Heya, First post here with a question about ankle alignment and balance.
I have whats called supinated ankles...meaning my weight is supported on the anterior side of the ankle, as opposed to an even distribution.

Here's a visual:
http://www.deancare.com/crs/sma/pronatio.gif

Many people have this to some extent...causing the outside of your shoe heels to wear down faster.

I believe this affects my sense of balance, and I would otherwise like to find a solution. Many some specific method of lengthening certain muscles of the leg???

Any enlightening thoughts on this would be appreciated...thanks!

My girlfriend in a past relationship seemed, at least to me, to be somewhat emotionally volatile. Any disagreement would result in her saying "things will never work out, I'm leaving". (There's a quick conversation ender.) Eventually, we'd work it out, but this went on dozens of times.

The result, naturally, was that any meaningful dialogue was nearly impossible. Eventually (after waiting far too long) I left. I suppose I could go more into it, but I'd like to keep my emo moments offline, thanks. I'm really more interested in what she said later.

After separating, there was no longer the threat of her leaving and we actually had some meaningful conversations. In explaining the episodes she said, "I talked to a lot of my friends and most women are like this".

This is a bit at odds with my experience so far, but maybe I just happened to luck into relationships with unusually sweet, balanced and stable women before I met her. In the interest of science, I thought I'd investigate. So, in the most scientific approach possible, I'll post on Bullshido and see what people say.

So, my question to you bullies and bullettes. Are most women like this?

Ok Indianapolis/Indiana bullies. I will finally be making my amateur MMA debut. It will be at the Elite Cage Fighting show in Lebanon on Saturday, December 12th. Tickets are $20 and $40 I believe. It's at the 4H Fairgrounds in the Witham Health Services Pavilion. I'd love for anyone in the area to show up. I'll be fighting at 200 lbs (their LHW division). Doors open at 6. Fights start at 7:30.

love the captions he uses in the video....




"He had no idea of the spirit, the wolf or the man that he battled that night"

:tongue7:

Revolution Fight Team has been around for a while however only operating in Langley BC, Coquitlam BC, and Calgary AB. I have never trained at any of those locations however when I heard that they were offering BJJ classes in Burnaby BC at the Gilmore Skytrain Gold's location I decided to check out a class as this is closer to home.

I was pleasantly surprised at both the quality of instruction as well as the price so have been training with this group since spring.

Revolution Fight Team in Burnaby location does BJJ-only both gi and no-gi. As they have just started in 2009 currently class sizes are small (6 to 12 people).

The roll-out mat in the upstairs of Gold's would accommodate around 20 people and the club is growing with new recruits dropping by every week or so. Classes are currently open to any and they do have men, women, children, and intend to grow to have separate classes in future.

Instructors at this location include:

1) Bruno Capdeville

- currently a purple under 2009 Dream GP winner Bibiano Fernandes (http://www.sherdog.com/fighter/Bibiano-Fernandes-11465)
- Bruno is the guy on top in this video --
2) Ahmad Khatib

- Currently a brown belt also under Bibiano Fernandes and formerly BJJ instructor at Universal MMA.

Price varies as you have to get a Gold's membership first -- in my case it's $40 / month for the Gold's and then $60 / month for the BJJ.

If you intend to hit weights the Burnaby Gold's is the best in the area but obviously I'm there for the BJJ first.

I've been told that it's ok to train in Langley as well where they have a new facility (see website: http://www.revolutionfightteam.com) with a full suite of kickboxing, boxing, MMA, BJJ, and open classes along with quality instructors including Tim Thursten (Boxing), Jose "Pele" Land-Jons (muay thai), Thiago "Jambon" Goncalves (BJJ BB / Nogueira), and "Super" Dave Rothwell (BJJ BB / GracieBara).

Figured I'd put this here as don't know where else to do so...

Am seriously on the combat sambo wagon and dying to start getting my butt kicked.

Since I'm now in Alaska and can see Russia from my backyard, why not learn from the source? (that and there aren't any schools here..go figure.)

All I can find on the interwebs is the female school in Vladivostok, and as much as I'd love to roll around with tough ass women, I think they'd 1)laugh me out of the gym, and/or 2)figure I'm some perve who's got a fetish for getting my ass kicked.

Does anyone have any info on clubs in Vladivostok?

Thanks.

To be honest though, I can see where people are coming from on this one. In BJJ you really do get down dirty and feel each other genitals and stuff, it's the sort of environment I'd expect someone gay too enjoy. I mean, I wouldn't mind wrestling with Jessica Alba.

http://www.sk-gaming.com/video/188043-Omg_Emo_Killer_DD Is this real? If so what martial art is he using?

I make threads about serious Martial Arts topics, and for some reason the majority of them end up in this old junkyard.

Why does this happen?

Hi all,

So, flu-stricken, I sit in bed and...
Think of how to better my training, of course!

Since it simply seems that there will be gym near my new place in Madrid that opens early enough to allow me a morning workout, I am putting stuff together for a home gym. (- Morning WO as an addition to the MA classes in the evening.)

I am basing my workout on Ross Emanait's "Never Gymless", which you bullies recommended me; my only concern so far is that Ross relies too much on the idea that one can hang something on a wall (say, a rope, a flexband, or, most importantly, a door gym for pull-ups).

Now, since don't have a garage there, but just a small room and an open terrace, I wanted to ask:

Is there another device, or more likely, another exercise I can use instead of pullups that would train the same muscle group but don't require me to rely on a "door gym" device? Another trick I can use to do pullups without having to endangering the door frames or the (thin) walls in my new flat?

Might sound silly, but this is the only problem I am facing right now. - Otherwise, the place is pretty much ideal for training...

Thanks a lot,

Rafe

Hi guys, long time listener, first time caller hailing from Liverpool, England.

Awesome forum, I can get lost for hours on here...

I reckon that the most trendy Martial Art is Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. If anyone wants to start cross training, they'll be instantly recommended to try out BJJ first. After that, I reckon Muay Thai is quite trendy. And then of course, there's the much talk about martial art which nobody actually does, Krav Maga.

Now what do all of these martial "arts" have in common?

• Effective
• Lots of groundwork, although Muay Thai is an exception.
• Used a lot in UFC, although Krav Maga is probably an exception to this.
• Nothing artistic or aesthetic about them.
• They're incredibly boring to watch. I think I'd rather watch the Power Ranger fighting each other.

Now I'm not saying that being boring and effective makes them bad Martial Arts, quite the contrary actually. It's just you know, in order to win something you always have to make sacrifices.

So what do you think is the most trendy Martial Art?

I was watching the BBC special, "Way of the Warrior" the special on the samurai, and it was a look at Risuke Otake who owned his own dojo in Japan and taught TSKSR. I was entertained by the thought of moving to Japan and learning these old samurai styles and secrets of combat. I haven't had much luck tracking this guy down though, and I don't have much info on the legitimacy of this art, other than what I saw. What do you guys know about TSKSR? Would it be worth learning? I understand most of it isn't real-world applicable but it would be interesting to learn these secrets passed down by the samurai.

I have been training at Lendermans for over four years now. Mr. Lenderman has over 30 years of teaching experience and is a 8th degree black belt. Mr. Lenderman's methods of Martial Arts focus on self defense and combative arts. Mr. Lenderman trains his students to deal with any kind of situation from stand up to ground and close combat to weapon sensitivity.