Nidan Melbourne

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.

Most lucky indeed. whenever i put a white belt on it reminds me to be thankful for everything that i've done over the years and look forward to learning new things

Depending on the class it will vary between strict/tough to more relaxed yet focused on what we have to do. Say our juniors we run tough classes on them where you can't misbehave and you can be punished for behaving poorly. The 'beginner' adults which is really a mixed one is fairly relaxed yet with a hint of tough because a lot of what the students you need to learn how to do correctly or you will suffer when actually going to use such techniques. The 'Advanced' adults are relaxed but we know when to focus. We can be relaxed during class but still have to focus when we actually do our drills. But when we aren't it is the complete opposite we laugh and discuss what we are doing.

I am overweight and I teach. There only things i can't do are head kicks and hook kicks due to having bad knees (not due to my weight) and not being flexible enough. But I still do them to the best of MY ability and not others expectations of them. My sensei, sempai's and other students all recognize that i can't do head kicks and that they do try and help me do them but i still have an array of kicks that i can still do. in terms of teaching my sensei doesn't mind if i can't do head kicks because he knows i can talk to the students about the difference between a jodan mawashi geri and a chudan mawashi geri. But when i have to teach people the reverse roundhouse kick (at my dojo its called ushiro mawashi geri) i usually have an assistant to help demonstrate. Otherwise every other single technique i am able to do well

I think discuss it with him in private. I know i have made mistakes as an instructor and i admit i have. When I also teach something, I teach them the way i know it but i do tell my students if it is a variation to what my sensei teaches it and which version that they should do. But there are some things i do teach that i do NOT teach any variation to, mainly because it is due to safety issues or if the variation is dangerous or not.

I would love to see karate as an olympic sport but I also worry that it might not be a good idea. Because I feel like would take away the values that karate holds. Also i feel like people would come in expect to learn how to either fight or kata and expect to get into the national team straight away. As much that would be good for business but things would be difficult for the schools when those people don't get into the state or national team when they think they're awesome! The ones that compete at the national and international level are extremely talented and have been training hard in all aspects of karate for many many years. Even if they are in those teams for one aspect (kata or kumite) but they are still good at the other part.

I like the idea of having the grading panel to be a minimum of 2 ranks above what they're grading. Although sometimes that is just not possible. By that logic my sensei is a sandan (is waiting to be able to attend a grading with the AKF) and he shouldn't be able to grade anyone to nidan. Although admittedly when i went for shodan (and got regraded to nidan) and one of my friends got graded to nidan as well there was a godan there evaluating all of us students. But since my sensei has been a sandan for a long time (many many years; i think about 12 years now) he knows the syllabus required extremely well and everything related to goju extremely well and is continually learning how to refine each technique even more to make each technique, kata, kumite and pre-arranged better.

some do it because of their views on animal cruelty and that people shouldn't use animals for food. some do it because they don't like the taste of meat (beef, lamb etc), but some will still consume chicken, seafood etc. Or some don't consume it due to a previous bad experience or an abnormal reaction to the meat (ie allergies/anaphylaxasis) But there are many reasons why people are vegetarians or vegans. I respect my friends that are both vegetarian or vegan, because it is their right and life to choose. But what i don't respect is when they try and put their beliefs onto me and force me to go vegetarian or vegan. There are animals now that do need to be cared for and if not they will get an infection and die. Dairy cows for instance they need to be milked everyday otherwise they can get an infection in their utters and become infected. There are people i know that are vegan on the basis of the animals not being cared for properly. They will eat meat BUT only on the most strict of reasons that those animals were brought up. I know that might cause an outrage and they can't call themselves a vegan. For instance chicken; the chicken MUST be left to roam free and not controlled, the eggs must be layed naturally without any outside interference. it is the exact same for cattle, sheep etc.

If i were you i'd take up BJJ, especially when it does come to safety. I wouldn't change from TSD to another style. But do both. If you have time issues then you can alternate with weeks at each. But if it is too much for you to pay for both. then maybe do BJJ or if you want judo

I think it is a great idea for those from different martial arts to come together to spar. As long as rules are put in place so safety came first and the amount of contact is agreed upon. especially if the style focuses on locks etc. Learning, safety and enjoyment of all parties are extremely important.

and she shouldn't have to send his students to another school for grading. For Kyu gradings he can run them fine since he is a nidan. He should know what each rank should be able to do. Although he would have an issue if he was running black belt gradings.