Nidan Melbourne

It felt weird being back on the mat. It felt like i was an absolute beginner at it again instead of being experienced at it

To the bold type above... Years of experience?? I ask because most tournaments nowadays ask ones experience level and not belt color. I have been at tournaments where they have requested experience. But most i've entered ask only for rank. But some i've entered ask for BOTH I have only attended tournaments that have asked for rank.Fair Enough.

There's no list of all mcdojo's out there. You just have to go visit schools to find out

Each is excellent, it does depend on your teacher.

Planning New York, Washington DC, Pittspurgh, Chicago, LA, Las Vegas, San Francisco. and potentially a few other places as well. I am planning hiring a car and travelling to a few places also.

Hi all, To any of our American friends in the us. I am planning on travelling into the USA early next year (after my birthday in march) and will be looking for some work whilst there to help fund my travels. Even if it is for one day or a couple it would be most appreciated. One thing I would like to do is run a couple of seminars for Kata at a couple of dojos during my trip and would charge a small fee to attend (tax would be Included in the price). But for me to do to that any interest from KF members would be greatly appreciated.

Mistakes are very common. I've trained for 14 years and i make them every class be it large or small. when i make a mistake i think "ooops, how can i learn from this?". But when i get a mistake correct the next count i go "booyah! that was better" After all we are all HUMAN! so we are meant to be making mistakes to learn. Since your new you are going to be making many many mistakes. Its only natural for that! your journey over the years will reduce those mistakes. Even after all my years, if i'm doing kata that i know extremely well and i make a mistake or if it doesn't feel right i will correct it.

To the bold type above... Years of experience?? I ask because most tournaments nowadays ask ones experience level and not belt color. I have been at tournaments where they have requested experience. But most i've entered ask only for rank. But some i've entered ask for BOTH

Congrats to your son! he must be over the moon. like DWx said take your most crucial items in your hand luggage. Arrive a few days before for him to relax into the location. Because you don't want to overload him if you arrive the night before. You want to reduce his stress as much as possible. When he gets to the competition, get him to think of it as any other competition that you want to work as hard as possible as he has done at any other competition. Also he has to have FUN.

It depends on which competition you want to enter. If your just going to be competing in international tournaments that your not representing countries you will go into sections that are related to experience. I compete and will be travelling next year, and planning on competing wherever i go and that i would list my rank. Otherwise Internationally organised competitions by the WKF will be organised by how good you are in your respective country

It depends on where you train and if your competing or not. It also depends a lot on what rank you are as well.

I teach and train actively because I'm young. But my sensei doesn't have a whole lot of time to train or able to. Because his instructor has ties still with our old school. And he is uncomfortable training there. But will train with the state and national squads. Other than that he will often train with us advanced students or with other senior people he used to train with. He is very active and is wanting to break a sweat. He has a wife and first child on the way. Unfortunately he hasn't trained someone to take over until he can return.

I teach those with aspergers (my girlfriend has a mild form of it as well) and you do need to understand the techniques extremely well and also Kata you do have to show the movement correctly as well. As they learn from the first time it will be difficult to change later on. The way I found speaking to those with aspergers is that you just speak to them normally and definitely DO NOT treat them different. They will ask a lot of questions and want to learn everything you know. But they are excellent students. Just be aware they can throw temper tantrums if they don't get what they want. So I found that you just have to explain to them exactly why they aren't getting it straight away or at all.

Early on bad as you can get confused and not have the basics correct for the first art. But after a year or two it is fine. I didn't start bjj until I was 7 years in of my karate training. Because my high school offered it in year 10 for me.

everyone ties their belt differently but usually it is one of two ways. one of them you end up having a 'cross' at the back, as the belt overlaps. the other is where there is no overlap at the back.

Each are rather different. So like what others have said look it up on google. But TKD has a large focus on kicks over hand strikes, whilst karate has a good balance of kicks and hand strikes. Although Karate has roots in kung fu, so there are some techniques in karate that looks very similar to kung fu.

a student who acknowledges that they are still learning and that everyone makes mistakes because we are all human. Eager to learn whatever we have to teach, polite to others, will give 100% to everything even if they can't physically do it. Respect to everyone around them and willing to learn from anyone

Welcome to the forum! Its great to see another Aussie on the board. I'm Melbourne Australia

welcome to the forum

Welcome to the forum. Don't freak out about old injuries. You know what your body can handle in terms of exercise. i know your sensei will push you to work hard but you choose how well you do. I have bad knees (even though i'm 22) and my sensei pushes me hard but he and i know that there are somethings that i can't do but i still try and do it anyway. If i can't i will vary it slightly to work.

There is no one size fits all approach when it comes to diet, also depends on what your trying to do. But for Martial Arts it is still varies on person, as it depends on intensity of session (and how intense you personally worked), length of session, what you did during the class etc. If you really need to overall on your diet go speak to a dietition or a nutritionist, and make sure that you tell them that it has to be specific. Otherwise you need carbs and protein definitely in your diet. You cannot survive without carbs during the day and provides majority of the energy during exercise. Protein is MASSIVE for muscles. Fish is great for omega-3 and should be included in every diet. which helps for brain and eye development

it is always a good feeling to have that white belt around your waist once more. I found when i started doing BJJ (after i already attained my black belt in karate) and got my white belt it reminded me that everyone is still learning and to be humble in what i know and not to be cocky about being a black belt I agree. Its always fun to be a beginner again. No expectations as to what you should know, and having a clean slate. Enjoy your new beginning!Exactly! It felt weird but an enjoyable weird.

Its totally fine for them to test annually. Most schools will have different testing schedules varying on availability of the location, instructor and number of students to grade. Sounds like the sensei is being savvy in being able to be cost effective and keep savings for the members. Also each student will be more effective if you test once a year.

Circuit Training is very loose and it is mainly a group of exercises that you can do.

we don't allow our students to grade until they are ready to grade for it. But on average prior to our 1st kyu's grading to shodan-ho (they don't grade straight to shodan) they will spend on average 1 year at that rank but only exceptional students will be able to grade prior to that.