Comments on: Ballet and Karate = Balete? Graceful Karate Moves! /ballet-and-karate-balete-graceful-karate-moves/ Reviews of common self-defense, karate, and MMA issues Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:12:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: John W. Zimmer /ballet-and-karate-balete-graceful-karate-moves/comment-page-1/#comment-1398 John W. Zimmer Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:53:38 +0000 /?p=597#comment-1398 Hey Bob, So much for mixing the Ying and Yang :) I would have thought the ballet skills might have created some amazing katas! Yes that aggression is probably counter institutive to ballet. Thanks for sharing your experience Bob Hey Bob,

So much for mixing the Ying and Yang :)

I would have thought the ballet skills might have created some amazing katas! Yes that aggression is probably counter institutive to ballet.

Thanks for sharing your experience Bob

]]> By: Bob "Broke Dick" Patterson /ballet-and-karate-balete-graceful-karate-moves/comment-page-1/#comment-1388 Bob "Broke Dick" Patterson Wed, 18 Mar 2009 10:02:27 +0000 /?p=597#comment-1388 Interesting post. My taekwondo school had studio space in a university ballet studio. Basically they were nice enough to let us use their crappiest studio. Every semester we'd have two or three ballet students give it a try. They excelled in flexibility and memorization of steps but sucked at execution. They hated full contact and had a lot of trouble with the idea of punching or kicking "through" a solid target. In the 3+ years I was there we only had one make it to brown belt before she quit. The others never lasted beyond basic. -B Interesting post. My taekwondo school had studio space in a university ballet studio. Basically they were nice enough to let us use their crappiest studio. Every semester we’d have two or three ballet students give it a try.

They excelled in flexibility and memorization of steps but sucked at execution. They hated full contact and had a lot of trouble with the idea of punching or kicking “through” a solid target.

In the 3+ years I was there we only had one make it to brown belt before she quit. The others never lasted beyond basic.

-B

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