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Very good point.

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Welcome to the forum.

Sigh, It may take me a week to replace my tv.

I am afraid I will not get to see the show. My tv has just died. Nothing wrong with blocking a kick with your shin.

Is there anything we like to talk about more than gi's and which one is the best?

Sounds like you would like a 10 oz proforce gi. That is actually the gi I prefer to wear. My dream gi would be one that I didn't have to hem.

Thirtyeight miles from the Boston Bay Lies the Home of the ASA Ooops just reliving and old cadence.

Turkey, dressing, gravy, corn, sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie, pecan pie. I think I got everything.

Basically you treat a person with a physical disability like you would anyone else. You make what accomadations are needed and just keep going. As for ADHD that is a different story. You will need to find someone with a background in that area.

When you have a choice like that it is usually a good idea to watch a lesson, if not try one at each school, then take the one you liked better.

I have some functional electrical stimulation in physical therapy. It is a very valid and effective way to strenghten weak muscle tissues. It is also in use to preserve muscle mass of paraplegics and quadraplegics. And for some even to allow them to walk with the proper hardware setups.

I haven't seen anything on the specificity of the half moon. I think it relates more to which Shotokan federation the patch came from.

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This post was originally published as an article in a dedicated KarateForums.com Articles section, which is no longer online. After the section was closed, this article was most to the most appropriate forum in our community. Have you ever looked at the tiger on the Shotokan patch and wondered about it? Or how a tiger came to symbolize Shotokan? There are two stories about the origin of the Shotokan tiger. One story is rather mythical and appeals to the part of us that loves a good bit of lore. The other version is probably a bit closer to the truth. Master Funakoshi's pen name, Shoto, literally means "pine waves" and today is synonymous with the tiger symbol and Shotokan Karate-do. But, few people understand the relationship of Shoto to what is commonly known as the Shotokan Tiger. Here is the first version. When Master Funakoshi was a young man, he enjoyed walking in solitude among the pine trees which surrounded his home of Shuri. After a hard day of teaching in the local school and several more hours of strenuous karate practice, he would often walk up Mt. Torao and meditate among the pine trees under the stars and the moon. Mt. Torao is a very narrow, heavily wooded mountain. When viewed from a distance it resembles a tiger's tail. The name Torao, in fact, literally means "tiger's tail." In later life, Master Funakoshi explained that the cool breezes which blew among the pines on Mt. Torao made the trees whisper like waves breaking on the shore. Thus, since he gained his greatest poetic inspirations while walking among the gently blowing pine trees, he chose the pen name of Shoto, or "pine waves." The tiger, which is commonly used as the symbol for Shotokan Karate is a traditional Chinese design which implies that "the tiger never sleeps." Symbolized in the Shotokan tiger, therefore is the keen alertness of the wakeful tiger and the serenity of the peaceful mind which Master Funakoshi experienced while listening to the pine waves on Tiger's Tail Mountain. The second version is that the symbol was put forth by one of the students, Hoan Kosugi. He was a famous artist and president of the Tabata Poplar Club, an artist guild and a very important figure in the development of Shotokan Karate in Japan. As part of his enticement of Funakoshi, Hoan Kosugi told Funakoshi that if he would write a book about Karate, Kosugi would design it and provide a painting for the cover. When Gichin Funakoshi produced the book, Hoan Kosugi produced the now famous Shotokan tiger. His idea for the tiger came from the expression "Tora no maki." Tora no maki, in Japanese tradition, is the official written document of an art or system, which is used as the definitive reference source for that particular art. Since no books had ever been written about Karate, Hoan Kosugi told Funakoshi that his book was the tora no maki of Karate and since "tora" also means "tiger," he designed the tiger as a representation of Funakoshi's art. I rather like the first version of the origin.

Have you considered a floor standing bag.

More practice and experience.

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http://www.karateforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=9136 That is the link to another open thread on this topic. Please make all replies in that thread. It is better to have only one open thread on a topic.

Here is a link to a program that helps provide books for soldiers. It began out of a need to provide support to troops that were getting no mail and sort of grew. http://www.booksforsoldiers.com/forum/index.php

There was a happily married couple. They were madly in love with each other. All was well in their lives except for one thing. Every morning as soon as he woke up the husband would let an amazingly loud, incredibly smelly fart. The wife begged him to get that checked out. But the husband insisted that it was just a natural bodily function. The years went by and they stayed happily married. The only problem between them was his daily morning blast of flatus. The stench and the volume got worse as the years passed by. With eyes burning from the fumes the wife would beg him to go get that checked out. He still maintained that it was no problem - just a natural bodily function. She told him that one day he would fart his insides out if he kept it up. He just laughed. Then very early one Thanksgiving morning the wife is up early to prepare the turkey. She is busy in the kitchen when she looks over and sees a bowl with the turkey gizzards and innards in it. She get this idea. The wife picks up the bowl and quietly makes her way upstairs. As quietly as she can she tiptoes into the bedroom. She gently pulls back the covers from her sleeping husband, pulls the waistband of his shorts out and tips the contents of the bowl into them. She gently replaces the waistband, pulls the covers back up and as quietly as she came up she went back to the kitchen. A bit later she hears the morning blast coming form upstairs. Then she hears her husband scream and run into the bathroom. She really starts to laugh. And, I mean a rolling in the floor laugh. She hears her husband coming downstairs a bit later. Doing an amazing job of acting she looks at him and asks: "Honey is something wrong?". With a shocked expression he replies: "All those years you told me one day I would fart my insides out you were right. It happened! But with the help of these two fingers and a jar of vaseline I got most of them back in."

I came out as Morpheus.

Monkeygirl tv's used to have dials that changed the station. And the dials only went from 2 to 12. As stations became more numerous the dials could not handle the increased number of stations. So you got a little box that sat on top of your tv. When you wanted to watch channel 16 you set the dial on the tv to uhf then turned the dial on the converter box to 16. Oh, and you had to get up and walk across the room to do this.

I bet most of the people here have no idea what a uhf converter is either.

LOL Monkeygirl.