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Our ready position is more upright than most MA styles with open hands. Our reason for our upright position is we can transition much quicker. Our reason for our open hands is for a more relaxed posture before engaging with said targets.

My dojo had a plethora of training “bags” and we used them daily in and out of any given class. I’m quite partial with a good old hanging bag, the better and more dense the better. A BOB is handy to have for various reasons, and I had many of them in my dojo. However, the fight with a BOB isn’t even close to a good old hanging bag. I don’t have to constantly pick up a hanging bag like one has to with a BOB. My students were impartial as to which bag they trained on during class because they’d work on whatever bag I assigned for that class but my students preferred the good old hanging bag. I never had any stations for class work for my bags, and I had many different bags. I’d assign whichever bag I wanted my students to work with at that particular time. When I read stations, I think of gyms and how they have stations where one goes from one equipment to another during circuit training, of which I’ve used at the gym but I don’t like that idea in my dojo.

Welcome to KF, Zayd_Nofal; glad that you’re here!! The effectiveness of any MA style is the responsibility of its practitioners. If the practitioner isn’t mature in its techniques, then the practitioner is ineffective, and not the style. Reason for a practitioner to not be mature in their technique is fear. What you propose might be feasible but then again, it might not be. Full control to the body with all of the force that one can muster can lead to injuries, and some injuries can be quite damaging, with the possibility that said full contact to the body might lead to a fatal injury. After all, the human body can only take so much, and the MA is designed to stop an attack, therefore, injure said attacker, if necessary. The MA is not a set of patty-cake techniques. I can only assume that the cost of insurance for a MA school as you propose would be quite expensive. If one was to teach what you propose with no insurance to protect both the students as well as the school, well, that would be very irresponsible of the CI/school. Imho.

First of all, and far more importantly, thank you for your service!! My story?!? I suppose I’ve been quite fortunate that in my 6 decades of training in the MA I’ve not had any lapses because wherever there’s a floor to train upon, whether it be at home or at the dojo or some other available floor, I’d train nonetheless. I was also very fortunate in that I owned and operated my own dojo full time. That’s always allowed me the freedom to train in the MA without any interruptions that life can bring. Oftentimes, real life gets in the way or one’s training, and this can be expected, even though quite inconvenient. Interests in one’s training in the MA can wane from time to time or permanently change for whatever reason(s). Those lapses can be quite unsettling to a practitioner of the MA. Life can be crazy and cruel sometimes but one just has to forge ahead in one’s new journey away from the MA. Not meaning to sound insensitive at all, training in the MA is just a thing; it’s a want and not a need. Imho.

Hence, it’s facing to become a lost art because the importance of the serious training In its effectiveness of the kiai seems to me that the seriousness of its training is being replaced by the drive to win at some MA tournament, particularly certain Kata divisions!! Kiai is as personal to the practitioner as air is to the lungs. Kiai must be properly trained and not regulated to some humdrums activity with no importance…something we do in order to appease the CI. The pageantry of the kiai nowadays can be in the state of disarray because the MAist isn’t mature enough in its training. Imho.

To what end?? For the added risk of players getting injured?? Money is the root!! Ban the tush push…go to an 18 game season…seems to me that the powers that be of the NFL have just to much…well…idle times at their hands.

Welcome to KF, Brandon; glad you’re here!!

Sounds to me that the kiai has become a lost art, and instead, it’s been regulated to more of a showmanship, with no intent or interest of the kiai’s trained effectiveness. Imho.

Black belt!! It’s more about the journey than the destination!! It’s just a thing, and that thing is nothing compared to the journey itself.

Great idea, Patrick. There’s nothing better than providing respect to each other. It’s not the worse idea, that’s for sure!!

Because of my Afib caffeine is a big no-no which is a let down because I love several cups of coffee in the morning or whenever the weathers cold.

According to MLB Rule 3.02… “The bat shall be a smooth, round stick not more than 2.61 inches in diameter at the thickest part and not more than 42 inches in length. The bat shall be one piece of solid wood.” Hence, the torpedo bat is perfectly legal. Yankee Aaron Judge does NOT use a torpedo bat because he favors a traditional bat. Even with a traditional bat he launched 5 HR’s over the weekend. Twins, Devil Rays, and Orioles have experimented with the torpedo bat over spring training.

Torpedoes, Away!! MLB has a new bat. Well, the Yankees seem to have a new bat. Name of the bat?? TORPEDO This new bat looks like…well…to a Torpedo, in a sense!! According to reports, this new torpedo bat will increase the frequency of home runs. My Yankees had a 13 HR weekend; 9 HR’s in one game alone. Guess what?? The Torpedo bat is completely LEGAL says MLB which means that this torpedo bat can be used in any MLB game. Batter Up!!

Congrats @crash; well deserved!!

My wife’s has said to me that the owner of where she works is now asking the teachers to make only positive comments about the center on the 3 different network, like Facebook. My wife refuses to do that. Not a good idea for the owner of the center!!

Crackers seem to do the trick for me whenever I’m feeling nauseous. Sometimes throwing up works too for me. Both worked whenever I was doing my cancer treatments. I love eating lemons a lot however they sometimes induced me to throw up….then I’d fell ALL SNAPPY and good to go.

NBC aired a very moving Legacy on Ice held a memorial ceremony this morning. Current and retired skaters performed routines to support loved ones and honor the lives affected by the American Airlines Flight 5342 crash where 67 perished; 64 passengers and crew on the airliner and the 3 crew of the Black Hawk helicopter.

My Knights seem to be doing well this season. Maybe they can return to the Stanley Cup. Knights find themselves in 1st place in the Pacific Division. They’re 3 games ahead the Kings. Knights have amassed 42 wins and 20 losses with only 20 games remaining in the season. Knights are on a 3 win streak at home: Bruins 0…Knights 5 Red Wings 3…Knights 6 Lightning 2…Knights 4 Knights face Wild on their ice today. GO KNIGHTS!!

Sub-Zero is my all time favorite!! Those were the days. I use to spend a lot of time playing Mortal Kombat but then lost interest for some reason. Oh well, I still have fond memories.

I was a long time subscriber of BBM but I have stopped reading it because there seemed to be much more ads than before and not as many articles. BBM returned to print back in October 2024.

“Sports writers play a significant role in determining who gets inducted into the Major League Baseball (MLB) Hall of Fame because they are part of the voting body for the Hall of Fame’s election process.” WHY?? Seems that the MLB and NBA gave a power to their respective sports writers but the NFL and the NHL didn’t. I understand that sports writers play a significant role in any sport, both amateur and professional, but they’ve not ever played professionally and have no idea what it takes to be in thick of the game as armchair players who’ve not shed their blood, sweat, and tears on the gridiron, diamond, court, or ice but behind a typewriter. Does Rose deserve to be in the MLB HOF?? I don’t know!! Seems to me that that decision needs to be rightfully up to those who’ve played the respective sport as well as those who’ve earned their places in their respective HOF, and not to the sports writers. Imho!!

Sorry they cut the scene, Patrick; editing can be the bane on making a movie.

Happy 85th Birthday, Mr. Norris!! Have a safe and fun birthday!! Nah, I don’t plan on watching any Chuck Norris movies today, or soon.

Way to go Kenneth!! Congratulations!!

Raiders now have a new QB…Geno Smith from the Seahawks in exchange for a 2025 third-round draft pick. Seahawks are now pursuing Sam Darnold from the Vikings. Geno and HC Pete Carroll are quite familiar with each other…they once were with the Seahawks together. We’ll see what we see when we see it. GO COWBOYS!!