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Japan is fun and exciting, but it can be quite overwhelming one way or another. Several members here at KF, including myself, have been to Japan quite often. So, here are some link found here at KF that might interest you... https://www.karateforums.com/okinawa-for-christmas-vt51318.html?highlight=japan+visit https://www.karateforums.com/trip-to-tokyo-vt50418.html?highlight=japan+visit https://www.karateforums.com/going-to-okinawa-vt50220.html?highlight=japan+visit https://www.karateforums.com/japan-living-and-training-as-a-westerner-vt27674.html?highlight=japan+visit https://www.karateforums.com/i-ll-be-in-japan-for-8-months-vt25476.html?highlight=japan+visit Hope you find the info in these links. If not, please ask.

Let us not forget that with all of the advertisement marketing and the like, that will be for naught if the school itself doesn't send a positive vibe to that prospective student. Actions speak louder than words. How the school looks inside and outside...is there order or chaos within the school...That one impression can work for or against anyone's advertisement budget; make it a good one. After all, all of the money in the world will not make a disgruntled student, prospective or current, stay.

WOW...Brought make some memories visually. The RTD, Rapid Transit District, buses really did it for me. I can't remember how many times I rode them in my youth through the San Fernando Valley, as well as many other communities serviced my RTD. The cars, store signage, Fire Department Boxes, and the telephone booths brought me make to a time of my youth in Southern California. Great find, Patrick; thanks for sharing it with us all.

I just don't see the value, especially from the video, due to the patty cake that's taking place. Add a resistant opponent, then those turn outs would surely have a far different outcome. Imho!!

There's a maxim that states...If you don't use it, you will lose it!! Speaks volums to me. If one wants to flexible then one will have to do what's required to achieve, and then maintain it. What one does to earn that flexibility will be a hit and miss for THAT practitioner. Key: STRETCH but correctly!! Hang in there, and remember, Rome wasn't built in one day.

Happy Birthday to you....Happy Birthday to you....SING IT WITH ME...Happy Birthday, Liam...Happy Birthday to you...and many more!!

Well, that's it!! Just how much can one afford to spend monthly on advertising?!?!? One has to stay within THEIR BUDGET, and not in another's. What my monthly budget for advertising is, has nothing to do with what someone else considers both effective and economical. The very best advertisement is WORD OF MOUTH!! Decide on it quickly!! First decide ones monthly budget for advertising, and work within that budget. How much?? That depends on the market target and which to precede first. HOMEWORK!! Do a ton of it before you set your plans in motion. Be prepared to many fails and fewer successes along the trail and tribulations of figuring out the magical formula of advertising. If you have champagne dreams on a beer budget for your advertisement expenses, one best figure it out quickly!!

JR I do believe that you're on the right path, JR; keep it up!!

Surely looks like the training equipment to have!! Yeah, just might get some for the dojo and at home. Although, the price can cause one to take a pause before reaching for the credit card.

Having Afib, Atrial Fibrillation, it is strongly insisted by my cardiologist and PCP, to always be wearing some type of monitor, which is mainly to help me keep an eye on by HBPM, Heart Beats Per Minute. Anything over 180 is a big no-no especially if that type of HBPM are maintained. Ever since 2016 I usually bought whatever WalMart had, but then finally I did purchase the Polar H-10 chest strap monitor, and as JR says, you forget you're wearing the thing.

Kata and Hojo Undo for the most part of my solo training!! Other than that, whatever seems to be appropriate for that very moment, whether it be bag training or weights or cardio.

Sorry Melau: I am in my 60's that has to take it easy on the younger guys and not the other way around.I wholeheartedly agree with the bold type above.

Once again, as I always state.....To each their own!! If the tool they use helps improve one MA betterment, then who care because if a inner tube can help me with my MA betterment, then I'll kiss an inner tube for the rest of my life.

A hammer is just a tool too, but it's not used by everyone all of the time. There are many other ways to drive a nail, for example, than with a hammer. The tool is only as good and dependable as its user. Not everyone knows how to use a hammer properly; choice always belongs to the user. Imho!!

My students!! Nothing like sharing in their MA journey, with all of their ups and downs. To see their wide smile whenever they have a Aha moment, and they think I'm not watching.

Congrats, Bulltahr; well deserved, once again!!

Welcome to KF, E-Thad; glad that you're here!! I did a plethora search for any Kyokushin dojo's in Akron, Ohio with not much success. Closest Kyokushin dojo is 2 and a half hours away to the west in Lima, Ohio. Sorry!! Might have to contact the Kyokushin Headquarters.

Solid post!!

They both do very well. Sure, they don't win all of the time, but who does!?! Each season they both improve, and that is the real victory. Having followed them both here at KF and FB, has been a complete pleasure through and through. They both do what the Karate maxim speaks...7 times down, 8 times up!! COME ON DISTRICTS!!!! They'll both do fine!! They're both very luck to have the support base of family and friends, and Bran, you've done a fantastic job coaching them on the side. GO KENNETH AND KENDALL!!!!!

I use weights all of the time, and even more so as I age. We were introduced to train with when I was a JBB at 13 years of age. Before long, training with weights became a staple in my training, which meant that I introduced weight training to my students ever since day one at my own dojo in 1977.

You know, imho, it's the individual that versus an individual, and not the style. The style is the vehicle in which the individual arrives in; how the individual drives said vehicle is based on that individual, and not the style.

No I don't use apps for my training because it's a personal choice. Maybe it's an old school excuse to not use a app. I don't cast a judgment on those who do use a app to train with because, like I said, it's a personal choice!!

I've been teaching for a very long time, ever since my dojo opened in 1977; kids of the very young age have always been a staple at both the Hombu and my dojo. Shindokan Saitou-ryu!! If you mean, what do I teach kids that very young and tender age?? Shindokan Saitou-ryu!! But the emphasiks is NOT Shindokan, nor is it ever mentioned to them. Why?? They don't care one way or another. Protocol and manners and etiquette and so on and so forth is taught alongside with Shindokan. They get a uniform; kids love that whole thing with the patches and belt and all. Do they learn how to defend themselves?? That's not the emphasis because who in the world can they defend against except another tiny tot; surely not a bigger kid and certainly not a determined adult. Sure we do teach Shindokan, but in a really laid back way so as not to scare them in any way. Play!! That's what I do....that's what all of the instructors do...WE PLAY WITH THEM!! Running, jumping and hopping, all sizes of balls to toss around, obstacle courses, to name just a few....and then some; whatever our imagination can come up with. My wife has always accused me of being a very big kid, and I suppose that I am; teaching them at that age is my favorite because I love to play too!! Moms seem to love how I do Play with them while at the same time teaching a lot of things other than Shindokan. Knock Sensei down is the most favorite game for them at that age because they've no preconceived notion of evilness in them. Whereas the older kids, just don't want to knock Sensei down, no, they want to SMASH Sensei, in which you can see that "KILL SENSEI" in their eyes Classes last no longer than 30 minutes: 5 minute stretching/warm-up 20 minutes of PLAY 5 minutes of cool down We talk to them while they Play Learn, but we never engage in a long drawn out blah blah session because experts say that kids have the attention span that's equal to their age: a 4 years old MIGHT pay attention for 4 minutes, but it's been my experience that that 4 minutes is pushing ones luck. Constant activities; never, what we call, dry-air!! Once you lose them, it's over...class is over for that kid; if the kid wants mom/dad, we just let them go whenever they want. When we sneak in Shindokan, it's in a game/play time without them ever knowing that they're learning Shindokan. When the kid gets older and starts connecting the dots, they have their very first AHA moment; love to witness that whenever it does happen...touches my heart every time!!!

Welcome to KF the_mars_bar_kid; glad that you're here!!

Karate is far more important than any person(s) and/or any Governing Body!! This decision is their to make, and they've made it; Karate will survive their decision(s)!!