fireka

Uma Thurman vs. A thousand short japnese men with swords in KILL BILL

i saw it again yesterday. dude it just gets better, i still freaked out at the same scenes and now i appriciate the sound track even more.

really? you havent done that one yet? strange, in Isshinryu its the first kata we learn. yea i can't wait to get to kusanku, i want to specialize in that one, its so fluid looking. im guessing though the isshinryu version is somewhat diffrent for seisan because everything for us is a verticle fist.

lol, SMR your a morbid freak, but i like that. No, i think thats kinda screwed up dude, but i feel you just the same. Its irritating but i have reasons to trust sensai and rank isnt important enough to me for me to care, im getting solid training.

yea, its to bad the good shotokan fighters often dont spar with other styles cause that would be a sweet match.

no! better yet, san diego california

Greenwich england?

okay, granted ive only been there steadily training for three months, maybe three and a half, but i have not once seen anyone doing breaking in my dojo. we practice Isshinryu, and before a tournament my sensai made the statment "The only thing they arnt going to have there is breaking" and thats when i said "Oh yea, i just relized that, we don't do breaking." and then he said "Yes we do." I don't know if this is my sensai, just Isshinryu sensais, or Karate sensai's in general, but he has a tendancy to keep you in the dark. Probably with good reason, but heres some event examples: "So when do you think the next testing date will be?" "Oh about there third thursday of next week." "Sensai, when in Isshinryu do you start learning weapons." "when i think i should teach you." "Is there a specific rank?" "Yes...." so of course, i didnt even try and ask if theres a certain training level were breaking begins or anything like that. Im not sure if my instructor keeps me in the dark because these are not things he wants me worrying about, or if he just wants to see how good i am about finding information myself. I chosse the latter. Iv'e learne dthrough intellegence gathering the basic requirments and gaps between test and i learned basiclly when i can expect to start my weapons traing along side my empty hand kata. So im hopeing some of the Isshinryu karateka in here could enlighten me on how the way of the one heart approches breaking.

this is the best advice ive ever recived on a topic of this level of webed confusion: "You could pretty much just do whatever.." said by my friend Chris when i asked him about something in Japanese

well i mean that all depends on my situation, see if i have a good dependable car and ive got time off to do it i can travel a decent ways, like at least back into richmond maybe but we might could avoid that. what about Pensacola Florida? we can try a few diffrent bases that my Rate can take me to and see what works, im GOING to be first in my class at a-school so ill have my pick on bases, worst comes to worst, ill say im going to Okinawa and then ill definitly have no trouble finding a school.

i mean, something im starting to learn is that, really, your first style you learn needs to kinda center to you. If a style was just bad it wouldnt survive, every style, even the arts i say i absolutely dispise (TaeKwonDo) have a usefullness to somebody, it all depends on you. I practiced Shotokan for a while and it didnt work for me but Isshinryu did, im good with verticle fist and i even discovered that in Shotokan, now every tournament my feet move em' into position and my hands defeat them, its just my style. I was not very affective with Shotokan but the persoan who was teaching me, she was hard core, and if your intrested in breaking, dude i swear thos eguys are tuff.

are there really very many styles (with the exception of Caporniea) that flip? does Ninjitsu flip? what is the advantage in flipping, i see it as a slow mauver that makes you a mid air target.

im going to be straight with you, like isaid he is probably all talk and im not asking out of detremental concern, if nothing else there are plenty of objects that can be used as weapons if he became life threatening, including a dispensor of 200 degree water. The management cant do anything unless he actually tries something around someone who gives a damn. Mostly, i posted this because the situation got me thinking, how handicapped would i be if i had to fight on a wet or otherwise slippery surface? it rained last night so i went out at 11:00 and tried seisan. I found the squating blocks proficent of the surface, even when i tested it at impact with an object. The hardest part was the manuvers that required me to slide across the floor, there was no stopping power. I think though if i lifted the cresent step a little off the ground and maintained mainly a low seisan stance i could be pretty affective.

im going to try and print it out, im read the first papragraph, i dont know if i agree on his views about Karate but i see were your going with this thing. we both share the "Eye of the Tiger", cool, thanks for the article.

yea, i know of the marines involvment, thats the reson Gatlinbug is Isshinryu's US capital. But i think its half and half there. some of the marines anted to be true to Shimabuku, the others started screwing up the system in my opinion. Hard training is a very, very, good thing, but more importantly i hope my new school belives in Shimabuku's vision and the Miza Gammi.

will, no matter what style you study, a wet floor will be harder than a dry one. Im not so much consierned about my offense, because i already know how to tear someone up the idea is to put him down gently, he might get in a lot of trouble, but even though were the same age this guy is just a kid in my eyes who dosent no any better and i dont want to hurt him. Im thinking defense. Blocks are still to masses coming togather in an enviroment with little to know stopping friction. Evasion requires one to slip and slide around, whose to say i could stop on that floor? but the good thing is i think my style, Isshinryu, would be solid on wet floors as opposed to other styles. its stance are stable and felxable towards strange enviroments. only one thats probably better is Ninjitsu, since they actually teach you what to do in all sorts of crazy enviroments, i think if i have time, ill ask Sensai on thursday.

im going for my yellow belt soon to, my style, Isshinryu, has a uniform code used for ranking, but my sensai doesnt exactly follow it, sometimes i kinda wish he would, the uniform code has some skills in it i have outside the martial arts that are demonstrated. heres my dojo requirments for Hachikyu must preform Seisan kata resonably well be able to demonstarte the basic techniques done at the begining of class (these are like, head block, low block, mid-level block, reverse punch, side kick, snap kick, and round house) Preform three hold breaks according to the uniform Isshinryu rank system i must: preform seisan well recomended readings in Isshinryu karate 9 kicks take a test on Isshinryu write a paper on Trust.

karatekid, could you perhaps assist me? i need to find an Isshinryu school in or near Norfolk VA

its okay evil betty, now you know for next time. Umm....you all most excuse master pain- i mean betty, its 12 o'clock, and time for his nap.

I have a tendency when im upset about something to get some really dumb ideas stuck in my head and then do everything i can to justify them. Espicially when i am as passionate about something as i am Karate. I have been thinking for a good week now, and i have deicded to just buck it up, scronge my money if i have to and lay off some other luxuries in order to return to the dojo. This won't be easy, and everything will try to negate my schedule but ill do whatever i can to get there. Unfortuantely i have only from now (October 27th, i think,) through the end of June to train there, then i leave for the US Navy. Im going to pick which stations i want based on sevral things but a big one will be the location of an Isshinryu dojo nearby so i can complete my training. My goal is that in these next 8 months i can at least earn my hachikyu, so ill have some foundation that i can move on towards shodan with. I still dont think everyone was patient with me like the budo describes, but i can kinda see your point a little better now, and honestly i feel so relived to be going back that all the trouble it will be to work the schedule out dosen't seem so bad, it seems very much worth it and i feel kinda at home again. So i guess i kinda need to say arigato to some of you. Hopefully next week, i can stop posting stuff about me and start talking karate again!

i use side snap kick to back ppl off when they get to close, or as a sort of bone crushing technique. i cant get it real acurate so its usless for assasination but it can get your opponet distant and out of the way. Personnaly though, my favorite kick is front snap. No one uses it, but its decently powerful, fast, acurate, and easy to use.

i work in a Taco Bell and theres this guy who thinks he's 'gangster'. His always trying to start something with everyone. I have been able to avoid it so far but if i had to defend myself or someone else (i think he's all talk, but just in case) how could i maintain balance on the wet floor?

*sigh* i made it up to green belt in shotokan so really the lack of experince with the ranking system plee has no relevence. Im sorry i made the post but seriously you guys are being a little rude, dont you think? i mean i brought the subject up yea, but i wasnt rude to anyone else and i certainly wasn't asking for your sharp replies so could you kinda back off a little? i feel kinda boxed in.

no, i couldnt make friends in the dojo, those people drove me crazy they were like zombie's or something. when i finnaly starting talking to people it was when we were competeing in the IWKA in Tennesse and people started talking to me because i was funny, and i don't think they had ever seen that before. They acted like they were laughing for the very first time or something, it was just wierd, and still they shyed away from me after that and i don't know why. I liked training in the dojo because my master was a good one and i got solid training. There was even this fourty year old man from Germany who was a green belt, he acted like he got pissed off when i defeated him in a sparing matxh, they were crazy! I will go back to a dojo but not until i'm in the Navy and iv'e settled in, it will have to be worked around collage and everyhting else, but i do have the option, if i want, of going to Okinawa and training in Master Shimabuku's original Dojo.

ouch! i should have been here to keep my guard up. Will yea, i think i may have mentioned this in another topic but i didn't really explain it, that topics focus was on the fact that i wasnt sure i wanted to train specifically in one style anymore. I don't care about regonition but i just wanted to know what the general opinion would be on this from other Karate ka's, im still going to do it but i like to know what im up against. Your right, its not really a rebellion, because if there rest of the Karate learning world wants to keep moving up through the kyu's than thats fine, i personally refuse to do it because i don't think Karate was meant to have that kind of structure. the kyu to dan system, in my opinion, is the reason why we have so many hackmead black belts from pathetic dojo's running around trying to start something. It's also, as i mentioned earlier in that other post, the reason im a little upset right now with my styles politicts, the Isshinryu community was way to intrested in having a corprate orginization and this strict rank sructure (the strictist i have ever seen). When i read about that in books, i prefer to call it Shimabuku's fall, because before that he didn't everything great but then he upsessed over this "Okinawain-American Karate association" crap, it ruined the whole thing. I know i will not be belived, but i couldn't care less about being regonized, just tell me you understand why i'm doing it, and i apologize for sounding redundant in an earlier topic.