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Are we talking strictly karate katas? If so then: Taikioko - Ichi, Ni & San Wansu Tai Ichi Gedan Anaku Gyakusei Empi-sho Seionchin Neifuchin Sanchin Basai-dai Tai Ichi Neko Dahnan-Sho Gopai-Sho

Shorei-ryu karate under Sensei John Sharkey

It might be fun if it would quit throwing you in a loop.

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Another name for that movie is Master Killer and Return of the Master Killer.

You get them directly from the maker. Their address is listed in the original post.

IMO, IDC didn't pit the right fighters against Straight Up. Once Raymond was in there at the end, it was just play time. However, I will say this IDC's first match up in the night time finals was great. The crowd was loving it. You know when you get an audience all hyper during these mataches, it is a good one.

I see what your are saying but let me extend on my personal experience and try to explain better. I was the cocky kid. My instructor, never scolded me for it, never even mentioned it. Everything was business as usual. The only difference was that we had a senior student, who was back from college, work out with us. At this time, since he stopped practicing for school, I was actually a higher rank, though I still considered him my senior due to the fact he started way before me but was gone just shortly after I joined. During the sparring session he paired us up. My mind set "ppphhhttt....this should be nice to send college boy back home with a spanking". Apparently my instructor already talked to him about the situation. What I didn't know about him was that he was the big guns of the school before I started winning top 2 spots in his sparring divisions as well as did some kickboxing on the side. This guy did everything but rip me a new bung hole. A very humbling experience to say the least. After all was said and done my instructor gave us a lecture about how we must all remember that no matter how many people we beat, there is always at least 10 other people who can beat us. That we must keep that in mind and treat each person with respect because you never know if that person is the one. So you see, I would condone telling the cocky student "hey you have an attitude, I'm going to set you up against someone who can whoop you". You would be correct in saying that in doing such a thing would convey the wrong message. You need to do it so the student figures it out for themself. A general lecture afterwards to reinerate the lesson, that you hoped they learned, is also a good thing for the rest of the class. I definitely agree that all students at one time or another will go through this phase.

Pit them against someone better in sparring session. If there is no one bettter then the instuctor needs to step up to the task.

Welcome to the wonderful world of being a teenager. Yes what you did was wrong. Then again what you did was be a kid (no insult intended). Would you have these same doubts about your actions or remorse for your actions if you never took a day of martial arts in your life? Most likely not. Most kids would have gone on a bragging spree. You seem to feel bad about it all. Which is a good thing. As you grow older you will learn from this lesson, hopefully the trash talker will to. You are human and having a black belt does not make you some mystic holier than thou warrior, contrary to popular belief. However, having a black belt does come with some responsibility. You are set to be an example so you must now be that example. In the future don't let trash talkers get to you. If your sensei has any sense he will be a bit disappointed in you, but at the same time will understand your youth. To be honest the real crime was the parents calling the cops into this. This was two boys fighting due to one talking the trash. They should have let it be so the kid learned his lesson.

It was. Some great fights at the tournament. People were definetly hungry for the money. Unfortunately the final matches were way to one sided for Team Straight Up. It was fun none the less.

Not true. Most of the tournaments have divided up forms divisons into 3 seperate groups, traditional (traditional base forms only no flips or rotations that would be past 360 degrees or inverted moves), open/creative (form can be creative using martial art techniques, but no flips, inverted moves or rotations of the body past 360 degrees), extreme (pretty much anything goes, flips, tricks, rotations past 360 degress). Regardless if you do Sanchin in a traditional division or not. Even if you went to a strictly traditional karate tournament, you may still not fair well against karate forms such as Bassai-dai or Gopaisho for example.

One of the best ways to use a palm heel strike is in the form of a "dead hand" strike. In short bring the stike downward as if you hand weighed 1000 pounds. It literally drops on the target. The best area is the chest. You can definetly do some damage with it.

Ahmen brother.