granmasterchen

kicking with your toes, broken toes catching a kick with someone's elbow blood clots and fractures to the shins from low kicks broken noses broken and fractured ribs hyperextended elbows black eyes broken fingers or wrists, lots of sprains from grappling chipped teeth from not wearing mouth guards kicks to the groin fingers to the eyes....usually not on purpose.... a good hit to the ear while sparring concussions.... torn muscles from improper stretching knee injuries there is my small list for now

yep both

the last time that i did breaking, a seminar and demonstration back in 2002 the summer....that poor concrete had no chance against me, hahaha

you have to be very vicious....run around and move about quickly so that you aren't in the same space for too long,.keep moving and attacking and be very mean., this is not sparring, this is a fight, and you have to survive....you can't go easy anymore

ummm sorry i dont know any 13 yr old japanese girls....sorry.... thanks for the feedback so far.

my school is on the other side of the planet, therefore i dont visit and go there too often these days.....so i have to rely on the schools and clubs in this area, which are just down the street.

I have been asked by the Japanese community to help them in there presentation of Japan Day. I am stationed in Japan and every year we have a Japan Day for the Americans and then the Americans throw an American Day for the Japanese. I was asked by an individual in the largest karate organisation in Japan to be an honorary guest. So I was curious as karatekas what would you like to see martial art wise that I could perform that is rarely seen in karate. There main style is Kyokushin (hope i spelled it correctly) I would like to show them something that is rather unique to their culture yet I am honestly not too familiar with what all their style includes. So far I know what I have read about full contact kumite and that one of their students was a recent K-1 winner, which I saw today and will meet in person soon. I know they do breaking and some kata but that is about all I know of their style....I also read that their original instructor that created the art used to wrestle bulls and was a very honest man...skilled in mind and body and equalled it all with his philosophy. a background on myself....I have studied almost all of the common arts at one point in time in my life. So my knowledge of techniques is very well rounded. I am just curious if you could give me some insight so that this is an occasion that will be remembered and not something that looks boring and the same as everything they have already seen.

yes, i have a large collection of swords back in the states, many i trained with, alot are just for my collection.

it takes an average of 5 yrs to get black belt status in my art.....after that...well it seems to take awhile to move up in dans....quite awhile, we average a testing only once or twice a year....so if youre not ready, well maybe next year or the one after that, but my style combines several styles into one so we have lots of techniques that we have....one of the top black belt students in the class, which we dont have many of really....has been there for about 20 yrs and is a 2nd dan i think....maybe just first...we also go black belt then test to get first dan....the assistant instructor is now 3rd or 4th and the head instructor is a 6th now, and these guys have been doing it for over 40 yrs....i have been there and training all over the world for 20 yrs or so and i am still not a master or anywhere close in this style...even though i have seen master in several other styles over the years...my main style has me just at black belt status now....how sad, but it is also humbling, it isn't a mcdojo either,,,,we rarely pay and when we do its only 20 a month or less for some of the older belts,(we pay the same price as when we started) and we train everyday,....we also get tournaments paid for if we choose to perform in those....and demos and such, lots of fun things, so no large money making there....it just takes alot of time to move up ....i like it though....so i see that i am rambling so i'll shut up.....thanks for listening to me

good job, now start focusing on the next belt, no slacking, train hard to make yourself better

its nice, like all others, it all depends on the practitioner and the teacher....keep that in mind

you need to eat more meat, stuff high in protein chicken, poultry, fish, steak, eggs, beans,tofu, tuna, nuts and similar things, drink milk hmmmmmm thats about it, your diet now sounds like you will lose weight

do you mean taekwondo or martial arts in general?

the dojo here on base is pretty small, room for about 20 maybe, matted floors, little room for onlookers, many punching bags and equipment...mirrors on one wall and various oriental flags on the walls....pretty nice overall. My original dojo back home was hard wood floors, with double the room yet no equipment due to the fact that we shared the building with the american legion. my instructors own personal dojo in another town was double the other size, matted floors, lots of punching bags, weapons, trophies and an area for onlookers...it was nice.... the dojo where i trained off base in california was a small studio with punching bags and some various things to make the instructor look good, over all i didnt' like it, the dojo on base in the same town was very small with matted floor, very poor quality only about 4 people could work out in there the dojo on base in idaho was also matted floor, rooom for 20 with mirrors, some broken punching bags, not too great.... my friends personal dojo in ohio was very small room for me and him to practice stone floor, thin walls that got broken, lots of weapons and trophies, too small for anything big...or even kata....just nice for us to work out in the dojo off base here in misawa is huge, a very large building that the japanese have specifically for the martial arts.....must be nice to have community backing to help support the arts..... my ideal dojo when i stop traveling the world is a rather small buildign in the mountains, maybe holding 20 to 30 , wood or stone floor, old school striking apparatuses, weapon racks, and outside obstacle courses and various rooms of different trainings....

not quite six foot

many places in the military offer regular martial arts programs at the bases. I am currently stationed in misawa japan and i teach here along with several other instructors, then there are all the off base classes in the area. Every base that i have been stationed at has had at least one martial arts class located there, so most likely you will be able to find something and often times you will learn something new that you didnt learn back home, and usually all the classes run around 40 dollars or less when done through the military, and generally they are good instructors, generally,.....plus you will meet many individuals that have done martial arts and you can train with them and further expand your knowledge, live it up and soak up as much of the arts as you can.

good luck

we go from our top colored belt to black belt then to black belt first degree so that would translate into first kyu to black belt then to first dan

my schools are similar. The one i was taught in was like yours, we do our warm ups and then some random activity that was up to the instructors discretion, which is the same way i teach. anytime someone would ask the instructor what we would do that day he would answer the same way , "work out" which was always true and it never let anyone know what was going on, i like this way myself.....but thats me, i find it like a surprise and either way i will learn something and when i teach someone will learn something new..

I would have taken the same style maybe just a few years earlier or something maybe more....I really enjoy the first style that i started my path in...it was a very hard and street effective art that encompassed techniques from every art...studied it for many years and still there was no end to new things....i still find it amazing to this day....even more so after seeing several other styles and many other schools, it really makes me appreciate what my instructors did for me.,

well i will still be with the military so i will be traveling around and learning more styles and teaching to more people....in about twenty years i will retire or something...well atleast stay in one area so i can get my house and build my dojo

I have been in some fights agains up to 9 to 1 odds against me, yet these individuals had no fighting skill or knowledge yet they did have some knives a stick or two, chains and bats....but it all depends on the skill of the attackers. I can be completely preoccupied with one great fighter where as a club fight or similar setting i can toss some drunks with no skill all over the place....it all depends on the opponents.

throw a chop to the nose, eyes or face (basically a distracting technique) let that hand slide over the top of the head or the side and grip the back of the skull, then pull the head into the elbow that is coming in at the same time to smash their face. also if your opponent is on the ground knees to the head work well or ribs, also while grappling elbows can be very effective since you are already in close proximity to your opponent and therefore you dont have to worry about getting in close for the strike, youre already there.

I was thinking of making my students pay huge sums of money so that i can get a reflective rainbow uniform that sheds lights in all the beautiful colors of the spectrum all over the walls of the Mcschool of non traditional tkd.....just a thought but man would it be colorful.....

I myself like conditioning, but i'll agree that its not for everyone. i think that you can condition your feet like you can condition your knuckles, it will just be a lot harder and much more painful with the knuckles you are only conditioning the knuckles and they are strong bones, where the metatarsels(bones on feet) are thing and long and run the whole length of the top of your foot, this will be much harder to condition and if done wrong, you will break the bones your first try, so you would have to take it very slow and dont rise to extremes