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Ho hum I just realised that krishnamurthi's from the UK and the only UK RM I know who left after a few years instead of going to a different region or being promoted is a Stewart M*** i cannot recall his last name but it had M as the first letter. I could be totally wrong about this and if i am im sorry but he was an OK guy but got fired for holding GKR classes off the books and keeping the money for himself...

Thats about the most dis-respectful post I've ever read. I won't say GKR is the best club out there, I haven't trained in all the rest so I can't make that judgement. No cross training who says, I do a bit of kick boxing as well. I sparred friends from other clubs at the same level and beaten some lost to others. It Go Kan Ryu not Gokan so if that does mean rape theres no connection it pretty said to make that connection, I do wonder though what the club did to deserve that outburst as the individual i'm quoting has only one post, did they register solely to bag the club? I honestly don't get why people who say their MA's bag any club-that is most definately not what MA is about. As to evil-xerox saying he was asked to leave, we ask people to leave all the time when they come in and talk or come in because someone they know (not a friend) trains there and they think its funny. I'm assuming thats not why you were asked to leave the way you put accross your post was fair. So I would conclude that perhaps you ran accross one of the bad sensies we do occasionally get, who generally get fired quite quickly and resort to bagging the site on the net. Again back to krishnamurthi's post, he or she was a RM for a couple of years, if the club was that bad then why stay with them for that amount of time??? That speaks worse about them than it does about the club.

I wouldn't be embarressed about an ingrown toenail in training, I dont what the pain is like cos i've never had one, however I have been known to leave trails of blood along the floor when doing Kata after having cut my foot on something whilst training. That was really sureal, but it showed me that I had the right floor pattern for the Kata I was learning In my opinion most MA's are slightly wrong in the head so won't be bothered by funky toes or anything like that...

How old are you, I would guess at nearly finished school from the way you talk so you could probably sneak in a banana or something easy enough!

If you mean visibly notice weight loss that depends on how big you to start with with. I've got a mate whos family have a house in part of France and when he goes he tends to lose about a stone quite quickly but because hes big you don't really notice it and he puts it back on again quite quickly.

Learn to put your hips into it if your not already. As far as I can tell your new to the Arts (not the forumn though 1141 posts currently) so you probably have learnt to use your hips yet, when you do you will be able to feel how much extra power they give you. Your punches should start some where in your feet and wind up through your body before your hips flick your entire top half and send your arm out. Also if you already have an arm out there when practicing in line try and race it back before the punching one, it sounds weird but I find it helps. Good luck and good training.

Google Mens Health or Mens Fitness I used one on one of those sites and it gave what seemed like an accurate result. BMI 22 which for my height and weight is correct. Just need to lose a few more pounds now and turn it into muscle. Anyone know of any magic pills to eat which do that?....

Ill be at uni soon enough, they'll have weights etc: their for me to use

I HAI'd a few teachers in my time fortunately being from Newcastle (UK) I can get away with it...most of the time. Calling teachers mum however you can not get away with! especially when their only really a few years older...

I kinda thought as much

We have one student in the class I sempai for, a green belt with a couple of years training under his belt. Without fail the slightest impact on his stomach during kumite results in a gut wrenching fart. Never fails to get a laugh...bit sad really but what the heck its funny. Incidentally im seventeen and wondering at exactly what age do farts stop being funny? my instructors nearly fifty and he stills kills himself laughing when it happens.

As it says in the subject line i'm looking to put on about 40lbs. At the moment im a 160/5 lb 18 yr old (male). I reckon the 200lb mark is where I want to get to. What I want is to know the "quickest" way to get there. Just general muscle gain is what I need with particular attention to the shoulders as they are under developed compared to my arms. Thanks for any help... ps. I don't really have access to much in the way of weights and the local gym is being demolished (they are going to rebuild it though )

I train with GKR and as Guitar_lover says not many people like it-in fact there are two thrads on this forum that were started to ask for people who hate us *sniffle*. I think its a disgrace when people talk bad about any style of Karate, sure talking bad about one instructor can be understood, but a whole sytle...

Quote Did you see Kancho Robert Sullivan while he had stomach cancer, or after radical surgery on his stomach, in which he only now has a quarter of. Watch your words. --------------------------------------- Well said. I've trained with GKR for five years and had my fair share of bad instructors, they do happen. BUT they tend to get found out fairly quickly, I couldn't be happier with the way my training is going and my Senior instructor just offerred me a full time job for the hols before I go to uni...knocking on doors. I'm very tempted to take it, they wouldn't even need to pay me I would do it for the extra training alone. As for people who crtisise the club, I've learned to pity them. Kanch didn't hide the fact that he had stomach cancer, but when I trained with him at a seminar in Leeds (I live in Newcastle UK) I thought he was good, when I learned that he had cancer at the time I respected him even more for training through all the pain he must have been in. As Himeji said I've never seen another GKR member talking badly about another style. Those who do so don't know what Karate is as far as I'm concerned. Gichin Funakoshi said that "Karate begins and ends with courtesy" these people should read his books.