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Is his base karate?

If so then that's shitty news for him, there's like 3 people in MMA that have managed to make karate work for them at all in unified rules and inside of a UFC cage.
I think it is, yeah. This was apparently actually supposed to happen in 2006-2007 but didn't materialize for whatever reason.

Three? Lyoto Machida (Shotokan), Georges St-Pierre (Kyokushin, although he doesn't use it much), and who else? I'm drawing a blank...

No matter his base art, I hope for his sake he cross-trains heavily. The days when you could come in with a single style and win are pretty much over. Unless you're a wrestler, then kinda have a shot. 35 IS pretty old to start out, though, Randy Couture notwithstanding.
 
THe dude doesn't LOOK like all he's been doing is Karate.

Also, most of the original power rangers were martial artists.. I saw the original blue ranger (Billy!) do a back flip once, just cause someone dared him. No warm up, in street clothes.. just suddenly jumped backwards, flipped over and landed.

Then he got wasted on stolen beer, but that's another story.
 
Is his base karate?

If so then that's shitty news for him, there's like 3 people in MMA that have managed to make karate work for them at all in unified rules and inside of a UFC cage.
I think it is, yeah. This was apparently actually supposed to happen in 2006-2007 but didn't materialize for whatever reason.

Three? Lyoto Machida (Shotokan), Georges St-Pierre (Kyokushin, although he doesn't use it much), and who else? I'm drawing a blank...

No matter his base art, I hope for his sake he cross-trains heavily. The days when you could come in with a single style and win are pretty much over. Unless you're a wrestler, then kinda have a shot. 35 IS pretty old to start out, though, Randy Couture notwithstanding.[/QUOTE]

Didn't Chuck Liddel start with karate too? I could be mistaken there. I know he had wrestling as well for his take-down defense but I'm pretty sure his standup came from karate.
 
It's actually even worse... Frank uses his own invented style... which is probably just moves stolen from other, more successful styles.
 
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Skinny Santa

Yep.

"Grrr, fighting, grrr... Oh God, I think I love you..."
:rofl:

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Now if anybody could post a video about two guys fighting, going to the ground, wrestling and then start kissing each other... I think I'd die of spontaneous combustion...[/QUOTE]

My friend wrote a sketch once that went kind of like that, except they were fighting over the remote instead of it being MMA. It was pretty hilarious in the show we did.
 
Calleja, this would lead to an interesting question: What was in the beginning?

But pondering on this question will lead to another flamewar eventually, so I better not discuss it further...
 
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coolbeans

I tried Brazillian Ju jitsu to try and improve my ground work, short story is, I sucked at it, however the following is probably true
 

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Is his base karate?

If so then that's shitty news for him, there's like 3 people in MMA that have managed to make karate work for them at all in unified rules and inside of a UFC cage.
I think it is, yeah. This was apparently actually supposed to happen in 2006-2007 but didn't materialize for whatever reason.

Three? Lyoto Machida (Shotokan), Georges St-Pierre (Kyokushin, although he doesn't use it much), and who else? I'm drawing a blank...

No matter his base art, I hope for his sake he cross-trains heavily. The days when you could come in with a single style and win are pretty much over. Unless you're a wrestler, then kinda have a shot. 35 IS pretty old to start out, though, Randy Couture notwithstanding.[/QUOTE]

Didn't Chuck Liddel start with karate too? I could be mistaken there. I know he had wrestling as well for his take-down defense but I'm pretty sure his standup came from karate.[/QUOTE]

You are absolutely right, he's trained in Kenpo karate. That little detail had escaped me.
 
I tried Brazillian Ju jitsu to try and improve my ground work, short story is, I sucked at it, however the following is probably true
If I hadn't learned a good amount of Jiu Jitsu I don't even know if I'd still be alive. Jiu Jitsu has saved my life on more than one occasion.
 
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Skinny Santa

Does this have anything to do with your title? Knife-Jitsu story methinks?
 
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