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Happy birthday, Bob!! Mo.

Competitiveness is healthy in lots of fields such as sports but, for me, it should not come in to the medical arena at all!! A GP/PCP should always be driven to be the best they can be, yes. But putting themselves up against a specialist? NO!!! For me if my cardiologist was telling me one thing about my heart and my GP another, then I would listen to my cardiologist, EVERY TIME! I'm not saying GPs don't know what they are talking about, of course they do, they studied hard for many years to be what they are, my cousin is a GP so I know how hard they work and, I mean no disrespect to them at all but, a Cardiologist SPECIALIZES in everything to do with the heart, so for me there is no question, I go with the specialist every time! So no, it's not a competition, if he wants to compete, take up a sport or get into the MAs. But to go up against a specialist? like you said: "NOT WITH MY LIFE" Mo.

Welcome to KF, Narong! Good to have you on board! Mo.

Wishing you a speedy recovery, Danielle! Sounds very painful but, hopefully you're not out too long. Mo.

Congrats, Luther!! Mo.

Good to have you on KF, Ghesset. Mo.

Welcome to KF! Mo.

Happy birthday, John! Mo.

Fatal Rose, sorry I can't contribute any to your post as I have no knowledge of San Soo but, good to have you on KF. Why don't you come in to the introductions thread to introduce yourself to the others in the forum and maybe tell us a bit about San Soo and the rest of your MAs background? Mo.

Congrats skullsplitter! Mo.

Excellent point! I've actually felt this in effect. We were doing "first response" training at work, and a planted individual faked a seizure during the session. Most people froze, but one of our nursing instructors sprung into action - she was calm and methodical in her approach. Training pays off! Yeah I think most would be surprised how susceptible they are to this effect. I remember crashing my car once off the road, no-one was hurt but I was a teenager at the time. No-one stopped to help. I had to call my dad to come and get me and at least 20 cars just drove straight past without stopping to see if I was OK. From personal experience I think the bystander effect is even worse when we have to physically change what we are doing to help, like pulling over and getting out of the car, or getting out of our assigned airline seat. In fact just the other week I was driving and the cars in front of me were all swerving to avoid something in the road. I got closer and it turned out it was a little Yorkshire Terrier that had gotten into the road. No-one was stopping I guess under the belief that someone else, not them, would sort it out. I ended up pulling my car over to grab the puppy and as soon as I did, the two cars behind me stopped to help. It's not just the bystander effect though, in the technology age many folk are too busy trying to video an incident rather than try and help out in any way. Just about a year or two ago, I remember reading about a woman down in England somewhere, she had fallen from the train platform on to the tracks (having some kind of seizure if I remember correctly) and rather than trying to help this woman, everybody got their phones out and started filming. I was absolutely horrified, where has people's humanity gone? Eventually somebody bravely jumped down and helped her but, is catching something on film more important than helping out a fellow human being? Mo.

Quite simply "Fail to prepare, prepare to fail" If you don't do the work, then don't be surprised when you don't reach your goal. Mo.

Welcome to KF KarateNewbie! Good to have you here. Loving your enthusiasm towards your karate. The obsession will stick around for years to come hopefully. I returned to karate 4 and a half years ago and the obsession is still very much there! Mo.

Welcome to KF JazzKicker. Good to have you here! Mo.

Happy belated birthday Danielle! Mo.

We do this too, mainly with the kids but, now and again the adults have to do it too. We also use loud noises through the duration of someone's kata to further make them focus. It's no fun when you have to do it blindfolded and with enough noise to wake the dead! Good feeling when you take the blindfold off to see you've nailed it though. Mo.

I trained as a child but left after reaching 5th Kyu. I returned some 26 years later. I re-joined the same club with the same instructor and I've not looked back since. The hardest thing was walking through the dojo doors on my own but, everyone made me feel welcome and I slotted right in. I started from 9th Kyu as it was such a long gap I was essentially a beginner. 4 and a half years later and I'm now a brand new shodan and loving every minute of it. Although every now and again the thought of "where would I be now if I'd never left?" sometimes crosses my mind. What brought me back was, I had joined an MMA class as a way of getting back in to shape. It quickly became apparent that there would be no teaching to speak of, we were left to whack a heavy bag for the duration of the class, with no mention of keeping your guard up or how you should be throwing a punch. So I junked it and looked up my old instructor.......... Mo.

Well done!! Thoroughly deserved!!! Mo.

Sorry to hear this, Bob. You were doing so great. But like JR said, you recognised the problem and dealt with it. It's unfortunate you'll have to adjust your workouts but, at least you're still able to do those workouts. Stay strong, you got rid of it once before, you will again!!! You're still in a better place physically than you were last year, so keep a positive mindset and one step at a time, you'll get to where you need to be! We're all still behind you 100% Mo.

That's what it comes down to at the end of the day, personal preference. The student has earned that belt, so how they choose to embroider it, if at all, is completely their choice. Mine is in production right now and I went with gold embroidery, but others in the club have yellow, silver, orange and some don't have any. Mo.

Welcome to KF Jansenki. Good to have you here!!! Mo.

That is very true, I took up fishing last summer and can think of nothing better than being on a bank on a beautiful day and just not thinking about anything else. Mo.

I personally don't find tattoos intimidating, if a tattoo is done well it is, in my opinion, art. But I mean one off, well thought out designs, not the flash you can pick off the studio walls (which I have a couple of from my over eagerness to get inked as a teenager ) I don't see them as a demonstration of enduring pain. Although my rib piece was hour upon hour of searing pain and by the end of a particular session, I had actually went into shock. But to me the finished article was worth it. Are they becoming a fad? I don't think so. They are certainly more popular and more socially acceptable than ever before. I have 9: 1 on my right wrist 1 on my left inside thigh 1 on each hip 1 on my right buttock (one of the teenage ones mentioned above!) 1 on my right side 1 on my entire upper left side 2 on my back Why do I have them? As mentioned, it's self expression and a personal choice. None are martial arts related but, now I've passed my shodan, I plan on incorporating a small Wado Kai symbol and the date I passed into my Japanese piece on my left side. Mo.

Welcome to KF xhel, good to have you here! Mo.

Body flow is vitally important, if you don't get the flow right you can't get the correct power and sharpness. For example the combinations I just done at my dan grade, one of them anyway: zensinshite jodan, renzuki chudan, surikomi maegeri, nagashizuki jodan, gyakuzuki chudan. From the maeger to nagashizuki if your feet don't land in line, then you're not in the correct position for the nagash and your punch will land off target and without power. And from the nagash to gyaguzuki, if you don't open your stance back up into a gyakuzuki stance then your heels remain in line leaving you open to being swept and also you can't get the hip movement in to perform a correct gyakuzuki, again, leaving you short of power. Although it might seem natural to us, beginners don't realise they are fighting against their own bodies if they don't get the flow right, I think they can feel it's not quite how it should be but, can't just get the understanding of why it's not feeling right. Body flow should be natural but, ironically it takes lots of practice to master it. Mo.