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Well done sensei8.Why stop at toe touching, next stop one foot behind the neck; no rush, at your own pace. Thanks, Alan!! LOL...I think I'll skip that for awhile...don't want to, ahem, be a show off.

Yes, this is great news, tubby!!

No, I've never used a Tetsugeta, and I do agree that ankle weights usage if there are no Tetsugeta available.

There's a big difference between resisting during sparring and resisting while the teacher's teaching/demonstrating. A profound difference. And the teacher shouldn't be using much force while demonstrating. The point of demonstrating isn't to hurt the student nor is it to show the class the teacher's technique doesn't work. That's what sparring is for. It's like a science class (I'm a science teacher, so I have to go there)... The demonstration and practicing the taught material without resistance are the lecture portion. Sparring is the lab. You prove and disprove in the lab, not during the lecture. What if the person has been in many labs and lectures beforehand?Science is continually being updated, or is it not so when someone is wearing a white lab coat? The ego problem can be with the teacher just as much as it can be with the student. As one person will eat what is served to them while others will send it back, due to its low quality in one area or another. If I had one martial art teacher, then everything is cut and dry, with who is to blame; in my case, having many teachers, with not one incident with most, how is it that the younger the teacher is the more problems arise? Simply a lack of experience and social skills on the teacher's part. That should be teaching kids and not adults due to not knowing how to deal with people that have real life experiences "Under their belt" To the bold type above... Who's running the class? Student or the instructor? Student came to the instructor to learn, and in that, the instructor didn't look for the student. Imho, you were incorrect because you're the student who disrespected the instructor, for what? Because you felt like it. The bearded guy in that video was dead wrong because he's anger issues, for what? Because he's not the skill set required...that's his problem.

I really don't put much of an emphasis on the hows of kiai with my students, nor with those within the SKKA Student Body, nor whenever I'm conducting a seminar outside of the Shindokan circle. I simply tell them, whomever it might be...just open your mouth and sharply exhale loudly quickly. Once that's aside, then I'll teach them the finer points of kiai, which are quite minimum. For me, the kiai, and the teaching of it, is the simplest thing to learn on the floor, minus bowing. Humans have been vocally loud since birth; it, the kiai, is just that simple!!

Yes, they are; compasses to weigh upon. Honestly...I don't care one bent pin or not. It's the individual's betterment that I care more about. The style, if I may be as bold, is just a thing. Of my MA? No, not really. Individually, well, that's a complete other thing, and to that, yes, they are the foundation and/or keystone to my MA betterment. Without them, anarchy and havoc rear up their ugly heads unchecked.

Without ambition, there's no reason to ever step on the floor, just as long as the ambition is knowledge and experience based; everything else, i.e., fame and/or money and/or rank and/or notoriety, destroys ones own MA journey...imho!!

Because of our premise was of a seminar, we were allowed to wear our black belts, but at their insistence, and not ours.

From Shindokan, WC looks like every other style of the MA; disjointed!!

Simply, yes, because Shindokan, like every other MA style on the planet earth, are limited by design.

That's the beauty about the MA; disagreement of methodologies and the ideologies of the given MA style, no matter what it might be. We, in Shindokan, teach resistance across the board from the model of teaching, and in that teaching model, we've two variants: 1) Non- Resistance Teaching/Learning 2) Resistance Teaching/Learning Nonetheless, we're criticized for our methodology/ideology that ours is wrong/incorrect/etc., and oftentimes, vehemently. It's our way, and our way isn't disrespectful nor is it harmful to anyone in the Student Body, yet, our way is effective in both the teaching/learning models, as well as in the application(s) that we utilize.

Solid post!! I know from recent, and ongoing, journey to do that very same thing as described in the OP.

Ahem...lost the oversized belly first. [Pointing at myself before I lost a lot of weight]; I can touch my toes once again!!

Imho, Whenever the CI is demonstrating something, whatever it might be, for the students to drill on during class, then the assisting student, no matter what, should NOT RESIST the CI because the demonstration is for TEACHING ASPECT ALONE!! The only time that the assisting student should ever resist the CI is if the CI has instructed the assisting student to do so!! In Shindokan, this is how it's done. This is how I've been teaching forever and a day. One of Shindokan's staple is that we incorporate resistance training IN EVERYTHING WE TEACH!! Students are LEARNING A NEW WHATEVER, and this is the time to comply with the CI. However, when the CI insists of resistance from the assisting student, which that too is a learning aspect/tool, then resistance is expected and with resolved determination. Why complicate the learning process?? Because the assisting student decides to be difficult for whatever the reason(s) might or might not be!?!? Because the assisting student had a hair-brain idea to difficult the learning process!?!? Because the assisting student decided that he/she is running the class, and not the CI!?!? Why?? What's to be gained from this act of disrespect?? There's a price to pay for disrespecting the CI!! And no, I'm not speaking about physicality actions, whenever there are other ways to address disrespect. As to the video shown, well, had it been Soke and/or Dai-Soke and/or myself, they/I would've succeeded against the resistance from that assisting student; there's more than one way to skin a cat. The bearded gentleman has NO BUSINESS in teaching ANYONE because one, he's no idea what he's doing, and two, he's an anger issue; ineffectiveness across the board. Also, I don't know what the history between the two are, and what might've feed into the altercation between them two, but something must be alerted the two other gentlemen who were standing near, then standing much closer, then intervening, then wrapping up the bearded gentleman.

Solid post!! Sad thing, at times, is that kids nowadays, know much more profanity than many adults; culture and/or times that we live in. Still, refrain from profanity when kids are on the floor...it just seems like the very right thing to do, and in general, the same applies to the adults, as well.

Yes!! I've enjoyed him immensely!! He's been dubbed as the Next Superstar of Striking. A well rounded fighter, but his striking aspect is close to being unparalleled in the MMA circles, especially since he's only 18 years old and still in High School. He's got some of Benny "The Jet" Urquidez in him. You might enjoy these highlights of his... https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=mcafee&p=Tenshin+Nasukawa#id=5&vid=ddac289e2095f5a508fa387bbff836e6&action=view How about a McGregor VS Nasukawa...OR...a Mayweather VS Nasukawa?!?!?

Wondering out loud, which in itself is scary enough... What would it be like, both professionally as well as personally, IF profanity wasn't only encouraged, but was also required, at the school whatever MA?? Would it be a disaster across the board of unimaginable proportions?? OR Would it become the new rage of the page?? Shock TV...Shock Radio... Now here comes, live to your nearest friendly local MA school...Shock Dojo/Dojang!!

I read Shannon's article about this very movie; she denounced it. Because of Shannon's opinion, I'll not watch it whenever it's released.

I'm never ever satisfied!! Why? For me to be satisfied, that means that I've nothing else to learn and/or discover; an ill weathered acceptance of limited abilities that's only an illusion. Besides, I'm the furthest thing from perfect!!

I very briefly watched the first episode...and couldn't endure anymore. I don't enjoy the reading and watching at the same time...one or another, but not both at the same time. It being in a TV format, I lost interest faster than a speeding bullet; what liberties did the producers take to get their story told. It's not for me, so, I'll not entertain it.

Interesting. Thanks for sharing that, Alan. I know better, but I'll more than likely continue to crack my knuckles for a start, and then crack anything else that I can. I even crack my nose!! I know...I know!!

Sounds great!! Hang in there!! Enjoy...teach your heart out!!

This IS Shindokan!! This too IS Shindokan!! Again, this IS Shindokan, as well!! Our Soke created in Shindokan an Okinawan style of the MA that was equally with standup as well as groundwork; none being more important than the other. Sure, Tuite is the core within Shindokan, but what your Wednesday Waza demonstrates IS an important aspect of Shindokan. Thanks for sharing that, Noah!!

My thought... I don't care what might've influenced Karate into existence because I'm, as a Karateka, am so very glad that Karate exists, nonetheless!! I don't care what might've influenced the dessert, Death By Chocolate, because I'm glad that it exists!! "That's not so deep, Bob!!" Yep, that's me...simple Bob!!

New school masters lose their passion for teaching, as well; the old masters don't have the monopoly on that. Share and share alike, I say. Reaching burnout does happen within our industry, and it can be a sad thing, but an even more disheartening to witness, and even more alarming to experience oneself. Does that mean that that instructor, old and new, is worthless? No. It means that they're human after all. I've experienced that burnout myself from time to time. Check this KF link... http://www.karateforums.com/instructor-burnout-vt39059.html Whether it be deemed as losing ones passion for teaching or it being deemed as burnout, it happen to a lot of instructors, no matter the circa, no matter the individual, and no matter the cause(s). Knocked down 7 times, but getting back up 8 times!!