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We use oss in our shotokan dojo but only when recieving instruction from our Sensei or higher ranking student,I've always been under the impression it is to acknowledge that you have understood the request

Congratulations on your grading I myself when I started karate was 15stone and I'm now alot healthier at 13.5 stone I wouldn't say It was all down to karate but I can't do me any harm can it

Had a busy life these last 6months so not been on here for a while another reason I dropped my laptop lol,but one thing that I didn't let slip was my karate,so last weekend was our dojos grading night and I'm proud to say I've got my brown belt ,hardest point of the 1 and a half hours was the kumite line up with the higher grades to cut the story short Ive got a few cuts and bruises for my efforts here's to a very long road ahead

happy new year everyone

to all my fellow martial artists,i wish you and your familes a wonderful christmas

congratulations lozzielizzie

well we cant beat mother nature,can we lol,and its looking like the snow is here for another week so im thinking its going to be the new year before our next grading but i am using the time to practise

well i was looking forward to my grading tomorrow 19th dec but due to a few snow flakes landing on the united kingdom its been cancelled

i think i wrote the original post about the filming in the far east the film was translated to the kung fu kid but the uk and other countries it was given the arate kid to try and get an interest from the original titles, as i see the film on its own merits it was a decent film ,but to much wire work in the fighting scences,as id already commented people are going to join a dojo and except themselfves to be doing spinning flips after 3 weeks ,comparing to the originals it doesnt get anywhere near the atmosphere of them,but i did like some of the similarites of the originals(the catching of the fly with chopsticks,jackie gave up and used a fly squater lol,wax on wax off(jacket on jacket off)the list goes on

it seems like a few that already have posted,i started later on in life i was 37 when i started last october and now im currently a 5th kyu going for my 4th kyu grading jan 2011,i may not be as physically fit as some 18/20 yr old but id say i put more effort into my training to compensate entered a tournament last month and came 2nd in my class 10th kyu to 4th kyu every opponent i faced was alot younger so id say theres life in the old dog yet lol

ive ordered my costume should be with me by wednesday/thursday of next week ive gone for the black ninja outfit by blitz(uk martial arts supplier)so good quality is guaranteed

who the heck is darkwing duck gather he's an american charachter,ive looked at the predator costume also still tempted to go as a ninja because they were hero's are villans depending how you look at it

ok guys and girls ive been invited to a fancy dress party in decemberand the theme are super hero's super villians ,so i need idea's but i think batman,spiderman,superman,hulk will all be done so im after originality,did think of a predators costume from aliens movies so any advice will be welcome cheers steve

good luck with your december grading lozzielizzie

slightly odd topic but couple of weeks ago i entered a nationals tournament in the kumite granted i was in a category from 10th kyu to 4th kyu (in a 5th kyu)the guy i lost to in the finals was a 4th kyu and had been that rank for over a year,however the 2nd class gets much tougher 3rd kyu through to all dan grades one of our guys is a first kyu and his semi final match was against a black belt so u would think slightly better advantage to the black belt well our guy won but it was only after our sensei told our guy he was a 5th dan,now i can look at this in 2 ways a,the 5th dan thought fighting a 1st kyu was an easy win(similar to the white belt Vs black belt)and underestimated his opponentand finally mentally our brown belt diddnt feel under pressure just because his opponent was on apperance 1 grade higher