Traymond

Alright, I will check it out, thanks for the information, take care and good luck with your teachings.

That has nothing to do with it...Americans are living to be 80 and 90 years old and im sure Chicken nuggets and double cheeseburgers aint the healthiest things for them either. The staple diet of the orient is Rice in general, which you failed to list, you only listed the unhealthy things. Asians in Asian countries eat more fish than anyone else in any other country, that helps with the Fatty Amino Acids, which is good for your respiratory system and your fat intake. The only Asians that have a sauce such as sweet and sour would be China, Japan has Teriyaki, and Korea has that sauce they put in with the Sam Geup Sal (whuh im korean and I dont even know the name of the sauce.....) I am not all certain but I know for a fact that alot of Japanese and Korean fried foods are fried in vegetable oil with a tempur or Panko style batter. Which is not as bad for you as the western french fries or the doughnuts. Noodles are fatty, but they are not unhealthy. They are far from it,. We need starch in our bodied such as carbs that which martial artists work off quite a bit off with their exercises. So your post seems a bit biased to me, because you seem to be saying that the Diet of the Orient is bad, but whats the differance between the Orient's or the western diet? Im just trying to figure out why you think those foods are unhealthy, especially since you directed it to the Orient, even though martial artists in general are of any ethnicity.

Oh I see, so then not all Y's would have a program for that then.

Well in that case it sounds like that because of the falling out it seems that the styles went two differant ways, so like Shito Ryu and Shito Kai the styles are similar but differant as well. With Bunkai and technique.

Why dont you just go and ask your sensei?

Lets add Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931) 78 years old, not to old, but he still teaches Teruyuki Okazaki (1931) Kanei Uechi 1911-1991 Chojiro Tani 1920-1998 Kiyotada Sannosuke Ueshima (1893 - 1987) Hironori Otsuka (1892–1982)

Perhaps your instructor added to it what he thought would be better...just a thought in my opinion.

thanks, it was very informative.

tkdan, are you getting paid? I am just wondering cause there is a Ymca around where I live, but their is no teaching positions for martial arts, is it something that they all do, or what?

Favorite Hand strike: Ridge Hand Favorite Kicking Strike : Any jump Kick Favorite Block : Knife Hand favorite Take Down: Vertical Fist to the solar plexus

Thats pretty much all it is....haha.

Miso No Kore, it is best put as that you should not retain anything, in your mind, but that your body just retain it so that you do not have to react, only act. It sounds like it should go under mental, but it has nothing to do with the mind, because you have to shut the mind off, and it is the vigor that the martial arts gives you that allows you to do so...some Karate-ka say it has to do with Ki, or Chi, and other say that it is only something some people can do, which is it? I have no clue, I prefer to believe that it is spiritual, and it is one of the things that we must obtain before we become "Bushi"

UNder spiritual you should have "miso no Kore" Or "a mind like water"

The "one hit one kill" with karate Do originated in Okinawa, when King Sho Hashi came around and stripped all the weapons, the Karate-Ka had to improvise to fight against weapons, even if they were against Bo staffs, im sure it would be better to get your head chopped off than to have it smacked with a Bo staff... But anyways it originated so that they could kill their opponent with one hit, alot of times this did not happen, and alot of Karate-ka's dies. It wasn't until Bushi Matayoshi killed a samurai with a sai, that people truly emphasized the one hit one kill theory. I think for hitting the makiwara with one strike will alot of force, is just a conditioning practice now a days, but it is still good to know just in case someone with a Katana is running towards you, you can stop him in his tracks... BUt I also agree with bushido Man about trying to work on a chain of attacks so you can throw a very strong flurry at your opponent. You dont learn all martial arts to kill someone, you learn it for the mere benefit of knowing it, and to honor the past...

Hmmm, i see. I agree fully with that, that they should take the time to learn to teach. But like with me, in my Kajukenpo style, I am a yellow belt but I know everything I need till I get to blue belt and thats two more belts away. And I will be able to double test when I feel like it. But I do agree with you need to LEARN to teach first...

Ok but what do you think about somone thats a 2nd kyu holds their rank for anywhere between 2-3 years, would it be ok for them to double test then?

In my own opinion and in what I have been taught. Traditional martial arts, is a martial arts system that is in the same form as the way the founder created it. so in reality if you did not learn from the founder, its not likely to be 100% traditional. Like if you learned Uechi Ryu from Bushi kanei, then you learned the traditional approach to uechi Ryu, but if you learn it from someone say Tomoyose Sensei, then it can be slightly differant, but Traditional martial arts also go into detail with the etiquette of the training hall as well. You go into some modern schools and they don't even care if you bow in and out, or address a higher ranking student with proper respect. Those are my opinions on what makes martial arts traditional.

California is an extremely costly place to learn martial arts, when i was visiting for a month and a half learning bagua and xingyi, classes were 50 dollars a session, and I was attending 3 classes a week, it added up QUICK. Luckily I was only their to learn two forms though, so it did not take to long.

I am extremely against blood....thats why I hate the doctors, anything where blood comes out I do not like it...luckily with acupuncture blood very rarely comes out, unless your with someone who does not know what they are doing, then you better watch out, especially the ones who watch way to many movies with people actually tapping the needle down with their finger tip...that hurts, and it goes to deep sometimes and then blood comes out But if the person know what they are doing then, their wont be any blood shed.

Name in Korean, Japanese, Chinese or Arabic on the left, and the kanji for your dan rank on the right, with one of three okinawan karate symbols underneath it.

Hmmm, I am actually a judoka, a first brown to be exact, so I do know you can be choked by your own belt, thats why dont tie the belt as tight as youusually would, so it can slip off easier and you can continue without it. Differant schools of Judo have differant preferences about the belt, the last five schools I have been to allowed for one size higher. btw...nice smiley face on that, its very fashionable. I have never heard any one speak of the belt as a fashion statement, because to refer to the obi as a fashion statement, is of great dishonor to the meaning of the belt. Do you know why people put kanji on their belt? In modern okinawan martial arts they speak of such Bushi Sensei, as matsumura, Itosu, shinken. These martial artists use to embroider their students belts to speak of their rank, and their titles. And the concepts of martial arts that they had to overcome, this is why tradition allows for the belts to be embroidered on longer belts, so that it can be shown. This was taken directly from the site below. http://tkdtutor.com/02Taekwondo/Uniform/AboutUniform.htm It does not just go alone with Tae Kwon Do, it can be with alot of martial arts that refer to form in the martial arts. And are you really gonna be able to concentrate on someone's knee position that well if you are 10-30 feet away from them? I mean you can always be able to tell from differant angles right? Unless you plan to run around them as they do their forms?, That would be a pretty sight. :S

Ok, but what about the belt?

But regardless, of the knee bend, wouldnt it still make it look lower than how it is suppose to be, even though they are in the correct position for a perfect horse stance. Naturally the mind tells you to look at the bodies association with materialistic items on the body. Such as someone with baggier clothing looks bigger. Wouldn't the stance still look lower than what it is suppose to look?

It actually doesnt hurt when they do it to you, it hurts when they pull them out actually, especially when they hit you with it in the chin or on the bridge of the nose.

I myself have never heard of analyzing the height of a person, since looks can be deceiving with correct posture and wrong posture as well. Thats why for tournaments we make people wear their correct size of uniform, but they are allowed to wear a size higher in belt size if they have hangul, kanji or some other kind of embroidery on it. But I will look into the height and analyzing the knee bend some more as well. and nrspook? Do you wear a size seven because that is your correct size? Because if you want them longer I know of a place you can custom order belts from.