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The IOC is looking at money and not at tradition....the key elements that should be in the Oly's each event should be Athletics, Aquatics, Archery, Gymnastics, Boxing, Triathalon, Wrestling and weight lifting. These core events make more sense than having other events as a full time and dropping wrestling. with events cycling through every other olympic like Synchro swiming, water polo, Badminton, Baseball, Basketball, All boating events, Cycling, Equestrian, Fencing, Feild Hockey, Soccer, Golf, Handball, Judo, karate, Rugby, Shooting, Softball, Squash, Table Tennis, Taekwon do, Tennis, Bowling, Volly ball (Beach and other wise). Have these one fight it out for olympic recognition each year and leave one or two out......or, drop bowling, water polo, Badminton, Handball, Squash, Table Tennis, and other silly ones... The keeeping of "bowling" over wrestling makes NO sense what so ever.

As the parent of a special needs little girl, this story caught me off guard and I found that as I sat in my office reading it I was crying tears fo joy for you and your boy! This is the kind of story a movie could be made about. I am so very happy for you and your son! This made my day!!! Thank you very much for sharing this great story!

School : JKA of Manitoba Style : Shotokan Karate JKA Town : Winnipeg Manitoba Canada Sensei : P.Dingman JKA 6th Dan

In Judo it took me 3 years, and many injuries and I stopped as soon as I got my black belt, actually the day after because I broke my clavicle and felt that was enough getting tossed on it. Shotokan it took me 6 years of solid training....with four in between of no so solid training.....I was on the extended plan I did three years of solid training to get to my 1st Kyu, took time off to do judo and Aikido, came back and ranked for Shodan in three years and then took off again to visit Goju, Sambo, Kendo and a few other Kung fu styles...came back and focused on my Nidan and Sandan and finally fell in love with the style all over again. Its a life time goal of mine to reach 6th Dan before I die!

10kyu white belt 9thkyu white 8thkyu yellow 7thkyu Orange 6thkyu green 5thkyu purple 4thkyu purple 3rdkyu brown 2ndkyu brown 1st kyu brown shodan blackbelt Standard JKA ranks

I train almost every day. I go to the Dojo on Thursdays and every other Saturday to teach, but my home Dojo I train every night. I go over the basic 15 Kata and then some favorite advanced Kata. On the days I train at the club I try to do some Kumite both days. Kihon waza is a bit of a warm up for me and I try to basically go at it like that. If I find a weak point then i will work on it a tad. I also jog alot now and I am starting to stretch out more and more. I also have a new interest in Jiu Jitsu but not taking it for more than just an interest as I dont want the distraction, not looking at being a black belt in BJJ any time....just suplamentation and interest. Like my interest in Goju Kata I still go back to shotokan daily.

their exists a reason that boxing gloves were invented....to many broken hands!

Actually it sort of ran the opposite as to the number of rounds. Until the MQ rules became popular rounds were often of variable length with each lasting until a knock down was scored. Unless the fight had a predetermined number of rounds they lasted until a man was downed and couldn't come to the mark in the given time, most commonly one minute. Some famous fights went into the triple digits. I agree, us Kyokushin guys tend to fight without gloves and I've not known of anyone breaking their hands. We even do 100 man kumite and that's continuous as in no breaks But you dont punch to the face! The top of the head or side of the head is a strong bone area and hands break...you punch to the meaty chest area and rops are still covered and more flexible than a skull!

That does not address a single question I might have had nor defend the fact that the Sine wave theory that he used is in any way grounded in anything other than his own made up ideas. The Sine wave theory already existed in physics and the use of it....incorrectly...does not help any. I am confused as to what he means when he tries to use this in relation to TKD as it is not used properly at all. Please explain it more to me.

The only thing I can add is the fact that rounds were shorter, less of them...and way less punches thrown than in regular boxing....not as many jabs as the risk of broken hands goes WAY up with bare knuckle boxing.

Just watched General Choi Hong Hi explain the Sine wave, I had never seen this before and never read about it...however four years of advanced physics and kinesiology..and I have no idea why this is done. He says no rotation in punching just this weird sine wave move and all i can say is NO, that makes no sense from a bio-mechanical or physics point of view. Now, I have to say that its a bad video to say the least and his English is not good..the dude doing the translating is french and wants the french crowd to understand the thing, but what I saw was poor movement, halted momentum and poor use of the body in the basics and tid bits he was doing. The term Sine wave is also not proper for what he is describing. The up and down movements he attributes to Sine wave is only the visual representation of oscillations....what he is doing is not oscillations when moving but creating a hauling movement pattern that does not take advantage of momentum or any other basic level physics. Sorry I fail to see how TKD is using anything but junk science in this regard....and while I am not a TKD guy, I love watching the athletic kicking of the style, so this is not a bash of the whole style in general but more a request for real explanation of the science behind using oscillation theory and how its applied here....cuz so far...not seeing it.

their are bad instructors in every martial art! However, as a child I went to a local Dojang and wanted to see if the style they taught was close to Shotokan that I was training in. I was young and knew nothing about TKD. The instructor, a middle aged man (keep in mind I was 12) was teaching. I asked a simple question about his hip when punching and he thought I was shoing him up and went NUTS on me. He litterally grabbed me and threw me out of his club, down a flight of stairs and threw my gym bag, jacket and shoes after me. To say the experience was not good is a bit light. Now, I also trained with a buddy from school who had keys to the TKD school he worked out at. His instructor came in and started showing me stuff, super nice guy...like really UBER nice, and he knew I was a Karate guy and not going to jump ship, just super nice. Their are good and bad instructors and clubs out their and sometimes you have to chalk bad experiences up to meeting a jerk and learning who is a jerk and who is not...see we learn all the time.

First off Kyokushin is close to Shotokan, but a more sporty and aggressive contact system. More people get hurt in that style but not badly hurt, kind of beat up and off with sore ribs for a few weeks. Next some misconceptions about grappling. First off only about 40% of fights go to the ground with both people on the ground, normally its one guy over the other and pounding on the beat down guy. Jitsu will help if you get into this situation to help you get up, but if there are more than 2 guys you are fighting…most styles wont help you really. A bat will however! For the money, its crazy to charge more than $60 a month for two classes a week, and probably not worth it. Rank means very little in relation to skills these days. Not that this makes the club a McDojo, but it might be. The instructor in question belongs to a legit organization and probably teaches mostly family style Karate. You can benefit from the Shotokan guy and he is legit, but to what extent you will benefit is up to you. My suggestion is you sit down and write out your goals. Show it to each instructor and ask for feed back as to how long, if that is a focus of the club, what kind of benefits they offer you did not think of and do your research. Don’t jump in to fast and make sure you are going in with the understanding that each club is different and may not offer what you are looking for or part of what you are looking for.

I found the interview very interesting, hard to understand at times but this is one of Miyagi's students saying they never learned Bunkai and such. I think that alone is worth considering.

For years I have read how Okinawan Karate does bunkai properly and that they know bunkai better than Japanese style Karate....then I came across this....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDgCs3N8jeA...seems to me that the instructor is saying several times that they never were taught Kata bunkai by Miyagi, just Kata...kata and more Kata......

the question of effective vs efficient or if something is effective and efficient can be answered by asking a few questions of each movement based on what you are looking for. If you want to know if a technique is effective you need to ask if it has done what you set out to do with it. If you are asking if a Jab would be effective in knocking someone out, probably it would have a low score like 20%. While I have ended fights with a jab when working the door it was normally the set up for a different move, like jab, foot sweep knee the head of the downed opponent and then lock up to choke him out. Now if you want to know if a back leg round house kick is effective for Knocking someone out, yes, but you normally have to set it up with something like...well a jab. you should normally never just throw a kick at the head right off the bet. It can also loose its effectiveness based on some specific physical attributes, like flexibility and leg strength. You can find out how efficient a technique is then you need to ask how much time and effort it takes to perform the technique and what the turn out is of the movement. So if you have to work really hard and the chances of the movement being successful and reaching the out come you want is low then it is not very efficient. Tobo Yoko geri is not very efficient as the want is a KO and the chances of that happening are fairly low, the amount of effort that you use to perform this movement is rather high say compared to a Mawashi zuki. This can be viewed in different ways depending on your movement, approach to the move and goals. if you are looking at ending a fight the most effective ways would probably include things like leg kicks, punching combinations, bodylock trip take down to chokes and the like...the least effective/efficient would be jumping kicks, spinning kicks, fancy slappy hand attacks and complicated throws leading to complicated grappling submissions.

when I look at principles I turn to physics for inspiration and its not that difficult to find some things that will be instantly applicable to your training. Now strategy thats a different animal all together! Stand up close, Stand up far, Stand up medium range, Stand up grappling, ground grappling. These different ranges all have multiple strategies that can be used or "Game" as my BJJ coach calls it.

I respectfully do not agree 100% The grapples like Damian Maia would be doing much better, GSP would have joined Gracie Barra sooner, Randy would have had more issues as wrestlers are not used to the Gi stuff and Fedor would have done much better as he started in a Gi and only lost to guys in the end when he was not able to close the difference and throw them. It would have changed the way that the whole thing looks. I truly think that grappling would be even more prevalent in MMA if the Gi was still allowed. But fights would probably be slower and the MMA world would not be as popular today with as many people.

Lets see, 5 years ago I was only 26 years into my training and was a strict shotokan trained instructor who had just given up a club to teach for my aging instructor and to have more time for my family. My daughter was going through weekly medical checks and we were on a neurology rollerchoster ride and told some scary things about her condition and knew very little about Ponto Cerebral Hyperplasia, I was starting to get unfit as the stress of family and my daughters medical diagnosis had been adding to my stress levels and had been melting away my drive and motivation to train. Five years later (today) I am a refocused instructor teaching with my instructor and starting to get back into fighting shape and realizing how hard it is for a 41 year old to train and get rid of weight...so much easier when I was 20 to drop a few pounds. I am working on my blue belt in BJJ and also happy that my daughters medical conditions have been solved for the most part. I am a happy and motivated parent of a special needs daughter that is so happy about life that its catchy and I often train with her in the "home dojo" known as the house of pain by those that train with me. Five years from now, well I hope to have my purple belt or brown belt in BJJ and have passed my next Dan grade in Shotokan and I hope to be back in the same shape I was in when I was in my ealry 30's...

Very True, and Kyokushin can be as technical as Shotokan is...and thats coming from a Shotokan guy! It all depends on your Dojo, instructor and your mind set, but you will find more Shotokan schools are about details and technical polishing while "most" Kyokushin are more or less a hard nosed, less technical version of Shotokan and Goju wrapped into one...which makes sense because those are its roots. Point being that I think a very technical style compliments your full contact training and its a great idea to move from one to the other for a while to get "the full experience".

For as many sources out their that are legit and offer a true perspective of martial history their are dozens that are full of horrible untrue history used to market the whole thing as some kind of Little guy takes on big samuari and wins stuff. Read as much as you can, use your brain as well....if it seems really "Fantastic" then its probably a marketing story made up after ww2 to push Karate as being peasent vs samuari or some crazy stuff that was made up by an unhinged guy teaching Red Dragon Kung fu that is 10,000 years old...think about that one a second and see if you can see the flaw. History is important and fun, but training is the single most important part of your practice.

Having watched UFC from the start and watched what the way that Gracie used it and having trained a tad bit in BJJ I think that the Gi would make the fights faster, you can get submissions quicker using a gi, more options and also the throws would be more dynamic. The whole thing would NOT have evolved away from traditional fighting systems as it has. I also think that Boxing and kick boxing would have had a smaller impact on the whole style of fighting as you would see faster submissions dispite the single sided skill sets facing each other. It would be more grappling based, in a traditional way. Just my thoughts...today!

found Kendo a bit to dull for me....but I was a kid and a bit excitable.

my full time instructor is retired, but he was a welder and before that he owned a small store. My other instructors were govenerment employees, fire fighters and one was a coffee truck driver!