italian_guy

Self-control. Speed. Awareness.

Good luck with your training and welcome to KF.

Congratulations. What was the test like?

Ah, ok nice to have everyone back. I was protected so I receved a virus notice and the popup was blocked. I will run a virus scan anyway. Btw I noticed that something was lost. I have recently made a chance in my profile and I had to re-insert it.

We have not strips... this year we adopted half-belts since we grade every 6 month we advance one full belt a year. In our case the exams includes: 1)Kihon test. 2) Kata test (2-3 katas one is the belt specific kata the other are previous belt katas) 3) Bunkai test in pair. 4) Kumite (3 minutes point sparring match but not for white to white-yellow)

I agree in adding karate, but I would add kickboxing too. It is not more violent then boxing anyhow... and it is different from karate (point fighting while kickboxing is full contact) and TKD.

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Wow this stuff is 4 years old! karatekid101 you are digging very deep

My art is Goju ryu karate. A very traditional karate style with a lot of enphasis on breathing and conditioning. Quite a complete system. Mostly striking art (punches, srikes, elbows, knees kicks) but with quite a bit of grappling and ground fighting. I'm very happy with it.

JKD has no kata!

Good post! (basically an article) Self-motivation is a grat power. I use it frequently and it helps me training in a dojo where I'm the oldest by far and the one with the most physical limitations... even if I consider myself one of the most devoted and motivated students, and yes.. I sustain myself with self-motivation.

What I do outside the dojo is my own business. If I want to do (like I'm actually doing) more then one art and I have time/money to do them is still my own business. However as a sign of respect for all my instructors I refrain from any comment concerning comparisons... unless I'm explicitly asked (my karate instructors know I'm cross-training in Tai chi).

I go twice but I take two classes each time I go then I go twice to Tai Chi Chuan for a total of 7 hours of MA a week.

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Osu, is shudokan a branch of Goju ryu? Welcome

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I think that fighting is not only a matter of strenght or power or any other purely physical quality. You need also technique. The relative importance of the two aspects (physical qualities or technique) is a subject for a never ending debate. You need to have both to be a good figher. This is for sure. About the video you show I think that probably Bruce Lee or any very good MA Like Mas Oyama or Royce Gracie or maybe even Bill Wallace and Chuck Norris at the top of their form could have defeated him.

This is what I always trying to do anyway.About telling them things this is not very easy on a sparring session but ok maybe if I feel they are not doing things properly I can do as you suggested...

I'm old (43) and yet inexperienced (started MA about 2 years ago and karate about one year ago)... ... anyway I have the opposite problem. When I spar in the competitor class (mostly people who started at least 5 years ago all in their 20s and some in their 30s) some people go too easy on me, only some of them. It is not that I want to beaten but I think I would learn more if they put some more effort.... but I know that finding the right balance between respect older student and spar with good effort is not easy. We probably should be more tolerant on one hand and try to avoid the cockiest student on the other if we are not able to handle them properly.

Aside my current karate teachers which are great anyway... I would mention Bruce Lee, Dan Inosanto, C. Myagi, Morio Higaonna, Chuck Norris and Bill Walace.

Congratulations Shorin Ryuu... very deserved.

For general strategy and as a cultural framework I suggest you the book of five rings. About history and bunkai this is quite style-dependent (I'm not doing your same style).

About the first part I agree at least in part with jarrettmayer. In order train with discipline in MA you've got to have the right mindset since the beginning (white belt), probably an expert instructor can guess with a reasonable failure rate if a white belt student is going to become a BB or not. What BB adds is a sign of perseverance, aside the obvious technical and physical capability. BB is the sign that he kept his passion alive for a 3-4-5+ years whatever needed to become one. I think that in the adult class the role model stuff is quite secondary IMHO. About the self-challanging nature of MA I completely agree with you karatekid1975.