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Yes!! Albeit, that that's something which can only be answered by the individual. Leave the fear outside of the dojo because the CI is just a person, nothing more, and there's every reason to be/feel confident.

Solid post!! Thanks, Alan!! I walked home this afternoon from WalMart after we went shopping for groceries; this is something I do on a regular basis. That's a 1.5 mile walk on various topography. Armed with my cell phone and a bottle of water, I began my brief sojourn home. My wife called me every 10 minutes to make sure I was alright. It was quite warm, so I dressed very light and wore a baseball cap to keep the sun off me as much as I could. That walk took me about 30 minutes. When I arrived home, I checked my heart rate, and surprising enough, it was 113bpm...AWESOME!! I was expecting it to be 170bpm - 180bpm, but I was glad to see that it wasn't That walk was a brisk one, but I paced myself.

Solid post!! In my competition days yesteryear, whenever I was the Arbitrator of said tournament, I never saw an Eku or a Timbe/Rochin, and most of that was due to the specifics of said tournament as regarding what Kobudo was and wasn't allowed. Me, being an practitioner of an Okinawan MA style, I would've completely enjoyed and appreciated to see a competitor wielding either of them. I believe that those judges on said judging panels would still award appropriate points to said competitor who wielded one of them without never have seen one and/or practiced with one and/or having never judged either because, as we all know, there's wide parameters to judge accordingly. For example, the very first time I judged a Musical Kata, I was awed at what I saw, however, I had to put that aside and judge accordingly to what that tournaments judging parameters laid out, and nothing else, for that division. I saw Eku done twice. I recognized the kata from seeing my sensei at the time perform it. My question of how do they judge a weapon they've never seen probably wasn't worded exactly as I meant it... Assuming it's a tournament that only allows traditional kata, if the judges have never seen a timbe/rochin kata or a nunte bo kata before, how do they know it's really a traditional kata being performed and not something made up? Do they trust the competitor is being honest? To the bold type above... As an Arbitrator, I'd pose this very simple question to all of the assembled judges, just after I've read to them out loud the acceptable Kobudo weapons under the parameters of the Traditional Weapons Division...and if the Eku as well as the Timbre and Rochin is on the Traditional Weapons Division approved list, as determined by the Tournament Director. "Are you familiar with all of these said Kobudo weapons that I've just announced?? If not, raise your hand!!" Whomever raises their hand, are dismissed from any and all judging pool immediately, and thanked for their honest as well as their time. If during the course of the tournament that I discover that a judge has misrepresented their familiarity of those previously mentioned acceptable Kobudo weapons, then that judge is forthwith dismissed immediately. IF THAT'S THE DIRECTIONS OF THE TOURNAMENT DIRECTOR!! However, I've been Arbitrator before at tournaments where there were NO approved Kobudo Weapons list available for the judging pool to read. Whenever that happened, I simply instructed the judging pool, if they are judging a Kobudo weapon that they're not familiar with, then keep this in mind... Control of the weapon must be paramount and continuous at all times. After that, judge said Kobudo weapon just like you would do with the one(s) that you're the most familiar. After all, no matter what type of Kobudo weapon it is, or might be, or appear to be, that said Kobudo weapon is the extension of ones body, and it must be in control at all times. That's how I'd judge either of them if I hadn't ever seen either of them before. Don't judge the book by its cover. Same to Kobudo...don't judge the Kobudo weapon by its look, no matter how familiar it might or might not be.

I believe that the type of violence that a MAist uses to defend family, loved ones, friends, and themselves is necessary, and in that, it's gauged...it's controlled, as well as nominal. Whereas, outright and intentional violence is not of the MA, but it's of the individual. The MA is peaceful; that's one of the MA most revered maxim, and it's not taken quite lightly. I'm not "violent" until I'm forced to be so, and whenever I'm forced to be so, it's a peaceful violence. To me, this isn't a oxymoron. Imho!!

Shindokan methodology of Oi Zuki is your example #2. Our timing has everything starting and ending at the same time, to and through said target. However, as to the timing of it, our advanced Oi Zuki is where the feet start first, then followed by the hands to, and through said target; a slight pause, if you will. For Shindokan, that slight pause serves us as a means of transitioning around the opponent within our close range.

My battle is still waging forward; no give up in me!! I do miss the hard workouts that I've become accustomed to since January, when my Afib was eliminated via a Cardiac Inversion...the shock of my life, so to speak, to get my heart back on regular sinus rhythm. My modified workout as of late is better than nothing. StairMaster *20 minutes *Level: 4 or 5 with a 2 minute cool-down at the 10 minute mark and at the end of the 20 minutes, both on level 1. *Heart Rate: 154 *Calorie Burn: 235 TreadMill *20 minutes *Speed: 3.5 for first 5 minutes, then 3.0 for the remaining 15 minutes, with a 5 minute cool-down at 3.5 *Incline: 2.0 *Heart Rate: 170 *Calorie Burn: 300 ***Note: With Afib, the heart will race!! My heart will race near 190bpm if I go any higher than 2.0 incline. Put me on my usual 8.0 and 15.0 incline, for the time I usually go, is very dangerous for me, and being able to calm down the heart at that rate, is, for me, difficult to do. Rowing *10 minutes *2000KM *Heart Rate: 150 *Calorie Burn: 180 Stationary Bike *10 minutes *2.5 miles *Level: 5 *Heart Rate: 160 *Topography: Hilly with gears set at 6 out of 12 *Calorie Burn: 210 Free Weights *1 hour *Various [With this, reps outweigh weight] *Heart Rate: 155 *Calorie Burn: 275 Battle Ropes *30 minutes *13 different exercises *Heart Rate: 160 *Calorie Burn: 175 Hanging Bag/Kata *5 rounds of 3 minutes each [Kicks] *10 rounds of 3 minutes each [Hands] *26 Kata's, at normal speed *Heart Rate: Hanging bag = 160...Kata = 165 *Calorie Burn: Total of both = 325 Pace!! That's key with Afib. Cardiologist has always said for me to do whatever I can tolerate. For me, that advice SUCKS!! Why? I can tolerate quite a lot; always have, always will. So I push myself, admitting so, because that's what I've done my entire life, especially when it comes to the MA...I don't know the word NO or STOP or QUIT; and if I'm not careful, I'll push myself into a coma or into a coffin. So, pacing is difficult for me to adhere to. So, I'm speaking with a trainer this Thursday 7pm to conduct an assessment to help me to recognize whenever I might be pushing myself to close to the danger zone regarding my heart rate. Don't want to have a heart attack of any type while I'm at the gym. Still on track with my weight loss...but I've hit another plateau of not getting lower than the 250lbs range, and I've still got until October 2017 to lose 35lbs to reach my weight loss goal. I'm still carefully watching my diet; very strictly!! Will still do the four 5K's remaining in this year, with 2 in August and 2 in September. Be buying my mountain bike next month. Just have to be smart...and PACING MYSELF!!

Solid post!! In my competition days yesteryear, whenever I was the Arbitrator of said tournament, I never saw an Eku or a Timbe/Rochin, and most of that was due to the specifics of said tournament as regarding what Kobudo was and wasn't allowed. Me, being an practitioner of an Okinawan MA style, I would've completely enjoyed and appreciated to see a competitor wielding either of them. I believe that those judges on said judging panels would still award appropriate points to said competitor who wielded one of them without never have seen one and/or practiced with one and/or having never judged either because, as we all know, there's wide parameters to judge accordingly. For example, the very first time I judged a Musical Kata, I was awed at what I saw, however, I had to put that aside and judge accordingly to what that tournaments judging parameters laid out, and nothing else, for that division.

The violence that I speak about concerning the MA is not what's reported on the news in print and video. No. However... What we do, and can do to another human being is a violent act in itself. What I have within myself, at the point and the moment of my being attacked, has the very high percentage of causing my attacker(s) quite a lot of misery through my intentional resolve to defend myself; this, sad to say, will require of me to be violent to some degree. I'm no walk in the park! And if need be in order to defend my family, loved ones, friends, and myself, I will act violently. And yes, my defending my family, loved ones, friends, and myself, even if it's a simple push, that too, is a violent act. There's nothing simple about whatever I feel that I must do to protect those most important to me, including myself, because that quick block and punch/kick to my attacker is a violent act of some unknown degree.

I have had a Wing Chun instructor, show me a knife defence technique, while he was holding the (wooden) knife.He told me to grab his wrist, on the same side that he was holding the knife. I held his wrist, he turned his wrist out of my grip and slashed my wrist, the knife was wooden but sharp enough to draw blood. I quit his class after the incident. He felt that he didn't do anything wrong. Life is full of matters of opinion. With my TKD instructor, no one explained anything to me about how to behave when assisting with a demonstration. Previously in the same TKD school, I was helping with demonstrations in a self defense class for the public. Where I was the attacker and the CI demonstrated on me the moves to defend with. I never questioned or disobeyed anything that was asked of me during the self defence seminar. I let the attending self defense students beat me up, to build their confidence; had no problem with this aspect either. Communication when doing demonstrations should be agreed upon before hand and not to expect the assistant or the CI to be left in a situation that can be either embarrassing or in a position of uncertainty or vulnerability. Solid post!! I agree...communication is the key across the board. The CI needs to make it understood as to what's expected for both/all. Assumption is where trouble is birthed, and where it remains if no one questions. I always make it understood as to what my expectations are for both/all while we're on the floor...no matter what...NO EXCEPTIONS!! As the CI, the responsibility as well as accountability falls onto me alone...if I've not communicated exactly what it is that we're going to do...EACH AND EVERY TIME!! If I've made it understood as to what my expectations are to whomever, and they decide to rear-up their own agenda's, then the responsibility and accountability falls to that student. Clear and concise communications always, and if at anytime that anyone doesn't fully understand, questions must be made and addressed. As the CI..EVERYONE'S SAFETY is mine alone to be responsible AND accountable at all times while on the floor, wherever that floor might be. Bring your agenda of your own free will...1 warning...continue in that...you're banned from my floor forever!! Not risking my student body, or myself...for no one!!

Welcome to KF, Byzantine; glad that you're here!!

Where? Do you mean towards the very end of the video? To me, that/those weren't what I consider a suplex. To me, a suplex is a belly to back suplex, and never the WWE version.

By all means!! I get a kick out of just how far they are from when they ended the kata, to where they started the kata; not even close.

The bald guy and the bearded guy and Alan, all affected the learning by serving their own agenda, in which, nothing served to value anyone. Not the student body...not the CI...not either of them...no one. Appropriate learning must be paramount, and at all the time. Go along...don't go along...these are under the guidelines of the CI, and no one else. If the CI is teaching no-resistance...then that's what's meant; nothing else!! If the CI is teaching resistance...then that's what's meant; nothing else!! Students, guests, and whomever else are on the floor at the invite of the CI, better know their role, and their role is to learn...just learn...and not to serve up their own agenda's. Imho!! OK...going back to my corner!!

That right there...is why we do kata with our eyes closed as often as we do kata with our eyes open. It's that awareness that we take for granted. Especially when one of the senses, in this case, sight, are taken away. It's true, things get tougher, but the other senses make up for it. Your movements are much more to the point, and wasted movements become things of the past. Adapt and conquer, I say!!

Welcome to KF, KarateLdy; glad that you're here!!

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The suplex, imho, isn't all that and a bag-of-chips. My counter to it, and it's not let me down yet, is to make my back as wide as I can. The more surface to ground available, the more can be absorbed.

Do they need to be evaluated based on combat effectiveness? It depends. Do they purport to be combat based arts? If so, then yes. However, if the answer is "it's a sport art" then no. Is fighting without violence possible? No. Solid post!! Violence, no matter how one views it, is the necessary evil. Without violence, of some degree, there's nothing that we can do as MAists.

Just a very quick story regarding bowing... In the west I think we have a tendency to consider bowing rather insignificant (apart from the intended display of respect and humility) and easy. I remember a course held by a senior Japanese instructor I used to train with where, after starting with a bow in he preceded to spend about 30 minutes explaining how to bow (tachi-rei, and za-rei) - as he was appalled by the fact that, as he said - 'no one knows how to bow properly'. The course was attended by many 6th,7th and 8th dans from all over Europe - many of whom hadn't a clue they weren't bowing properly and more importantly why! Disappointingly however - most didn't seem to care. K. Solid post!! To the bold type above... That is sad, but not surprising. They missed a great opportunity to increase their MA, as well as their personal, betterment. Whilst I say that kiai and bowing are about the easiest thing to learn for a beginner, there's more that meets the eye with either of them. Do both right sincerely, or just get off the floor!!

Perhaps you can fool most of the people, most of the time sensei8, but who can write 12566 comments on martial arts and not be considered anything but outstanding.I appreciate that; thank you, Alan!!

Nothing in the MA is absolute; therefore, proof is on the floor!!

That Shindokan has it's limits across the board!!

Congrats singularity6; well deserved.

I've been doing kata with my eyes closed since 1964. It's one of my Dai-Soke's favorite drills. It's weird the first dozen or so times at first, but, then, you start to see the advantages of doing kata with your eyes closed. That since of awareness is highlighted as never before. You "FEEL" the kata!!

I'm as normal as the day is long, who has aspersions, just like others. I put on my gi like everyone else. I train like everyone else. I tie my obi like everyone else. So on and so forth...like everyone else.