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In addition, and in no specific order… 1) Teaching abilities 2) Experience 3) Knowledge

Above all qualities that are necessary is…integrity!! Without that, there’s nothing you can achieve of themselves.

The beauty about stances is that in short order how one was taught any said stance changes to fit one’s fighting abilities. The other beauty is that one doesn’t always, if ever, see a textbook stance during sparring. We see that practitioner’s adaptation of said textbook stance. It’s so inevitable. No one uses every taught stance when engaging as their preferences, which is another beauty of stances. Textbook taught stances are great for Kata and that’s about it, imho. ”Use what is effective; discard the rest.”~Bruce Lee

Let’s not forget that tournaments have rules, no matter the venue, and there are no rules in real life battles.

Raiders 2025 NFL draft picks Round 1: No. 58 - RB Ashton Jeanty, Boise State Round 2: No. 58 - WR Jack Beck, TCU Round 3: No. 68 - CB Darien Porter, Iowa State Round 3: No. 98 - G Caleb Rogers, Texas Tech Round 3: No. 99 - OT Charles Grant, Williams & Mary Round 4: No. 108 - WR Dont'e Thornton, Tennessee Round 4: No. 135 - DT Tonka Hemingway, South Carolina Round 6: No. 180 - DT JJ Pegues, Ole Miss Round 6: No. 213 - QB/WR Tommy Mellott, Montana State Round 6: No. 215 - QB Cam Miller, North Dakota State Round 7: No. 222 - LB Cody Lindenberg, Minnesota We’ll see how this plays out!! And of those drafted, which ones will NOT make the final roster. ############################# My Dallas Cowboys draft picks 2025 Round 1, Pick No. 12: Tyler Booker, OG, Alabama Round 2, Pick No. 44: Donovan Ezeiruaku, DE, Boston College Round 3, Pick No. 76: Shavon Revel Jr., CB, East Carolina Round 5, Pick No. 149: Jaydon Blue, RB, Texas Round 5, Pick No. 152: Shemar James, LB, Florida Round 6, Pick No. 204: Ajani Cornelius, OT, Oregon Round 7, Pick No. 217: Jay Toia, DT, UCLA Round 7, Pick No. 239: Phil Mafah, RB, Clemson Round 7, Pick No. 247: Tommy Akingbesote, DT, Maryland No QB?? Jerry Jones has lost his mind with him being so oversold on Dak!! Dak has been nothing but a 1-in-1-out QB during the playoffs, if my Cowboys make it to the playoffs. What was your NFL teams 2025 draft picks?? GO COWBOYS!!

That’s quite presumptuous to indicate because, again, it’s the practitioner that one must face on the floor of battle and not the style itself. Imho.

Mistakes cost my Knights in game 3 on Wild ice…5-2. Knights better wake up soon. Things looked promising early after the puck dropped, but the dogs of havoc returned and what was once promising, quickly turned into a nightmare. Wild, I hate to say, have figured out my Knights across the board…and I hate that. But I got to respect Wild because they’re here this playoff for a reason. Wild leads the series 2-1, game 4 tomorrow at 1pm pacific. Game 5 on April 29th on Knights ice…game 6 and game 7, if necessary, Minnesota, then back to Las Vegas, respectfully. GO KNIGHTS!!

Great info and ideas of drills, auric; thank you for sharing this with us. Always interesting to see drills from other styles.

If I may, without me sounding like a broken record… Complicated?? Something is complicated for two reasons: 1) Practitioner is learning something that’s new and strange to that person. 2) Practitioner isn’t mature in said technique, and that’s because that person is afraid. I’ve been on the floor for 6 decades and in all of that time, I’ve never seen not one technique that is effective when either both points above become evident to exist in any practitioner. Imho.

Patrick’s a GENIUS; that’s why he’s our leader!!

Aviation industry is not having a stellar time as of late. This most recent incident only reinforces my decision to never ever get on an airplane again…NOT ME!!

Yeah…last night for my Knights was…WILD…and not kind!! Knights were spanked by Wild by the final score of 5-2. Wild scored 3 to the net before one could even say…THIS IS WILD!! My Knights travel to Wild ice this Saturday…puck drop will be 1pm pacific time. GO KNIGHTS!!

Thus far, you’ve received solid feedback to your OP question. Instead of providing more detailed information/explanatios to your enquirer, please allow me a more simplified answer… Whether a kata is or isn’t either “beginner” or “advanced”…one’s Governing Body makes that decision.

My Knights take a lead, 1-0, in their playoff series against the Wild. I’ll remain optimistic but guarded because the Wild are no pushover. GO KNIGHTS!!

Heal first…get approval from your doctor to return to training, secondly!! The floor isn’t going anywhere; it’ll be there with open arms when you return to training!! As you already know, kobudo training can be quite taxing at times, and a body that’s mending can hinder its progress in any training, and libido is no exception. Hang in there!!

Quite presumptuous that nobody will do as KarateKen has suggested. One never knows what might or might not happen. I’d rather know how than not know, just in case.

You and Zack are STILL on the right track as far as all that’s required for a MAist, and you both should be very proud of yourselves through and through. Like Brian has already mentioned, as we get older we have to properly prepare and gauge and understand that sometimes a break away from training is necessary.

Congrats, Wado Heretic; well deserved!!

What can I say?? A’s are moving to Sin city. While that might’ve been a reason to smile at one time. That smile has turned into more of a frown. Yes, the season has just started but the A’s are back in familiar territory…last place. The A’s are indeed coming to Las Vegas. I like that idea for only one reason…my Yankees play against the A’s during the season and yours truly will be there in the A’s brand new stadium cheering for my Yankees. Poor A’s have to play their home games at a AAA stadium. Kind of a hint, I suppose. A MLB team playing in a AAA stadium, kind of a fitting tribute by its fans. The media room is a makeshift tent and the clubhouses are beyond the outfield wall. Not what a MLB team looks forward to experience…and the season has just started…it’ll be a very long 162 games. Latest mud in their face occurred just the other day during a A’s home game against the Mets when a Mets player, Jose Siri was injured by his own foul ball in the leg in the 2nd inning. Siri needed a ride to medical because where the A’s play during home games, medical is not a short walk at all. Here’s the mud in the face for the A’s…the medical cart broke down—it either broke down or it ran out of gas. Either way, the grounds crew had to push the broken down cart off the field. The A’s had to bring out a second cart to help Siri to medical. When you need an ambulance, the one thing you hope never happens is that your ride to the hospital doesn’t breakdown or run out of gas. Hopefully for A’s fans that this latest unfortunate mishap is the end for the last place A’s in a series of Keystone Cops antics…but…it’s the A’s. GO YANKEES!!

If I read what I read is accurate, the it appears that my Knights will first battle on the ice with the Wild first when the playoffs start. I don’t think that my Knights take their opponents lightly, and certainly the Wild. That would be foolish of my Knights to do so. The Wild has had a promising season and the playoffs between Wild and my Knights shall prove to be an interesting one. GO KNIGHTS!!

No. Yes, for the most. Our founder made it clear that while similarities may exist in the styles that Shindokan is based on, those were the building blocks for Shindokan. Over time, my own ready position can be found to be not exact as we were taught and what I teach because I’m an individual and not like some autonomous robot. Our/My ready position is what it is depending upon the situation at that moment.

To your first question…No. To your second question…Similar/Different: Hands up; back hand in front of stomach with lead hand no higher than one’s shoulder. Our hands are kept close to our body.