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Forget about feedback for a moment, while feedback is important....what about the NO APPLICATION training. If one can't engage with someone, then there will be no effectiveness across the board in this type of training venue. Imagine if Doctors were trained this way.

Any number of Shindokan students that's ever tested under me has failed. My standards are quite high and I've failed for a many number of reasons, but not for the thrill of failing. I hate to fail a student, but if it's warranted, I'll not hesitate. The key is consistency during testing cycles; past, present, and future. Then use the failing as an opportunity to build up the student(s). To be able to show compassion in the midst of judgement isn't only important, but it's a must, imho. I'm not the same person on the training floor as I am on the testing floor. By that, I've compassion on the training floor but on the testing floor I've no compassion, even more so, I'm very quick to judge and my judgement is without an equal and final. I refuse to give my students any false sense of security, and in that, when my students pass any testing cycle, they know two things. One, they earned it. Two, more importantly than the first, they are secure in knowing how to effectively apply Shindokan when it counts. Testing cycles will take care of themselves. They always have and they always will. Don't fear it, embrace it: Testing cycles and failing; they come hand in hand. Treat a failure not as a negative thing, but more as a positive thing to learn from yourself and from others who've been there.

I'm constantly reminding my students, the hierarchy of our Hombu, and the students of our Hombu that their sole job as a martial artist is tend to their own martial art betterment. Worry not about what another martial artist is doing before you set your path straight first.

Nice video Dobbersky. Even though I didn't understand what he was saying, I completely understood his meanings. Thanks for the video Dobbersky!

Well...if the day was a good day...YEAH, but if it was a bad day...NO WAY!!

2 games remaining...will the Cowboys save grace or will they end up with egg on their face. Their playoff future is in their hands; I'm remaining slightly optimistic for now because they've been here before....just short of the goal line...and then fumbled away their playoff berth. GO COWBOYS!!

I can't forget this shout out....How about them Colts...finally...one in the win column.

Patrick, You might just be right. However, as Jerry Glanville put it so poetic..."NFL, it means 'Not For Long'." No job is guaranteed in any pro sport.

That might be the million dollar question with no obvious answer.

Please don't hate my obvious answer, well it's obvious to me that I'd use this answer, seeing I'm a staunch proponent of it... Kata. After all, Kata is imbued with Tai Sabaki.

I concur with the both of you. The choke wasn't a choke to harm, but a choke to control until the other security officer applied the cuffs. I'm no LEO, but aren't the powers of a security guard much more lesser than those of a LEO?!? I didn't see anything from either of the security guards that would warrant any legal problems for their actions. Did you?

Now that I got that out of my system. I'd forgo any "fancy" techniques because, imho, "fancy" techniques can only lead to problems; problems that I'd rather avoid.

Yes...Merry Christmas to everyone here at KarateForums.com!!

Provide a place for students to change that's roomy and safe. I visited a dojo where they hired an interior decorator with an emphasis on Japan...and it showed...imho, it was way over-decorated, if possible, I thought that it took away from the studies. Things on the walls that weren't MA related...for example...a large picture of downtown Tokyo...at night. Simplicity is key to decorating ones school.

Double ditto!! It's true...the apple doesn't fall form the tree...does it? Father like son!!

First thing I noticed in the article is that Taekyon was listed as a "TRADITIONAL"...this caused me to pause there for sometime... What's an UNTRADITIONAL Korean art?

Danielle, That was about the funniest thing I've ever seen...I'm still laughing and laughing. Thanks for that...I needed a good laugh!! Btw, the techniques were SOLID!

Didn't Nolan Ryan also do things like stick his hand into a bucket of sand as far as he could, and other things like that? The guy was an animal! ROFL!!

As a karateka forever, I understand the importance of the seiza position, but as the OP wonders about Oyama's seiza... Did anybody think that Oyama was just plainly sitting without any concern of anybody reading anything into it? I'm just saying...

For a fancy technique...I'd do the backflip-kick Bruce Lee did when he battled O'hara in Enter The Dragon...that was sweet.

I still don't make any resolutions...haven't for years. However, if I was to make one, it'd be something like this... >Continue to improve the betterment of every Shindokan student.

How about them Chiefs!! I have to be honest, I don't think any NFL team had a chance to beat the once unbeaten Packers. They were destined for a perfect season. Until they met up with the Chiefs on 12/18/2011!! Again...How about them Chiefs!!

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Successful execution of any Karate technique, punch in this thread, requires that the entire technique, from ones head to their sole, must be in concert with one another; everything starting and ending at the same time. Shindokan teaches that any Karate technique shouldn't move akin to a domino effect; one after the other, but in harmony with conception, through crescendo, and climaxing, and in that, each piece of any Karate technique must have an exclamation to it. Otherwise, only a push is being performed instead of any said Karate technique(s). This is Shindokan methodology as well as theorem.