ytz; vitamins dont fuck you up, they are essential. If vitamins come inna natural way they cannot harm you. Only docters say you dont need extra vitamins, but what do they know about food nowadays? They dont learn anything no more about food, instead they give you pills, and a half year later you find yourself again at the doorstep of your doctor with the same problems.
Byron, yeah I'm full with contradictions... I started with Kyokushinkai Karate and quit that after 4 years, cause I am not interested in building up stamina & keeping fit. I am more attracted to longer term goals like perfecting fast moves and train piece of mind in all situations, cause these things can really save you in extreme conditions.
Now I did more than 15 yrs training in Aikido, and here I found my way. It is maybe one of the most difficult martial arts and takes lots of years practice before you can say 'I am convinced now I really can do something'. Also you dont need to train stamina, instead you learn to breathe right, while being active all the time, and be thrown around- or throw someone else yourself. So in Aikido there's a lot of stretching and you learn to break your fall intensely (and don't underestimate this, falling is the most scary and unnatural act there is for us).
Watching an Aikido demonstration may seem thought-out artificial and well goreographed, but its not.
Its because the Japanese have a tradional way of training, simply because you cannot just do throwing techniques on someone who does not know how to fall, after 2 times you just dont stand up anymore.
These guys in Aikido demonstrations break their fall perfectly and are very fast, so it only seems like nice moving around or dancing if you will...
Try it and take a first lesson, hardly recommended!
Short demonstration:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aicHsMC6rxM[/youtube]
With the sword & barehands afterwards:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL9qSMTlqFU[/youtube]
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