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Okay, thanks. So it is to be expected.

My sweating is getting worse and worse. Last year I thought that maybe I just attend more demanding trainings, and I sweated within reasonable boundaies, as much as you would expect from sport in my opinion, but recently my gi is wet like I just took a shower and sweat is puring all over me and I have wet hair too. Is it... normal? Is it better to use antiperspirant all over or not? What about the head? It's so uncomfortable.

Maybe not exactly as serious as leading a school, but... my sensei said that I could lead a training for a less advanced class And the senpai were very encouraging about it too. The training is meant to be for 9-7 kyu, I think. Is it okay to just exercise techniques from heian shodan? I mean, it's not as simple as it seems, in my opinion, people make a lot of mistakes in them. Also, how to deal with stage fright? I'm nervous to walk up to someone and correct them. Usually the trainings are: 20 minutes warmup, and then kihon and then kumite based on the kihon. So is it fine to exercise kihon ippon kumite or something similar? (oi-zuki, gyaku-zuki, kizami-zuki, mae-geri, gedan-barai, age-uke, uchi-uke, soto-uke) I'm sorry if I mixed up some terminology, in fact, I would be grateful if you could reccommend some books or other materials in which there are names for all the techniques.

Exactly. Although I can't say it was a fast progression. For such a long time I made no progress at all in terms of grades. I mean, I still learnt a lot in classes and had to work hard on my fitness, unlike people who are definitely more gifted in terms of not getting tired during trainings. I pushed through it just because I enjoyed the trainings, no matter how bad I was. Maybe now it's getting a little faster?

So I'm not approaching an exam right now. But there is a perspective I want to share. When I was beginning my journey with karate, first, I didn't know I will stick with it at all. Then I hoped for a blue belt at most, brown belts seemed so advanced that I will never reach this level and won't continue training for so many years. This winter I'm finally approaching the blue belt exam. Recently, I see that I have the determination to train for 5 years or more or even for decades, karate has become such an important outlet and a passion for me. I hope for a brown belt now in these next couple of years.

It's also just not understandable for me. He could have gone to another dojo, there are many schools that award kyu degrees easily. Plus he does himself very bad marketing at the same time. Well said. I agree with that comoletely. What I also don't understand is that the brown belt isn't great profit, because even if it's an instructor degree, it isn't as appealing for people as a black teaching. Obviously, this man's pride was hurt. Then again - it's not great if someone has ego issues.

Getting a kyu online somehow works in my head, a dan - not really. Getting your dan degree is a really important event and isn't like regular exams that happen every few months. Not every examinator awards dan degrees too.

Well then, agreed.

It's an interesting topic, however, I can't compare with what it was like the 90s. It's true that karate classes are full of kids and their parents plus there are a bunch of people who have been training for ages. At university, hardly anyone trains anything, let alone fighting sports. They all go to the gym if anything at all. People talk about MMA and it's popular to say that traditional martial arts are ineffective compared to MMA so "it's not worth it" to train traditional martial arts. Which I find plain annoying, because people who say this are couch potatos and are good at neither MMA nor anything else, and secondly, they don't take into account that being effective in street fights might not be why someone trains.

Like most things in the realms of the martial arts, yes. Though I wouldn't necessarily call it hardening in this case. I feel that it is more akin to getting use to the feeling and drilling the amount of power that you can take. There is a reason that these strikes aren't typically done at full power. Chiefly, they don't need to be, they're generally meant for softer parts. Secondly, no one likes jammed and broken fingies. Do you think it really is completely ineffective unless you train nukite for a few years? This is the impression I get from listening or reading what some people say.

I see people on the internet complain about nukite a lot, but I don't really see so much of a problem. For sure, it requires more experience to hit a small target like the trachea. But does it really require years of hardening your hands like Jesse Enkamp said in one of his videos? I don't see it as a widespread problem.

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Thanks for the suggestion, it's a fair point, now that I think about it, I remember people with different injuries exercising. I'll talk to different instructors then.

It depends, ranks don't always reflect skills, there are 1 dans who can lose a fight with someone with 2 years of experience and brown belts who are impressive. It also depends on the progress made in those two years, if you are a beginner or have a medium rank by now. With medium, I would say even a weak 1 dan won't be a good teacher, it was my experience, the instructor seemed to have forgotten more advanced techniques and wouldn't teach them at all. He also had little "artistry", didn't seem well versed in the techinques compared to my current sensei, who has 4 dan and who is truly amazing in my opinion and there is a lot to learn from him. The previous instructor seemed quite brown belt in my eyes, however, I feel like I know people with brown belts who seem better than him, and who just don't have the pressure to *get the black belt*, and I also learn a lot from said brown belts.

The forum won't let me post it in "Choosing a Martial Art, Comparing Styles, and Cross-Training" section, so please move this topic if it's appropriate. However, I think my question might be limited to the grappling martial arts, because I'm not interested in Chinese martial arts and boxing. Like many practitioners of martial arts, I'm getting interested in picking another one. Preferably one of the martial arts that are the topic of this section: judo, jujitsu, BJJ, aikido. Unfortunately, I have an obstacle. I trained judo as a child and through repeated minor injuries, my elbow started to fall out of the joint. It doesn't fall out any more, it healed when I stopped practicing judo, but it bends in both directions and I'm afraid it will fall of the joint again if I put too much strain on it. So having that in mind, is there a martial art or fighting style apart from striking and kicking styles that wouldn't destroy my elbow?