Nidan Melbourne

I have a slight issue with chiropractors, as much as they might be good with cracking your joints and you will feel better afterwards. But there is a significant risk of damage to joints and neural pathways. Best thing it do is go see an osteopath, exercise physiologist, physiotherapist. Any of those should help because of their training in rehabilitation of muscular and skeletal injuries.

I completely agree with you ninjanurse! When i teach i will vary how i teach with whomever i have. The quality of techniques i find is way more important than the quantity. because when it comes to the crunch time when a person has to use it they would rather be able to use an effective technique over lots of terrible ones. Imho, that's the mark of a great instructor!! Thanks Sensei8. I won't pass any student on any test until they can show that they have shown proficiency in what they need to know even if it is under pressure.

Personally i haven't experienced it. But the one thing i have learnt over my years of training is that you don't need a dojo to practice. You can practice absolutely anywhere. If your getting frustrated at home training on your own, then ask your wife to join you. Even if it is you teaching her then you get to practice at the same time and also you get to enjoy it. I've suffered from pretty severe depression for years and the one thing that i found that really helped was to teach my girlfriend. Because it made me feel important to someone, and helped me build my self confidence again.

Sorry never heard of Mark Hicks!

No kata is boring. Even the most basic of kata can be extremely advanced in themselves. I do goju-ryu and our taikyoku kata (with Sanchin Dachi and zenkutsu dachi as stances, except taikyoku gedan and mawashi ichi). They look easy yet they can be extremely complex with the movements.

20/2/14 1 hour of kihon - all basics - kihon ido ich/ni/san 1 hour of kata - Taikyoku Jodan/Chudan/Gedan/Kake Uke/Mawashi Ich, - Gekesai Dai Ichi/Ni - Saifa - Sanchin - Tensho - Seeiunchin - Sanseru - Seisun - Shisochin - Sepai - Kururunfa - Suparempei (Still learning it so i've been practicing it a lot) 30 minutes of pre-arranged Sparring - All pre-arranged sparring up to #7 1 hour of BJJ training (Open Mat) 3 sets of 30 push ups 3 sets of 30 sit ups

I completely agree with you ninjanurse! When i teach i will vary how i teach with whomever i have. The quality of techniques i find is way more important than the quantity. because when it comes to the crunch time when a person has to use it they would rather be able to use an effective technique over lots of terrible ones.

what i noticed about his traditional kata is that it doesn't have much fluidity. From what it looked like it was seeiunchin kata from goju-ryu (with variations of course) but every step it looked like he went for power yet lost its fluidity. He has some pretty good footwork, yet his hand techniques look a little choppy. If you want i am actually going to be filming some kata tonight if you would like to see what i meant by having fluidity and not being too choppy with the hand techniques.

Oh that is fair enough if you are busy with family. they are extremely important

if you only choose one the explanation would be different. But Inflation and Overhead can be paired, because if you rent a space the overhead might increase due to various reasons but inflation will also increase overhead because of the costs. Then Greed is seperate because it is on an individual basis of the owner of the school or the person who owns the building that your schools uses.

Yes, you are right but it's only a matter of not being able to imagine karate without sparring ! it is hard to imagine it without sparring. But once it is more healed then it can be one thing. But if it is going to be long term you will have to vary how you fight.

What was the first thing he did when he found out that he received his godan?

Do you have to pay to attend Gradings or is it because you would have to travel a fair way to attend the grading?

$80 a month for me - unlimited training, insurance, dojo hire fees (we hire a space so everyone gets a small amount included into their fees to cover it), grading costs, new belts etc. We now run 'master' classes for kata and kumite a few times a year but cost extra. All my sensei does is book the space for the time required but the money paid goes toward that and also to pay the instructors for their time. The instructor that runs kata is in the state squad and the instructor for kumite is in the national squad.

Check with your doctor first in regards to this. If you do decide to do kumite then be aware that you can cause more damage to yourself than already. So best wait off until it heals up or you get it fixed.

Congrats to him! Well deserved

What does everyone read online for Martial Arts? be it blogs, forums (KF is a definite must), articles, videos or whatever else online And how did you come across those sites?

all our australian referees as a minimum have to be Shodan. But for them to 'level up' is when their a minimum of a nidan or sandan and to have studied more than 1 style of karate other than their own

The alan murdoch cup tournament here in Melbourne Australia is run extremely well in comparison to this tournament you were describing.

man i had a lot of fun getting back into it! i just loved the feeling of the excitement, dedication, nerves of everyone there that were competing and of the parents as well watching.

thats an interesting way of running things, and it definitely would make the students work hard to earn their next belt not just rock up every couple of months to grade for it. We do grade formally but all the costs of belts & gradings are actually kept to a bare minimum for them, as they are included in the training fees. So the one thing that my sensei would actually lose money from is the belts.

I think these are important points that both students and teachers should be aware of. From a teacher's point of view, a student is not stupid or unteachable because they don't understand how you've explained it, you've just not yet hit on the best way to convey the lesson to them. Equally students shouldn't get disheartened because they don't understand, the should ask for a demonstration or a different way of explaining On the side of my regular job I tutor kids, specialising in maths and science. Over the years you end up with different ways to teach the same subject dependant on how that person learns. For example teaching fractions to kids. Some get it better if I bring in something like Lego or a bag of sweets they can physical divide up because they are better at learning through physical activity, some prefer to talk about it and go through logically, others like to use pictures and draw things themselves. Same lesson just different ways of conveying it. I teach privately outside of class and a parent as asked me to teach their child karate, the thing i have to be careful is that the child has autism. and another one of my private students has aspergers. So They obviously have different mental processes and physical limitations. But what i have done when them is learnt about them first and if they have a special topic i'll try my best and relate techniques to those. Now whenever i teach them they may have a different name for certain techniques so they can either remember it or to keep themselves interested. so different teaching styles take time to develop and also you need to know how to teach people differently (verbally, visually etc).

That sounds like a very good idea. Fundementals is absolutely crucial in all martial arts. Techniques and combinations are important. One thing you will have to remember is that they shouldn't be going 100% intensity from the very beginning as there is obviously the risk of injury

When I teach students i find out throughout the classes to see how they learn best. I also ask them as well when i am teaching them to see how they learn best. Even though If i teach them often i'll remind them that if they don't understand what to do then ask, so i'll explain it in another way so they can understand.

That's what we do at our dojo - where you have to earn 5 tags before you can grade. When they fail a tag test they get told why they failed and how to improved. But if they fail a grading they get told privately with their parents in attendance. We tell them with their parents present for legal reasons obviously but also so the parents can understand why their child isn't progressing to the next belt. We also enlist the parents to help the child improve and to practice when they are at home