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then i suppose sooner or later, iwill see you when i am at K-1, i wish you luck. and please rember, if i defeat you, do not give up on your dream. for if i am defeated i will most certainly not perish from the arena.

not at all, the devils advocate approach is very attractive i don't feel atacked. which is why i harmed myself with my close to home example, has sai not been succesful thous far? or do you not consider MS to be a formidable opponet?

of course, blood sheding will be avoided if possible. i apologize for getting off topic.

non scense Fenris, anything can be wield away or at least into ressison, you should know that. why our own saifights is a great example. but its difficult, i dont blame anyone for unsuccess.

lol, yes you only fight in your own tournaments, its sounds like no spectacular feat till youve relized there are hundreds of them. and imo shotokan not participating in major tournaments is the result of a seasoned social agenda as well as shotokan cutting off its own nose despite its face. shotokan would be qute good, if one of your fighters would step up to the plate.

she brings up an excellent point, imagine bringing your skill to a level were you can feel and taste and smell an object, or even person, just by thinking about it. imagine not being able to control such a thing. it is very disturbing to suddenly sence a dead relitive in an empty room. we should be careful with how far we take things. just because we could, dosent necassarily mean we should.

the two best? come now fighter, im sure isshinryu has a decent spot on your charts.

Really Dana? history proves otherwise, can you do the same with hearts?

i persist to enter this forum, although it continues to disappoint me. Flying in the face of reality? hum, will see. As for natural gift, yes i do have a natural gift many have but dont understand, they treat it like a disease and don't relize they are perhaps even the next step in the evolutionary chain, but i won't get into that. JerryLove, while still a marvel of the energy manipulation world you disappoint me with a great flaw, that you have no faith in your own abilities. then again, as you love to show me and the rest of us here (rightfully so) that good statments without proof are not even worthy of stateing. will then i have yet to not except a challange. what feat is it you wish for me to perform? tell me, and i promise you i will do everything possible (and impossible) to show it to you before your death.

yes, but as for praying for peace, will that would put me out of the job now wouldn't it?

through serious study of the martial arts, both physically, mentally, and spiritualy, i have effected my life profoundly by learning how to kick the butts of everyone who just posted on this thread before me... im sorry, i just had to!

the sound barrier wa salso an immposible barrier, as was flight itself. so was motion pictures, and dont attempt to throw in the fact that all my examples are based in technology! the four minute mile, this was an imposibility, 400 boards broken in a minute, there were 'experts' in martial arts that limited the number to 238. i do have support for that number. (which, BTW, i think it was obvious that the number i gave WAS a random example) the fact is, you can not call yourself a Martial artist if you choose to limit your abilities based on what others can do. this is a great weakness. i will not back down on that statement for anything. you say you can't juggle cars, then again im willing to bet you never seriously tried.

my first date was the homecoming dance with this girl i got set up with, shes an actress in seatle now, we actually went out for a while till she cheated on me with a football player. Funny thing is, i still have more respect for her than my second girlfriend who didnt cheat on me at on. from there the chaotic events of dating on a world that is a battlefield began, dating sucks, people should get married younger.

okay, do not ask me why, because i dont know what it is about this song, maybe its the idea that i kinda feel traped right now, but sonic the Hedgehog adventure 2 for the dreamcast (i know! i just relized what came it was from and im like dude, were did that come from? its first song is called city escape, yea it must be the whole need for freedom "follow me, set me free, togather we could escape from this city! dont just take my lead..."

just a comment on siking yourself up. you know, i dont know if this will work with any one but me, maybe in concept it will. and ive never tried it with breaks, i use it when running. certain songs, depending on the situation, really get me going if i remeber them in my head, it usally has to do with how i feel they relate to my life, music is a very big deal to me, i like songs that i can compare to events happening to me currently, and if i want to envoke a memory, i litsen to the song i chosse at the time. They dont always have to be these professianal music artist platinum CD songs either, just something that envokes feeling. i mean the one that gets me going right now i heard on a video game.

since i was very young, i was obsessed with martial arts. id watch any and all tournaments religiously, and studied the diffrent styles, there origins, what stood them apart. i wanted more than anything to train, but my dad was in the navy and we just could not afford the high price. i tried not to far back to learn shotokan at home, but i really wanted solid training that would put me towards my goal: to compete and win at K-1, the tournament i idalized since i first heard about it. Then, about three months ago, while working at Taco Bell (i still do) i stumbled over a small looking dojo next to a gas station, it didnt loo like much, but it was close to were i lived and so i decided to check it out. what i saw amazed me, even though it didnt look impressive form the outside inside it was amazing! and the black belt that was there, training alone, when i came in, was so helpful. it was only 35$ a month, which i pay for myself now, i feel good about that. And now im learning Isshinryu and am stepping closer every day to my dream.

on my knukles, im an isshinryu studied so i do them so that my fist form a proper verticle angle and when i go down, there in the chambered position. this means that when i do full range of motion, im actually improving my punch speed and power as well as working out then i do some on my finger tips, it helps my arm strength a lot and also prepares my hands for those finger strikes to cavityies that are so renound for often hurting the practioner more than the opponet.

that is exectly, and i mean right on the money, what i was thinking about! but who says we have to wait for evolution? i mean maybe we have to, but i think we can still push it forward, we should try with everything we got and dont let simple stuff, like the laws of physics, get us down, the idea is to use them to our advantage.

oh great now i feel like i really suck at this. i know shifting is important but why am i always throwing myself into a technique instead of just beside it?

lol, youll see TJS, i was trained by Master Little, and i am sure when my training is complete, i can make the gracie's sweat. Master has experince with grappling to, and he dosent teach us how to grapple, he teaches us how to counter it. thats what he told me when i asked him about this tonight, he will work with me privatley after ive gone a little higher in rank. Look out, frdulent founders! (thats right, i said it, they didnt even get there origins right! its for Judo influenced than JuJitsu)

moving at angles to avoid being hit and to put yourself at a great position for an attack, as well as putting your opponet in terrible positions for deffense, is something that sensai has stressed alot lately. These things are freakin hard! My favorite one though, is were he step in at an angle (it works best if there is a hand that leading a little to far out on the opponet) grab that hand and move it out of the way, at the same time turning with a spining back kick dead center on the solar plexus. its very effective and looks very hollywood. i like it alot. im starting to get somewhat effective with it, as sensai told us to pick on we liked for now, practice it, and use it in kumite. the shodans seem to lead out plenty so im getting lots of oppritunity but other things with angles are giving me trouble. like when someone side kicks, the idea of being able to kind bounce to there side and double strike seems forigen to my body. if i attempt it at all i usally end up actually throughing myself into the technique, but usally i dont even try, i swith my deffense by moving back with the circular hand motion and combing that with an appropriat eblock. this works fine, if im not against a wall and the block was timed right! i really want to learn this angle! any tips?

parts of things you have said i agree with, but something i dis agree with that even great ki students such as Jerry here have said that i FIRMLY disagree with is: Never, EVER underestimate human potential because you are very likely to be proven wrong. we have 4000 times the power we think we do.

okay so that does sound complicated. im guessing there arn't a whole lot of ranks?

whoa! 2-3 YEARS? even for kyu grades? wait a sec, let me see what style you take.

about three to four months for kyu ranks, usally leaning more towards 4, but you usally remain a brown belt for about a year before moving on the shodan. Im not sure about nidan and sandan is only conducted a certain events. in front of a blackbelt panel of masters.