fireka

how can you be so sure? and how are these events unrelated? it seems logical, the locations are the same. look if everyone has ki than its not rare and mystic, its common place and it wouldnt take some sucluded monk to uncover it.

if your a guy then deffinitly dont wear a shirt under it and i would recomend the thinist possible for girls b because yea, its gonna kill you later i mean the gi can get hot enough sometimes. i wouldnt wear a cup during kihon id wait and put it on if you know youll be doing kumite that night. there not real comfortable and in training your sensai will have enough control of his techniques that he/she isnt going to kick you in the balls....just dont piss him/her off!

granted, thats the reason a lot of wannna-be buhdist claim theve reached enlightment. im not saying i reached some higher order though, not at all. what i am claiming is everyone feels this emmotion, i was thinking about ki till after it was all over, im just saying everyone feels this its aboutin the same place as your ki is supposed to be, im just putting two and two togather. i could be dead wrong it just made since to me, i mean if its energy than that would get it gong wouldnt it?

its just that beforei belived in ki because its something i just wanted to belive in, it sounded cool. but whgen that happened, after we had discussed here were ki is located, i belived it because i felt it. its odd that i never noticed the location of these feelings (as well as anger and a bunch of others) seem to spring out of the very same place were ki is.

raiden, word up G, hows it hangin' bizzzzzzkit!?.....dude, did i just say that? lol

he's right. it can. but i to will just stick to using it as a uniform for training.

oh no you dont! this subject seriously intrest me so dont even think about letting it slip between the thread cracks, i want your opinions dont fail me now.

okay, first note before i tell this story, im a martial arts freak, so its no wonder why i was thinking this. ive been going to my dojo for about amonth now and ive started to notice this girl thats in the class just before mine. im starting to like her, and today i crossed the bump between 'i could stand to have dinner with her' to actually liking her. yes, this has a point. I noticied when i looked at her, and felt that little tingling you get when you like someone, that it was about three points below the nvel and spread upward like a glowing light, the same place were your ki is supposed to be! so i was wondering, does ki maybe have something to do with the force that attracts us to people? because if so i think i have a lot of ki.

what style does rope javalin i wanna learn that.

yea i read about that. it sounds like a great idea and it works to! they can almost walk entirely behind you before you notice there feet moving, guess that why you only see them in black to (but why would i want them in any other color) oh, and again for reenforcements sake, lets not forget the other very important reason we wear hakama's....THEY LOOK SO COOL!!!!

i like roundhouse, and my back kicks are horrid. i got so fustrated last class trying to learn the spinning back kick that had to do some snap kicks to the focus pad just to let off stem before continuing. everytime i get my form even half way right i miss the pad!!!

i take isshinryu, in which we learn sai, tonfa, and bo. of course, im a ways away from learning a weapon, im guessing. but in what order do you think he would teach these weapons to us?

heres my proverb: "We all must do, what we must do. for if we do not, what we must do will not get done." this has been : fireka's words of wisdom, untill next time "The well is deep, i wish you well!"

oh yea, wouldnt the hakama pants interfer with kicks?

i have never seen anyone were that at my dojo, but they might. think ill ask a little later, like after i actually start learning a weapon. which reminds me if we learn bo sai and tonfa which do you think he will teach first? im thinking tonfa, because almost everyone in that class is way higher level than me and i never see them pick one up which makes me think they learned it much earlier on. then again that could be deslixic reasoning couldnt it? it could be bo, sai, and tonfa is for the highly afvanced. no...no wait , oh i dont know! which one do you think will be first? god i hope its sai, i love sai's! im finnaly geeting some for my birthday!

on like, the second night i went to my dojo, i saw a green belt doing knife deffense. but check this; he was being taught to use the obi to deflect the weapon and stuff. this looked really cool, sort of reminded me of the rope javalin. anyways, do any of you guys learn this? what kind of stuff can you do with a obi? can it be used just to deflect, or can you do chokes, hand locks (these two looked obvious) with them. what about the robe javalin i mentioned, could you use it as a kind of wiping weapon? to actually strike the opponet?

dude....no way....are you saying i could get the hakama pants and use them with bo/sai/tnfa???? sweet!!! i also plan on taking sword someday, so i guess either way they come in handy.

okay, my grandmothers side has a deep influence of druids, i myself being born in ireland. she taught me a sleeping curse once but my clan was supposedly really good at summoning people. let me see if i can get you the one person on this site i KNOW can help you. JERRYLOVE!!!!! FROM THE DEPTHS OF THE EARTH, I SUMMON THEE!!!!! I dont know if that worked or not, either way you should deffinitly ask Jerrylove about this, the dudes a freak-in genius on this subject.

huh? i was taught in isshinryu that a snap kick is kinda like a jab in boxing. it is used to kinda suprise the opponet with a whole lot of speed and actually just sort of puts them in position for something a little more hardcore. the side thrust kick is the side kick we focus on the most, because its our power kick, utilizing all the force possible from the hips and putting it into the heel. if anything i would have thought it would limit you DEfensively. but maybe thats just isshinryu

im thinking about taking jujitsu sometime in the distant future, after ive gotten somewere in my current stlle. i was wondering, how would jujitsu compliment isshinryu karate? oh yea. allow me a moment of complete inmaturity to compliment all you jujitsu and judo students out there on something ive always admired...: Hakama pants are cool! OMG i have to have some of those things! it makes me so mad that id have absolutely no use for them other than to put them on with my gi top, look in the mirror and say "Dude, i rock!" (see why i dont have a girlfriend? )

dude, do you know how many people there are in the world with absolutely jack to do? esicially at my age! its not hard to find someone else who wants to train with you. hey it isnt great, the dojo is way better but we gotta remeber most people would choose to go to the dojo if they could usally the only people that are solely trainingat home are those with no other choice. and i think the real problem isnt with them but the dojo owners. if we would stop being so money stingy than maybe more people could go to a dojo. also if someone cant afford to go its really wrong to do stuff like ban them from tournaments. if people are willing to risk there unprofessional training against the dojo fighters and they can prove they know the rules and everything than why not let them compete? to me a martial artist is a martial artist. i dont care what style, (okay thats a slight exadiration but i wont rekindle that flame) what color gi you have on (though i do personaly prefer either straight black or straight white) or weather you trained through a dojo, private instructor, or on your own.

2 problems that you just said there. one, you cant guarantee your training is sound at a dojo either, in fact if you train at home your probably much better protected from fruadulent training than you would be if you were dojo hunting, mcdojo instructors are like carsalesmen man, they can suck you into anything. also, I self trained and am still registered in the International shotokan Karate association as a yellow belt because i had an instructor who was a friend test me. all the paper work was taken care of, i felt like i had earned it (lord knows i practised heian shodan enough) and i recived the belt. of course im back to white now because im in isshinryu, and when ISA dosent see me register again i wont be a yellow belt with there records anymore. but the fact is you can earn belts and be home trained. i think we should all educate ourselfs more in self training since every martial artist ive met seems to think its such a bad thing, but from what i have seen they just dont have the facts, theve never tried it, theve never seriously lessoned to someone who has done it, they just dont know. of course i would recommend a dojo if its at all possible, if for no other reason its just more fun.

"Magic! in a young girls heart, how the music can free her, whenever it starts!" (sorry, when your thread was called do you bleive in i just couldnt resist) lets be fair here, i mean im much happier now that im training in the dojo but i am still confident that i could have learned shotokan the way i was doing it. its not easy, and its actually more expensive i found out when you add everything up for a good training at home. and hold your horses, your saying there isnt a chance of injury if you train in the dojo? i do in fact have a response to that...HA!.... there is is, thats all ive got...if someone is really passionate about learning the martial arts like i was and still am, and there arnt any avaliable dojo's than i think it would be WRONG of us as Martial artist to discourage them. after all, isnt defeating the odds and doing the extrodinary, at times even the physicaly impossible, a major core aspect that attracts so many of us to the MA's in the first place? if they can go the distance, i am 100% behind them. im saying this after being on BOTH sides of the fence, having trained a little at home in shotokan and then joining my Isshinryu dojo.

hey, do any of the channels in the US telivise the k-1 fights?

the only problem with that is my dad isnt really irish anymore, he is well, his a southern american now. I have been to Dublin recently and you will never find a more laid back group of well bound people. all of them are really open minded and curious more than suspicious of foriegners. of course when you answer there questions they say: "is that so? will the yanks are less of an amadain than id a wager!" witch means there not as stupid as we thought but still this ignorance isnt the problem, the desire to push this ignorance on me is the problem.