fireka

Okay so I saw a book for Iaido and looked through it. I had heard the concept beofre but when i looked at the graphs and stuff I was liek this: this is the coolest art...ever! I mean, i love Isshinryu but where weapon arts are consierned...dude. i mean thats all I can say, this looks so incredibly cool, and I knto that sounds shallow but I must know more if your an Iaido student here, reveal yourself!

see Isshinryu Council says four months on kyu but since i'm kinda workign outside the will of the council my little group says as long as it takes to learn. Our test are a little different though to, we have to be harder on ourselves because Isshinryu is so strenuous about testing they don't liek it when people dont follow the lineage charts and the testing progress exactly up to par. We have to make up for that by demanding a little more for each kyu. i.e. kata's must be preformed three different ways. One liek you would at competetion, full speed and power and look like your fighting opponets who arn't really there, then again by the numbers, and again with people actually attacking you, so your timing has to be up to par.

I just don't feel like i'm getting anything out of my kata, there just isnt enough stress on bunkie (sp?) can we talk about seisan's for a while? Or is there a site that has a video or even just a series of pictures with applied seisan? (i.e. seisna performed with people actually coming up and trying to strike the kataka)

i feel like I never really understood this post from its begining. Oh well, i guess i'll know when i'm closer to you guys level.

and again I ask my question. Just because someone hasn't been atending the dojo twice a week doesnt mean there not training, or even advanceing.

I agree completly, finnaly somebody else I wish we could go back to the white to black system.

yep, i agree, and the only real way to see if I know what i'm doing is to wait and watch. I may be leading myself down a path of misery and self destruction but hey, that might be fun too.

map reading is a martial art to, as is studying incryption

by 'train' do we mean in a dojo or simply that you are training regularly, practicing technique and kata and maybe even getting some sparring in when oppritunity arrises

hey thats pretty good. Think you could find Isshinryu Kata not preformed by Master Shimabuku, somethign more modern? I have all the Shimabuku kata clips but i'd like to see them with the more modern full speed and power approaches for comparison.

All very valid points, but please consider the following. What you know about me is that for one reaosn or another I have not gotten to test. That is no show of my knoladge of the martial Arts, only that I have no been able to stand in front of a board of three shodans or more and preform Seisan kata and three hold breaks. It doesn't mena I can't test, it doenst mean i'm not superior to the next rnak, not saying I am just that I can't be sure. I can tell you however, that there are soem who have made shodan in the amount of time I have been studying the Martial Arts. Also please take this into understanding, I am a writer. When I get an inspiration for anything I can not fight it away, I was inspire dwith a philosophy that I must apply to the martial arts. Now whiel I develop it i keep a bundel over to hide it, I will keep it quite until my knoaldge is enough that perhaps I can show a few more people and it can actually begin to grow but we talk distant future. However, I will continue to develop it's purpose, it is a widely internal art and there is no shame in developing my own life philosophy further. Now as far as all this shodan bussiness goes i'm afraid iv'e led you all in the wrong direction, i'm not going to open a dojo for my style the day after my black belt test. I was just saying that as one of many, many steps, I think it would be wise to aquire shodan level in the art I have already studied.

so would it be logical to train in two styles if there nto even the smae art category? i.e. in my case i mthinking of taking striking and sword.

or it would have been, had that really been the case. No shodan isnt my ultimate goal, originaly i couldnt have care dless about rank at all but peer preasure, mostly from this forum, change dthat. I feel i need to aquire shodan because at least from there i will have soem kind of solid base from which to keep looking at other stuff. I don't care at all, if youve kept up with my post you'd notice I had the entire rank system, i think it shoudl be done away wit hand we should all go back to a white to black system.

lol, hey how did you know? thats exactly the formula for my new style! j/k

blah! Your close. Ill exbound on this latter but while i'm gonna do a lot more research im not going to not think about it yet. And if i find astyle with my philosophyi'll be like 'waa-woo!' and i'll study that style.

Okay team, I need to find a school for Japanese/Okinawain styles of Jiu-Jitsu (im completely opposed to learning Brazilian) I'm going to be stationed at Norfolk Naval Base VA, so something near there. On a side note (not the proper forum I know) if you know of a school in thatarea for either Isshinryu or Kendo those would be useful to.

Okay, when it comes right down to it if I want to do all this stuff I want to do in the Martial Arts I have to get shodan somewhere. i can't go to my old school anymore. I can't afford it, money or time wise, right now. But see this is ridiculus, i'm leaving for the Navy soon, am I gonna ge tthe chance to work, take advantage of the collageavailableto me and train in a dojo? Of course i'm trainign on my own right now. I don't know I need to talk about how to balance.

Certainly I agree, which is why so much of it will be based on practical application with both martial artist of other styles and people who claim to be 'street fighters'. Anyone who claims to be able to fight, true or not ,well except a proposal for a match if there being paid with the promise that they will walk away when it's over. But again Istress it is a largely internal art, and the internal part of it is what I work on now.

well initialy I had planned on forgeing this like a hybrid system but with a new philosophy backing it up, however what your saying about creating one from a different approach intrest me. Basically the idea is practical application, if I can make a new approach work than I have something. But in this concept, is the use of old technique completely forgotten? No I guess it would not nessisarily have to be depending on what is implied by 'new approach'. Any way alot of this i'm not baseing one one art, but rather the rooted documents of the Martial Arts themselves, such as the Book of the Five Rings and Sun Tzu's Art of War just to name the easy to find ones. If it's not broke don't fix it on one side. I don't know, i'm so far from actually creating physical technique for this thing it's really not even worth thinking about, however my internal side of the art is developing rapidly and i'm already begining to apply it.

Okay thats cool. Well, the need for a new style is the following. 1. The over-comercialization of Martial arts. The politicts behind what I'm creating should allow you to study an art wether your intrest be for deffense, cultural intrest, or tournament, without paying an arm and a leg all the time or dealing with fake teachers. 2. anti-rank propaganda. One of the elements of the system i'm creating is that the only way to prove your skill is in the ring is with another fighter, not by looking at a $5.25 belt. We do wear obi's in this system but there color is a symbol individual to the persons spiritual growth (you'll see what I mean if you ever look at the system) 3. Grappling and striking styles need to be combined. 4. Asia and Europe both developed awesome fighting styles, but while asias fluroshed europes began to dwendel and the two never had the chance to mingle. I plan on combining what I learn from my study of Japanese fighting styles and from ARMA (association of renosance martial arts) to finnaly bring these two togather. 5. I'm doing this because I was inspired by this new theology I have and if I get inspired i can't help but run with it. I agree, I want to be profiecent at one style at least and tweedle with soem others. Right now I plan on trying to get a shodan in Isshinryu, Instructor certification in Celtic forms from ARMA and be pretty good at Japanese JuJitsu. However really, the root of this style i'm creating is internal, and thereofre if one wanted, they could study my internal art and apply it's principals to there own favorite martial art. Another big focus is on taking up arts outside the Martial Arts, for instanc,e in the first book on this subject I want to release I stress learning Culunary things, or flower arrangeing, or mastering Haiku or even fiction writing. "The arts, martial or not, are all the same spirit. It lives just outside the stomach, and if you let it, will climb the veins to open the door to the heart, and make itself comfroble in the soul."

Okay it's really ironic that this thread was here, I need to tell you guys this because even though I know i'm gonna get nailed, I think of each of you as my friends. See *sigh* I LOVE the martial arts. But I have this problem, I have never made it above white belt in anything, this is for a lot of reasons really, none of them having to do with skill. I just never did test. But a big thing with me is I don't like the way the arts are treated now, or this mentality that if you've stopped going to a dojo to train, or you don't pay for a pro dojo your not a martial artist. Well for the last two years these ideas have been coming to me. Now I write a lot of fiction, I'm going into the Navy and collage next year, hopeing to earn a PHD in English, but these were more like philosophy. Part of it comes from Japanese stuff iv'e read, part Chinese, a little Indian, and some Celtic, Ittalian and Greek philosophy. With all that knoladge I gained from various places I started formulating my own philosophy about my world and paticularly the way people in it act. Don't get me wrong it's still at an early stage but i'm learning more the more I experiment with it. I'm starting to re-look the way I view meditation, and even fighting. The fact is I want, eventually, to turn this into, (oh boy here it goes,) my own martial art. This is an eventual thing, I do want to gain at least shodan in a style and I want to participate in lots of different styles to see what kind of system I want to create. But more than anything this is an internal art that could probably be applied to any system once the devine inspiration stops and the theory complete, or at least the part i'm going to write is complete. the fact is if people don't do stuff like this and take the ridicule the martial arts community will provide we won't have styles like Isshinryu. Again, this is something i'm working on over a long period of time and it will be given lots of practical application before I start teaching it to anyone, but I hope that my travels in the navy will help. I also hope at least some of you except this task i'm undertaking, I will do it regardless but if I had any support at all from the people in this forum the motivation would be tremendous. Please tell me if i'm going about thinking this through the right way. Thank you.

lol, wow, this thread has been in circulation forever.

Meridian killed its only chance at rising out of the gutter. There was once a millitary base, a Naval air Station. The locals didn't like it much though, didn't relize they were cutting off there nose despite there face. It brought money in to Meridian and even got them a Wal-mart. But after a while the aggression by the locals made TRADOC decide to just go someplace else, someplace were they were wanted. It's bad morale to be treated like a huddalum by the people your trying to protect. The Wal-Mart whut down after they left.

*smirk* I was born there. Doc Hollywood = surgeon (Michael J Fox) is moving to Hollywood to do plastic surgery for big bucks, gets lost on way crashes into judges fence in small town and as punishment must work at the hospital for two weeks.

West Bay Florida and Meridian Mississippi are good ones to try.