Tigerspirit

i shocked!! kata was made up years before any of ye were born by people who were forced 2 use it and used it well.When were any of ye who say its rubbish in that situation everyday.changing the subject now i tink sochin is strong and looks good in deep stance. chinte feels great 4 girls.

sochin i think represents my way of training best.slow then fast.strong and weak. i think its got a great power balance frim and strong the way i like it.

What styles do i know or do? i do shotokan. i love it.i no gojuryu,wadoryu,lots more tat i can't think of?Why do you want to know?(not trying to be rude just curious)

i don't really agree with it simply because i'm more of a tradionalist.Karate is not about hurting fellow students and i think people will get seriously hurt. but i don't no to much about the subject so i'll be open minded.

Well you being only an orange belt i wouldn't worry about it too much but the person there for 6 yrs is a bit of a puzzle. i must of been there for a year before i first fighted but i thought nothing much of it i was just a kid.

i love looking up the history of karate and studying were it all came for and the differents. its great.

While recieving another lecture from my mother the other day about how i training instead of doing any work for school. An important question was brought up about what i plan to do with my karate in the long run, i was forced to sit down and listen to the question.Instead of my usual cheeky reply i was speechless "where is this going?" I love karate, its my one passion in life and i wouldn't trade it for anything in the world but this quetion triggered off many more "Can i make a living from karate here? Can i move?Am i perpared to give it a go?Do i want to give it a go?" After a good ponder i concluded with"Ok Relax no need to be filling your head with all these questions, Safe some for the mid-life crisis" but one question stuck with me and i wanted to put it out there for the crowds"What to you get from Karate?" Are you in it for fittness, Competion,fun oe like me pure passion?

i don't believe i have fear of my sensai but i have a whole lot of respect for him. He can get quite cross but that will last for the training and after wards he's totally approachable. When i'm not at my top form he really pushes me then but i'm used of it. i'm a 2nd dan so thats okay for me but i don't think if heard him shout at anyone lower then purple and not young kids. If trained with a jap or two that will have you scaried witless. At the time it feels like your world is falling apart but afterwards you can laugh about it. Seriously though I believe one of the main things karate trys to teaches you is to remove all fear so you can think fast an clearly. How can you do that if the person who is ment to be teaching you to do this is doing the oppoiste.

thanks so much!what a brillant site. i plan to reckament it.

i do (jka) shotokan and when we fight we fight in the dojo we would attack the body fairly hard but not the head. we lately are only doing light fighting to build reflexes but usually its full kumite. for competions i wear pads on my hands the light pads only because the boxing onces gives too much reach.

I do shotokan too and i have 9 kyu's. white,red,yellow,green,2purple,3brown and black.

Hi I'm training at the moment trying to get on the team for europe but i'm kind of worried about my fitness training. i run a bit and to some push ups and sit ups. But i was wondering if anybody as any tips they could give me.

i agree i think if u stop and say to your self what do i do now youve lost. but have you every concentrated so much on not thinking about it you mess up. i think it must take great mental strenght.

IN MY ORG(i.s.k.a). WE ARE TESTED EVERY 6 MONTHES UNLESS UR A BLACK BELT THEN ITS 1 YEAR OR 2 OR WHAT EVER UR GOING FOR AND WE ARE ALL GRADED BY SENSEI OTHA(japan instructor living in england) and its 45 or 50 for a kyu grade, 80 for shodan and 100 for higher. i think its been a while. no one can force you to grade if you prefer not to or dont agree with it dont do it. simple as that. dont let anyone tell you you have to grade.oss

IN MY ORG(i.s.k.a). WE ARE TESTED EVERY & MONTHES UNLESS UR A BLACK BELT THEN ITS 1 YEAR OR 2 OR WHAT EVER UR GOING FOR AND WE ARE ALL GRADED BY SENSEI OTHA(japan instructor living in england) and its 45 or 50 for a kyu grade, 80 for shodan and 100 for higher. i think its been a while. no one can force you to grade if you prefer not to or dont agree with it dont do it. simple as that. dont let anyone tell you you have to grade.oss

good luck in okinawa.i would love to go there the home of karate what a dream and to grade there what a privalage. i once knew some1 who had to do that before they at to go for shodan, nidan and sandan in one grading. they got to nidan. my nidan grading cost 100euro.

SO MANY TO CHOOSE FROM.WELL FROM WHO I TRAINED WITH YAHARA,ENOEDA,OSAKA AND TANAKA ARE MY LEGENDS. OF COURSE MY OWN SENSEI "SENSEI KEOHANE"

i'm glad that almost 100 percent of the responds are positive. its good for us women. we must remember that in okinawa karate was used to protect the tiny locals. it is designed for small, petite people so i can see no reason why women should not participate or in fact become good at karate.ThANK U FOR UR TIME

correct way off think do wat ta sensei says.if u let me come of the story for a moment. a story i heard about the late sensei eneoda. once trainin in england he gave out to students about makin faces steppin forward and of coarse when he stepped forward he mad big faces. a student called him on it and sensei yelled at him and killed him 4 the whole train afterward he said ta him in a lean voice"must alway do what sensei says understand"

i'm wit the j.k.a. i no it must be hard havin 2 regrade it happened 2 a few people i know because they were graded under kato. but tell me this when u did switch org did u do it because u just simple changed dojo or was it because u believed more in the other associations. are u still in the ISKF?

Would that this were so. Often the political splits have further implications. ISKF students, for example, are prohibited from atending seminars by non-ISKF people. What about recognition of Dan grade? For a long time neither Nishiyama or Okazaki's group recognized Dan ranking from Mr. Dalke's group, and still will not recognize rank from Mr. Kanazawa's group. U are correct there but theres notting i or u can do about that all we can do is train hard. There are some i'm asked not to train with and i understand that the splits are hard but i just keep working at my karate thats all i can do.

Jet-li and jackie chan are brillant but of course nobody can beat bruce lee in my heart. i resently saw the matrix reloaded (its just out now in ireland) and altough its mainly computerist and full of stunts i just couldn't withdraw my amazment at the way it turned out. woww

This is not true. in shotokan both feet must be poing forward in zenkustsu dachi people often take ta lazy approach and leave it to the right. Although when u r teach beginners u wouldn't stress it to much.

i also train left foot forward most of the time but in ur own time just do afew kicks and punches on ur right side so u'll be more well rounded.

Karate's my Game Shotokan's the name