Traymond

In my opinion, it is the fighting spirit that makes a style capable of fighting,

Yeah, Im sure she still does if she is that good with them I would not see why she would quite, once you get into the mode of mushin, its hard to say what can happen, its like being in a differant world, I broke a toothpick Bo that cost me $90 I smacked it back and I ended up breaking it against my shin, it hurt later.

That shows Character, unfortuneatly tho, I wonder if she still does the Sai?...Hopefully she does. When I put the sai into my foot, no one was around so I said alot of choice words...character or not...I probably would have said the same thing...something about the foot...when thats gets messed up your whole body seems to shut down a bit I think.

I like them because they do feel like an mid, and upper body work out, like if your pressing on time just do 20-30 of those in ten minutes and you work three to four things at one time. Haha, its fun...

I use to be always intimidated by the Kama, I would always thought that I would end up embedding them into my knee one a certain jump back in Okuta Gawa No Kama. But I got over it, I did how ever put sai into my foot though...hurt like a (explicitly deleted)...haha.

Its harder to use because unlike the nunchuk or sai you have to use both hands simultaneously, with the nunchuk or the sai if you do use both at the same time, its easier to coordinate them, because with the bo its almost like trying to say rub your stomach with your right hand and pat the top of your head with the left hand at the same time, the brain has a hard time to function to do it, it needs practice.

Hmmmm Same matsumura style that is famous for the Matsumura NO Sai and Matsumura no Tuifa katas that are broken into two segments each?

Yeuh, but the things that this dream involves or has to do with, I have never even thought of before, but its a good dream in a way, but I never find out the ending, it seems so real, but yet when I wake up I understand its not, and it probably wont happen, but it reoccurs nightly.

It limits your mobility, you cant turn to well, and when you do, you basically collapse, haha.

In my opinion, grappling arts allow you to be able to move around your opponent better, it teaches you to be flexible.

I'd say 3.5 - 4 years. If you train hard and train often, it may come sooner. Much the same way in college if you take a heavy schedule and do well in those courses you will graduate sooner than someone who is attending part time. So I again I say train hard, train often, practice on your own, and you will improve toward your goal. THere is no substitiute for hard work. Remember a black belt is a white belt that did not give up! Remember to not cloud your mind with thoughs of excelling to fast, because then you fail to find the true path, hard work is true, but you must also live your life, same thing with a diet, if you go full force for a month, you get bored and discouraged, never lose the path, always look forward and not behind.

I am a aikidoka by heart and nature, i love the art, and I prefer the peaceful approach to the part where I put my fist behind someone.

Goju Ryu 2 yrs, Purple Belt Shotokan 3 yrs, 2nd Brown Taiji - Four Years Kajukenpo - 2 yrs yellow belt Uechi Ryu - 5 mos (Not ranking jut visiting) Kobudo (Diff styles) 10yrs Shodan in Matayoshi and brown in Yamashita Shuai - 4 years Kodokan Judo 6 years Second Brown Wushu - 2 and 3/4 years blue sash bagua and xingyi - One year Aikido - 4 years purple and others not worth listing.

Well I ordered some stuff and with the cheapest deilvery it got to me in three days, from Cali to Michigan, I am impressed. and I love my new tuifa, it even has an authentic okinawan look to it, the saburi bokutos are well weighted, and the kai kendo shinai is perfect, I love the lightness from it because it is perfectly weighted.

For a practitioner of the art, it is definately worth the energy, but for those that it isn't worth the energy, should not even look at this thread. Now whether your from Okinawa or Japan would matter, but Kobudo is an Okinawan art, not a Japanese art, nor an American art.

Ask for personal instruction for the Bo if that is accessible, that way you can have his focused attention on your work, this way he can critique you all the way through, and some weapons are just easier for some people, like the Sai was the first weapon I could handle correctly, second the tuifa, last of all was the bo, so I feel you.

You probably don't like roofing tiles for the same reason that I don't like baseball bats other than during a baseball game. Why don't you like roofing tiles? If you say because of the slate that's found in American made roofing tiles, then I wholeheartedly concur with you on that. It's not that I don't like baseball bats in my Tameshiwara, it's just that I've never tried to break a baseball bats with my shins or the like. It's the unknown about it as well I suppose...I really don't know. yes it is the slate as well. I dont prefer baseball bat but its is required for my next testing, so I am taking my time. But I do PREFER Blocks of Ice, I think those are the best, we do those for outdoor demos alot, especially in the winter. But with all breaking its just a conditioning exercise and a way to show martial arts in a wider spectrum. If you can destroy mass, no matter what the mass is, just think what can be done to the human body if need be.?

Oh whuh I dont like tile, thats just terrible...whuh.

Thanks, thats basically all I needed to know, thank you.

We use baseball bat for ours what do you use?

Doing a Ura Nage I has a lower and middle abdominal muscle strain, and wha that hurt, haha, but I kept going to class everyday for three weeks before the pain began to cease, it hurt like a bugger, and I could barely sleep at night...

'It always makes me suspicious when people mangle languages. "Kwon Shu" sounds like korean or maybe cantonese? "karate" is Japanese. Why not pick a language and stick to it? Either Kenpo Karate or Chuan Fa Kong Soo Dao or Kwon Shu Dang Soo Do? Or just "Super American Karate" or something? If it is an okinawan language then is had some chinese influence in it as well. If you take chinese arts and Okinawan arts then why not use both languages it shows much more discipline then just using one, iMO that is. Shinchuurou te uses Korean, Chinese, Japanese and Arabic Languages.

So how many of you have suffered from these?...Its easy to get them doing Ura Nage's incorrectly. And I have had my share as well. But did you continue training while you had them or what?

IMO, if your not nervous for a test...something is wrong...you should always be some what nervous, whether it be anxiety or just excitement. But thats what makes testing fun, and if you dont pass, you still have alot of other chances to do it as well, no worries.

For those of you that have used a Jitte, please tell me which one you prefer, the Jitte or the Sai. In my Own opinion, the Sai is better for trapping, but with the jitte you can use it for grappling and chain combo attacks.