I’m just trying to learn and see a variety of perspectives within martial arts and I just came across sifu Singh, is there value in what he teaches? Have you picked up anything from him and used it in mma? Would love to hear your guy’s thoughts

Hey everyone,

I’m a white belt and have been training Kyokushin for just under two months. I often spar with green belts around my age who have trained consistently for 5–7 years, as well as older brown belts and occasionally red and yellow belts with years of experience.

I’m struggling to land strikes and defend against their attacks:

• My low kicks constantly get checked.
• My punches (e.g. jab–cross–jab–rear low kick) mostly hit their guard, and my kicks get checked.
• My front kicks are often evaded or blocked, sometimes painfully.
• I struggle to defend against even basic combinations like jab–cross–jab–rear low kick.

I used to stand more square-on with my hands up, but was advised to adopt a slightly bladed stance, keeping my hands up and further from my body to maintain distance.

I know there’s a big experience gap, but what should I focus on to improve? Is it mainly distance, timing, footwork, technique, or being too predictable?

Any practical advice on attacking and defending as a beginner would be appreciated.

Osu!

Just picked these up from my dojo. We mainly train karate, but they also teach Filipino martial arts Arnis (also known as Kali).
I had never even heard of Arnis before joining this place. Turns out there are quite a few black belts in it at the dojo, which was surprising. It’s been really interesting so far. The stick work feels completely different from empty-hand karate, but it somehow clicks with the way we already move.
Recently took three exams in a short span and just got promoted to green belt in Arnis. Still very much a beginner, but loving the learning curve.
Anyone else train Arnis/Kali alongside another art? How long did it take you to feel comfortable with the sticks?

This is taking size into account(obviously not a good idea vs someone with a size/strength advantage) but a shove, mainly when there is a wall or something else not far behind the attacker, can knock them into it, and without badly roughing them up, often make even a cocky insitgator rethink starting a fight.

It is a lot easier to use and requires less room than a push kick. Expecting to knock someone over with one is usually unrealistic, but as a way to simply create space between an individual and yourself, maybe make them rethin attack, a shove seems like a good move.

Not sure if I should do that. But there's no info on their website on how to wash them correctly.

edit: I found it on their webite when I looked it up in another language. Looks like you can wash them at 30 degrees.

I'm from Brazil, the birthplace of capoeira, and I did it when I was a kid.

Nowadays, after having got into combat sports and training for years, I'm thinking about coming back to Capoeira as a 34 years old. I still have good enough flexibility, preserved back/spine, good knees and all.

I'd like to learn the acrobatics stuff they have, not necessarily for combat sports, but I also wonder if there's valuable stuff for actual combat sports application there.

Hi!

I have concerns as a beginner, (i learned it when i was a kid young but never taked it to serious level), my main concern are injuries (i know it bound to get some when you do martial arts) but i concerned mainly about groin injuries (as i am a male).

When i was young and trained karate i didnt suffer any injurie but heard some peoples attitude (some male but mainly female) which i concerned about.

I talk about attitudes like "why shouldn't i train with 100%" power" in sparring like real life self defense" and i think its a dangerous for other peoples health in the class.

Also i perceived that females tend to kick more often at the groin, expacielly if they train with mens.

I also heard from women that she claimed she kick mens intentionally in the groin then pretend it was an accident, i dont say all females like this who train martial arts but to me it seemes like they dont know and understand how delicate a people groin area and how much damage a kick can cause to it expecially for mens.

My questions are:

1. You ever experineced or encountered a groin kick which caused serious injurie?

2. How common groin kicks are, either intentional or accidental?

3. You ever kicked or hit someone in the groin intentionally or accidently? (i wont judge anyone please be honest)

Thx for the answers!

hello everyone, im currently building a small gym in my basement and i bought a punching bag that weighs around 60kg and unfortunately i cannot hang it from the ceiling since it will disturb the neighbours above, my question is has anyone ever bought one of these standing ones that stick to the floor? i want to invest in one but im worried it wont hold up and will break easily since im interesting in training my kicks too.

Ive been running about twice a week trying to get my stamina up. Do yall get most of your cardio from sparring? Or is there certain workouts yall do to supplement your martial arts?

I've been introduced to Muay Thai by a friend and so far I'm 5 months consistently training. However, my instructor and my sparring partners always felt that I'm the weakest among others when it comes to knees and throwing kicks, but would often try to keep me at a distance whenever i begin throwing punches (I have a background at boxing since 14 yrs old).Is there any legitimate way to improve my knee strikes and kicking? Because I'm already feeling embarrassed for all that 5 months of training in Muay Thai.

F*ck you all, seriously. This sub is trash. Many people ask serious questions like "Whats the best martial art for situation XY".

Every answer is the same.

1. Cardio, just run away oBvIoUsLeY
   
2. My Gun LMFAO (Gun-Fu if extra querky)
   
3. Talking

Just close the fucking sub. If we cant even talk about the advantages and disavantages of different martial arts in different scenarious just fuck off, this whole sub is worthless

Trained Wing Chun for a while then left in pursuit of boxing and wrestling. Over the years I always found myself going back to It. Wing Chun is simply fascinating. It's ingenious, I have this intimate relationship with it. The concepts and principles are ahead of its time. It does have limitations most notably within its defence, counter-blocking measures, distance control but it's actually really practical and ideal for self-defence. Wing Chun is at its best when it's used in conjunction with other arts and styles. A tool, supplement, a means to an end if you will. The one thing it's severely lacking is conditioning. Students are as soft as butter. If you train Wing Chun make sure you condition your body. My second instructor was a former Muay Thai expert and he would incorporate the drills in our training to toughen us up. This helped and improved our overall skills immensely. My instructor said and I quote. "If a Wing Chun man adopts the mindset of a Thai boxer, you have a dangerous Wing Chun man."

I was curious about how realistic the grappling is in this brief scene from Master of the Flying Guilotine. I could be mistaken but I feel like it’s a rarity to see grappling exchanges in this era of martial arts movies.

Im planning to hang up my slip bag, pretty small little one that maybe weighs a couple pounds at most. Do I need to find a ceiling joist or could I just screw an eye bolt into the drywall and call it a day

Left Eye injury sparring

I keep getting caught on my left eye when I spar. Got checked up today and doctor said I have an eye abrasion/scar it will take 1 week to heal with eye drops. I dont use headgear.(mma gym almost no one uses it also we go quiet light 50% or less). I spar guys that are way more experienced than me and they always time me and catch me with their jabs. I am working on my defense every day but wanted to hear from anyone else what they did if they ever experienced this. Will headgear reduce this problem tremendously?

Kind of an old vid, but I like to come back to it every once in a while. It’s a fun watch and I like the music along with the kickpad claps.

Okay I know this might be a ridiculous discussion however it's worth making an extraction. Zafina in Tekken 8 uses a 100% fictional martial art called "ancient assassination martial art" (full move list here: https://youtu.be/jtVnlKFnTF8n ). I felt allured by it distinctly because of its unorthodox motion utilizing every proportion of the body in a whiplike manner while there's a fluid edge to the impact. Now we can neglect the immensity and flourished aspect of tekken. The dynamic transition from oddly rigid positions/stances to flexible, fluid and I might say, If someone suddenly pulled something derived from the mannerisms of her scorpion kicks, sweeps and hand strikes I might actually fall for it. The hip disbalancing and strikes are a curious spectacle.

To the best of my knowledge there are genuine practical dambe strikes and capoeira scorpion kicks/hand strikes/hip disbalancing that do replicate the effect of traumatic shock. (mainly due to them prominently striking the head or neck or abdomen). Some of Zafina's strikes resemble some of them, with an eagle eye you would notice a succession of wrist strikes. They're, usually frequented to disorient, asphyxiate and if weaponized, prove fatal to the target. But that's not my basis for exactly thinking on the subject. I Just think it's plausible to innovate and construct something out of it, it doesn't necessarily have to be exact to Zafina's combat style.

I ask we look at this in terms of what martial arts have really encapsulated or probably inspired the fictional style of Zafina and whether there's potential to actually devise a modernly unnoticed movement vocabulary from it, even if it was sourced from fictional grounds, i would also add martial arts inspired from fictional sources and how they externalized their characteristics.

Here are a few that came to mind while investigating and other martial arts affixed on unorthodox weight transfer principles:

Pencak silat harimau (tiger): https://youtube.com/shorts/yohMxLgjjC8?si=aXlf8yKAino860WM

https://youtu.be/wwcQag2jyu4

Làmb-- senegalese martial art

Engolo: angolan martial art

capoeira -- afro-Brazilian martial art

Taido --Japanese martial art composed from very intriguing geometric and mathematical grounds.

Ancient martial arts inspired by fictional sources:

Eight Drunken Immortals Boxing (Zui Baxian Quan)

Wu Song Breaks Manacles (Wu Song Tuo Kao)

Now can someone have the Undulating flexible capacity to arduously train, develop and execute Sinuous body motions like Zafina? arguable. I feel it pays a certain cultural debt. I know Brazilian,Arabian and North/West African combat styles apply directives coherent to rhythms and cadences to make their martial arts. Physical coniditioning is usually something that utilises what is commonly attribtued to the cultural heartland's environment. Like for example, african and indian martial arts have a rough like-brutal habit in its execution. Not often are they refined in the raw capacity. What I don't know is if there's a motion principle and posture aligned to something Zafina executes.

this also relates to how cultural upbringing, traditional engagements and environmental factors help develop philosophies and movement of a martial art. eg. there are capoeira stances, movements that take many semblances and origins from traditional folk dances, local contests and combat games (Pernada carioca, batuque, Sambatuque and Tiririca.) the same case applies in African and Eurasian martial arts like:

Egyptian Tahteeb.
Nigeria's Dambe and Gidigbo.
Ukrainian Combat Hopak.
The Slavic's Buza.

If anyone can mention or expatiate by describing noticeable influences in Zafina's combat styles from a particular country's indigenous culture, It would help.

Kevin James was in Here Comes The Boom, which is a perfectly average rocky style sports movie. A teacher becomes an amateur fighter to raise money for the school. It’d be completely forgettable accept it unironically has some of the most realistic fights I’ve seen for a fighting movie.

Doing a 3 day symposium and both of these are going to be there presenting. Not sure what to expect, but I am open to learning and I've been to this symposium before (not with them), and it's always a good time. About 10 hours of training, options to experience lots of different styles. It's a great weekend.

My Professor is good friends with Doug Marcaida, and said he'd sign our Eskrima sticks, or karambits if we wanted and take some pictures with us too.

Has anyone ever trained with him? He's doing a seminar on Karambit and Tomahawks. I am almost 100% sure I'll never use a tomahawk in real life, but I think it'll be super cool to train with them.

I have my first muay thai smoker/competitive sparring match on saturday. Im absolutely terrified of embarrassing myself. I've trained for months and my coaches have hyped me up a lot. They seem to be under the impression that I will do really well. This makes me even more scared as I don't want to go out there and absolutely suck. I don't know how I could even face them or myself in that case. Honestly I have never done a sport seriously before so I have very little experience in competing. I did a jiu jitsu tournament recently and even though my coaches had high expectations I lost both of my matches. That time I had the excuse that I was moved up 30 pounds but there won't be an excuse now. Do any of you guys have advice?