SaiFightsMS

One of my friends lives and works in London. She left half an hour early to start a new job. Good thing too. One of the sites attacked is on her secondary route.

You make sure you dust your punching bag base when you dust the rest of the living room.

Don't emit a super loud blast of flatus during silent meditiation.

Just asked because the last time I was there was when I chaperoned my little sister's French Club field trip there. They went to see the Eiffel Tower. Course we did all the fun stuff too.

The plaster board most walls are made of is not very hard to penetrate. And falling or getting kicked and penetrating the wall does not take that much force.

Try another stretch for that area and see if it is the same result.

So are you in southern Ohio?

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Welcome to the forum.

Queen.

Welcome to the forum.

Training with a target or heavy bag with full power should be part of your training. It will help you knot only with your techinque and power but with your accuracy.

Yes some really do.

And how. I was the only adult testing for red belt when I got my red belt.

The Heian/pinan katas were originally developed from Bassai Dai and Kanku Dai as katas to teach kids in school. The other katas were considered too advanced for beginners. Prior to developement of the Heian/pinan katas beginners usually learned the tekki/naihanchi katas. Pinan is the Okinawan name of the katas and Heian is the Japanese term. The Okinawan and Japanese terms are not the same.

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Congratulations.

That is indeed a good one.

To be perfectly honest I had fun at test the last times I did weapons testing. I was confident with my weapon, my forms and my skills. When doing a form no one else was testing on I viewed it as a chance to give a good performance to show how impressive a great weapons kata could be. I realize that sounds rather arrogant. And probably was. But it also helped set the bar for those who were coming up behind me later with the same weapon and kata. That said I never really had fun testing for belt rank.

Excellant thread and great food for thought.

In the enthusiasm of learning an art most want to eagerly learn new kata's. And actually get bored doing the ones they know over and over. Then as one progresses and begins to really learn the uses and applications of a kata they see how much more there is to the kata they thought they already knew. At that point one often goes back to earlier kata and really begins to spend serious time working them.

What kind of information are you looking for? I practice shotokan and kobudo. Working empty hand katas with a weapons is generally a more advanced concept. It takes analysis of how the empty handed move is applied and how would you do the same thing with the weapon. It can enrich both your empty handed and kobudo skills. Jutte/jitte is an excellant kata to do with a bo for one example. Heians are commonly done with sai. There is no set in stone single application for a movement in a kata. The kata does not really become part of you until you can begin to see for yourself multiple ways to use a move or mutliple ways where the move may take you next in a series of moves.

Great story. Sounds like someone learned something valueable.

Excellant suggestion Monkeygirl.