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Been a while since I posted. So recent times, I got in to keto diets and surprisingly enough, its pretty darn good! Like I noticed use of carbs and fat is a moving target. If I carb up, I can go without carbs for few days and feel incredible if glycogen is full like having a dinner party but then I need to fill in my glycogen with carbs again. But I just noticed that this is a new dimension in to my karate training. Also I have been really working on my Himokiri Karate or should I say lots and lots of Nukite and I noticed its getting significantly better and actually training nukite really helps with accuracy in boxing and throwing punches straight down the pipe and the diet does help because you feel calm energy and I feel more of a relaxed/less excited and so I end up focused more on accuracy and laser focus strikes vs volume work. One important thing to mention is, I ease up on meat consumption. Still consume it but not in excess. I love to hear if any karateka has tried keto diets before? If so what did you eat? How did you feel? What did your karate turn in to?

Pay attention to your "spidey sense", when you get the vibe things are about to go bad. Watch out for people approaching you on the street trying to distract you. (I had this with attempted pickpockets in Europe) Don't get into it with road rage. There's no way of knowing why or what you're up against. When you're stopped, leave space between the car in front of you, to be able to pull away. Remember there are cameras everywhere these days. They won't stop trouble, but they might get you IN trouble.

I've been enjoying it immensely. It's can be hard to teach your children, especially at first. You're their parent, and kids have a hard time switching into that mode of learning rather than just being your child. Anyone with a child who was in school during lockdown can tell you this. However, it is very rewarding.

There are few things in martial arts practise that are as rewarding as the opportunity to share it with one’s own child. Generations ago it was much more common for parents skilled in something to actually pass it down and teach/train a son or daughter. The possibility of this is actually a great personal reason to keep practicing.

It's almost a rite of passage to ruin a white gi with bleach

Not quite sure how the black belt in judo would have any impact on TKD tbh (other that maybe comfort in a competitive setting) so don't see why it would need to be disclosed. I have always liked the BJJ way of dealing with other grappling arts tbh: it is convention over here that if someone is judo BB and enters a BJJ tournament they enter as a Blue Belt as a minimum due to experience. Karate, kickboxing etc. grades don't matter as it is a totally different fighting style. I try to do the same when it is a related style: when i came back to karate a couple of years ago i told the instructors my prior experiences in other styles and whenever i was sparring with someone new i would let them know (often the instructor did too) that i had prior experience in other striking styles (including karate) and whilst i was wearing a white or low kyu belt they could spar harder. I did the same at my judo club before any newaza. But didn't bother mentioning any striking experience as it didn't seem relevant. For me the rule of thumb would be: is the competition using a similar skillset to one you have acquired elsewhere and have been assessed to a higher level of competency that in the style you are competing in? If yes then needs declared to the comp organisers and let them decide how to deal with it. If no then it's irrelevant and if in doubt then check.

My first student was my child. Unless you want a more philosophical answer, in which case I was my first student.

When I first started training kata was my least favorite thing to do. We used to have M-Thursday class, and I hated it on Thursday night when the last ten minutes was kata, because I knew I wasn't going to get to train anything else until Monday. As I got older kata became my favorite thing to train. One of my instructors was talking about forms and said, "students say kata is boring, but that means you are doing it wrong." That made me rethink it.

I'm not a MLB fan but I hope it is the Brewers and the Mariners, neither franchise has ever won the World Series.

that happens to everyone! is a progression: when new you get smashed by everyone and basically suffer for a year or two > some people you can smash and everyone else smashes you > can smash more people but those who smashed you before often still smash you etc. The smashing never ends unless you were a teen / child prodigy and end up Mica Galvao!

This afternoon I watched the original Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein. Those were the good old monster movies.

Those are all great. The one I've really focused on is self-awareness. Another thing I preach about is being able to articulate the actions you took to law enforcement after the incident. Saying the right things are tantamount to keeping yourself out of more trouble.

It’ll be a very interesting NHL season!!

I just want to mention that this story is NOT true. I sincerely apologize for having not have taking the necessary time to find out if the story was or wasn’t true.

We watched Night of the Zoopacalypse recently. When I heard about it, it was pitched as a horror movie for kids, so we watched it with our 3-year-old. It was good, kept our attention. But as far as horror goes, I recently watched Until Dawn, Friendship and Freaky Tales - I feel like the last two are debatably horror, but it looks like they are considered to be by some. Sinners, Y2K, and Trap a bit before that, earlier in the year. I liked them all. Friendship was super uncomfortable, haha. Freaky Tales was fun.

If you are teaching, who was the first person to be your student? How did you find this person or how did the student find you?

It really is just pure greed!

I just checked WWE Wrestlemania, and a ticket at section 326, corner, $341 and a ticket at section 338, middle, $1,744. Nose bleed section 436 costs $953. 2-Day Pass in Section A4, on the floor that faces the main camera is $15,019!! Give me a break!! Someone’s lost their mind!! Anything, except UNLV football games, at Allegiant Stadium will got you a small fortune!! The powers that be get away with charging high prices because some fans have more money than they’ll ever spend in a life time!!

Tbh as someone abroad i have always thought you guys get the short end of the stick with charges for sports. UFC and boxing are an easy example: if i decide to pay for a boxing PPV here (and it is normally only the biggest high profile fights that are a PPV) it is about £20/25 usually - i was shocked to see it is $99 in the USA and covers a lot of the fights. Similarly my subscription to TNT sports (formerly ESPN etc in the UK) includes almost all UFC events - i only pay for the biggest ones that are a PPV and sometimes i object on principle to paying when i already have a subscription! You guys definitely get ripped off - I also saw the head of TKO openly saying that WWE prices needed to change as they were stupidly priced to allow families to attend and it was leaving potential profits on the table! Sheer greed - if families can't attend then they are costing themselves potential future customers!

I was amongst the unhappy fans about Goodell’s SB announcement. It’s their product and they’ve the right to market it any way they feel fit to. Money speaks in volumes and is the root of evil. Putting SB on a PPV is as evil as it gets. I suppose only the rich are to enjoy PLE and not anyone else. How rich do the rich need to be?!? There’s no affordable PLE sports and entertainment in Las Vegas, or any where else!!

I do think that there is some nuance here. If the TKD tournament restricted poomsae (kata) to only TKD forms, then I can see an argument being made that the black belt should be allowed to compete in a lower rank for the poomsae section. However, personally I disagree with the argument as presented. A black belt in another system will, all things being equal, have much more technical prowess over their poomsae than someone at the same level. In this case, all roads, regardless of merit, lead to the competitor only competing in the BB divisions.

That’s no joke!! I once I took it upon myself to wash my own gi when I was a JBB. The results were catastrophic. I put quite a lot of bleach in the load to insure my gi would be sparkling white. What I got was not what I expected. My gi was white, for sure, but it fell apart. Needless to say, my mom banned me from her laundry room for life. If you use bleach, exercise caution by reading the instructions and warnings found on the bleach bottle.

There can be many reasons to find lying about rank objectionable depending on perspective. If it’s done at a competitive event, it is a form of cheating. Much like a pro athlete passing off as an amateur just to compete in a local level tournament. Anyone with a sense of fairplay would justly call cheat/fraud.

For sure man, I sometimes do raw vegetarian cleanse on and off but I said to myself, why not try keto, I feel like even with fruits and honey, I feel like I am taking in a bit too much sugar and carbs so I did keto to balance things out and my god it was AMAZING! Like with keto flat bread, I made pizza, burritos, quesadilla and sandwiches. One thing I noticed is, I feel full, no crazy energy but no crash. Food is super delicious and when I put back on the gi and tighten the karate belt, I dont feel bloated at all. Like I dont feel a gut sticking out. At hot yoga, few people are saying I look way thinner. One thing is, I am trying to eat less meat on keto. But even with meat, I still feel pretty darn good. Give it a try and let me know. Also no starvation or going to bed hungry or with a headache either. Occasional Nutella craving will kick in but everything is smooth sailing.

I have not tired it but am now going to give it consideration after this post. I am especially interested in the carbs aspect. My diet is too carbs heavy, though it is better than it once was, it can be improved further. Thanks for the post

Seeing that it’s a TKD tournament, and that student has a green belt in TKD, I’d say that that student should wear a green belt, but at the same time, that student should inform the Arbitrator that they have a black belt in Judo, for integrity sake, and allow the Arbitrator to make the proper decision.

I take an active part in a local tournament circuit. When I started attending that circuit, I was either a 4th or 3rd kyu. I went as a black belt, because that was the highest rank I had attained. It didn't matter to me that I wasn't a black belt with the current school. I had attained a black belt in my first school. For me, there was of course the ethics of competing at a lower tier. It's unfair to the other competitors who trained very hard to compete. More than that, though, was that I had no desire to compare my skills to lower ranks. Playing a video game using cheat codes isn't nearly as fun as playing it as intended. Similarly, I want real stakes. I want to be able to lose. I want to be up against people who are not only at my skill level, but above. I want to learn. I can't do that sweeping the green belt division. Similar to what others have said, if I found out that anyone was lying about their rank to get an easier competition, they would be expressly forbidden to coming to any more tournaments.

I just want to mention that this story is NOT true. I sincerely apologize for having not have taking the necessary time to find out if the story was or wasn’t true.

I've seen something similar to this. A guy that was in our TKD college credit class actually had quite a bit of experience in Olympic style TKD, and was from Greece. He was very quick, a good sparrer as far as the Olympic rules went. I don't recall exactly, but if he wasn't a black belt he was a very high colored belt rank. But, our TKD organization uses the Chang Hon forms, and he had to learn them, so his rank was dropped to white belt (he did skip some ranks as he went along in the colored belts). He competed a few times at our national tournament and some others we went to. So he was usually sparring below his actual experience level, and shockingly, he won. I also had to start over as a white belt in this organization. I was a 2nd dan in my prior organization. I never competed as a colored belt rank in my current organization, as I thought it would be disingenuous to do so. Once I got to black belt, I did compete. The scenario you mention, if I was running a tournament and found out afterwards, I'd make a call and let them know they were not welcome back to my tournament.