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Pictures are worth a thousand words. But what if there were no pictures of any media to chronicle ones MA journey? Would it be a tragic thing? I use to have many picture albums as well as boxes of all sizes chronicling my MA journey. I use to. But one nasty divorce later they were all gone via one big bonfire. The Shindokan Hombu use to have a whole entire room dedicated to everything Shindokan, especially the journeys of our Soke and Dai-Soke, but that was then...this is now. Our San Dai-Soke took each photo, video file, and the like to Nanjo Okinawa when he decided to betray the entire student body. It was his right because he was San Dai-Soke and that meant that he owned everything within the walls of the old Hombu, not just in a figurative sense, but in the literal sense. Memories are all that remain, however, their nothing more than fading as the sands of our hourglass is slowly emptied in front of our faces. We can have all of the memories back from our San Dai-Soke is we allow him to return to the new Hombu...if we allow him to be reinstated as the San Dai-Soke...if we return to him the full authority that a Soke-type does possess. But I can't...we can't...and we don't...I don't!! Besides, our Legal team drafted quite a binding set of By-Laws that erases the existence of any Soke type, and/or the recreating possibilities of a Soke type forever. What would you do??

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!

To everyone here at KF... Have a safe and happy Thanksgiving!! Am I gonna eat my share heheheheheheeheheheheeeeee

I don't understand how the Chief's went from in the hunt for the Super Bowl to the basement. Brian...I know you must be frustrated...I would be. GO COWBOYS!!

Happy Birthday Patrick!!

Ohh, I like it...ohh, I like it...ohh, I like it...I LIKE IT A LOT!! Solid post!!

Great advice, and if I was to add anything it would be this...be consistent across the board. Good luck and have a lot of fun. Please let us know how it went.

Nice...and while his spinning hook kick takes awhile to get there...it's effective. Very nice techniques! Thanks Brian for sharing that.

And you do it very well!! Btw, if we don't train together next year, I'm going to beat Greg to death...LOL!!

As of late, my training is like having a quite conversation.

Deep stances...up-righted stances?!?!? Methodologies/ideologies will vary depending on whom one asks. Shindokan favors stances that are more up-righted/narrow: it's our way. The idea behind the narrow stance is mobility and speed, whereas the wider/deeper, where stability and straight ahead, deep lunging attacking capability is favored. What works for one isn't going to work for another; both style and practitioner. I, personally like both, I've trained them both, they have their uses across the board, and imho, neither are just for show.

Great topic seikokaistudent!! Great stories thus far; I've enjoyed them all!!

Thanks Bob. Its good to see you again. I hope you are doing well! If I recall right, the word uke actually means "to receive" rather than "to block." Just with this nuance in mind, it alters the way I see some applications happening that I was using blocking for. Thanks Brian, I'm doing great, and I hope your and yours are doing well!! Yeah....without getting into a lot of literal translations, you're dead on about Uke. To receive in Tuite allows use to continue the flow of the attack so that the attack can be used against the attacker. Don't want to stop the attack, just want to continue its natural flow as I redirect its path.

Thanks Patrick!! It's great to be part of this awesome community, first as a member, then as a KF staff member. Here's to another 11 and a half years!! At KF...the proof IS on the floor!!

Most Okinawan styles utilize the methodologies/ideologies that blocks are only deflections. Just thought I'd throw that out there because I don't block, I don't know how to block; I can only deflect an attack. Which is very funny to me because our deflections use the word...BLOCK...to describe it, i.e., downward block. Btw...great topic Brian!!

Imho, that's an assumption of a possibility, inasmuch, movements shouldn't be limited, thus restrictive.

Dead on and solid!!

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I don't think anyone has been trying to "tear you down" but simply try to make you take a realistic view of things. Martial systems were never created willy-nilly; when your life depends on your training you don't take it lightly. If you can't answer these simple questions now the harder stuff will be virtually impossible. Solid post!!

Brian, Outside of your TKD circle, what have you noticed/observed/etc pertaining to other MA styles?

Sounds fine to me. Just listen to your body; don't overdue, long term injury just isn't worth it.

Most of every MA teaches escapes within their curriculum. You grab me, then I escape from you one way or another, the most advantages way possible; effective preferred. Separation degree's can be either short, medium, and long ranges. A short range keeps your attacker within your range. A medium range keeps your attack just outside of your immediate range. A long range keeps your attacker more than just outside of your range. In the short range, I've not placed my attacker so far away from me that I can't re-engage immediately if I need to. In the medium range I've placed my attacker far enough away from me that I'll have to make movements that will bring my attacker close to me. In the long range I've now made it where more than a few nominal movements will bring my attacker close to me. Imho, separation should be the only intent of any escape. Once my attacker places his/her hands upon me, I need to separate/escape from him/her asap. Once separation is achieved, get away from your attacker asap. The longer the range, the longer it'll take your attacker to re-engage with you. What will be your culpable means when/if you've escaped/separate from your attacker and you don't run away to a safe haven? If you hit more than what's necessary, then you might face jail or more. My job as a MA instructor is to teach the MA; in this case, self-defense/escape to the best of my abilities. My job as a MA instructor isn't to teach and/or be your ethics and morale mentor, that job is for the student and/or someone else, imho. Doing steps 1 to 4 aren't realistic because of the unknown parameters, and in that, treat the "steps" as only possibilities that one might use as individual technique(s), they're more valuable in that context. I intend to escape with whatever means available to me, and nothing else beyond that except if I'm forced to re-engage with my attacker. The intent of the escape is to do just that and nothing more than that!!

Well....my laptop died not too long ago, so, I'll not be able to Skype until either I get a new laptop or an external camera for my desktop computer. Sorry if you've tried to reach me via Skype and haven't been able to. It's not because I'm ignoring you. I'll see ya at Skype when I solve my little problem.