Wing Chun and Aikido

**-TANK-** · Posted On: 1/04/2013 9:38pm

Originally Posted by Diesel_tke

I did some sparring last night. I used the stuff I know. It worked. Thanks.

Awesome. Most know lots of stuff, except much of it DOESNT work. I love to hear about stuff that works, what worked?

**Diesel_tke** · Posted On: 1/04/2013 9:57pm

Originally Posted by -TANK-

Awesome. Most know lots of stuff, except much of it DOESNT work. I love to hear about stuff that works, what worked?

Footwork angles, distancing, roofblocks, I worked a lot of different cutting angles, some baiting paid off well, and feinting.

**Holy Moment** · Posted On: 1/05/2013 8:13am

Originally Posted by -TANK-

Awesome. Most know lots of stuff, except much of it DOESNT work. I love to hear about stuff that works, what worked?

He's mocking you, dude.

**Vieux Normand** · Posted On: 1/05/2013 10:12am

Originally Posted by ermghoti

I had always wonder which art would help me beat somebody I had an eleven inch and 100lb advantage on. Who would have guessed teh chunz?

Holy ****, the number of times I've heard "You can only make Karate work because of your size" at work.

1) I'm not that big by the standards of the business I'm in.

2) The bodyweight and other conditioning I do has been an integral part of my Karate training ever since I first took it up, as much as the full-contact sparring and crosstraining.

EDIT: Seriously, why do so many small guys have be such whiners?

**jeffphansen77** · Posted On: 1/09/2013 7:52am

Originally Posted by Holy Moment

This made my morning. I knew all about the MMA fails but I never knew a chunner found their way into the ring against real strikers.

Yimchaloi, take notice here. This poor chunner was a decent specimen. Young, reasonably athletic, & with plenty of height & reach. And there was no grappling to take his style out of it's intended element. His style set him up for this.

**-TANK-** · Posted On: 1/09/2013 10:02am

Originally Posted by Holy Moment

He's mocking you, dude.

Kinda, but not really- I only WISH I could use my feet, feel like I am in mud...all the time. Cant salsa dance either.

**Ignorami** · Posted On: 1/09/2013 2:52pm

There's one main reason aikidoka don't compete in MMA very often, and it's a simple one...

We are above it.

Don't know about the chunners though.
I expect it's related to angles. Octagons have so very many of them.

**MrGalt** · Posted On: 1/09/2013 3:15pm

Originally Posted by Holy Moment

Holy ****. Kakuda sensei taught the Thursday night white belt classes at my dojo in Osaka. He's an awesome guy. Really approachable, good sense of humor, patient with students. I've never looked up one of his fights before.

**W. Rabbit** · Posted On: 1/09/2013 4:48pm

Originally Posted by MrGalt

Holy ****. Kakuda sensei taught the Thursday night white belt classes at my dojo in Osaka. He's an awesome guy. Really approachable, good sense of humor, patient with students. I've never looked up one of his fights before.

Awesome.

His intro music is John Cafferty's "Hearts on Fire" from Rocky IV.

Joe "I've Got the Power" Sayah..not so much.

**frizzaro** · Posted On: 1/09/2013 5:13pm

Originally Posted by MrGalt

I have a year of it myself, but I'll still stand by my point. I've never met a capoeirista who thought of himself as a fighter anyway. All the groups I ever played with considered themselves basically dance troupes.

Here in Brazil, the Capoeira it's not just a dance, the dancing aspects were used to decieve the slavemasters. When they have a "roda" (fighting circle), they choose if it's a "jogo" (game, just to practice) or "à vera" (full contact with a lot of injuries). My brother-in-law is a "contramestre", with almost 20 years of Capoeira. And when he fights à vera, he is a freaking monster.