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Wuhl..I is a akadermic, 'n' I ain't had no bad'fcts fum been hitted inder head, nosiree!

ET, I think that is the same incident.

Did this guy train initially in the 1950s, 1960s, or early 1970s? I understand that that sort of thing was fairly common then. Of course, that generation has mostly modified their training method since then. Another possiblility is that he has read of that era and bought into its philosophy. Either way, if you think the contact is excessive, leave.

You...you...you..you shotokan basher you! That is one reason I switched to an Okinawan style.

So, if you live in the dojo, and train all the time, how are you supposed to pay this? Sounds like a scam to me.

It has happened. Solar plexus? Well, during kotekite we do punch each other in the solar plexus. Kick to the groin, why were you not wearing a cup? If that is the case, why are you still at that dojo?

Principal, guidance councilor, etc.. If the PE teacher isn't taking it seriously, that should be addressed as well. We here in the Denver area tend to be rather insulated, still, from the realities of school violence. The over-reaction to recent video projects from Boulder high school demonstrates this odd dichotomy. The fact is, any threat of violence should be taken seriously. It might be hot air, and it might not. Don't wind up in a trauma cubical at DG just because you weren't sure. Similarly, you don't want to end up in jail as partt of the "zero tolerance" policy.

Again, if you read the literature, Gigo was right up there with the other students in agitating for some sort of competition. Gigo would appear to have been one of several students who participated in dojo "challenges."

Er, I would disagree that its cowardly, since we upper ranks hit each other quite hard in training.

For your own self preservation, swallow your pride and get the school involved.

Indeed. Would you like a glass of water.

Apparently the reason Nakamura formed Seido was that Oyama ordered him beaten nearly to death after a tournament in NY in the 1970s. Nakayama's history as a Yakuza "strongman" led to a prison sentence for murder in the late 1940s. This is the experience that supposedly inspired his creation of Kyokishin after performing shugyo on release from prison.

Ahhhh...Aikido!

GO TO YOUR TEACHERS!

Seipai is a Goju Ryu kata, the others are practiced in the Itosu lineage of Shorin.