Hi Vicki, How are you? Have you tried using your legs and your body weight to drop down versus bobing and weaving?

What does it say? My computer won't pull it up for some reason.

I asked the question I guess I should Join in the conversation. The reason I asked is that a lot of men put emphasis on knuckle conditioning. In a real world situation In will take the bruises on the rest of my body. Due to previous altercations I already have boxers breaks on both hands. This was ...

Toughening

I was not saying that legs are not important, but I have discoveered that if i focus too hard on onee portion of my body another portion seems to go lacking. Especially legs because we use such deep stances at our dojo. Which is another good way to work on the legs.

How many women out there condition their bodis and how?

Why focus the legs only? Shouldn't we as females train for strenghth in our upper bodies,as that is our weak area? After all when we have a weak area in martial arts, isn't that where we focus our atention to bring it up to par/

This is my first time on this site. A friend reccomended it to me. This is a good thread. My question is Why do we not learn to defend attacks against the head? In my dojo we do. They are right. Most attacks are to the head in a street fight. We train to hit to the head. We learn the vital points ...