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Mo's out Pettitte in GO YANKEES

Personal times vary. If I'm on and someone wants to talk...I'll answer if I'm not involved already with the Hombu/Greg.

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!

Welcome to KF!!!!!!!!

Imho...The Rock is by far the master of the mic.

I've always machine dried my gi for as long as I can remember, but what do I know. My wife has forbid me from the washer/dryer...I mean, I don't sort because it's way too consuming, imho.

MP...I love it. You're quite witty...funny too.

There's no shame in the way you handled it. I applaud you. If we all had said that you were a coward, it would've meant nothing. Why? You did what you thought was the right thing(s) considering your circumstance/situation, and I've no right to judge you because I wasn't in that circumstances/situation and I'm not you. Again, I applaud you.

Champions don't subscribe to a losing mindset for a reason.

Cool.

If that's what my face looks like...then...OUCH...and forget the Shugyo part.

I believe that a natural anything has to be developed to some degree for what one wants to do with 'it'.

Haven't we forgotten about the Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal, minus the codified part, I suppose.

To borrow from Jim Kelly..."If it comes, I won't even notice it...I'll be to busy looking good." Whether this comes off in a grin-and-giggle way or not, the point is that I don't worry about it, nor do I want to be a proponent of it. You act like a victim...you'll become a victim. You act like a winner...you'll become a winner. You act like you're going to lose...you'll lose. I believe in my complete totality as a martial arts and the core of that doesn't even come from my parents...no...it comes from my Dai-Soke and what he instilled within me across the board. I've never, to my memory, sprouted that off to my students and/or the student body and/or to anyone within the Hombu. Try to hurt me...someone's going to lose and I'm going to do everything within me to make sure that the loser of our fight isn't going to be me!! I understand the political approach and mindset of it, but I don't want to have anything to do with it because it can only invite something bad. I'll let others who are proponents of that mindset believe to present their arguments to/for those who subscribe to that like mindsets. For me; no thank you.

Very nice...very solid!!

I don't see how belonging to a country is relevant or fair, Martial Arts has no boarders, no divides just brotherhood in Budo, this has saddened me friend Imagine... okie dokie

Imagine if training reached a final conclusion Imagine if the USA owned the MA Imagine if children weren't allowed to practice/learn the MA Imagine if kata was thought about in a respectful way

Playing devils advocate...[i'm a staunch proponent of ShuHaRi] Doesn't the concept of ShuHaRi eventually depend on one to have a deliberate thought?

Understanding hips as to its relationship to power is paramount to consistently developing that necessary power at any given time. In a split second, an unbelievable amount of things must take place and they must take place correctly, or any karate technique is mute. We can talk/teach about hip transition and the like as far as to the who, what, where, when, why, and how until the cows come home, but any technique(s) suffers because of the unprepared karateka, both Kyu and Dan. Is the technique(s) and/or the style surrounding the use of ones hips flawed? No, imho, I'd say that it's the karateka that's flawed. Flawed in putting the pieces together and making sense of the entire process. Some questions to ask oneself: >Does the hip drive?...and when? >Does the hip push?...and when? >Does the hip thrust?...and when? >Does the hip stall?...and when? >Does the hip stay level?...always? >Does the hip snap?...and when? What does the hip mostly depend on? Is everything within any said technique, from start to finish, unloaded like a domino or at the same last moment? For most karate styles, a kick, for example, has a four count: Up, out, back, down. For the essence of power, when, during this four count, is the hip activated? Sometime a karateka must ask questions, no matter how futile and/or how frustrating it might be in conquering and revealing effectively consistent hip movement. You are either pushing or you are damaging your opponent.

From time to time I'll read/hear someone spout their disdainful feelings about the MA. This scornful person usually gets nothing from me in the term of an argument because for the most part my words would only fall on deaf ears; a tree is a tree for a good reason. "The martial arts is dead!" Really? Courts say that the next kin must be notified, and I'm the next kin and nobody notified me. Where's the death certificate? If the MA is dead, then what is it that lives within me that keeps changing me one technique at a time!! The MA is dead...uh...no it's not. The MA is alive and well!!

Our actions, as MAists, mostly depend, imho, that our technique(s) are automatic; without restricting thought. "He who hesitates, meditates horizontally."~ Ed Parker "I do not hit, 'it' hits all by itself." ~Bruce Lee With not much of an premise... How much does the subliminal affect the quality of ones technique(s)?

Type of MA Instructor that I don't want: >An instructor that lacks substance >An instructor who insists his/her way is the only way I've started by listing two...your turn...

Type of MA Instructor that I want: >One whose instructions challenge me >One who sees my value beyond rank/money I've started by listing two...your turn...

Well, I was excused from jury duty, BUT, I've been rescheduled for sometime in September. If my wife is still unemployed, I have to submit paperwork to support my wanting to be excused then. I thought jury duty was an honor, but if I'm being FORCED, then it's no longer an honor to serve. Sheech.

RIP Brandon!!