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Well do absolutley everything you can do to avoid it. But if it does happen play the defense, maybe hit him a couple times to let him know that you can hurt him if you want to. P.S. I say avoid it beacuse if where you live is at all like the place I live then one fight will lead to the other to the other until is escalades to something you can't handle, i.e. guns, knives, all of the jumping you at once.

I don't think kata is a waste of time. Honestly how long has karate existed? Don't you think that they would have stopped doing kata a long time ago if it didn't seve some purpose.

Hmm well If I were you I'd do a google search.

https://www.usadojo.com there is a good site for information on it, I personally have never heard of it so I'm going to go read it myself.

I'm starting to think goju-ryu is a really popular style. I'm still deciding on either shudokan or goju-ryu(okinawan). Anyway welcome to the forums.

hey are goju-ryu and shudokan traditional?

oh wait there it goes

alright thanks

Oh alright, thanks for clearing that up.

HAHA yeah Radok you'd be dead if that's what you were. I think that site is just a little bit off.

https://www.goju.co.uk i found that site last night it has the kata listing it would be best for you to go to google and put in "okinawan goju-ryu kata"

Well it seems pretty obvious to me. What it would mostly impact would be confidence, self-esteem, and satisfaction with oneself. Atlest that's what the ad in the yellow pages said.

llink don't work for me

Whoa that thing is way off. I mean serioulsy it put me at 21% I know that I am obese, I mean you can tell just by lookin at me.

Alright cool thankyou.

Yeah watch TV, there are a lot of laundry detergents that keep blacks black now.

no pounds yes i'm that fat

Yeah I need some help. I got his fancy treadmill the other day and it measure body fat percentage. Well the only problem is that the weight can only go up to 199 and I weigh 280. So I decided to just put 199 and it came back 84.1% I don't know if should trust that or not. Basically i need someone good at math to tell me how I find out the real percentage.

Alright thanks for clearing that up, btw do you think they will be televising it again in the '04 olympics?

LMAO anyone who calls one art gay and then follows it up with "...ours is the best art in the world" has to only have the mentality of a 9 year old

I think that's most of the problem. The Muay Thai fighters have the mentality that everything is about fighting, the karate fighters well I don't know about them that's why I'm going to learn karate. BTW what the hell is a mcdojo? I've heard this term being thrown around a lot and don't know what it means. Oh and I heard someone talking how when you do kata you practice the muscles used to do the techniques, so maybe that could be a valuable reason for kata. Oh yeah how do you tell if your studying at a "mcdojo"? We don't have the mentality that everything is about fighting,when we practice fighting we are practicing for self-defense,not to go pick fights with people,but to fight until you win should you be put into a real situation. Practicing fighting for self-defense will get you alot further then practicing little fancy ballet type techniques in the air. that's why there is sparring, btw when you do kata I've always thought that you are suposed to visulize an opponet.

Okay well I was looking around on the web for a judo school in my area. And I found a very good directory. Now unfortuanatley the site has updated and now longer has the director. But thankfully for the way back machine(web.archive.org) i was able to get the old link. http://web.archive.org/web/20020615135901/mawn.net/ you see right after the mawn.net/ that's were you type in your states abbreviation followed by a .htm that will give youa very extensive list of schools.

I don't think martial arts will every become a really popular sport. Maybe kick boxing but that's about it.

Can I go off subject to ask a question? What does WTF stand for, because I'm used to the intrenet termonoly of it standing for *CENSORED*.

Well although I have no clue about this style(makes me kinda sad really) https://www.usadojo.com might have a listing of dojos in the US.