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MD appointment done, got another X-ray got another Cortisone shot, back to Physical Therapy If this fixes things I'm good. If not it is MRI and likely surgery. It takes 3 to 6 month recovery from rotator cuff surgery I'm hoping for the recovery and then to Kobudo

I too trained some JKD in the past. One teacher was a student of Jerry Poteet. Another trained with several of the first generation guys, but he was originally a student of my first teacher. And another was from the Dan Inosanto side of the fence. but Bruce Lee is not as big a deal in the Asian community on the east coast. But that didn’t stop me from finding the Bruce Lee statue when I was in Hong Kong and getting my picture taken with it

I was in Las Vegas once when it was 116F , way to hot, and according to the weather it will be close to that all week there. Stay safe, stay cool, and hydrate.

The UFAF was Norris' organization and I am guessing that was the scheduled time for the UFAF International Training Conference. UFAF is the governing body of the Chuck Norris System, UFAF Krav Maga, and UFAF Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu

This is the video, he only does the 2 hand thing briefly

There is a video out there on YouTube comparing the standard Nunchaku to the So-Setsu-Kon Nunchaku, in that video he does briefly use the standard Nunchaku with 2 hands. I think it is a video by "Object History" under the title of "Long Stick-Short Stick Nunchaku (so-setsu-kon). But i have not seen it anyplace else, but then I have very little experience with the Okinawan Nunchaku. Hope to get more esperince in the future, but it doesn't help much now

Are you talking about the standard Nunchaku we are generally all familiar with or the So-Setsu-Kon Nunchaku? Or are you asking about using a pair of Nunchaku, one in each hand?

Have not seen the 2nd orthopedic MD for my second opinion, but my wife is a TCM MD/PhD from China and I got the records from the first MD and she read them. The first MD said minor tear, per my wife it is a partial tear... which could explain why it never seems to get better and is waking me up at 3:00am. I will know more mid August, hopefully. Or at least have a direction to go to get this fixed. But in the mean time, my kicks have gotten very bad since having major knee issues a few years back, so I am starting to work on them too

Buffy the Vampire Slayer the master Walker Texas ranger Martial Law and the one that got me into martial arts , Kung Fu (original series) there was an episode of the old Andy Griffith that had judo in it Green Hornet Longstreet Not a TV sitcom but I believe the first American movie to have martial arts in it was Blood on the Sun from 1945

In a few months i will officially be, by USA standards, a senior citizen. I have been dealing with this for a year, MD, PT, exercises , cortisone injections, acupuncture and it has gotten better at times, but yard work and other responsibilities need to be taken care of and that causes inflammation. For awhile it was manageable, but lately it starts to feel better, but not as good as before and then comes back worse. Now it is making it hard to sleep. So now i will go see what this doctor has to say. went through a similar thing a few years back with my knee, it eventually was replaced.

Update, got appointment… in September… but it got moved up to August. It can’t get here soon enough. This silly thing wakes me up regularly at 3:30am every morning…. Without fail.

Beneath the Banyan Uchina Damashi The Hidden Strength of Okinawan Karate & Kobudo

California Declares May 17 as Bruce Lee Day: A Historic Honor for Martial Arts’ Greatest Icon first official Bruce Lee Day in 2027. I like Bruce Lee, even trained JKD for a little bit, but I'm not exactly sure why they would make it an official day in any state

Due to my shoulder issue, mostly focusing on stepping and foot work

I only know of 2 styles of white crane, Fujian and Tibetan both have fairly good write ups on wiki > Tibetan White Crane is a complete system, with long and short range techniques, and external internal, and weapons forms > The Fujian White Crane is a half-hard, half-soft style of Nanquan. It is a short-ranged fighting style where hand strikes are performed by imitating the crane's beak, with moves executed in conjunction with the movements of the practitioner's spine.[3]

Karate Basic, everything you need to know to get started in Karate. from Tuttle press

Not Karate, but Taijiquan (with martial arts intact) I remember one evening, after class was over, my Shifu (I am at least 6 inches taller than he is and likely had 50 pounds on him at the time) and I were doing free style push hands, and very relaxed and easily he did something, that in the form, is called High Pat on Horses back, and I went straight to the floor....I will never forget laying there, as he looked down and me and said..... Tung Hu Ling did that to me once........all in all the floor is a great tool for learning, and occasionally it is even humorous

I have been training martial arts since 1972, I have trained styles with "kata" (poomsae, forms) and styles without. Surprisingly, IMO, styles without kata, still have kata IMO, they just call them drills. However Karate without kata would not be karate. The majority of my martial arts background is mostly in Chinese martial arts, and I have trained many with forms and one without. The one without was Sanda/Sanshou and even though it is Chinese it is not any of the styles that use forms. There are similarities, but they are not the same. There is something to forms, to tradition, that is, at least to me, important. Remove the kata from karate you will have a Japanese Sanda/Sanshou, but it will not be Karate, it will lose the tradition, which is the heart of the style, at least to me. When I started, it was Japanese Jiujutsu, and then I said forms/kata were stupid, and I was happy we had none. Later I realized we trained something called a chase routine, it was a kata, and I liked it, and it was useful and applicable, at least in sparing.

Going to be a long summer. Second opinion on shoulder is not until September, I thought it would be sooner.

My intent has been changing of late, some due to my shoulder issue, some due to age and physical limitations. My intent, for many years was on martial arts, forms and application. I have trained a few different styles over the years and intent and applicantion change slightly with the style. However, just last week actually, I came to the conclusion that fitness is most important and I need to do more outside of martial. Also, due to the shoulder I have changed my focus from lifting heavier weights as part of my workout, to using high reps with lighter weights. And I really need to focus o. Cardio more than I have been. So I guess my intent has changed from a purely martial arts focus to a more well rounded focus of health and fitness, as well as trying to put more focus on the internal (meditative) side of martial arts.

I have had a shoulder issue for sometime now, and after 3 cortisone shots, and 2 trips to PT, and lots of acupuncture, it keeps on coming back. Going for second opinion soon, afraid I will need surgery, if so, everything stops for a while. Was diagnosed as a minor rotator cuff tear, almost a year ago, and now it’s waking me up at night. have call in, waiting for call back to schedule 2nd opinion

I read it before as well, a few years ago, and I remember none of that.... but I mayhave forgotten

Rereading actually Living the Martial Arts Way by Forrest E Morgan

Stress Management through martial arts. Interesting topic. When I was younger, teens, and 20s, stress management through martial arts meant beating the heck out of a heavy bag. And I don’t mind telling you, that destressed me rather well. But when I hit my early 30s, and went through a divorce, many times stress management was similar, but expanded to training. I would train 1.5 to 2 hours a day, not including martial arts classes (CMA at that point) which at one point went 7 days a week and more than an hour a day of class. It’s kind of hard to be stressed when you’re too tired to even stand up, but not to worry, I still had incredibly stressful moments during that period of my life, it was kind of unavoidable due to the situation. But I think the training and class was more of a distraction, or a break, from stress than anything else Mid to late 30s, I got more into the forms I was learning, Taijiquan, Long Fist, Wing Chun, Xingyiquan, that focus helped calm things down. Also began training Qigong and reading a lot of Taoist related material. This is where more of the calm side of things came into play. Also started reading a lot of Buddhist material as well and even trained a bit of meditation. But with all that said, I do not feel a martial arts class is about distressing, finding peace, or your center, or internal revelations. It is about martial arts. It is how you train it, and what you focus on that helps you distress. Another thing that I have discovered over the years that helps with stress…age… the older I get, the more I find that I get stressed a lot less than I use to. 2 books that also seemed to help me, “Zen in the martial arts by Joe Hyams” and…. Yes I know this might be cliché… but “The secret power within: Zen solutions to real problems by Chuck Norris”

I've trained taijiquan for over 30 years, mostly Traditional Yang style, also Chen style, a bit of Sun and some Wu. All done slow, however my lineage of Yang style has 2 fast forms. Also in WIng Chun occasionally do Siu Lim Tao slowly. as well as Xingyiquan 5 elements. What it did for me was teach unification of upper and lower body, proper alignment, and how to get power to where I wanted it to be.