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Hi gojushorei welcome to KF

Welcome

Nice to meet you, welcome to KF.

I noticed, I just didn't say anything because you intimdate me. BTW congrats on getting 1,000 posts. I intimidate you???? Little old me? Oh yeah, very scarey.

I was sparring with my Shotokan sensei the other day and got in very close. She came in and I didn't back up or turn, and I through with an upper-rising elbow. I was so surprised it go through, at all let alone with an elbow. Jiffy is correct in that most sparring with Shotokan is going to be at at medium or larger distance. But we don't discount the close-range training...well in my dojo anyway.

This has turned out to be a very lively discusssion. It's too bad that Tokkan has chosen not to include his/her opinions on this.

I noticed, I just didn't say anything because you intimdate me. BTW congrats on getting 1,000 posts.

Here is some info on the butterfly kick: http://www.answers.com/Butterfly%20Kick

Try finding ANY shukokai kata!! Talk about mission impossible! I found this link: http://www.ymsk.clwb.org/shukokai-kata.htm But no video on it though

go under stances and look for kekutso dachi, is it the way you do it? Did you mean kokutsu? If so, then no. For my system the rear leg is the same, but he front leg has the foot with toes pointing forward toward the opponent. 90% of the weight is on the rear leg.

Fanastic that was very interesting! That sure is him too. Thank you very much Sohan.

I wouldn't even know if that is a different person or not I'm afraid. I just ran a simple search.

1,000 does make you feel pretty cool about your participation in the community. Thanks for spelling my name right.

This is hat I have found: Rick Clark Patrick McCarthy Tsutomu Kamohara Higeru Kimura I'm sure there are more.

Welcome to the forum, go ahead and say Hello in the introductions section. As for the eating, I'd say some extra protein the day before.

I found this link to be a pretty good website. http://www.natkd.com/shotokan_katas.htm

In our own Shotokan dojo we learn it around 5th Kyu. It is part of a few of our katas as well, like Gankaku, Unsu, etc. so we do practice it, but not as much as I'd personally like.

Something else to consider is to take a good look at your own training. There are a lot of subtleties to many many techniques and you may be surprised to find that there are close quarter techniques peppered throughout your style.

You should lower your hips a bit while keeping shoulders over your hips. That should help.

I practice Shotokan a great deal but I don't know as much about TKD as I'd like. I'm told some styles of TKD are similar to Shotokan.

I've worked on this by putting my feet up against the wall, and reading forward to touch the wall. I typically did that when I felt sick or dizzy. Much better than worrying about falling.

If you practice a little bit every day you can expect to be doing full push-ups after about a week or two.

There are more than a few opinions on this topic. I'd suggest that you check it out for yourself as some conversations I've seen can get pretty heated. You can make up your own mind.

As I recall, Q is actually an elderly man in the books, which were written before the films. So it was normal for the original Q to be an older man, and he'd "grow" into the part. He was a father figure of sorts so it was necessary to have him be much older.

Most places aren't going to hire you for bouncing or security work if you're under 17...at least in my area anyway. But a friend of mine gained employment in a women's self defense program at one of our local gyms. He went on from there.