sensei8

I appreciate everyone's advise and input on this! Nothing's escaped me, please believe me...thank you, all!!

Those who sweep, imho, are going to get open themselves in a way that will cost them if the sweep is slow and/or disjointed. However, I believe that close range sweeps will fair far much better. Those TRYING to catch a kick are nearly impossible because a fast moving kick is attached...to a leg. A slow clumsy kick would fair far much better...OR...a kick that hangs in the air because it's not sharp and crisp and clean in and out of the meant target. We'll not see these often because it's not that the technique is low, but the confidence to pull them off is low.

I've never encountered what you've been experiencing in 50 years I've been on many different floor types. Train to grip the floor with your feet and keep your feet underneath you and not so wide and/or long. Shoes? Well, if it'll help and if it'll be allowed, and while training your core!!

YES!! Solid post!!

To me, all of the mathematics are akin to not seeing the forest because of all of the darn trees. Sure, study how to punch effectively across the board, but, don't be overwhelmed with the 'why' and 'because' of the punch, in that, the summation of 'why' is to the summation of 'because'!! Once you understand how to effectively punch, and you're making solid penetrative contact to and through the target, you'll find something else in your training that will cause you to ask...WHY?...and "BECAUSE!"...this is the beauty of Shu Ha Ri, isn't it?!! It's important to study how things work and why they work and how to improve it...that's discovery. Take the darn thing apart and put it back together over and over until a more economic way to effectively apply a punch can replace the old method with the new method until that method is replaced...then so be it. Sometimes the math of the whole darn thing gives me a splitting headache!! I can either baffle them with brilliance while on the floor or I can shower them with a truck full of dung or I can physically teach them how to execute a dynamically effective punch...I'll choose the last of the three. "Oh, it's way over your head!" No, not the hands-on of it all, but, yes, the mathematics of it does leave me in the dust at times. Why? Because that's not how I was taught. No! I was taught on the floor in a hands-on methodology by someone who would say..."YES...That's it...do it again!!"...OR..."NO...that's not it...try it again".

First of all, Welcome to KF; glad that you're here!! Try this... https://www.kyokushinkai.org.uk Look at their "Locations" tab; they've 4 schools!! They might be able to connect you to a Ashihara or Enshin dojo within London.

My dojo did the same, Naihanchi Shodan. Our Hombu, with Greg, our Kancho leading them, did Naihanchi Nidan. Those dojo's within the Shindokan network did Naihanchi Sandan. And yes...we had fun. However, none of us registered, and for that, I feel that I let the event coordinators down; our apologies to the solemnness of this event. I am to blame on not following this through!! I deeply and sincerely apologize to those who administered the Karate no Hi (Karate Day) celebration, it's a wonderful and meaningful event. Sometimes I'm too busy, but not too busy to make excuses!!

Thank you, hammer, for your many kind words. My contributions here are only existent because of the many wonderful and knowledgeable KF members here. For me, without you and members like you, I'd be doing more reading than contributing to the many vast topics we've shared ever since I've been here. Thank you!!

Thank you, ps1, for your kind words. Making the history was meaningful, however, without Dai-Soke to share in it, the journey, while complete with him in my MA life, the emptiness I feel at times is filled with many members here at KF...thank you, ps1.

Thank you for your kind words, Brian!! More importantly, I thank you for your friendship, in and out of the MA. And more than ever before, now that the celebration is done, my goal for 2015 is... Sharing the floor with you once again because once, isn't ever enough!! So, hell or high water, I'll be coming to Hays, KS in 2015, God willing!! Your friend, in and out of the MA!!

Well, the Redskins won...good game on each side of the ball!! I figured, that after winning 6 straight games, their winning streak would come to an end. It did! Sooner than I had hoped for. However, that's the Cowboy's W/L history. Now, Romo's out with a back injury, so to compound the W/L scenario, the Cowboys will have to rely on the back up QB, Brandon Weeden, against the Cardinals. The Cowboys, imho, will need more W than L because history, again, speaks about the Cowboys racking up more L's than W's on the last three games of the regular season. So win now, and win often to offset those loses for a playoff berth. GO COWBOYS!! ***Got my fingers CROSSED!!

Now I don't feel so bad that they whooped my Saints!! GO COWBOYS!!

Thank you so very much, Archimoto, karatekid1975, and Brian!!

Absolutely!! Thank you Sensei8! You're more than welcome!!

An owner of a business ends up working more than before. Why? Many reasons!! Labor costs, being one of the reasons; someone has to be there when the doors are open, unless your a home based business. Even then, someone has to "run" the business; it can't operate itself!! In that, you'll end up working untold amount of hours being the owner, especially at the beginning because you'll be involved in every aspect to make sure that your business is a profitable one; a success!! In that, you'll not delegate much, at first, if at all, because trust is earned and even then, you'll decide to do it all, unless labor costs isn't a concern. Takes money to make money. That can't be disputed because even the most basics of conveniences take...money! Don't want to spend much money, then expect to not make much money. However, the creator of the Smile Face T-Shirt made a fortune with very little money invested, at first, but to go nationwide and/or global, money will help one reach that journey. I've no suggestion as to the type of business you could start in the parameters that you've stated in your OP, but whatever drives you...do that! But even that, and especially that, might cost more than you can ever imagine. Takes money to make money...AND...as the owner, you'll work more than you can imagine all of the time. I'm not Patrick, KF Administrator, and owner of iFroggy Network, but I can imagine that he puts in some long hours, more than he ever imagined or dreamt, but that's his passion. Passion can calm many anxieties!! Good luck in your endeavor, now and in the future!!

After having a long conversation with Greg, our Kancho, I've stubbornly have to admit that my own dojo doesn't have a website simply because I'm cheaper than cheap. I don't want to spend an unknown amount of funds to create and maintain a website; for me, a website isn't a tangible thing that I can physically touch...stupid of me, I know, but I'm a miser...I'm a Scrooge when it comes to this. I'll spend untold amounts of making improvements to my retail store and to make sure that my dojo has the latest "junk". In that, I'm like a mechanic that has to have the newest tool, no matter the cost, just to have it because you never know if you'll need it, but it's better to have it than not to have it. I told Greg, I'm a cheaper than cheaper cheapskate when it come to creating and having and maintaining a website because my active student body is 308, at the time of this post. That's a respectful amount, imho. I've not been under 300 student body in many, many years!! I'm not hurting financially; I'm quite comfortable, and that comfort, I suppose, as far as I'm concerned, is the reason that I've become a Scrooge Master!! Is it stupid of me in this concern in this age of the internet? YEPPER...it is!! However, if I may borrow at movie line... "Mamma said stupid is as stupid does!"

Another great tutorial, Alex!! Always covering the fundamentals through and through!! As with any grappling transitions and the like, a lot of practitioners, especially beginners forget to properly address that their opponent is going to attempt to counter each and every movement, i.e., found in this, and in any tutorial, will not always work out in normal speed. In the tutorial of any technique and in any transitions, things work out during training drills as well as in step by step run-throughs that are being done at a meticulous speed for the sake of learning it. However, at normal speed, especially when learning a new transitional movement, one's opponent is going to attempt to thwart every transitional movement. That's to be expected, and that's to be understood, and that's to be trained upon so one can counter the counter and STILL successfully complete the intended transition. In this tutorial, the hardest, imho, is maintaining it to the end,...is placing one foot, and then the other foot into the opponents arms in order to prepare for the very next transition. Time on the floor, lessens ones frustration at this segment!! Will it work out each and every time? No, but the percentages of success are greatly improved over time, but things to happen and any grappler knows that, and in that, they're prepared for things to not quite work out so well. Recovering a momentary loss of transitional control is crucially imperative...recover it without pause, and if it's not possible, quickly change into a different transition all together because one movement leads to another movement, and so on and so forth, until the upper hand is yours, and not of your opponents. Sometimes, giving up one transition for another is part of... Study your opponent...study yourself...make a plan...carry it out!! That's why, there are more than just one way to skin a cat. Plan 'A' don't work, then go to plan 'B', and so on and so forth to control segmental transitions of our opponent's body. Center line, distancing, hip control, and isolation, and then some, as you've mentioned, are doable, and to be so, imho, omo is not an exception, preparation of hidden changes should be heightened during the transitions. That's the beauty of live training versus static slow non-resistive training. Discoveries are made, therefore, corrections are achieved on the floor/mat!! Again, Alex, great tutorial!! I'm now starting to see why you've opted to NOT showing the recap at full/normal speed. Keep up the great work. Off topic, again, sorry, but you're filming this with a GoPro camera? I've got to get me one. Come on Santa!!

I'm not a full-time formal training kyokushin practitioner, as I've cross-trained in it over many years, but I'm 57 years old with my core being Shindokan. I've no major or lasting injuries; I've been training in Shindokan for 50 years. The bold type above, imho, answers your own question concerning if there are "Any reason to not take kyokushin over the long run?" If the desire to train in kyokushin is that strong and you're not experiencing any major or lasting injuries that would strongly prevent you from pursuing your desires, then I say, GO FOR IT!! Listen to your doctor and listen to your body!! I mean, this might speak to your uneasiness... https://www.kyokushinkaikan.org/en/news2012/10/83-year-old-super-granny-tests-for-4th-dan.html Anyway, I wish you success on and off the floor!!

Congrats chrissyp; very well deserved!!

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

For just a moment... Forget, if it's possible to do so, that she's a child! Forget, if it's possible to do so, that she's a black belt! Forget, if it's possible to do so, that she's wearing a gi! Rate her Kata execution! I've heard so many times over the years that "She's/he's a child playing...she/he was performing memorized movements...how cute" because, for me, that argument's mute, because all of us that are training in a style that teaches Kata's, perform memorized movements AS ADULTS!! Was she performing a Kata or was she executing a Kata? Imho, they're not the same! Performing a Kata means that the movements are dead! To execute a Kata means that the movements are alive!

Absolutely!!

Possible interpretations of Bunkai's!!

Without any doubt, it's quite unsettling to deal with those who abuse the MA. Being an instructor of the MA for 4 decades, I use to take these barbaric acts as a personal act on what I hold dear within the MA. Why would they chose these less than honorable acts? I can only assume!! What's in the heart of man, is for him/her to say. Nonetheless, those disgraceful acts are theirs to decide if they are honorable or not. To those the choose to dishonor the MA, their acts are not a dishonor! Why? Maybe, it's the Martial...it's the war...that they find the pleasure in committing such horrific acts in the name of the MA..I suppose! Personally, I detest their actions, and in that, I can personally label them as unworthy of the MA. There's not much that I can do. I can report said student to the Police, but only if they've committed a crime; they will have their date in court. I can expel said student from both my dojo as well as from the Shindokan Hombu. I can pass rules of accountability within my dojo as well as within the Shindokan Hombu. I can erase their name(s) from my dojo as well as from the Shindokan Hombu. I can choose to never associate with this person(s) for the rest of my life; I've no use for thieves and liars, nor do I have use for those who would abuse and dishonor the MA. What can't I do? I can't, and won't, strip them of their rank/title. Our By-Laws forbid that; it's not an option, nor does an act exist that permits it. I can't take personal physical actions upon him/her. That, would be a crime. A crime in which I'd be subjected to having aforementioned five things done upon me; of which, I'd be guilty of. Modern times wouldn't permit me to commit unlawful punishments upon this type of person. After all, this isn't 1600 Japan, nor am I one to take the law into my own hands. Can I defend myself if they choose to assault me? Sure! Defend! Anything beyond that would be me abusing the MA; that's not an option I'd choose! Moral compasses have run askew in those types who would abuse the MA in order to commit crimes against others.

I agree...I train with the bokken more as a warm up before going live.