Blade96

No. because no one else is interested.

This I Cannot Forget by Anna Larina. (I'm a student of Russian/Soviet history. and for years I loved this book. this book will make you laugh and cry . Sad tho. Just warning you.

I concur! I do a japanese ma and I'm from Canada AND am a hockey fan. and its true canadians think about hockey as "our game" and as for the shotokan bunch....Erm. same thing

I think our BB's think they are noble. When they go out socializing after class even if they arent having a meeting, but just having a good time, Kyus arent even allowed to sit at their table. (except for my Sandan friend, who got really annoyed when they attacked me for hanging out there, because I am his friend and he doesnt agree with cliques)

if i had a say i say don't wear anything from another school or art..... please a week ago one of my Senpais wore his shodan BB - from Judo! to Shotokan which was embroidered with his name on it in gold japanese, to shotokan (with us he is 3rd dan) and our sensei wouldnt stop looking at him weird ....these weird looks like 'what you doin' kinda thing

I'm gonna go with Bob-sensei's post here. At first i wanted to train because i saw wesley snipes do it - Shotokan - in blade (hence my username and lol dont laugh) Then I figured out that it is A WAY OF LIFE. and its not just for combat. Just like a military person lives and trains in wherever they are stationed. they may not actually ever fight a war. But it is a way of life for them. and they cannot leave it. Because it is so much ingrained in them. Because it is also about the person - hence why they call it an art. It builds you up, personally. You just feel so good. It isnt only about combat. Also helps my spirit recover from the damage it suffered as a result of my having been abused when i was younger. So in a sense I guess I do fight a war of sorts. Stillkicking, do you mean the Heian/pinan (i hope I used the word pinan right; forgive me, I am Shotokan) series of kata when you asked about the calm before the storm? Because heian means 'peaceful' as in peaceful mind.

I LOVED my first tournament. It is something I shall never forget......

*claps for Bob-sensei* Good on you for wanting to preserve Shindokan and everything that goes with it, instead of comprimising its intgrity and the brilliance of the MA. Your Da Soki should be very proud of you. Thank you Blade96, and my Dai-Soke is proud of all of his students! Just as I'm sure your instructor is proud of you! Thanks

You're not the only one. I tried to take down a brown belt during training one evening and she just stiffened and didnt want to go down because in her words she 'didnt like it' and was 'afraid to go down' Heck, I don't mind being taken down. In fact, I wanna do it.

Oh ya. Shotokan really does it for me. Love it! =]

mmm, the words mission impossible come to mind. I have had cats since i was 8 and winston churchill wasnt kidding when he said cats look down on you.

Grats

lol I then had to explain to her why i didnt use my hands.... Ow. I fel like a ....something or other

*claps for Bob-sensei* Good on you for wanting to preserve Shindokan and everything that goes with it, instead of comprimising its intgrity and the brilliance of the MA. Your Da Soki should be very proud of you.

was talking to this prof yesterday and without thinking i kicked open the door.....and she gave me this weird look....Uh oh. busted

Thanks DWx. The truth is, it's not credible. It's a franchise. But then, Taekwondo isn't really credible either, not if you realize it's just Japanese karate given a different name. There is a kind of public shame Koreans seem to have over Korea being occupied by Japan in the early part of the 20th century, and they will never admit that such an occupation might have brought with it a more advanced civilization, so there is a denial that Taekwondo is really rooted in karate I was talking to my aunt's bf who has a BB in tae kwon do and told him i knew this art takes some of its moves from Shotokan he said yeah i know =]

and this is me

well one of my senseis is a real lover of things Newfoundland. so I'll probably get him a small something with our flag on it for christmas. The other sensei is a cat lover - so I know what to give him.

Feh, about 9. some were younger than that. and it was my own sensei who was teaching those kids at the time and who said that (though there were 4 senseis at the seminar)

When I discovered I no longer use my hands to open a door - a maegeri kekomi does the job just as well. Or a spinning ushiro geri. =]

I was always told to keep my fingers closed and my thumb tucked in as well. I was told, yeah, it makes for a more effective harder strike/block. as for experts keeping fingers slightly apart, i wouldn't know, because I havent paid that close attention. I'll leave this to the experts to answer.

Haha, told ya you'd not only get your old belt back but now you..... Congrats!

guess i have to add heian sandan to this list of katas because i learned it this weekend at our seminar.

at my seminar this weekend these kids, as kids will do, were complaining about training for hours and hours 'i'm bored' 'i hate this' ' can we stop' and Sensei got tough with them and said 'tough, we'll be doing this from 9 am til 11:30 or so, you'll do what you're told' 'quit acting like a bunch of wusses you're in martial arts now not kindergarten' but he didnt give them punishments or anything, he just laid down the law so to speak. I said to him later 'No wonder you said you didnt wanna teach kids'

next thing you knows, you'll be coming back to us saying that you passed your test I bet you will.