Go for it, Razormaid!

What slyle do you practice?

My Goals

To get down to 225 from 255 and lose 30 pounds this year. My next water polo activity is in February and the next one in June. Those should help considerably.

Be more selective in Comics Reading and explore new titles.

Try to express myself better here this year and cut down my number of postings. It's easy to do 10 or more a day here. It's can be addicting for a while.

Shotokan has some really fast front kicks... Very hard to block.

To think that some internet ninjas argue that no one can really use a kick in a real fight. Clearly they never got a moutfhul of sole. 

The foot sole, that is. Not the fish.

One of the most exciting UFC fighters to watch right now is Stephen Thompson, who has a karate background and makes full use of it in his MMA fights, maybe more than anyone else I've seen at that top level.

Hopefully find a job for the summer.

Revenge.

The interesting thing about front kicks is that while it is usually one of the first kicks you learn in several different styles of striking martial arts, you don't get to see it used too often because it requires the receiving opponent to be standing in a squared up stance exposing their centerline, and that usually implies an untrained opponent (unless you are talking about Muay Thai, which favors a more squared up stance).  So when watching sparring or competitive matches between proficient opponents, you don't see front kicks too often, except for the pushing variety, and people sometimes forget how brutal they can be.  Then Anderson Silva came along and reminded everybody.