Sho-ju

What is the sine wave used for and why was it added?

What are some of the Korean weapons that could be found in any style dojang? Is staff a common weapon in TKD dojangs?

Who made ITF patterns?

It seems that the title master and often grandmaster is used a lot in TKD, I was thinking the title has a different meaning then it does in karate. How long does it take become a master or grandmaster? I've seen few karate dojo's who claim to have a master teaching, but it seems evey town has a TKD master...

The local TKD club charges something in the range of 65$ to $165 a month. I run a shotokan dojo and we charge $20 a month, $30 for gradings (with belt) and have sems with different sensei often. We also limit each class to 25 students to maintain a higher level of training. We don't advertise either.

I thought ITF was full contact but light contact to the head?

I'm not trying to start a fight, but was wondering what are some of the pros and cons with each group of TKD orgs?

http://www.catchwrestle.com/index.htm I have the tapes by Tony Cecchine and they are good. I haven't seen the Furey tapes but in general I don't like his books or articles in magz, he does too much name dropping for my taste. Get the Cecchine tapes.

A friend of mine and I were talking the other day about the patterns vs. kata of shotokan and found that many of the TKD patterns were very close. Does anyone know of a video link I could look at that has the patters of ITF TKD so I can take a closer look?

I'm doing cane with with the instructor. I have a bad ankle which got me thinking about the future. The doc tells me I'll be on a cane for certain. Not to mention I just broke it a couple of months ago when I did tap from an ankle lock...thought I had time to work out of it. Here's the link: http://www.thepeacefulwarriors.org/

Karate has grappling but I would say it doesn't contain ground fighting. All the grappling is done from standing. The Okinawans did folk wrestling...

Is it han with a long a? Like in ham?

for cane? I'm trying to find a little history on the cane as a weapon and need to know the Japanese word. All I've found is jo. Can anyone help?

A link was posted on sherdog.com that had a emin boztepe challange match. It was a while ago but he was smoked. You can also see him get dusted on video if you down load on kazaa. I typed in kung fu...

Yes, good question. What did you think? I have no first hand experience with aikido's use of the bokken. Just what I've read in books, magazines, internet etc. I thought it was well done. The tips about cutting with the tip of the sword, moving uki's mind and how to hold a sword were interesting. He's going to continue to come to my dojo and teach my people bokken.

Last night my dojo had a couple of Aikido black belts come in and show us a little of the bokken they do. Any thoughts on Aikido's use of the bokken?

Learn to wrestle....

That's exactly it. Have you ever seen it done before? (that was my next quesiton) Is it traditional style hapkido?

Hon Sang Mu Sa Hapkido, anyone seen it?

Learn how to wrestle...that is the only anit-grappling that works. Look at the top punch/kickers in the UFC and you'll find wrestling shoes hanging in there locker.

Does anyone here ever use this kick? I find its useless in kumite...

Is Aikido the only style that jo is taught?

I was a member for a while and I own the complete set of videos. The material isn't too bad, most of which I had already learned from other systems prior to getting the videos. The kata material does focus on sport based kata movements but they alllow you to create your own for testing should you be interested in obtaining rank with them. Hope this helps, Steve Thanks Steve. It sounds like you have done other cane systems, could you suggest another perhaps, with more of a SD focus?

Anyone study this weapon?

Glen wrote that he would be finished it in a couple of weeks. As soon as I get his email saying its done, I'll let you know.