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I wish I could train barefoot! But I can't, because the floor in that Dojo is ice cold! And every time I train barefoot, I get a very bad cold and that's one of my biggest problems.

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Hi! Yeah, Kama is a pretty cool weapon, isn't it? Here's a link to a website where you can see a Kama Kata. http://www.onthekenai.net/karate/kamakata.html

I don't hate anything or anybody, but one thing I sure hate is war. Europeans don't blame Bush and neither Iraq, but for people in Europe it is going too silly, so childish and nuts that people over here are making already jokes of Bush and Saddam Hussein and Bin Laden. So I kinda feel sorry for America and Iraq.

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Once at training, we were practising some basic things, zuki, mawashigeri and so on... The Sensei was counting and every time we had to do Maegeri. He said: "IIIIIICCCHHHH!!!!!!", and all disciples did a Maegeri, me too, but the funny thing was that I did my maegeri so hard that my kung-fu shoe went off and I painfully watched my shoe flying across the room, over the Sensei's head and up to the ceiling and crashed into a lamp. LOL The lamp was broken and my shoe fell and rushed back down onto the floor. I was standing there, wearing only one shoe, lol. Guffaw was in the whole room, disciples and the Sensei stood and laughed out loud, then I, my face all over blushing, walked calmly and took my shoe back, laughing myself. But that didn't actually happen only once, it has happened to me many times and everybody at my Karate Club still laugh about it, lol.

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My Sensei told me that too just a few days ago! About that the fight must come naturally and not to think about 'what kick I must to next'. Yes, I agree.

Don't you mean Gojushiho maybe? Sometimes, when a Sensei says a Kata name, the disciple mistakely hears it differently. When I begun practising Karate, I was mistaken all the time about the Kata names, when Sensei said: Kihon Kata Ichi, I thought it was: Kion Katan ich, lol

In Estonia, our training is 3 hours. In Latvia, the karatekas have even more than 5 hourds training and they have training every day. Even on the weekends. For estonians, this sounds crazy, but for them it's completely normal, though it's not good for the body and health, because they are actually over-training or over-straining it.

haha!

At least you didn't sit in the hallway in mucso waiting for permission to enter - our procedure if you're late In Estonia, we don't have that procedure, but in Sweden we have. I had to wait sometimes and wait for permission to enter. lol, and every time I was bored of sitting, I looked around in the coridor and when no one was there, I practised some katas (without the kiai), but sometimes, some few persons saw me, I was like: lalallalalaaaaa

Yeah like me! I even say: OSU! (pronunce: oss!) sometimes. I said it in a Church and then a person next to me stared at me until I was gone (and I was gone petty quickly, cuz that was pretty embarassing)

LOL! When I was in a hurry to school, I ran in the corridor (I was late), suddenly opened the classroom door and steped in and bowed deeply. The class was silent and everybody stared at me, the teacher who just wanted to explain something shutted up and looked at me like a hawk. I was SOOO embarrassed and ashamed, I felt like a stupid absent-minded karateka or something. lol

Ciao!

Music Katas??????????????????????????

huh? I just realized, that we do the same at our Dojo!

Those fighting stickmen remind me something..

"Be assured. Baghdad is safe, protected" Yeah sure bacon, no tourists visit that place!

cool

hahahahahahha, I love americans.

I've got to print them out or something and show it to my instructor and other karatekas, so that I will find them later on the ground, laughing to death!

If you ARE a martial artist or a karateka, then bow to your Sensei and when you enter your Dojo, if you're not, then just say: hi!

I agree with battousai...

yes! the sword rules! and Sai too!