Darce

This topic is kind of wrong. There is no "karate weapon", because karate means empty hand. It should be: What is your favourite MA weapon.

Hey, Ronin-master, how long have you been taking shukokai?

We never train to music. Our instructor isn´t a very musical man.

Welcome back!

Just force yourself to do it. think about all the good things about running. Everything will be much easer if you get in good shape. Try with about 2 miles, 3km. Do rushes in downhills. After a while you might run a little bit farther, and farther, and before you know it you will get up to 10 ks runs.

Ok, now it´s time to share how many katas you know. Write down your style and the katas. I´ll begin... Style: shukokai Katas I know: Pinan Shodan, Pinan Nindan, Pinan Sandan, Seisan.

Travel to your pen friend and staay there for some months and you´ll slowly begin to understand it.

A great teacher should not have favourite students.

Now its getting even better! I just got my karateforums.com blue belt!

I have got street fighter 2, but it´s currently borrowed to an idiot that refuses to give it back.

I´ve been asking my mom if I could get a punching bag for Christmas, but she says that we have no room for it.

Yeah, it´s gotta be a genetic thing, because in my dojo there are two twins, both over 40 years, that always are very sweaty after the training, even if it´s not heavy at all.

Luckily we don´t have any weapons in my style.

I am a 6 feet 160 lbs with kind of large hands, therefore I werar Large. But it also depends on the glove. I can use some medium without any problems, but some Large are way too small for me.

Wow, I´m amazed I´m not the only Shukokai practitioner here! It´s funny, I was on a camp this weekend and the "camp-kata" was actually Seisan. I don´t know it very well, just like 75 %. I´ll practise it a bit more.

Yeah, the sensei walked around and watched us all the time. Maybe he judged us then, and the test was only a formality?

Sometimes I guess I´m crazy.

Mohahaha!!!

Good luck with the rugby. I love it too. Sadly it isn´t a very popular sport in Finland.

The word you are searching is "legs", if you mean the things that you walk with?

And in our dojo, you can begin when you are 7 years old. But you have to be 16 years old to get 2. dan or higher. If you get the 1st dan when under that age you have to update it from a junior belt to a "real black belt".

Thanks. It was a 3-days camp that ended with a belt test. It was kind of strange. The sensei was very kind to all the ones that were trying to get the lower belts. One guy from my club who got the purple belt only had to do pinan sandan, not yondan . But there were also some guys trying to get the brown belt that did the katas, IMAO, very good, but they didn´t get no belts . Our sensei is a funny man.

Luckily we don´t much mcdojos in Finland.

Welcome.