[Like The Roman]

Thanks for your help, guys. I have many local MT schools, and know it´s a good art - however, from the MT fights I have seen, the better boxer usually seems to win. The kicks are awesome, though.

[zefff]

The better boxer will win regardless of the art...but its not the art anyway, its the school that counts.

[dscott]

It's not the school....it's the fighter.

[bamboo]

Robots still beat fighters.

[The BadBoy]

Actually I believe it's a combination of the art, the school and the fighter. You do get superior arts, you do get superior schools and you do get superior fighters. I trained kickboxing for 4 years at a gym with 2 world champions. Gimmie a good boxing or Muay Thai gym anyday.

[Triple T]

ninjas still beat robots. Which is why Hengest is President of Ninjania (formerly Robotopia).

[bamboo]

The robots shall rise again TTT. Perhaps as robot ninjas or even robots studying as ninjas or even right now, as I type this, a robot has managed to wear a Hengest disguise and is sitting in the shuriken shaped office of the presiedent of Ninjania with his metal finger on the button.

[Triple T]

Is this where the camera closes in on the face of one of those Robosapien toys and the music goes dun dun DUN?

[bamboo]

The camera would shift to a shifty eyed dog, shifting his eyes....

[lakan_sampu]

what karate school did you come from?

I have a somewhat similar (but off-topic) situation. My first art is Shotokan Karate and my rank is 8th kyu. 4 years ago I stopped training when I went to college. I got exposed and trained in Kombatan (an FMA by Ernesto Presas) in my stay at the university. I just graduated from college last month, and am back in my hometown. Right now, I'm training again in Shotokan, although not as intense and satisfying as my FMA.

After having some sparring matches (point system) with our 4 black belts, I noticed that among the other students, considering I did not train in Karate for 4 years, I'm the only one capable (so far) of scoring points against our BBs. I can go toe-to-toe with them. I just realized that because of palit-palit (in which I developed better footwork)training in Kombatan, I am at least at par with our BBs on utilizing ranges to strike. While their typical way of evading strikes is by stepping backward or sidestepping away, mine is usually by stepping actually towards them but at the same time out of the strike's range (I hope you are getting the idea in spite of how I write in english) and countering. I'm better at in-fighting, at least in my own perception. Our blackbelts are themselves adjusting to how I move in kumite, and told me that they're surprised that I'm not timid given my 4 years of training in another art. Another told me that she is surprised by my commanding (is my term right?) attitude in kumite, given the same reason as above.

Another thing is that considering the significant difference on Karate and Kombatan's forms (not kata, form as is, how I move), I'm facing little difficulty in adjusting, although my form in Kombatan becomes obvious in sparring.

The question now is: is this good? what do you guys think?