NewEnglands_KyoSa

gahh no, i complete forgot about it, maybe i can catch it on re-run. i'll look tonight!

Yes, it is quite obvious that the MAs IS a business. You will have those students who don't care and those who do care. It is important to teach those who do care properly. The rest of them get whatever they want, minimum requirements minimum effort, just as long as they follow the rules and pay the rent it doesn't matter. It's the serious ones that should be taught correctly and properly. Yea sure, health conditions. I've never seen anybody drop myself, but i've come through the ranks with some very hardened individuals, but if you are doing all that are you not doing this because you are willing to become the best karateka? Each person knows their limits. Each person knows what he/she is getting into, especially now-a-days you choose to go old school on your own, there's an option today...train hard or train harder. If major school owner's don't have something "professionally prepared" then shame on them. If you create your waiver on your own, you are asking for it. Waivers are set in place for one reason...if done right, they work. Just like many other things in MAs...if not they would have been thrown out by now. Can some people make up crappy last minute waivers? absolutely. But if you know better you will take time and seek legal advice. Doing MAs IS a high degree is risk whether you incorporate old school or not, so good luck to that lawyer because he's missing a leg to stand on.Martial arts, is and always has been...a risk. I'm not here to debate the sense of doing some things with old school methods, and I'm not here to pick waivers apart either, I could care less. This is about what quality you want your true students to be, not the here today gone tomorrow students...your die hard, going to take over your school someday students. Do both methods work, yes but they get you different results. Starkly different? No, not hugely. Culture and tradition remain very important. It’s about one’s own willingness and what you want your students to be. Should you trade this to keep students? No. Should you alter things to here-today-gone-tomorrow students, disabled students, and fair weather students because after all…MAs are a business…yes. It comes down to what you want to establish as an Instructor, the question of how it reflects on you and what you want your reflection to be is a different topic.

Exactly. The kick in kickboxing is just a specification that denotes its difference in say that of boxing.

Haha, glad to hear i'm not the only one!

tallgeese, you're right. i really can't describe. He's so very traditional and just such an amazing man. the guy's older than dirt but could absolutely lay me out on my best day, he's just truly unbelievable. It's amazing how much i can learn from a fellow who doesn't know a speck of english!

yes, exactly like you said, in theory. your school probably places emphasis equally on both, but i think Bushido's saying that a lot of schools have placed the majority of their emphasis on kicks. so in theory, yes if it literally means the hand foot way. but realistically i think he's saying that most schools have changed to make it mainly a kicking style. good for your school though, if they have maintained proportianality.

DWx, i don't think it would because i think the name "kickboxing " denotes that you have to use your feet as well as your hands in a boxing type atmosphere. i don't think it would apply because it puts an emphasis on both hands and feet rather than boxing that's just the hands.

Hey Merciles: No its not just sugar packets but that's just an example of the things i do. I tend to organize many things especially my car, like your friend. And yes, i know i do get irritating to other people...i actually had a sugar packet incident where my friend got sick of me paying more attention to the sugar packets than her and she kinda threw them accross the resturant...she apologized and picked them up after she sent me into a panick. i have to-do lists everyday or else i can hardly get things done. i clean my car constantly and reorganize things like its my job. i just can't believe how it would be to have severe OCD because im only mild.

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Rocky Balboa of Course! Just kidding guys... Because of where i live(right next to brockton, ma) i have to say rocky marciano because he was like our hometown hero and i have to say for back in the day...Ali because he's just so fun to watch i always seemed to do more watching and less yelling at his mistakes. And for the now, i'd also have to say de la hoya.

I have been very fortunate and only have mild Obsessive Compulsive Disorder(OCD) and it doesn't really affect my life too much. Only when im out at resturants i put the sugar packets in order, that usually sufficiently bugs whoever im with but it's not too bad at all. But i have many students who aren't as fortunate and have a vast array of disorders.

Congratulations, that's awesome. I envy you guys, i wish mine was into the arts...instead i get an eye roll everytime i start speaking of MAs!

Listen to all us dreamers...

haha, smart man

I'd assume Chun Kuk Do, chuk norris's style, would have a great kicking influence seeing as he started with tang soo do.

Congratulations, it certainly sounds like you deserve it. Hope your ceremony goes well.

No i myself, but my instructor had a bout with Bill Superfoot Wallace and i have trained with an 11th generation samurai, i suppose you couldn't really call him a champion but his lineage, ability, and genral way of life is incredible.

Knife, gun, and stick are relevant and we do self defense trainging with them, and regular training with knives, or the Dan Gum(short blade). I think staffs could also be applicable depending on the situation you're in(broomstick, whatever). I think using weapons sets us up for working with other things that may be available to us if we actually have to fight to protect ourselves/others someday. Making another object become one with your body and your motion is very good to learn, especially how to strike with various things, various ways. Like tallgeese said, i think gun training is important. But some or i'd like to say almost most of the school owners out there don't have any experience in that area and that may give them a disadvantage in teaching you. I believe in it and I am just lucky that my Instructor is a detective and tactical team speicalist with many many years of MA and police experience. If instructors aren't well versed in gun defense i think they should either take a course to teach it to their students or offer a seminar with someone who does.

Yes tang soo do specializes in kicking BUT i'd say it is definately more of a mix than TKD, but yes we are noted for our kicking abilities. Can't think of any other styles off the top of my head.

Cool, some fresh, new wisdom! Welcome!

Welcome!

looks sharp. BMW's usually have great ratings.

Any sports car, because frankly, i have a need for speed. I'd need something with nice pick-up. And i need some trunk space to carry concrete, boards, and huge gymbags and weapons around. If only...

Insurance is just a fall back for the absolute insane happening. Waivers should cover what you are referring to perfectly with the correct wording. What is comes down to is what you are willing to put into the mix of the qualities of your students. Do it or don't do it, that's whatever schools problem. I'm going to stick to doing MAs and keep away from basket-weaving. Do whatever works, teach how you teach, because the all that matters is that in the end your true students that stick with it become better than you are.

Congrats