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I made a slight modification to the poll to allow for nidan and above.

Please keep things friendly folks. There are those who break and love it and those who do not break and see no value the practice whatsoever. This is just an area where the two extreme views will never meet on.

Some have a probationary shodan level or a shodan ho level.

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Please remember that this forum had a strict no profanity policy. If you make posts that come out with words shown as * your post will be removed. Like three of the posts in this thread were just removed. So watch your language everyone. Don't call someone a name that will catch the censor use your head and find a more professional way to express your sentiments without profanity.

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Tincture of benzoin? I never noticed it as having much of a smell. I think coffe brewing in one of the best smells. Even if someone happened to make lousy coffee it still smells good.

I train in shoes and find that some are very slippery on smoother floors. I have found that crosstrainers work better for me than the actual martial arts sneakers especially with something like orthotics. Something else that helps is making sure you wear your designated martial arts shoes indoors only and regularly clean off the bottoms of the shoes. A fine layer of dust adds to slippage problems.

You know I am surprised this doesn't come up more often. And also by the lack of information I found when I attemted to do a search on the topic.

I am going to move this to general martial arts. I think you will probably get more responses there.

That was interesting. But I think I will move this to weapons.

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Fireka it is because more young people find a home than most other martial arts forums.

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There is a difference among shotokan groups between which kata is gojushiho sho and which is gojushiho dai. The disagreement stems from a tournament where a very high ranking karateka announced one of those katas and then did the other one. So some groups said to themselves "Well someone that highly ranked cannot be wrong from now on we will reverse the names on the katas.".

And if you keep using a torn rotator cuff you can wind up totally unable to even raise your arm. I have torn rotator cuffs in both shoulders.

All right guys watch the language. After I clean this thread up.

What are you defining as senior?

If the emission of flatus is properly timed the kiai covers the noise. You are on your own for the smell though.