely sparring quite a bit too. GSP's origin is karate too but he's anything but a karate guy as he is a mixed martial artist who grapples more than anything else.

A lot of "serious martial artists" are great but a lot of them are also full of crap. Many of which aren't fighters or are very inexperienced at actual fighting where they wouldn't really have an idea as to whether they could pull something off or not. In my younger years taking Karate, I came across a lot of them who were full of crap teaching stuff that ultimately wouldn't work out so well in real life but they still teach it since its part of the program. I think f you want to learn how to fight/defend yourself, you need to fight so sparring is an absolute necessity. Kicking and punching air and running through drills can only take you so far. Of course, this is all just an opinion.
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I'd tend to agree with most of what you say. To be good at anything you have to do it a lot. And most traditional dojos don't do a lot of free fighting, for want of a better phrase. Like you said "actual fighting" is the only way to practise for actual fighting. Maybe i'm fotunate that there are some good fighters at my dojo (me NOT included) so don't see the restrictive practices you talk about. But you're right that most karate-ka learn some not real world stuff that would only be practical in a fight against a fellow karate-ka.
 
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Fiery254 said:
Gurning moon face.
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Am i turning gay? Theres something weird looking about her, not the fake dyed hair...

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Roasted said:
Turning? You just went full homo
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Dont worry roasted for the right price i'm sure she can be yours. I wont take that glory from u :eek:

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KarGo said:
Been at insanity for couple weeks now. My goal is to do a triathlon this year.
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How's it going for you?
I keep on getting in to it with eating exactly what I'm supposed to, and then about 2 weeks in something always seems to happen that stops me from being able to hit the gym all the time...
However, looks like my schedule will finally allow for a couple months without being gone.
 
rmemedic said:
How's it going for you?
I keep on getting in to it with eating exactly what I'm supposed to, and then about 2 weeks in something always seems to happen that stops me from being able to hit the gym all the time...
However, looks like my schedule will finally allow for a couple months without being gone.
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I tried it back in august, but gave up after 2weeks from a busy schedule- lost about 10lbs. I started back up for 2013, I improved cardio but no weight lose.
Planning to go to the gym for weights on the rest days, is it a bad idea?
 
KarGo said:
I tried it back in august, but gave up after 2weeks from a busy schedule- lost about 10lbs. I started back up for 2013, I improved cardio but no weight lose.
Planning to go to the gym for weights on the rest days, is it a bad idea?
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I would use those rest days as it's laid out in the calendar. Your body needs them to refuel and rebuild.

I'm horrible because I do workouts in the morning (get a sweat on but nothing crazy, and not in the weight room) then every so often (maybe 3 days a week) at work I'll go in to our little gym in our building and do a few quick sets of heavy weights with basically a 5 rep max to failure for upper body stuff, but that's only if I actually feel like it. And then I do insanity as planned in the calendar on top of that. Sometimes I won't workout saturday, depending on schedule and how my body feels, and sunday is ALWAYS a rest day for me... Unless it's race season, then I'm on the MX track saturday and sunday, in which case I take it easy monday morning in the gym with no workout that night.

Crappy thing, is that with all of this, I'm still not a trim dude, and I don't even eat all that bad, and when I am able to have a routine I eat nearly perfect. I'm trying to figure it out what I am not doing right, it has to be nutrition, but I'm just not finding where I'm going wrong with it... It could be dairy products, but I'm usually under 750ml of skim milk through the day and a serving of yogurt per day. Actually has me wanting to have a sit down with a nutritionist.
The way I'm built doesn't help as I'm stocky so any bit of fat looks worse than it really is. I don't really want to put on any more muscle, just get rid of the extra weight so I'm faster on the track.
 
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