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Just train. That what I do.

I would fight bruce before I would fight Joe son.

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/101/18_senpai.html

A sempai is someone who mentors you and helps with your karate. Just because they are of a higher rank then you dosent mean they are your sempai. I will link an article later gtg.

The belt system was not introduced untill 1922 in japan. There where three belts white, brown and black. It was started by mr kano(judo) and when funakoshi used his dojo to teach karate out of he started to use gi(s) and belts. The belt system was never used in karate untill eighty years ago.

You guys have me figured out already. Damn. I'm a complete loser who hasnt had a girl friend since high school. Latly though I havent been around the fairer sex much exsept for the ones in my classes.

You guys have me figured out already. Damn. I'm a complete loser who hasnt had a girl friend since high school. Latly though I havent been around the fairer sex much exsept for the ones in my classes.

LMAO. Deadly weapons, what are going to do run around town strangling people with thier Black Belts. I dont think that Martial arts are deadly or even a responsibility to know but that is IMO. But assuming it is, what is the difference if the student has the belt or not? If they still are good enough to be black belts they have that "responsibility" anyway wether or not they have a belt around their waste. If you had a requirment of ability that would be alot better reason IMHO.

18 or when they are strong and conditioned enough to hang with the other adult Black Belts in full contact sparing.

I go to school on the time not defined on there and I luckly I dont have to work on the week ends because I have a full schoolorship. I am only taking 3 martial arts and the reason I am taking them is because at this point in time they are free for me.

Kimura kicks *

Heres my martial art schedule- Monday-8am 3 mile run with wind sprints and Streching, 4-5:30pm shito ryu class, 6-7pm teach a beginers class, 7:30-10pm kyokushin class/Bjj class(same school different class and teacher) Tuesday- 8am-9:45 Lift wieghts and streching, 10am-11am Teach a Muay Thai class for begginers, 11-12pm sparing, 7:30-10pm kyokushin class/Bjj class. Wensday- 8am 3 mile run with wind sprints and Streching, 4-5:30pm shito ryu class, 6-7pm teach a beginers class, 7:30-10pm kyokushin class/Bjj class(same school different class and teacher) Thursday- 8am-9:45 Lift wieghts and streching, 10am-11am karate pratice, 11-12pm sparing, 7:30-10pm kyokushin class/Bjj class. Friday- 8am 3 mile run with wind sprints and Streching, 4-5:30pm shito ryu class, 6-7pm teach a beginers class, 7:30-10pm kyokushin class/Bjj class Saturday- 8-10am Lift wieghts and streching, 12-2:30pm Judo class, at night a little heavy bag work Sunday- off I'm burning out big time, but I dont want to quit or tone down because my body has become used to it, I'm just always tired. I just have no time and nothing that even resembles a social life. Any ideas please help.

"Kata is a necessary" Why?

sapp might win if he can get in one of those hay makers.

Did you know ashida kim is a master of that.

Mixed martial artists have a better chance on the street then we do. Why? Because they train 60 hours a week. Lets get somthing strait. Do you think because you know how to use a presure point attack your safe on the streets? LMAO. Are you even sure you could do that attack on a resisting oppenent? MMA is good because every thing that they do works in the ring and out of it.

So what you are saying is that if someone would try to kill you, you would bow to them.

I wrote 3 or 4 posts on another thread about this but it was deleted for no reason I can think of. Do you think kata are useful pieces of information or just simple dances? Please list reasons why you feel kata has or will affect you martial arts ability. (If you can please define words that are not in English) I believe kata are nothing more then cardio dancing for tough guys/girls in white pajamas.

I don't know about you but I never had to set a goal to meet a belt standard. I've always known all the katas for my next belt at very least. I've always known and was good at everything required. Now for you goal setting people, Why is Black Belt a goal? If you have to have a new belt to be saticfied with your self, I woundn't want you in my school any way.

I've been training on the jigsaw mats for years and have never had a problem exsept a student breaking a toe every once in a while.

Mine is of Genki sudo He kicks *...........

Its obvious that you have not been to japan. Bowing is dieing in japan, hardly anyones does it anymore unless the do costumer sevise for a living.

I just ordered my rambo belt. Its cool.

Your brainwashed my friend. Kata are usless. They are dances for tough people in white pajamas. Get real what have you learned from a kata? Some dances take tons of work to master dosent mean they have any meaning outside dancing.

"How does one perform the bow properly? OK, so your instructor is going to make you bow whether he does it like an idiot or not. Or, maybe you find me to be overreactionary and you refuse to stop making your students bow to you. Maybe you like pretending you are a Samurai. Perhaps your instructor thinks that his hour at the dojo might earn him a role in the movie Shogun. What are you going to do? Learn to bow properly, that's what. You need to attempt to make your pretending-to-be-in-Japan psuedo-bow as inoffensive to the natives as possible. Most importantly, remember that most young Japanese do not bow very often, nor do they bow correctly. At the risk of sounding like Dr. Suess, they don't know how to bow. Most Westerners who take karate, kendo, and aikido are more versed in bowing than your average Japanese college kid. Large corporations usually train their new employees in how to bow when they join the company through a strict class on etiquette and behavior. Until then, most Japanese don't know doodoo about bowing. If you watch Japanese TV, you'll see a 17 year old girl who is studying to be a geisha explaining to a talk show host about how to bow properly, and he'll act as though he is hearing this stuff for the first time. He is. He doesn't know anything about traditional Japanese society anymore than you know how to speak Middle English. Bowing is not the fine art in Japan it once was. So, when you bow, it is doubtful that anyone under the age of 25 is going to know whether or not you are doing it right. Look down You should look down, not at the face of your opponent. The Japanese think that looking up with your face when you bow is very rude. But, ever the vigilent distributor of maximum *, Hollywood done whatever possible to convince all of us that a proper bow involves lifting your face so that you can see your opponent. Utter nonsense. Do it that way, and the Japanese will think you look like the doofus you probably are. Besides, there is no reason to watch anyone when you bow to them. Anyone attacking someone while they are bowing during a karate training exercise is going to get sent home, suspended from practice, and perhaps expelled from any reasonable karate club. It's not allowed. And, since we don't run around bowing during our regular lives as Westerners, we don't need worry about bowing to a real opponent - not that a Japanese would bow to a mugger. So, you can see that the idea of watching you opponent is utter bull. Only in a movie would a martial arts hero bow to someone he was about to beat the stuffing out of. From the waist with a straight back Bowing should be performed from the waist, not with the neck. You should bend forward only about 30 degrees or so, hold for a half second, then return to the upright position. Don't bow too shallow or too deep - 45° is the lower limit, and 20° is the upper limit. Bowing only from the neck is what typical Japanese kids do when confronted by someone who bows to them politely and they uncomfortably try to figure out how to show humility. They bow, but badly. When One generally bows to the instructor when they enter the Karate school, when the leave the Karate school, when they are about to spar with someone, and when they have finished sparring. There is also a ritual bowing performed at the beginning of the class and the end of the class to the instructor and to his instructor. Depending on your instructor this may be a standing bow, or a bow from the "sitting" seiza position. Your seniors in your class will instruct you on the proper form of this bow. You do not have to bow every time you approach the instructor. You don't have to bow every time you are given some instructions or corrected. You don't have to bow every time the instructor tells you to move from here to there. Try to minimize the amount of bowing you engage in. Bowing too much makes your expression of false humility look as fake as it really is. No drama, please Don't bow melodramatically, even in a competition. Bow gently but purposefully, without any great pause. Some people make a ridiculous show of bowing every time that they do it. A melodramatic bow is as disgusting as an overzealous handshake from a used car salesman. The key word here is "tasteful." Try to make your motions elegant, understated, and subtle - not flamboyant. Women Bow Differently Women bow with their hands on their thighs or with their hands crossed in front of them, men generally "hold their rears." In karate uniforms, both men and women bow by putting their palms at their sides with their fingers nearing their buttocks. Do not slide your hands down your legs when you bow. Do not slap your legs when you bow. Sliding your hands and slapping your legs give you the ambience of a furry barbarian who smells like a cheeseburger, which is what you are to the Japanese." http://www.24fightingchickens.com/101/22_behave.html