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I applaud the Chiefs for doing what they had to do under the difficult circumstances, and the show must go on...OSU to the Chiefs. Nice win!!

A great victory on the gridiron under very dark skies. I echo these words by you Brian wholeheartedly!!

Solid post!!

Congrats...feels great, doesn't it?!!

This site might help you in your research as well... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isshin-ry%C5%AB+ Please look at the very bottom of the page of the link above, especially at the "See also" and "References", click on the other included links as well and see what happens. Good luck in your research.

I'd like to echo everything Zaine has said, and to add my own...Congrats to you...and yes...a meal is always a good thing to drown tourney blues.

Where I live...TKD is dominant. Yes, there are one or two BJJ schools, and a sprinkle of Japanese Karate dojo's, alas, no Okinawa Karate within 20 mile radius. Traveling to ones preferred school of the MA is a good thing for that MAist so that they can get what they need in their training. I'm for it and I support it.

First of all...great topic Ev!! I think that all of us MAists have experienced this syndrome at one time or another. I know for a fact that I've experienced it more times than I care to remember, even though the syndrome has exposed me as a MA dork in the awe of some of the greatest MAists; old age and/or experience has dulled that syndrome within me from a giddy dork to an appreciative smile and a bow/handshake.

As always MP, you've found the truth by being both real and being funny. Knowing that the stranger is indeed the true victim, I believe that you'd have to be there to witness the entire "situation" because if the stranger isn't the victim as you perceive it to be so and you save the actual attacker...it's more than just a..."my bad"!

Solid post!! I like it that you spoke about having confidence in their bodies ENOUGH to BELIEVE that they can save the stranger. Putting one in direct path of existing danger does take more than one is willing to realize; being truthful to oneself isn't always that easy.

My 2013 goals are Hombu related...sorry. 1) Finalize our very first official website...and then make it public. 2) To make our monthly newsletter, One Heart...One Way, available to other MAists, not just for Shindokanists. 3) Open the new Central Hombu...located in Oklahoma...Tulsa county. 4) Reassign the current Hombu as the Western Hombu...at its current location. 5) Amp up our seminars from every other month to every month. 6) Invite other styles of the MA to conduct seminars at BOTH Hombu's. Forgive me Alex for this...but...I believe that they are in concert with my MA goals somehow...Ok...I've some personal goals...I hate making them because something always gets in the way...like me. 1) Keep losing weight...I use to be about 350lbs...hush now...and I'm now 298lbs...my goal is 250lbs...my wife and kids deserve that. 2) Spend MUCH MORE time with my family...hence one of the reasons for goal #3 above. 3) Get two more MA related tattoos...I know...I'm an old idiot. 4) Learn how to dance...my wife deserves that...I've two left feet when it comes to dancing...kata doesn't count!! 5) Finish my memoir's...or at least get closer to finishing it. Well...now my 2013 goals are in the hands of fate...good luck!!

2012 is almost over...so...How did your 2012 MA goals finally go for you?

That is awesome! Yes...that is awesome...keep it up!!

Do you think that one of the biggest reasons as to why the MA styles around the world don't get along with one another is a proprietary issue? If not; why? If so; what can be done so that the issue in question can be returned to the path of resolution? I think that the proprietary issue(s) is one of the biggest reasons because no style wants to share their "secret" methodologies/ideologies. Why? They're in direct competition over one thing or another; namely...students. In order for the MA styles of the world to walk side by side on the path of resolving our differences, we must begin to trust one another. I feel this is the key to bridge the valley that separates us. The totality of our MA betterment must be reached somehow/someway; us being united begs us to do so, if not for the good common, but for our students. Your thoughts?!

Imho, what separates heroes from the rest of humanity is that heroes are heroes because they're so rare and their actions are so unprecedented. I'm not totally sure that every MAist would truly help a stranger as that said stranger is being attacked. After all, the skill sets of MAists should be more than capable for saving a helpless stranger. Your thoughts? EDIT: Spelling/grammer errors.

I've never been a great fan of "external"/"internal"...I just know one thing...attack me, and I'm going to hit your external so hard that your internal is going to hurt...a lot!!

Solid post!!

Solid post!!

Fool me once; shame on you...fool me twice; shame on me!!

No sooner than Sankyu. Why? Students have many other things to worry about than dragging around a heavy gi, not alone a heavy gi made more heavier with sweat. No, Jukyu through Yonkyu...wear a light gi for the time being.

Have fun and enjoy the teachings under some of the most noted karateka's around the world!! I look forward to reading about your experiences!!

Solid post!! I bow deeply to you!!

In short...YES!! Methodologies and ideologies of said style dictate the practitioner to be a proponent of the governing body.

Imho, it's up to us, the karateka's, to make sure that karate-do doesn't become watered down by standing up for what we believe is pure karate-do, and to not surrender to peer pressure of those who want to change karate-do into what it isn't, and that is...a commercialization of misbranding.

I concur wholeheartedly!!