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My Japanese teacher wanted me to retake Japanese 1B and get an A in the class. Originally I got a B- because I forgot to do half of the online quizzes. So I am. So far I can't believe I ever found it hard. Save today, but that's because my mind was at home sleeping while my body was at school, pulling s**t out of my a** and hoping it was right. It's not really my academic classes that are tiring me out. It's the hours, 7am-11am and 7am-1pm and the fact I have two very physical classes. My body has no time to recover from all the muscle damage in Karate because the days I don't have it, I have intermediate Tai Chi. Where literally 2/3 of the class is physical conditioning. Mondays and Wednesdays I have Tai Chi. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays I have Karate. My legs and arms feel like they're about to fall off at the hips and shoulders. gonk Mind you, to remain with this style of Karate you must either be incredibly determined or a masochist seeing as how you're in pain within the first 5 minutes of the class which just increases through the rest of the class.

Classical Mythology is very interesting though. And I'm sitting in Japanese 2B.

Vain, Koori has passed out. The technique she used was an all or nothing, that if used in a video game, would leave the user at 1HP.

Whoops, guess I gatta do a bit of editing there.

Jesus, the drummer in this band is hardcore.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=2ppHDz9P1LM

During the ending the drummer nails the bass drum so fast it sounds like a machine gun.

I'll check the vid in a sec, and thank you Ryu, I'd be glad to take some tips; you got a lot more experience in the field then I do sadly X_X

That's the thing about black metal, Travis. It's not power metal.

I just never got into Avatar.

Quick question before I star recommending. Are you allowed to use elbows? Since the majority of my conditioning works mainly on the forearms, shins, thighs, inner thighs, chest and stomach. Also they can be dangerous, such as doing it wrong and breaking limbs. For my style of fighting, I use my elbows quite a bit. Mainly as my main damage dealers. Nothing like a rock hard elbow to the temple to kill you or to the chin to break your jaw and knock out teeth. Or even to break ribs. The exercises help hurt your opponent when you block their blows and remove 90% of the hurt in your arms from their blows. Not to mention to just get you used to taking hits.

Here's a list of what I do to condition.

Arm Pounding - Okinawan style
Get into opposing fighting stances. One person throws a punch off of their rear leg, and steps forward off the rear leg. The other steps back with the foot coming forward, forcefully swings his arm up and pounds the inside of the punching arm. Arm must be the inside arm. With the other arm the blocker comes below the punching arm performs a circular block, and without holding the arm, makes a fist with the first hand and pounds into the muscle of the punching arm. The blocker then punches. Wash, Rinse Repeat, stepping up the strength each hit. When switching arms one person punches twice, the defender performs the pound twice on each arm.

Leg pounding.

Get into opposing stances, on person kicks the outside side of the shin, then the outside of the thigh, then with the rear foot kicks the inside of the thigh. Say about half strength. This builds up the muscle density of the blocking areas of the legs. As well as the muscle over the femoral artery. Make sure the legs are entirely flexed and bracing into the kicks. It hurts at first, so don't go all out on the first runs.

Stomach pounding.

This is used to make sure your bracing your whole body for the punch. One person punches. Just as the person finished, the other, who is knelling next to the person, hits the person in the abs with a "clothes line". Make sure you vary on the hit zone. Nothing sucks more than taking ten blows in the same spot over and over.

Another way to do this is, you get oner person to stand there. Entire body flexing, save the head. Yes, every muscle for the ankles to the chin. Arms should be forward, palms up. Fingers back as far as possible. So that the muscles in them are flexing as well. Fingers tight together. Thumbs pressing in as hard as possible. The second you get the right hand position it should hurt. After about 30 seconds your hands feel hot and full of pain. Arms should be so tense that your vains will be popping out like you have an adrenaline rush. Your hips should be forward so your abs are flexed. To get the proper shoulder position roll your shoulders back. When they are as far back as you can get them, press them down with your muscles. You should be able to fit your fist with your thumb fully extended between your elbow and your stomach. When fully tense. The other person punches you in the abs, as hard as possible. If you get the wind knocked out of you, you're getting punched too high. Breathing normally in that stance will be hard. You need to exhale short at the normal rate.

Chest pounding is just like the stomach except at half strength. You don't want to break ribs, or stop your heart.

As for attack conditioning, find a nice smooth tree. Go buy a non plastic twine rope. Make sure you can wrap it around the tree several times and still tie it off. Tie it around the tree big enough for your fist and start punching.

For the hammer and blade edges of the hand. stand to the side of the tree, or anything hard for that matter. Clench your inside fist as hard as possible and slam the pinky side as hard as possible. Make the sanchin spear hand, as described above in the stomach pounding. Raise the elbow so it's level with the ground, place your middle finger on your brow, making a tight and round circle, bring that shuuto(classic karate chop) into the wall or tree or whatever. Do it hard. Right off the bat you should be able to do it at least 100 times. After 100 times reverse to position and start slamming with the hand that was doing the chop and start chopping with the hammer fist.

Elbows.

Raise up the ropes to about shoulder height. Give your wrists a few good rotations to warm up. Take you hand, place your thumb below the rest of your fingers. It should be nail to thumb. It should look something like an animal paw. Take that fist, and bend it forward. Your forearm should feel like if you do it any harder you're gonna rip something. Raise the elbow to shoulder height to the side of the body and slam it into the ropes. The muscle tension is the same as a rising elbow strike, so it doesn't matter, except for strike force. You wont get the same power to the side like that as you would doing a raising strike. A good way to bulk up those areas is with pulls ups.

If you want to make the crown of your head dense for head butting, get piece of wood or something and tap just above the hair line. That's where you want to hit when head butting as it's the thickest part of the skull.

A funny story about that head butting business.

A friend from school's dad used to be a cop. He had practiced Goujuu Ryuu(Sister style to Uechi Ryuu) for years. One day he got a call. Some s**t was happening, I forgot what, but he and his partner had to respond. Some d**k head there got in his face and started cussing him out. So he head but him in the nose. The guy had to under go facial re-constructive surgery because he didn't only break the nose, he broke the cheek bones and forced them I think it was 1/16th an inch back into his head.

Mind you, he had to be let go because of years of "police brutality".

Also, nothing beats hundreds of sit ups and lots of push ups for bulking up. I do something like 350-500 sit ups every other day and about 50 push ups broken up with kata practice. Which is just as intense because in Uechi, you remain flexed during your katas. Also to get that flex down, stand there when you're cold or something and start to flex, count to 10 and each second flex harder. You'll get warm fast. After the first ten seconds you'll probably be sweating. Also good for strengthening the muscle.

You use your whole body in Indie, one of the msin reasons I love it. Thanks for the tips, I'll pass them onto Bardok as well; he's mainly a striker and submissionist focusing on elbow strikes, head buts, and arm holds. Personally, I am more of a punching and kneeing guy with a love for strangulation submissions.

Epicness: income tax came in today. I got myself a ps3, second controler, Devil May Cry 4, and the Orange Box. Bob and I were taking turns online with Team Fortress 2, and right now Cait's playing Portal while Bob's setting up the Razor keyboard he got from work today. I was kinda pissed that they were out of stock for Call of DUty 4, but I stick glot $200 left over, so I plan on checking elsewhere, then picking up some manga and anime.

It really is a sick game,Bardok got it when it launched. He also plans on trading me Eye of Judgement, as he doesn't have the pactience for it (He originally bought it because I planned to, and figured we'd play together, but he got tired of waiting), so I might be getting that off him, which saves me $70. Cait's ******** flying right through Portal, she just started a few mins ago, and she's already almost done level 15 O.O But, I can't wait to bust open DMC4, my thirst for story and carnage grows...

And thanks for the heads up, Bardok pretty much told me to keep a fan on it when excessively playing and to not excessively play it.