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For me, I define effective as one being able to stop said attacker without prejudice and absolute.

Great interview!! I, too, want to thank you for all that you've done to support KF. Maybe one day, if that opportunity ever arise again, you'll come back to the MA floor of your choice. Thank you!!

Great interview!! I've enjoyed your posts as well without any doubt. Your humor, as others here have noted, is infectious as well as right to the point. I've always looked forward to your posts without any reservation. And as tallgeese has pointed out...I'd/we'd like to see you more often here at KF!! Thank you for all your contributions that help make KF the great site that it is.

Most definitely deserved across the board!! Congrats!!

As much as it pains me to say...[i'm a Yankee fan] CONGRATS to the Boston Red Sox on becoming the 2013 World Series Champions. Well deserved!!

A belated...Happy Halloween.

My 10 reasons why the MA isn't effective...all of the time... 1> People aren't perfect; neither is any MA. 2> Someone else, somewhere, is better. 3> Thresholds vary. 4> Guns and the like. 5> Boards don't hit back. 6> Waiting for an attack. 7> Applications flawed outside of ones mind. 8> Rigid transitions. 9> False securities about ones MA abilites. 10> There are other ways more effective to defend oneself than the MA. Add all of this together it, imho, still boils down to this...People aren't perfect!!

This experience has made me much more suspicious about a many things than I was in the past. In this area, my learning curve spiked a billion for the betterment of our Hombu and it's entire student body. Won't ever happen again...not on my watch!!

Where there's 10, there'll be 10 more that will deride the original 10 because our experiences are different and not always in tune with one another.

As the current Kaicho, I've had to put out a few fires from time to time, but either our complaints are being handled before they get to me, or our Hombu is doing a better job across the board and no one has anything to complain about. LISTEN!! This, imho, is the most vital tool one can have when addressing any said complaint. And not just listening. One has to listen to what's being said and how it's being said. *Listen closely to the real problem the customer describes. *Repeat the problem back to the customer. *Say that you're sorry for whatever happened. *Get to the root of the problem. *Express appreciation to the customer for bringing the complaint to your attention. *Solve said complaint(s) in a very timely manner.

Solid post!!

Shindokan Saitou-ryu!! Imho, Shindokan has everything that I could ask for and then some. It has an indepth grappling system that's not seen in many other main stream Karate styles. It's brand of Tuite, imho, is complete in its totality; it's a get in your face and rub your face in the ground until your face is removed type of Tuite. It's close range techniques are simple, yet they are exciting across the board. This is just a small note of why Shindokan is my favorite karate style. Is Shindokan complete? NO!! No style of the MA is complete! If a style says that it is, well, imho, they're not being honest with themselves and they're not being honest with the MA world. Soon as I meet that complete style of the MA, well, I'll quit Shindokan faster than a speeding bullet.

I wholeheartedly agree with bushido_man96!! It's not the amount of the MA that one is taking, whether it's 1 or more at the same time or at different times. No. It's, imho, what one can do with what one has at the time that it's going to be needed. I'd rather have one effective tool than a whole big large tool box full of different gadgets. However, it's always great to have a wider ability to use other tools from ones tool box because all repairs are different.

Great interview!! Your MA knowledge and insight is exciting to read because everyone learns something MA related no matter one rank and/or knowledge, and I'm no exception to that rule; I learn and you're one that I learn from. Solid across the board in every aspect in and out of the MA. Thank you for all you've done for KF over the years.

Great interview!! I sincerely thank you for your many contributions over the years; solid across the board. I've enjoyed your posts as well, and I look forward to them each time I log onto KF. Thank you for all you've done for KF!!

Great interview!! Your contributions over the many years are reflective as to the type of person and MAist that you are; solid across the board. I've enjoyed your posts as well as your MA insights for these many years, and I look forward to them in the future. Thank you for all you do for KF!!

Congrats, and its well deserved!!

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!!

Thank you!!

I'm not dressing out for Halloween...got to teach that night.

I agree. I'm just amazed at your Chiefs, that's all!!

It's a karate school/MA school, and not a dating school. Keep it outside, if one can't, then quit!!

I LOVE IT!! EXCELLENT!! I suppose that you'll do the same thing the day AFTER Halloween.