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Well....for a very late WELCOME....welcome to KF! {I'm such a dork}

Welcome to KF!

A belated Welcome to KF!

Welcome to KF!

Welcome to KF!

Welcome to KF!

Welcome to KF and good luck this Friday!

True beauty of the weapon, imho, is when the practitioner and the weapon becomes one; indiscernible. Yet, Brian speaks very true when he says..."This may sound a bit crude, but the beauty in weaponry is in its killing efficiency." How can one ignore the weapons main reason for its existence; killing. Wait! The weapon is for self-defense! Yes, but in order for that weapon to aide in self-defense, that weapon, when once chosen to become active, has to surrender to its most basic reason for within its creation, and that is that it kills. It is crude, but, it's understood! No weapon commits any said action; practitioners commit every said action. The weapon is the innocent party of its actions. A weapon is indiscernible to the wielder as lust is indiscernible to love. While either are seperate, they're dependent to one another because they need each other, and that need can't be denied. The weapon is just a tangible thing of beauty when it's just lying on the floor, but, when I pick up that weapon, that weapon and I come alive as one; indiscernible. Lay the weapon back down onto the floor, it becomes dormant until called into service again by the practitioner.

A test in Karate is just like any other type/kind of test; nothing to them at all. Please understand that I'm purposefully downplaying the test because the most important thing, imho, is to not blow any karate test way out-of-porportion; to not be scared of any karate grading test. That'll just make it almost impossible for one to pass; nerves are normal but out-of-ones-mind kind of nerves over a karate test aren't. Remember Mizu No Kokoro [Mind Like Water] and Tsuki No Kokoro [Mind Like the Moon]; remain calm and undisturbed before, during, and after your test....you'll be fine! What Blade96 explains to you in her link about her testing experience will help you...I'm sure of it! Good luck!

Doh...Toptomcat beat me to it!

I once put a huge chain and lock onto my dojo's front door as well as placing very official looking signs onto every glass window-front to give the appearance that my dojo was closed forever...signs all over the windows said..."THIS BUSINESS IS HEREBY CLOSED WITHOUT NOTICE PERMANENTLY". I left the dojo closed for an entire day...without notice! My students flipped out because they thought that it was for real. Of course, it doesn't help much when I didn't answer my home/cell phone and that I wasn't home and that I couldn't be found at my usual favorite places....all day. Btw, I've a sick twisted dry sense of humor at times and that day back then was no exception. My students found it funny once I explained it to them that it was just an April Fools joke...done on April 1st...and I was forgiven...because...I showed up the next day business as usual.

To everyone here at KF and to their families...HAPPY EASTER!!!!!!!!!

Congrats John!!!!!

Nope. I just don't tie myself to any particular combo(s) because I feel that if I do, it'll limit my possibilities.

My fav...hit without being hit....I've no favs!

Now, I haven't laughed so much and so hard as I just did after I just read all 3 pages of Patrick's April Fool joke. Very well done by all. Very well done Patrick! ROFLMHO until I threw up! I'll be laughing at this all day and tomorrow and the next day and...ROFL!!!!

Story of my life...sleeping at the wheel because I MISSED THE WHOLE THING..... I saw the link but I wasn't even interested in looking at it and now I've missed out on the fun as well as the joke. I'm such a dork!

Now that's funny! Show's what one can learn from KF, huh!?

When I posted "NOTHING" "FREE" I was speaking of my own idle hopes and dreams of possibilities over some other horizon. I've only known one way to operate my dojo's; as a business. In that, my business' were for profit, therefore, my prices (Instructions/Retail) were set as low as possible so that I could ensure that a profit was being made when the economic downturn was at its most dynamic point. Even before the bottom fell out of the economy, my prices were never high across the board. That's only because, I don't think that learning any martial arts should come at a high price, but at an affordable price that allows all walks of the economic spectrum to partake freely.

I've always only known our headquarters as HOMBU. That's what our Soke called it and that's what's written in our Densho, Hand Scrolls, and By-Laws. So, that's why I write it as I do; it's all I've known.

Sure, but, where and how should the line be defined? I don't like his ad no more than anybody else, but, this guy has a right to operate competitively for profit. I doubt the effectiveness of what he claims in his ad. By not buying what he's selling is how the line should be drawn to stop these type of ads; getting them right in their pocketbook, but, this guy has an already established customer base that's looking for these kind of ads. Ads that can provide them with a quick fix to their self-defense needs. Meanwhile, he has the free enterprize system on his side until he violates the free enterprize system, and that's up to lawyers to address in a court of law.

I've not had any issues with keeping brushed cotton clean. What I was saying here was, to me, as a rule, cotton is light in the most basic student uniform. Sorry for stepping on my own tongue!

2 years to reach Shodan? Especially at that age? I don't want to put down anyones achievements or anything, but I would be interested to witness the Shodan grading for that club. Are you thinking that its an abridged Shodan grading for that club? It might be!

Then there's expulsions like these.... http://judo.teamusa.org/pages/7264 I don't think that political differences should ever have any business in any decisions of expulsions. Misconduct is misconduct with no varying degree and how an organization defines it [misconduct] is up to that organization. In Shindokan, we've no "Serious" or "Minor" violations of misconduct, we've just got "Misconduct" and all misconducts are treated accordingly per our By-Laws. Our By-Laws protect both the Hombu AND the entire student body for the betterment of everyone and our art. Therefore, those in violation of our By-Laws are made an example of so that it's understood by all, and in that, all will know that the Hombu is the proponent of the By-Laws.

Illegal? There's nothing illegal about the free enterprize system. Whether what he teaches is effective or not is only up to the individual. I can't say one way or another based on an audio and some print in an ad, it'll take hands on to determine that. These type of advertisements have become a dime a dozen because you can find these ads in most every magazine. I wasn't impressed with the ad or its contents or claims because they're just that...things.