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When past the initial few days you might try alternating heat and cold, finishing with the heat in short intervals.

Happy Birthday!

See if you can find places to let him visit and try both options and see what he likes best.

Congratulations.

As part of rei in ceremony we would bow to the front of the room then Sensei. Now after training in a grungy basement and then moving to a better location the rei to the front of the room became a heartfelt - thanks I am glad I have a good place to train in. I think many also find the longer they train the more impact training has on every day life. The respect for rank, position, title the more we begin to respect more and more in daily life. We begin to respect our family, fellow workers, fellow students, friends/acquaintances more. The simple bow we struggled with in the beginning is a tool that gradually ingratiates values into our life we may not have been aware of before or forgotten about.

Are you confusing Heian Sandan with something?

As you work a kata the moves or bunkai will become your own as you begin to see what "you" can do with them. Think of any target that level your hand would hit going in that direction. I have had a Sensei tell me that when you aim at the area between the upper lip and the nose you will hurt your opponent when your strike anywhere in that general area: nose, mouth, break a few upper teeth. Are you going lower what is there ...... a throat maybe...... You can be taught what others have been taught and incorporate them for your own. You can also explore what a move is telling you it is doing. And remember not every move in a kata will speak to everyone. Don't think I will ever forget the first time I visualized putting my right hand behind an assailants head after breaking their nose and pulling their head in to hit it again with an elbow.

I have seen people fail at test time even with a pre-test system that weeds out most who are really not ready. Things happen even to the best students.

Congratulations and may you serve another five years.

Congratulations.

After going back and looking at the shrinkage comment I missed before one of the ways to avoid that is to NEVER put gi in the dryer. Depending on your laundry situation if you find you have no place to hang dry a gi don't go all cotton. If you want tradition and cotton keep gi away from the dryer.

Welcome to the forum. My first style was Shorin Ryu.

Welcome to the forum. Have a style?

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Congratulations.

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Will have to give this some thought.

From what I have seen some kids do need a break at that age. Some then come back renewed and others don't come back. Some even trained seasonally when they had sports they wanted to participate in. It is a hard call. It does help to maintain interest if they have friends who are actively interested in karate.

Had to have been the time I broke my finger practicing crescent kicks into my open palm during kata practice.

The loop in the middle helps you keep the knot you tie your pants with in the center. Run your drawstring through the center loop each going its on way then pull the string as tight as you can, then a little tighter. Then tie a bow in your drawstring right over the center loop. The first crossing in the bow should be very tight against the center loop and that helps the bow stay tight. During tests with kids of lower ranks it is not uncommon for pants to fall during the middle of test. If you are actually close to loosing your pants when they get loose I recommend wearing bike shorts under your gi until you get the hang of tying your pants.

Consider the potential for damage to an attacker some of the techniques we are taught have I would view occasional fear of a new technique as natural. It is how we deal with it and how we are taught to deal with our fears that show the talent and abilities of our teachers and hour Sempai. How we learn to control and deal with out fear is part of our learning process during training.

Welcome to the forum.

Welcome to the forum.

I wound up with a preference for a 10oz poly/cotton gi from Pro Force. Held up well, gave me the same amount snap a heavier 12 oz gi gave and being the blend did not shrink. My kata may be traditional but my gi and my shoes not necessarily so.