Nidan Melbourne

Breaking the elbow

Most states require that, when a contract is entered, the contractee is provided a copy. If he doesn't have a copy of it...that could be a helpful point for you. As an example: all my enrollment agreements are signed in duplicate and a copy is given to the enrollee. There's even a place for them to sign and say they received it. I think 95% of places require it. I think in this case the copy of the contract would be important. Especially if it had any extra clauses in it. My old sensei from my previous dojo who was the owner trademarked the format of the syllabus book we used. But not the actual content. He has sued in the past.

The up down blocks are you thinking of the techniques immediately prior to the kake uke, mae geri, shomen hiji ate? Individually jodan teisho (shotei for some people) and teisho uke. The nukite (spearhand) we can do either. A couple of my empi off by mistake.

This was me practicing the goju kata shisochin, my timing was off. What do you think? Hopefully the link works

It frustrates me when people behave like that. Personally your M.I. should speak to her privately to find out whats going on. if she thinks she is top stuff (I went the PG route instead of the M rating for Patrick), then why can't she do the most basic of kata well?

Totally agree with you, Cardio is my start point every session in the gym and I am trying to balance the rest of muscles throughout the week What I do in every gym session is do cardio for a warm up, weights on whatever segment of body i want then i do more cardio afterwards as a cool down.

No one muscle group is most important. When at the gym you should work all muscle groups. But if you want a muscle group that is more important would be the heart and cardiovascular system. say you go to the gym 6 days a week and 1 rest day. 1 day on legs, 1 on arms/chest, 1 back, 1 cardio, 1 core & obliques, 1 everything, BUT you do cardio in every single on of the sessions not just your cardio day

It is sad to hear that they are told not to mention which style they train in. If they are truly proud of their style then they should be able to mention it. Although It is understandable for pronunciation, but shouldn't they know how to correctly pronounce their own styles name?

I find it interesting how some will say osu when they are wanting it to mean 'yes'. The instructors that i've had over the years hate it when we use it that way. We use 'Hai' which is the actual term for yes, and if we don't know it we use the term no in japanese (can't remember the spelling for it)

It depends on what i'm wanting to work on. But I will take a day off from martial arts and exercise to recover and just relax. Because continuous pain is a bad thing.

Plus you can't steal students from another school. They left his school to train somewhere else! That is what I did a couple of years ago. Your husband did the right thing by ONLY contacting those who had left the school. They probably still wanted to train in that style just not with your husbands father. How the heck is he wanting to sue him for infringement? Students will leave and train with those they feel like they can really learn something from. In this case it is your husband. If every style of martial art was trademarked then any variation of it would be screwed! even his own style would be liable to be sued. What has the father done to make things worse as an unstable person other than the threats of suing his own son? Also how is your new school running as well? are there lots of students and more wanting to join?

Depending on the activities there would be standards. I am an EP (Exercise Physiologist) and we are governed by ESSA (Exercise Sport Science Australia). They set the benchmark that we have to meet in relation to caring for patients/clients everyday and their treatment. To be even be registered we have to meet certain requirements to be registered with them. Is that what your meaning Hammer?

First off Welcome to the forum. That is unfortunate circumstances for you in this case. Since you were fired and taught a variation of his style you are fine. He can't get a cease and desist to make your husband discontinue martial arts. That is cold hearted and no judge would allow it unless there was some extreme reason why. Every style is derived from other styles. So really no one martial art is all that original.

I agree with you on this point. Even though your student is training at another dojo and got hurt in the process is all on him. You didn't tell him to go train at another school for extra training or anything. Getting hurt during Martial Arts Training is a part of life and will happen. IMO if the parent wanted to get another session in during the week they (both parents) could have gone in to your dojo on the wednesday with the kids to train. But what the other sensei did i believe was also wrong in kicking the student because if he (your student) was apparently doing something wrong in terms of technique. When I teach students (and visiting students) and they do something wrong i'll demonstrate with another student what they did wrong and what they're meant to do (or a variation of what they do). BUT i wouldn't hit hard because i don't want them to stop training or feel apprehensive about training normally. The only time i hit is during free kumite but it is still controlled.

Admittedly I struggle after a while. That makes me feel a little better. I did the 300 today at Aikido, and it takes me about an hour to get through it. I've been told at the Hombu, they aim to do it in 15 minutes, as a warm-up. So, I need a lot of work.its the burpees at the end that are the killer after all the others.

Admittedly I struggle after a while.

Ah yeah, we do them in class, didn't realise they had a fancy name we just call them clap push ups M. You can be quite surprised when you find out what you've done for years actually has a name!

From my understanding of Oss (or even spelt Osu) it is a shortned form of a phrase that students used traditionally. It was done by the younger karateka. He told you off because it is in a way disrespectful to use the shortened version of it

Stop as soon as you make contact. It is a good thing that you are able to injure your opponent. But obviously you don't want to injure your partners. If you want to practice full force either do it with a friend that practices a hard style of martial art (i.e. Kyokushin Karate, Muay Thai etc) or use a kicking bag.

honestly I think you might want to mention it to your sensei. Also it is saying something about your skill level. I understand why he said to that senior student not to ask you to teach him since you were his junior for the time being. But if I were you i would have been humbled a little bit if a senior student asked me to teach them something. Jealousy can become a factor for those students if they aren't willing to admit that you are a skilled student. I know for a fact that roundhouse kicks (to the head and reverse roundhouse) are my weakest and i'm a nidan. So when my sensei picks a lower ranked student to demonstrate one of those kicks i'm cool with it because i know they are my weakest kicks.

A plyometric push up is when you are going into the 'up' phase of the push up you push yourself off the ground. So like clap push ups they are a form of plyometric push ups. This video has a variation of it with steps that you can do. So it differs to a normal one in that manner. A heart rate monitor is a great idea prior to doing this and also to have a bottle of water and (if you wish) a bottle of gatorade/powerade.

@ Rateh That sounds interesting

Here is what we do at my dojo 1) Normal Pace 2) Slow 3) Maximum Strength (NOT SPEED) 4) Completely Relaxed (Little tension in body except to stay upright and perform the techniques) 5) eyes closed 6) Start & finish facing a corner instead of a wall 7) Do the Opposite - Start with opposite foot - Seeiunchin for instance, you start with left foot and continue from there. And do the kata that way. I choose Seeiunchin because it has the same steps on each side but has the linking segments which are the real challange.

Goju Seiyunchin or other? Oh man shisochin can be a pain in the butt to get right, but a fun one to do. Especially to make students to go "WHAT THE!!!!" I don't train any other versions, just Okinawan Goju ryu It does look mystical almost. I really do enjoy it- mixture of delicate movement and violent strkes For the elbows when you pivot i love. The idea of breaking someone's arms in that manner I love.

I havent heard of this way of kicking before but i am interest to hear as well what people say