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Well, it bears to be repeated, again...awesome tutorial, Alex; top notch. Great breakdown of the sequential components; nice tight and compact through and through. What I'm about to say is something that I'd be amiss if I didn't...better have options available when each sequence is countered. If not, bad things begin to happen. For example, while opponent is standing, and you try to place your foot against your opponents outside, farthest away, foot, your opponent slightly moves that foot out of range. Transitional counters attempted by your opponent are NOT the end of the world. Don't panic...work it out without giving the farm away!!

It's a good thing that Shindokan doesn't teach high kicks because my right knee hasn't been the same since I was a JBB; I accidently put a Kama deeply into it!! Ever since, my right leg kicks, high ones that is, have been a struggle. Probably good thing that my left leg's fine. As I get older, my right leg, from my knee to my toes is always numb. I hobble until I get the walking motion in gear; then, I'm fine. Those first couple steps are a struggle.

What are the opinions of companies that offer free website creations and the like?

This is a very solid post; one I can never forget!! Your points are right and effective in hitting the heart of the matter!! Thank you, cheesefrysamurai. I suppose that I felt, as well, that the vantage of having a website was to reach the world, i.e. the masses. But, I wasn't ever interested in reaching nationwide, regional, or global. I just want to reach those locally, especially those within the immediate area surrounding my dojo. Narrow minded of me? Oh, yeah!!

1 loss...6 straight wins...followed by 2 losses. Pattern is starting to scare me and it's looking quite familiar. Mommy!! Go COWBOYS!!

This is really cool. Your Sensei will smile from ear to ear!!

My wife, Linda, quit after earning her yellow belt; I was her instructor. I wasn't sad or glad or mad or anything. I treated her like I would treat any student that wants to quit...I DON'T CARE IF YOU STAY OR LEAVE; IT"S YOUR CHOICE!! I told her..."If you think because we're married that I owe you something on the floor, you're sadly mistaken; no favors!! Get off my floor, and get off it now!" That was some 20 years ago, and we're still madly in love with each other, and we're still together...still married!! I've never trained in a hobby before. In a MA?...yes, that I have been doing for some time.

Solid gift!!

Welcome to KF; glad that you're here!! It was my pleasure to share the video!!

Many MA schools have video tutorials....many here at KF do as well...but...I don't even have that. I've not written a book, either. I've no website...I've not written a book...I've no video tutorials...seems as though I've failed at reaching many opportunities, therefore, I've failed!!

Very glad to hear that you're healing well!! Nothing and nobody can ever replace ones MA family. Being together for so long, one really starts to depend on them both on and off the floor!! Your MA family sounds like a MA family that I'd love to be part of; there's that comfort that surrounds you from the time you walk in and far after you've gone home.

How many here personally know of a school of the MA that is successful, but, that school doesn't have a website??

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!!