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Thus far, you’ve received solid feedback to your OP question. Instead of providing more detailed information/explanatios to your enquirer, please allow me a more simplified answer… Whether a kata is or isn’t either “beginner” or “advanced”…one’s Governing Body makes that decision.

My Knights take a lead, 1-0, in their playoff series against the Wild. I’ll remain optimistic but guarded because the Wild are no pushover. GO KNIGHTS!!

Heal first…get approval from your doctor to return to training, secondly!! The floor isn’t going anywhere; it’ll be there with open arms when you return to training!! As you already know, kobudo training can be quite taxing at times, and a body that’s mending can hinder its progress in any training, and libido is no exception. Hang in there!!

Quite presumptuous that nobody will do as KarateKen has suggested. One never knows what might or might not happen. I’d rather know how than not know, just in case.

You and Zack are STILL on the right track as far as all that’s required for a MAist, and you both should be very proud of yourselves through and through. Like Brian has already mentioned, as we get older we have to properly prepare and gauge and understand that sometimes a break away from training is necessary.

Congrats, Wado Heretic; well deserved!!

What can I say?? A’s are moving to Sin city. While that might’ve been a reason to smile at one time. That smile has turned into more of a frown. Yes, the season has just started but the A’s are back in familiar territory…last place. The A’s are indeed coming to Las Vegas. I like that idea for only one reason…my Yankees play against the A’s during the season and yours truly will be there in the A’s brand new stadium cheering for my Yankees. Poor A’s have to play their home games at a AAA stadium. Kind of a hint, I suppose. A MLB team playing in a AAA stadium, kind of a fitting tribute by its fans. The media room is a makeshift tent and the clubhouses are beyond the outfield wall. Not what a MLB team looks forward to experience…and the season has just started…it’ll be a very long 162 games. Latest mud in their face occurred just the other day during a A’s home game against the Mets when a Mets player, Jose Siri was injured by his own foul ball in the leg in the 2nd inning. Siri needed a ride to medical because where the A’s play during home games, medical is not a short walk at all. Here’s the mud in the face for the A’s…the medical cart broke down—it either broke down or it ran out of gas. Either way, the grounds crew had to push the broken down cart off the field. The A’s had to bring out a second cart to help Siri to medical. When you need an ambulance, the one thing you hope never happens is that your ride to the hospital doesn’t breakdown or run out of gas. Hopefully for A’s fans that this latest unfortunate mishap is the end for the last place A’s in a series of Keystone Cops antics…but…it’s the A’s. GO YANKEES!!

If I read what I read is accurate, the it appears that my Knights will first battle on the ice with the Wild first when the playoffs start. I don’t think that my Knights take their opponents lightly, and certainly the Wild. That would be foolish of my Knights to do so. The Wild has had a promising season and the playoffs between Wild and my Knights shall prove to be an interesting one. GO KNIGHTS!!

No. Yes, for the most. Our founder made it clear that while similarities may exist in the styles that Shindokan is based on, those were the building blocks for Shindokan. Over time, my own ready position can be found to be not exact as we were taught and what I teach because I’m an individual and not like some autonomous robot. Our/My ready position is what it is depending upon the situation at that moment.

To your first question…No. To your second question…Similar/Different: Hands up; back hand in front of stomach with lead hand no higher than one’s shoulder. Our hands are kept close to our body.

Our ready position is more upright than most MA styles with open hands. Our reason for our upright position is we can transition much quicker. Our reason for our open hands is for a more relaxed posture before engaging with said targets.

My dojo had a plethora of training “bags” and we used them daily in and out of any given class. I’m quite partial with a good old hanging bag, the better and more dense the better. A BOB is handy to have for various reasons, and I had many of them in my dojo. However, the fight with a BOB isn’t even close to a good old hanging bag. I don’t have to constantly pick up a hanging bag like one has to with a BOB. My students were impartial as to which bag they trained on during class because they’d work on whatever bag I assigned for that class but my students preferred the good old hanging bag. I never had any stations for class work for my bags, and I had many different bags. I’d assign whichever bag I wanted my students to work with at that particular time. When I read stations, I think of gyms and how they have stations where one goes from one equipment to another during circuit training, of which I’ve used at the gym but I don’t like that idea in my dojo.

Welcome to KF, Zayd_Nofal; glad that you’re here!! The effectiveness of any MA style is the responsibility of its practitioners. If the practitioner isn’t mature in its techniques, then the practitioner is ineffective, and not the style. Reason for a practitioner to not be mature in their technique is fear. What you propose might be feasible but then again, it might not be. Full control to the body with all of the force that one can muster can lead to injuries, and some injuries can be quite damaging, with the possibility that said full contact to the body might lead to a fatal injury. After all, the human body can only take so much, and the MA is designed to stop an attack, therefore, injure said attacker, if necessary. The MA is not a set of patty-cake techniques. I can only assume that the cost of insurance for a MA school as you propose would be quite expensive. If one was to teach what you propose with no insurance to protect both the students as well as the school, well, that would be very irresponsible of the CI/school. Imho.