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Really what "dynamic tension" means: "dynamic " (dealing with motion - can be slow or fast actually) and "tension" (being contraction of the muscle group). So dynamic tension exercises are exercises done while flexing the muscles hard while also moving .... like when throwing a punch in order to maximize it's power. During my kickbox class I am always yelling out "contract the muscles in your arms!!" as we punch and even as we kick the bag ... it truly "pumps" up the muscles and fatigues them. But you can also achieve this by pre-fatigueing the muscles. Contract the muscles you are working first, get them good and tired and then do your exercises such as flexing the chest or tricep muscles as hard as you possibly can, and then go and do a set of push ups. You can also go the route of slow motion training by taking a full 12 seconds for the positive phase and 6 seconds for the negative phase of each rep in an exercise. The principles of "dynamic tension" was made famous by Charles Atlas.

The "Deck of Cards" routine is a modification of a regimen used by Japanese wrestlers to get into shape. This routine is very effective in increasing strength, muscular endurance, and cardiovascular fitness in a relatively short amount of time. The basic workout done by the Japanese, consists of assigning black cards to push-ups, and red cards to deep knee bends. The deck is shuffled, and you draw a card. If, for example, a black seven is drawn, 7 push-ups are performed. Similarly, a red nine would mean 9 deep knee bends. All face cards are assigned a value of 10, aces 11, and a joker 15, 20, 25, or 30 (take your pick). Your goal is to complete the deck in about 30 minutes or less. Different variations can be used with the above workout. For example, instead of two exercises, four can be used ... one each for spades, hearts, diamonds, and clubs. An example of such a workout would be deep knee bends, push-ups, squats, and sit-ups/crunches. You can up the intensity a bit by perfroming twice as many squats as the card value says. If you can't get through the whole deck don't sweat it! Start out by taking out the face cards, and go through the modified deck. The following week, add the four jacks, and so on and so forth until you're doing the entire deck. Beginners can start with the 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 6's, every week or so adding an additional card until they are doing the entire deck. Perform this routine 3-4 times a week with a day rest in between. Below are a few sample routines you can try, but feel free to make up your own. Routine 1 Push-ups Deep Knee Bends Routine 2 Push-ups or Hind push ups Sit-ups/Crunches or Leg Raises Routine 3 Push-ups or Hindu pushups Deep Knee Bends or Hindu squats Sit-ups/crunches or Leg Raises Toe Touches Routine 4 Push-ups or Hindu pushups Deep Knee Bends Front Kicks Broad jumps You can also add calf raises, chin ups/pull ups, grip exercises .... and even hand stand push ups if you can do them! Be creative and have fun with this.

ah yes a referral fee! We do that also .... it's a small fee that you can apply towards your tuition cost or spend in the "school store" ... it goes back to the school one way or another!

"There is no bowing. No demonstrations of cracking tiles or blindfolded displays of prowess. The fighters wear shoes rather than battle barefoot, and their moves are determined by the opponent's proximity as they seamlessly combine traditional taekwondo kicks with jujitsu chokes, while at the same time wielding a knife. Oh, and they are trained to kill their opponent as well. "Anytime, anywhere, any weapon, anything you've got," is how expert Kim In-ki describes the philosophy behind teukgong musul, (tukong moosul) a form of martial arts designed to meet the demands of combat." There are only a few schools here in U.S. on the west coast and in Virginia. Check out the website for U.S. http://tukong.com/tukong/ and the other is in Korea (site looks awesome, however it doesn't translate for me) http://www.tgmsa.com

Here is another http://www.mcafee.com/anti-virus/virus_glossary.asp I am posting this one because I noticed when I went to look up a trojan (actually not a virus) I caught a couple months ago (JS Seeker) it wasn't there. I still have it in quarantine (the torture chamber!)

I believe it was F-O-R-U-M-S Javier... (not forms) ... and those hyperlinks on that page for HapKiDo are dead anyway. ("Link Queen on the scene reporting") Go through each page in the Korean Forum (we have several) and you will find enough threads on HapKiDo to start posting here on this forum. True, there are other forms around that also discuss HapKiDo but none that I know of that are solely about HapKiDo..(unless it is one from a school/club). There is an International HapKiDo "Chat at http://www.hapkido-world.liwest.at/index%20Englisch.htm where you can chat wth HapKiDo fans from around the word.

It is very important that stretching be done daily if you're involved in the martial arts. There is not enough time (10 min) during our class to allow a complete stretching routine and the students are expected to stretch out before class and on the floor just before the start of class. Stretching exercises performed during class concentrate on strengthening certain muscle groups and relaxing other groups so that maximum versatility is achieved. It's important for the person stretching out the class to set up a pattern when doing exercises so that no area of the body is overlooked and no area is overworked. Normally in class, we will start at the top and work down. Usually we will begin with rising and crescent kicks to warm up the legs and hip flexors. WOW that is a long TKD class! .... ours are 45-60 min

Highly improbable. Maybe when hell freezes over! There are organizations that are and have formed that merge WTF and ITF into their instruction such as http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Towers/8602/ But, read this article by W. Rhee concerning the future of Tae Kwon Do... http://winstonstableford.com/Rhee-future.html

.... ok your opinions on the "media coverage" of this tragedy has been noted. But you failed to answer the questions posted..... "significant changes in your life since this tragic event? Or after assessing things do you still find yourself living/training as you once did prior to this tragic event?" (Let's not equate this with whatever else is going on or ever went on in this world ... let's try and keep on the right track here.)

I believe everyone including myself was forced to re-evaluate the important things in life.... and our eyes are now just a little bit more widened since the wake of 9/11. Plan on training tomorrow after attending memorial services.

Welcome to KarateForums Kyle! So you visisted our Art vs.Art Forum ... this is a new forum we just added and it seems to be popular with certain martial artists who enjoy pitting one art against another ... it becomes very interesting at times. Good luck in college and in furthering your martial arts education ... we look forward to your "humble" insights here.

I guess you can include me as one of those members who may have suggested that ad .... True, by lifting weights and performing resistance exercises .... you build muscle mass. The more muscle mass you have the higher your metabolism and the more calories you will use to perform your daily activities. The higher metabolism enables you to burn "body fat" more efficiently.... therefore, enabling you to lose weight. Theoretically, you may in fact weigh the same if not more (that is why I don't believe in weight scales) ... but you will have a lower percentage of body fat and your body will be proportionately sculpted and leaner.

Lots of threads on youth and weightlifting in the H&F forum.... look thru. Conscensus is " for lifting at your age.... just have someone who is knowledgeable, first show you proper form and not to get too carried away with the amount of weight you begin lifting. You did mention the dumb bells so I mentioned routines to involve them, solely. Yes, push ups are also great for the pecs.... (did wonders for mine j/k!) also lots of threads on push ups and the variety of types you can do (do a search).

A sure sign of overtraining! Also avoid training late at night because adrenalin and noradrenalin generated by training, interferes with normal sleep. The rule is, if you train at night and start to suffer from restlessness, or the inability to fall asleep, getting up too early you are overtraining. You may also experience abnormal mood swings during the day, and a loss of motivation. Cut back!

Anyone can conjure up some emotion by visualization and act upon this emotion to intensify behaviour. True, actors use this all the time. (I took some drama in college). We use this on our kids in class during "breaking" ... "Your little brother just broke your new toy...blah, blah, blah".... WOW, you sure do get a response.... board breaks..... works every time! This is how it works. You pick an emotional experience from your past or create a scenario from the present (but not one so traumatic and deeply buried that you'll require a therapist to get you through it!). Try to visualize all the sights, sounds, smells, etc., as vividly as possible as you proceed through the actions in your mind. By the time you get to the climax, you should be feeling some of the same emotions you felt in the past. If you don't, don't be concerned ... just try another incident. Again, the goal here is not to force yourself to deal with forgotten past experiences... it's to find those experiences which you can use to stimulate your emotional responses. Any event that does that, even if it's small and stupid ... (like the possibility of someone breaking your favorite toy ... or stealing away your new boyfriend) is valid. Another exercise is to use animal imagery to create a character. Observe the real animal, in nature or in the zoo, and then try to mimic its movements and sounds. Eventually you will tone down this realistic imitation and "humanize" the animal qualities into a physical/vocal traits. How about having her imagine she is a tiger? Some people are just not able to taps deep emotional resources or choose not to. I believe this is a outward personality trait ... some people just are not very confident emotionally. If she wants it bad enough (being part of the demo team) she needs to work at it.... want it badly enough to "perform".

um .... this is an old post guys! .... Hey Jack .... remember when? Jack is now a Sensei here .... and as far as his training goes---more on Jack here http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4312

With a set of dumb bells you can do the following to target those "chest muscles"..... There are two basic types of exercises for the chest: Presses: in which the arms are extended away in front of the body in a pushing motion. Fly's: in which the bent arms (to take stress off the elbows) are drawn across the front of the body in a hugging motion. These "flys" activate the whole chest area: Lie on a flat bench and grasp a pair of dumbbells Start the movement with the dumbbells straight up, above your face, with your arms slightly bent and your elbows locked. Slowly lower your arms down in an arc towards the floor. Lower until you feel a good stretch in your chest. Return gently and slowly to the starting point. These dumb bell presses activate the lower, middle and outer area of the chest, but also the deltoids: Grasp a pair of dumb bells and lie back on a flat bench, holding the weights just outside your chest. Place your feet firmly on the floor and keep your back flat against the bench. Forcefully press the weights up in an arc, exhaling after you pass the midpoint. Squeeze your pecs for a brief second at the top, but avoid forcefully locking out your elbows. Lower the weight under control back to the starting position.

I had an appendectomy when I was in 6th grade and it nearly ruptured because I didn't get to the hospital in time. You need to get to a doctor ... (but I believe if this was in fact an appendicitis ... it would have ruptured by now!) Worst thing you can do is take a laxative (causes an immediate rupture of appendix sending toxins throughout the bloodstream) . My grandmother almost gave me one thinking my stomach pains were from gas ....

My ab routine consists of a variety of crunches/core muscle exercises which I do everyday.... doing three or four sets of 8-12 reps, using some type of resistance and very slow movements that emphasize the eccentric phase of the movement. Sometimes I'll perform as many as ten sets for abs, but keep the reps in the range of four to five. Slow-twitch fibers respond best to higher reps and low resistance. Fast-twitch fibers respond best to heavy resistance and, consequently, low reps. Your abs are composed mostly of fast-twitch fibers. You don't have to do hundreds of crunches ... its quality not quantity. But like I said I do a variety and mix it up weeekly (sometimes daily). Why? Your abdominals will adjust to an exercise. To get maximum results you need to change your ab routine, like the movement, the load or the number of reps. I also cardio kickbox which is an excellant ab and oblique workout.

A word on new and current viruses: "The latest threat to crash the p2p-party is the VERY annoying Duload worm. It spreads via p2p networks like KaZaA with different filenames, all with the .exe extension. So look out for those files disguised as hacks, cracks, screensavers and the like when searching your favorite p2p network. Damage is low once you're infected, but it still has to be removed as it'll download other malicious backdoors and Trojans, and create several copies of itself with different names in your Shared folder in order to spread. Manual removal is a really tedious process so you better get that antivirus a-working if you've caught this one. "Klez" is hanging in there - it's still the most common virus. MessageLabs have intercepted different variants of the worm almost 600,000 times in the month of August, making Klez far more common than the runner-up, Yaha, with only approximately 200,000 occurances. Klez has been No. 1 since it was first spotted in April this year, and it continues to surge. August meant an increase of app. 100,000 Klez interceptions compared to July. According to British news website The Register, this is due to the fact that somewhere, a group of professional spammers have had their computers infected with the virus and are distributing it along with their spam mails. June is still this year's most virus-infected month according to MessageLabs, but September could easily set a new record if Klez continues to hitch a ride on spam email. Osama's Digital Transport An email with a new Visual Basic worm will bring you this rather cryptic message: "I'm 19 years old. I would like to introduce my new transport called OsamaBinLaden Digital Transport. I write this message cause I want to explorer in the whole world using Digital transport. So, where I arrive now?" On a first glance very few would probably credit the author with being able to construct a working and dangerous threat to a pocket calculator - or even put together a sentence in the English language... But this thing -- called VBS.Melhack@mm -- actually spreads itself and wreaks havoc as it goes along. First, it will make new registry values and keys in your system folder, causing it to run when you start Windows. Next, it will fetch a Trojan called W32.Kamil. After that, Melhack creates a series of folders in your Windows registry, some of them with names relating to the American war on terror (Who'd have known that "G.W. Bush Will Be KILled" ?). To top it off, Melhack copies itself and replaces files in your documents folder and on your desktop, it changes your mIRC script if you have one, and finally sends itself to all your Outlook contacts." .... just another thing to worry about!

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eh..... This guy blows me away !! http://www.steve-terada.com/

http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3465&highlight=ancestry Check out this link you guys ... if anyone is intersted in pursuing their roots... I had a great uncle I saw advertised on Ripley's Believe it or Not that sold one million dollars worth of US savings bonds under water (the pic showed him with one of those caged underwater apparatus suits on (circa 1940s) other that that .... I was famous in college as a dj playing the first female heavy metal graveyard shift radio show in the NY-Long Island-CT area .... hey ramymensa I'm jealous! I wish I could do that for a living .... but it doesn;t pay well here

Check these links out from previous posts... if anyone else has anything else to add please post! DIET: lower the carbs and fat... add protein... weight train, cardio and crunches!! http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1835&highlight=6+pack+six+pack http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1829&highlight=6+pack+six+pack

(Yes John a typo ... mean't to say "I think you should determine.... I'm not that big-headed ... am I?? ) Thanks for referring AStewart ...!