Traymond

Hmmm. I llike shureido's weapons. Never used their uniforms, but I hear they are heavy buy comfy. But they have a slight blue tinge to them as well.

I like it. You can use those for other things than just Wing Tsun. It would be good to practice are coils and arm bars on aswell. I wouldn't be able to afford one after the shureido sai I just bought, but its something I would save for.

I like to use a BOB actually Haha... But I do have some iron palm homemade bags and chin na bags. I started off filling a burlap sack with coffee beans, then moved it to gravel and eventually to steel shot, but I still cannot break more then two bricks at a time...must need to find something even harder to smack. But coffee and dried lima beans work good to start off with.

8-9:30 - Open Kumite TrainingAbout 5-20 people. 10-12 Kobudo (Yafu, Matayoshi andYamashita mix)About 30 people 12-1:30 - Karate Do Any where from 5-20 people and then 2-5 is Shinchuurou Te Around 5-10 people (people complain about the length).

Overall we have over 200 students (Not all in the same class) but split up into six classes three at one school and three at another school that I run so we have around 100 each. But I still think that someone with even a quarter of these students would have the same difficulty as with the full number. I have a hard time remembering all of their names.

I actually recomended and tested a child before. I recommended them (He was twelve at the time) to enter the adult class, and I even went on my own and tested him against the rights of the board of directors to a purple belt (He would have had to weight till he was 14, how ever I tested him at 13). He passed. Some kids are more mature than others, those that are should be rewarded as so.

Haha thats pretty much how it was for me...except when I started when I was five I wanted to learn to fly around like Jet li...haha

I like to cook anything with Pesto, and Curry. But I like to make creative things...like who knew fried chicken with a rasperberry glaze was good?...or, curry tomatoe chicken?...Haha.

I am against fighting, but at times you can do nothing bu fight. When I was a younger black belt just getting my shodan, I was an extremely hot tempered person and a big shot. I was sparring with this kid who was about a year younger than me, and I won. but he did not like that idea so the next week or so I was walking by his house on my way to work, when he just shoots out of his house and starts yelling in my face. I told him to back up, he wouldn't so I pushed him, he pushed back so I did the easiest and simplest judo throw in my mind. Morote Seoi Nage. I threw him onto the grass to avoid further harm but he still wouldnt quit. he came running at me with a hammer fist I think, so I kicked him in the chest. After that, he was a pretty good boy, he just laid on the grass till his sister came out and collected him. We are good friends now. Proper training partners is what we call each other.

I take whey protein daily, and it seems to help slightly.

Haha I brush three times daily. So...I understand salt is bad for you...what can I eat for healthy sodium?

That isn't how I am accustomed to using the shield. The shield is there for protection, and if you don't keep in front of you, it won't protect you. I also don't see much need for the shoulder roll, either. There is just too much that could go wrong there. Also, if you are truly working the sword and shield, it is really a two-weapon system; the shield is a nasty weapon, too. Here is a good text that gives some good, basic intorductory information on the use of sword and shield: http://www.thearma.org/medsword.htm ....and another nice title, specializing in the sword and buckler: http://www.revival.us/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=112 The bunkai of the shoulder roll is to close space. The Oyo Bunkai of that particular shoulder roll is that your opponent is down and your rolling over ther top of them adding all your weight and then closing space between you and your next opponent. And every country has their own style of using the shield. The timbei has its own variation. the Timbei form what I have learned is just to set your opponent put.

Yes the hindu push ups work the shoulders while the spiderman doesn't. But they are all good to do, I do them all but I prefer the hindu push ups.

Ahhh I see. I drink about two (40 oz) glasses of power aid a day, do you think that it enough sodium or should I take more?

Historically...your are right about the square one, the round ones came around and originated in a Japanese police academy. Saying that it has little significance is like looking at a claymore and a katana and saying...its just a "Sword"...that is unacceptable don't you agree? because they have their own respective names.

Haha hopefully you will one day learn it.

Hmmm my shield is bit smaller than that, and I use tanto somtimes wakizashi. But I am also a practicioner of Uechi Ryu, and my teacher is older and he cannot do alot of the 'jump backs' so he refers to what his teacher tells him. Study Old man Karate and Old man Kobudo when you are old man. So if it was that bad on someone's shoulder they could just remove that and improvise with another technique. That shouldn't be a reason to stop doing it.

Well with the timbei, the shield is extremely small almost like the top to be crock pot would be the exact size, so age shouldn't have must to do with performing timbei, maybe if your considering medieval styles.

Yeah, so far the only style that does teach it that I have found is the Yafu style.

What if your in the USA...would you call it a police night stick...I dont think so. Now When you look at a Tonfa (it comes from Japan) it is rounded. When you look at a tuifa (It comes from okinawan) It is square and not tapered. That is the difference Mr Bushido. We should be really calling it Mill grinder handle if you want to get technical but that would sound...rough, dont you agree?

I know in some variations of Matayoshi and Yafu Kobudo they practice the timbei (The tanto and shield). It is very beautiful, but had to master, usually I nor my teacher teach it until your know four kata in Sai, Tuifa, Manji, and Eku, just to make sure that your capable of doing it nicely. The popularity of it died down when alot of the older teachers died.

Some time ago Century offered collapsible metal tuifa, and they are nice I had them for a while, but I eventually gave them away as a gift since they are illegal to carry in my state anyways. They are good for any where training. But the practicality of the double tuifa is to 'set' your opponent up and attack with the other. And if you have to metal 'police night sticks' in your hand then its very intimidating, to me if you came at me with nunchuks, I would just laugh and be like "its bruce lee" But thats just me, its hard to say what other people would say. Now. Jerry Poteet has a certification program running where he send you a baton that is collapsible and a couple of movies and your can become certified to teach it as well. Its very very useful.

Quwa, I love using the hoe, but you have to have real good principles with the bo to be able to be ok with the eku, nunti bo or the quwa. You wouldn't by any chance also have jiwa or jiffa also as a weapon would y0u?

My teacher once told me that you can be a kobudo man (or woman) for your whole life and you will still screw up on occassion.

That would hurt to do it on a machine...what machine were you using? A pull down thingy?,....Haha...I forgot the name of it...put its one that you pull down to work your lats and stuff.