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I did not realize it was that old.

Theres more to karate then sparring IMHO. Even though my style has weapons it does not have to be taught. We use to have a surgeon in our class who could not do the kumite due to possible injury to his hands. He took up karate for a number of reasons. But self defense according to him was not one of them. I respected his decision on a number of levels. So to say that one has to learn kumite is to do karate isnt right. It is up the individual. We are there to help them, not to lecture them

Talk to him. Believe me we are more understanding then you will think. You really arent jumping ship but where your schedules are starting to conflict and training in a garage ( i know this from experience ) can only go so far. I am sure he will understand. Just make sure you explain yourself fully. Heck he might even follow you.

Well that depends on what your after. I do the iso type lifting which means no bulk but stay strong sorta speak. When I lift, I concentrate on my breathing at same time. You dont want to go super fast though. Take the curl for example. now lifting is also down in a break down manner. I usually do upper body 3 days, lower 3 days and rest 1 day. typically 3 to 5 sets of roughly 10 to 15 reps depending on what I am working on. A typical lifting session for me is roughly 45 to 60 mins not counting warmup and cooldown. You might be able to youtube some professions that can actually show you how to do it by visual

Good Luck as well

Congrats

Everyone else pretty much gave good examples that I have used in the past. Two of my favorite was wrist roller and what I called wrist rotator. Basically its a good size dowel of either wood or metal and a couple of small weights screwed on the end. It would look something like a dumbell without weights on other end. Just be careful not to snap the wrist using that. I sprained mine bad when I thought I was getting good. Doing a competition with sais and taped wrist is not fun, came in fifth due to that.

Like Bushido mentioned. Its how the fighter is setting up themselves. When I fight, my stance is relaxed but in a defense/offense manner. I never try to expose my back in such a way I cant defend also. My stance is a bit wider but not too wide where I cant distribute my weight in a instance, always facing front. I use to have pictures of me sparring but since Ive gotten new computers I lost em in the data transfer so will have to take pictures again to show my stance.

If I remember, I think it was a bit of both. I cant be sure what the actual lvl was but it glitched in the 20's somewhere. There use to be this guy back home when arcades where popular and he mentioned that. I worked for the same arcade years later is how I found out.

Man that was one game growing up as a kid I could never touch. Go to the arcade and would always be a crowd around. But I did get real good at pole position

Yeah, I'd have to agree with Kuma. Even before karate kid movie I asked my teacher if he could break blocks. He use to say "what did the block do to me that I need to hit it?" Not an advocate of breaking myself but training on 2 makiwara boards : one stationary and one you can move around is good conditioning on the hand/knuckles. The floating one I can move to the floor and just do repeated downward punches just to condition not necassarily to make my downward stronger.

I'm omni dextrous. In that I can do stuff with both even though I have a stronger right kick but my roundhouse is stronger left side. Generally when I switch stances its to confuse my oppenent. Really not to give him an advantage since I can fight either. So it forces my oppenent to accomadate my fighting more so then his/hers. Going up in the rank we use to practice both sides, reasoning was you never know.

cool, you found a better link. I was amazed reading bout the little tike but couldnt find a good link that showed him playing.

not sure, the second one is very different from what I can see of it. Maybe its just me studying my forms alot and seeing what is similar and what is not.

The first one is very similiar to our chatan yari no sai kata. The 2nd one really doesnt come close to any of ours I can think of.

Pictures that I cannot put words too.

Or the collective starts symulating people

Those are so cool

WNM is smart. I had a whole thing written for this topic but thought twice before I hit submit. Too many times people place Bruce on that high pedestal. He was a remarkable man but by no means how you want to be like him. There was alot of stuff that man did that most would not attempt (electrode training for example). To me, if you want to admire someone I always felt it should be your actual role model. Mine was my teacher, I thought he was better then bruce because of his knowlegde with isshinryu and being a school teacher. My one role model was chuck norris as well cause of the things he has done also. I've always been into martial artists who donated there time to kids (like the kick drugs theme and cancer donations). To me that is the greatest accomplishment then training yourself like bruce did. There is so much more to the ma then being a imatation bruce. So pitted yourself on that 19 yr stretch like bruce is kinda stretching it. I've been in ma for 30 yrs, isshinryu for close to 25 yrs. In that time have I achieve what he did. Sometimes I wish I did but that would mean I gave my time to the art instead of my family. I cherish my style alot but my daughter comes first. That is something that is different bout bruce. From all I read and scene of bio's he loved his family but gave all to the style first. That might seem harsh but that is my opinion on him. If he never made those 4 movies no one would really know much bout him except from mag's like Black Belt and his books and maybe his old students. Well till I can think of more I'll bow out for now.

Coming from a vet. To all veterans past and present /Salute

Tallgeese has it narrowed down. Being a ex amatuer mtn biker racer, and extremist sports nut. Mostly what I did was fruit, energy bars, gatorade type drinks water'd down by half. The worst part is the nerves though, if your not use to being infront of a people alot of times that can unwound a person and make them sick no matter how well you eat. What I've done for this was picture myself in some place I felt comfortable in and visualize that. that usually help'd me out.

Theres many aspects to learning a kata. Alot of narrowed down the generalization on it so far. One can be taught a kata in a days time sort a speak. But has that person understood what was taught to them?? In general, once you learn the kata you will always practice/learn/adhere to what it's meaning is. I've been studying isshinryu since 84', ma since 78'. In that time I still dont think I've fully understood the meanings of all my kata's. Empty and weapons. With that being said, I'll sit and practice a kata and all of a sudden learn something new I never noticed before. So in essence, one can learn the basic form of the kata but to truly master it takes years, sometimes a lifetime.

I've followed star trek off and on, not a fan (i'm a star wars fan, we dont get along, never mix a convention with star wars and star trek fans). I can attest that is even too much for me to take in if i was the guys friend.

well finally got the chance to watch it and im overly not impressed. Like I mentioned before they take out alot of variables in there analysis. Plus the trashtalking kinda makes me want to turn it off alot. Think I'll stick with Warriors on history channel. Least the host there is willing to learn bout the warriors he is doing.

Yeah those are pretty awesome. There's one that always intrigues me and thats this rock face that can be seen if memory serves me right heading towards PA on interstate 80 in NJ. The face almost looks like a indian, you can see the outline of pretty good.