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Hopefully any new stadium HAS A ROOF on it because playing football in a blizzard north of I-40 can’t be fun at all. Oh, one last thing…seeing that the taxpayers help finance the stadium, shouldn’t the taxpayers get tickets at a much more affordable prices?!? Ticket prices to a Raiders home game in the nose bleed section are, well, STUPID…gouging at its worse.

My Knights scored 5 goals in the 3rd quarter against the Kings for a 6-4 final!! GO KNIGHTS!!

There’s everything about this that I love. Removing redundancy at all costs and by all means. The unfortunate difficulty lies with the overbearing Governing Bodies because they want it their way as though their way is the only way; that’s ridiculous, of course, and that’s why our founder left the Okinawa powers that be. Their way, the Okinawa powers that be, is their way and it never has been the way of our founder, and it’s not my way. I don’t have to tell anybody about the Heisenberg Principle that says the act of observing a phenomenon changes it.

The one thing that I always stress to my students is that whatever the techniques found in a Kata, the bunkai isn’t always as one might assume. The Gedan Barai that a white belt might execute in, for example, Taikyoku Shodan, is not always what it appears to be. This is one reason why we teach bunkai starting at Jukyu.

In addition… Neither of us have to like the way any of us CI’s address a testing cycles because we have to do ‘you’, not ‘me’ or anyone else…just do ‘you’!! In the same chord, not one CI have to tolerate how any CI approaches how testing cycles are conducted because ‘I’ do ‘me’ and ‘I’ don’t do ‘you’ nor do ‘I’ ever want to do ‘you’ and ‘I’ surely don’t want ‘you’ to do ‘me’. We CI’s should be complete in our totality whenever it comes to how testing cycles are implemented across the board. If ‘I’ do ‘You’ long enough, ‘I’ will no longer be ‘me’, but ‘I’ will become ’you’ which ‘I’ have no interest in that whatsoever, and neither should ’you’. I don’t ever want to become a worse valueless shoddy imitational version of myself by losing sight of my integrity. Imho!!

Is there at least a syllabus, so that the students can practice on their own at home? I think a problem that can arise from this is the material they need not being covered on the day they show up Well, that’s the responsibility of the student to come to class. IMO, the very existence of tests already does that. The last BJJ school I trained at did belt promotions every quarter, but there were no tests. You were simply promoted based on how you were evaluated on regular training days To each MA school to their own. Testing Cycles were held once every 3 months, and once a year at the Hombu’s Annual Testing Cycle. However, Testing Cycle Candidates must petition to the Hombu, of which, not every candidate is eligible for said Testing Cycle. Unannounced or short notice? Because “unannounced” creates a “right place at the right time” scenario that leaves out guy that did movie night with wife and kids because he was unable to schedule that around the test Perhaps I misquoted myself. The Student Body knows the Testing Cycle schedule and that it’s held once every 3 months…March, June, September, and December; the Hombu’s Annual Testing Cycle was held every June/July. Exact date and time are posted 1 week before said Testing Cycle schedule. This is why I think the list of testable items need to be kept short. If the list is too long, there’ll be little to no time to do things that are not on the test Wells, our Testing Cycles have an exacting detail to them. Lower the rank being tested, the shorter the Testing Cycle. Higher the rank being tested, the longer the Testing.

I appreciate you saying that. Patrick, if my memory serves me correctly, took over my team, or for the most of the season, because I was struggling to keep up and such.

That’s quite sad because the WNBA players play their hearts out every game. There are some players that are beasts and could hang with the men with no problem. The Las Vegas Aces are quite a good team, having won 2 WNBA Championships. Unfortunately the WNBA, like Brian says, are barely viable. Crying shame!!

Sign me up, Brian!!

Is there a WNHL hockey like the WNBA is for the women’s basketball?!?

That’s right because there’s Kansas City, MO and Kansas City, KS.

Yes. That comes about from not having matured in techniques yet, as well as being afraid. Imho!!

I’ve never bought a condo/honeycomb; I’ve always been a renter. Many of my relatives have bought new homes; my dad built 2 house; one for his mom and one for himself. My understanding about buying a home is that one should NOT buy a home in a HOA community because the HOA can be a nightmare; they can end up taking your home away. Good luck in your search!! Please keep us updated.

Wonder if the Chiefs owner will build another apartment for him inside the new stadium like he did at Arrowhead Stadium?!? Dumb question…after the Chiefs move across the border, will they still be the KANSAS CITY Chiefs?!?

I’ll not be interested this time around because last time I did it here at KF, I SUCKED!! It had been such a long time since I played fantasy baseball that I was beyond rusty and I ruined it all for everyone else across the board. If you do run it again I’ll definitely read the updates the whole season.

Great update; thank you, Brian!! Any thoughts about what type of different approach for the Regionals, especially against that one wrestler?!?

Women’s Olympic Hockey Team?!? I didn’t know that there was such a thing. Good for them!!

This topic is NOT about passing judgement about how a MA school approaches Testing Cycles, a.k.a., belt tests. How does YOUR MA school approach belt tests?? There’s no wrong answer because of either phrase “you say tomato, I say tomato” and/or “You say potato, I say potato”, which illustrates differing perspectives. Here’s how we prep upcoming Testing Cycles…WE DON’T!! We let the chips fall where they may. Prepping for a belt test puts the importance on rank and nowhere else!! An unannounced belt test is preferred because either one is ready to defend themselves or one is not!! Not both!! You want to prep for a belt test?!? Fine!! Make sure you attend regular classes and practice as though your life depends on it!! CI should be focusing on fundamentals, improving physical and mental conditioning at every class and not be concerned with any testing cycle without ignoring, for example, the three K’s: Kihon, Kata, and Kumite. Every passed Testing Cycle is a measured advancement of ones maturity in techniques. Regular class and practice…that’s the prep; focus on class and practice which is the focus on the fundamentals. You outwitted my chancellor and you bested my swordsman whenever the floor is in play. The floor should always be a serious place and not a place where rank is first and foremost. I’ve witnessed schools of the MA that concentrate on the next testing cycle and not on the fundamentals. Making sure that the students are ready for the test by concentrating on the next test requirements and nothing else. Whereas, and because of that, those students are not ready for the streets. Imho!!

Excellent!! It’s what we call… ”Study your opponent, study yourself, make a plan, and carry it out.” looks like you guys had a great Testing Cycle. Congrats to everyone!!

Hopefully with all of these hirings and such that teams will somehow get better on both sides of the ball. That’s what a fan would like to see each season. GO COWBOYS!!

Yes, you did show me that version when we trained together. That’s the curse, no matter Shindokan’s methodology and ideology, that Shindokan is quite absent of high kicks. Because of the high kick arsenal of TKD is why I took 1 year of TKD. That sinister turn-around roundhouse kick was the bane of my JBB tournament days; I can’t begin to tell you how many times I walked into that kick.

From time to time but not as often as I should.

The jump spinning back kick has been my most favorite TKD kick because I can generate a lot of power, Btw, I also feel in love with the turning-around roundhouse kick, as well. I was most fortunate to have learned them both from GM Suh, and adding them to my arsenal was a turning point because they’re definitely NOT Shindokan in any shape, way, or form.

Excellent topic without any doubt; thank you for starting it, Noah. I enjoyed you YouTube video on this concept across the board. We also train in this concept as well because it greatly aids us in our close range which is a key factor in the Shindokan’s 4 key factors. We don’t use the term “quadrant’, we use ‘sectors’/‘zones’, and no matter how the concept is labeled, it’s effectiveness cannot be denied.

Hence the reason why we’re so very strong whenever it comes to our set-ups, aka, our distractions, whether it be with our feet and/or hands and/or in combination. After all, one can’t just stroll behind our attacker at will; set-ups are everything.