battousai16

well, i second the "whatever he's comfortable with". if he dosen't have fun with it, he wont want to learn. i'll also say that when i was 11 and 12, i was a very small guy too. i was fast and i was tall, but very skinny and weak. i turned 13 and BAM! soon enough i was actually overweight and i grew even more. i got most of the weight off thanks to cross country and the martial arts, but it was just amazing that over 1 summer i could have grown so much! i'm with pacificshore, he probably wont be little forever

now bare with me, because i've never trained with a makiwara board before, but at that point couldn't you just hit the wall?

well, the last music stand he's thrown was the year before i came to high school. it was actually in my older sisters class. i'd imagine he got away with it because he runs a lot of the schools programs and asks for little if any money, which is especially nice now, as WI just had to cut out a HUGE portion of the education budget (thank you, governer. thank you VERY much ). but yes, lots of parents did complain, and a lot of students got pulled out of band. and, to be honest, i have had violent thoughts about him. although he dosen't throw stuff anymore, he's made up for it with verbal attacks. he once gave me a 10 minute lecture on how i had no place in the music department. not a pleasant conversation. one of my friends once said "i'd like to impale him on my flute". anyway, yeah. he's not all bad, though. he knows his stuff, is good at making sure you know stuff and will try to help you along if you can show him your dedicated. he can be a fun guy on the right day. it's just that those "right days" are few and far between.

even then, depending on where you are it's sketchy. my band teacher, for instance, has a fairly large history of throwing stands and chairs at students. they forced him to goto anger management classes and said he was fired if it happened again (btw, anger management just has him smile whenever he's angry, and it's VERY creepy ), but that was after two music stand projectiles and a chair

...why are you standing close enough to touch their nose? though that does seem pretty cool

i don't see why it would be a bad idea. it dosen't matter who you were certified under so much as just how good a teacher you are. i'd just check it out my self and see how i like it.

lol, there's a group of guys in my school who worship that website as there biblical scripture, it's creepy i myself never got into it, but whatever

well, it gets very, very hot. at least i do. but i don't know if that's just because of the body hair or not. i'd shave it off, but it's so much work...

no one ever did, but i enjoyed matrix reloaded. when neo ripped that pole out of the ground and attacked all the agent smiths? very cool as much as i criticize other movies for a lack of realism, reloaded was one i could sit back and enjoy

...drunken monkey, you're not helping my case... hey, some of those OSTs are very well written! nobuo uematsu is a musical genius! repitive, yes, but one must expect that in a videogame sound track

in america i can't find anything else with him

yeah, best of luck to ya'!

"it depends on if my family is in danger" this is indeed a large issue.

i dunno, wasn't teenage mutant ninja turtles II: secret of the ooz a block buster? he was in that, wasn't he?

"in the city of york, if you can prove that a scotsman is invading, you are legally allowed to kill that man..." wow... that's... wow... i wonder how you would go about proving something like that "sorry, to clarify, in the law of self defense, it has to be a door, cause i personally could not open a window(my back to my enemy) and get out before i was killed... could you? so thats why the law states a door." well, if opening a window, i don't know that i would turn my back on the enemy, that seems more or less foolish. also, i think i'd have more than enough time to escape by the time the criminal would have enough time to get from the door or window of the house s/he crept into and get to my room. of course, that might just be cuz my room's in the basement and, on a side note, unless the criminal came into my house with the sould purpose of killing me, i'd doubt s/he would feel compelled to kill me for escaping and leaving him/her alone in my house. that would seem like the goal to me

...hmmm... perhaps i shouldn't point out that i play final fantasy AND watch anime...

yeah sano! first the ninja turtles, now final fantasy!?! what's next, bob dylan!?!

uh... what conclusion? if you mean the violence in videogames presentation, there really wasn't a conclusion. it was finals week and we didn't really have a final exam in that class, so i brought my PS2 and tekken 4, and we played it for the 90 minute period for a few days. we just needed an excuse in case a principal walked by or something, so we said it was a presentation on violence in the media. ahhhh... good times, good times...

i tested for my brown belt right after eye surgery. my doctor speciffically ordered me not to engage in any sports. it was at this time that i decided that ma was completely an art

"I'm a sophmore in H.S., but moved over the summer, so everyone takes me for a freshy. Kinda sucks" hey, feel lucky that your school gives respect to sophomores at all. at mine, at sophmore level, you're just a glorified freshman i'm a senior, personally, and all of my classes are suck-a-riffic. that's ok though, i trust all will get better. i mean, it's been over a week, they can't be stuck on orientation and review forever... ...right?

"I crack a lot of my joints which grosses some people out. Sorry, I try to do it in private. If I'm feeling happy, I HAVE to hum or sing. I just have to...otherwise, I explode, and you don't want to see that. It's happened three times already. It isn't pretty. When I play video games, I'm obsessed with stat building. All my materia must be mastered!! (FF fans know what I'm talking about) " hey, i hear those! except i'm an awful singer, so people usually smack me when i start. and i don't even bother seeking privacy if i crack my knuckles; i'm just mean i guess and i totally know what you mean. i was stuck out side of edea's castle for 3 days because i HAD TO HAVE my entire party up to 100... this was the second time of course, the first time i just wanted to know what happened and settled for merely squall, rinoa, and quistis... dear god i have far to much time on my hands.

"in most states if its on your property and your in a room with no quick exit, aka a bedroom, and your opponent is coming at you, you are allowed to use leathal force. " well, i don't know about other states, but at least in Wisconsin, all bedrooms are required to have a quick escape exit, be it a window or another door, incase of a fire.

so... no then? no one wanted to... oh well.

well, remember that nothing beats visiting the schools. you could join a school called "dojo teaching the greatest super duper ultra killer style", but if the teacher sucks, it wont do you much good. i personally do yang style tai chi and like it, but i've never taken judo, so i can't give you my opinion there. just don't forget that their are indeed combat applications to everything you do in tai chi, it's not just a dance.

i suppose not. i think the main reason keanu reeves did so well in the first matrix is because for 90% of the matrix he was playing someone who was clueless and didn't know what was going on. than, at the very end of the movie, when he became "enlightened", he barely ever talked.