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I'm guilty too! When I had an office job and sat at a desk for most the day I would be in deep thought doing hand techniques. Of course someone would come up behind me and ask what the heck I was doing. I would smile and say it was some of those new exercises you do at your desk.

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Congrats on your upcoming grading. Question #1: Depends on your Sensei. Chances are if he's going to test you on it, you've already done it hundreds of times. I wouldn't be wooried about too many surprises. Question #2: Here again it depends on your Sensei. Has he gone over the history in class? Keep track of what you talk about and do in class. A journal is a great way to make quick notes after class to remind you of what you have gone over. Once again, don't expect any surprises. Sensei wants you and all the others testing to do well and is not there to try and stump you up on something. Question #3: Ask your Sensei if the dojo has a syllabus which can have the standards to promote and the jargon that is used in class. Do you mean the Japanese terms or English? The best way to remember them is to do them over and over and then do them some more. Question #4: What I said above and to just say to keep training hard and to never tell your Sensei that you "can't" do something. Our Hanshi tells us it's OK to refuse to do something but don't tell him you can't do it. My two cents! Good Luck!

Best of luck, and be careful! You'll be in our thoughts and prayers.

Hello and Welcome! I'll move this to the intro section so everyone can say Howdy. I think you'll find many MA's here to help you with any questions you might have.

Bigger and better everyday! Let's keep rolling.

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Hey Shorin Ryuu. You pretty much summed up what our Hanshi has been telling us. You said it much better than I was able to convey it in my above statement. And yes, I did use the word technique too much. And reading your post reminded me that Hanshi uses the words "concept" and "principle" much more than technique. He also tells us that every technique won't work every time and you may have to resort to plan "b" or "c". It's hard to write down someone elses thoughts but I think you and my Hanshi share many. Thanks for your response.

We had a discussion in class the other night and I thought I would bounce it off you guys to see what you think. One night a week we have a black belt training class where myself and two other students have Hanshi all to ourselves to ask questions and train specific techniques. This past week we trained to defend against a knife attack. Our Hanshi has 38 years of experience and has probably forgotten more then I could ever learn. He shows us many different techniques that will work against certain situations and encourages us to find three or four techniques that we are confident in and can become very proficient at and stick with those for real life situations. He has many real life experiences from bouncing and body guarding in his younger years and says that when it's go time you'll fall back on what you know the best and what you know will work. He tells us that if you have the least bit of doubt in a technique that it won't work. Be confident in what you do and do it well! We'll learn several techniques for a certain defense and he'll tell us to pick two or three and make them our own. My three may be different from one of my classmates but they're the three that I feel the most confidence in. Don't misunderstand what I'm saying here, he'll teach us anything we want to know but doesn't want us to become a "Jack of all techniques and a Master of none" Do any of you guys teach or are taught that way? Agree, disagree, thoughts, opinions?

Forms themselves are not used in a fight but the techniques found in the forms are. And there is never just one application to a certain technique in a form. Forms(Kata) are great ways to learn proper form to apply techniques and for your body to be able to react to certain situations(muscle memory). When the time comes that you need a technique it will be there and you won't have to think about it. No time to think, you must react!

Welcome to KF. It's great that the Sensei is giving you guys a free month to try it out. Let us know how you like it.

Congrats Angela, keep up the good work!

OK, I found some more info you. I think this might fix your problem. Hope this does it! SYMPTOMS When you try to edit old or new documents, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following: This command is not available because the document is locked for edit. You cannot create any new documents and you cannot save documents. Additionally, you may also notice many menu commands are unavailable (appear dimmed). CAUSE This issue occurs when Microsoft Office has not been activated or the issue occurs after the Office program has been activated, and then the program has not been closed. Without activation, Office programs operate in Reduced Functionality mode and exhibit this behavior. RESOLUTION To check whether the product has been activated, click Activate Product on the Help menu. If the product has been activated, a dialog box is a displayed with a statement that the product has been activated. Otherwise, the Office Activation Wizard starts and permits you to activate the product. REFERENCES For additional information about Office activation, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 293151 Description of the Office Activation Wizard

Bottom left of your document you'll see some small boxes that look like pages. Put your cursor over them and it will tell you what view each is. Sorry I can't be more help. Maybe someone else here will have the answer for you.

OK, I just thought of another. If you go to the forms toolbar you can lock and unlock your Doc. to prevent it from being change in any way. Go to view, toolbars, and forms to get the toolbar up. if the lock is down then click on it to release it. That's all I can come up with. Hope one of them works! Good Luck!

The only thing I can think of is if your in "Outline View" you should have a outline toolbar. From the tool bar you can lock and unlock your document. I believe that may only be if you have a sub-document however. Just my thoughts, any others? In need of some Word experts out there.

Just what manuelito said. Karate is like a rollercoaster ride. A lot of ups and downs, as soon as you reach that down you'll learn something new and be on that up swing again. Be patient, it will come. And as was said above, be ready to practice basics every class. At least you should be!

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Don't know of any clips but our Hanshi back in the day actually went up against "Superfoot" in a demo they did together. He says he does have the fastest left foot he has ever seen (or heard as he put it). He new him for a short time until they went thier separate ways. He said he is a very nice guy who could take your head off before you could blink. He learned a lot from him.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We're celebrating ours today because I have to work tomorrow. The turkeys in the oven and smelling good. Let's not forget to be thankful for what we have.

Welcome to KF. I split this topic off where you had posted it so you'll have your own thread to welcome you and to get some advice.

I understand what your saying DM, and agree with you. We just had a discussion about this in our class a couple of weeks ago. Our Hanshi asked the question to the class if "they feel the blocks and techniques they do in kihon and kata would actually stop an attack". He was really questioning the intensity of some in the class to get them thinking about real life situations. If you don't practice in class like your life is on the line then it won't be there when you really need it. If you throw up a limp noodle block in class you'll do the same on the streets. If you practice strikes with a bent wrist in class you'll be nursing a broken wrist in real life. You must be reactive in the real world where fraction of seconds may be all you have with no second chances. Practice it like you mean it!!

If your looking for clips of MMA events try sherdog.com, they have some pretty good ones.

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