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Did he also follow the myth of always look at the opponent, which turns ends up in them sticking their heads out like a nodding pidgeon?

The simple act of bowing and taking yoi can be done so badly at times.

Where the Achilles joins the calf popped when I was at squad training a few years back. I fell to the floor and immediately turned around to look behind to find the person that had just hit the back of my leg with a metal pipe. That's how it felt, weird. I had to drive back home as well. Hope the re...

It's tempting to say that they may be fast but not as strong and tough as before, but I read the comments on YouTube and you can see that the Japanese fighter loses a tooth as the medic stoops down to pick it up. I assume it is a tooth. On the first footage I thought Agahyev took a dive but on the c...

karateman7, open source of information - I like that. I think it is true that we can say 'Those who want to see the light will see it.' But as some of us have on various forums, tried to give some light, there are those that have invested so much who won't try and look, there are those won't believe...

Thank you all for posting the links and photos so far.

Doing martial arts and getting paid to eat out, sounds like heaven.

I'm quite surprised at how much you can read as a preview on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Moving-Toward-S ... 0804831602

Thanks Tim. That was much better footage.

This is just a bit of fun. No need to watch if you have no interest in WKF shiai. Aghayev versus Matsuhisa. At 3 minutes they score a kick. Not sure of it myself. An energetic match though. Matsuhisa being tall and thin has a look of old school Geoff Thompson in his movements. The techniques are a l...

A trait of mine seems to be to buy books at the drop of a hat and to begin reading them and then sideline them for the next impulsive buy. The top book on the small pile by the bed is currently "Moving towards stillness" by Dave Lowry, From Tuttle Publishing. It is a collection of short es...