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Since I learned today that I will be sitting out the rest of the month with a knee injury, I will be lifting, riding the exercise bike, and pounding the makiwara quite a bit. All good forms of out of dojo training.

Ahhh..Kaza....

The only place I have studied that had kyu (giup) test fees was the Uni club at UMBC. The $35.00 fee paid for the belt, the cert, and the pizza afterword. If you did not pass, you did not pay. If you were broke, you did not pay.

Is it out on DVD yet?

Aikido: Origami with people!

Is that any relation to Gordon Doversola's style?

Is Kang Rhee still alive and teaching?

AEF, I was joking! Deep breaths, yes?

"American Karate" would seem to be the style practiced by students of the students of Jhoon Rhee in his Texas days. Often it is TKD based (i.e.: Chang Hon forms) and emphasizes tournament techniques. As for its quality, that often depends on the individual instructors. There are god and bad practitioners in Colorado. Fred Bode and Hale Hilsabeck were quite good. Stephen Oliver is a menace.

According to The martial Arts Catalogue by Emil Farkas and John Corocoran (1977!), Elvis got his BB in Chito-Ryu when he was in the Army. Later, he trained wiht Red West and Bill Wallace, who were his security guards, and was eventually promoted to 8th dan in American Kenpo by Parker.

I reccomend being bitten by a radioactive spider, or other sorts of exposure to radioactivity,

They are very suspect! There is a Wah Lum school in Lone Tree, that has a traceable lineage, I don't know about prices. I keep meaning to go out there and visit them, but haven't yet. I was introduced to the instructor through a mutual friend, and he seems to be the real thing. http://www.wahlumdenver.com/ As for the Shaolin place, Sharon and David Soard are great people, but their system is suspect, to say the least. It looks a lot like American Kempo with some acrobatics thrown in.

I still have to question it. Did Tani Chojiro make the changes? I compared it with the Suparinpei on the Seito Shito Ryu (Mabuni Kenzo), JKF Shito Kai, and JKF Itosu Kai tapes, and all three of those organizations do the Naha Te Suparinpei. I also had the pleasure, while living in Seattle in the 1990s, of practicing with several practitioners of Hayashi-Ha Shito, and one of the kata they taught me was Suparinpei. Again, this was the standard Naha Te version of Suparinpei. The version presented in the video clip may be one of the kata Mabuni created. He created a variation of Kusanku (Kosokun)called Shio-Kosokun, which has a sideways embusen, as well as other kata like Nipaipo, and Hako. I wonder if this isn't one of those kata that has been mislabeled by the person who owns the website? For the originator of this thread (whom I see practices Wado), if you are attemtping to learn this kata for a tournament, be very careful about using this particular version. Especially if it is a WKF sanctioned event. You would likely get disqualified. As for the Shotokan version (Hyakuhachiho), and the Wado version, both follow the Naha-te model.

I don't know what that is, (it looks like a wierd comglomeration of Seipai, Kururunfa, and Shisochin) but it is definitely not Suparinpei! I have seen Shukokai Shito practitioners do Suparinpei, and their kata pretty much resembles the Goju version. Your best bet is to break down and buy the Shito Kai's kata videos. I know that Tsunami sells them in the US, and I think you can get them from Kamikaze in Europe.

Perhaps he should have named the style "Bull-shido?"

And most are under forty!

When I did Aikido I frequently broke as I fell.

In a conversation with Sensei Zempo Shimabukuro this summer: ME: Sensei, what about KI? ZS: Key? Your hotel key not with your clothes? ME: No, Sensei, Ki. Internal energy. ZS: Oh, yes, I see. ME: Well, how should I work on building my KI? ZS: More fist pushups, don't worry about ki!

That's probably where I picked the habit up. Wado body shifting is a little more complex than that of its duller cousin.

What an interesting comment.

Well, I just finfished week two of no karate, due to a knee injury, and I am gtetting severly antsy to train again! Hitting the makiwara and the heavy bag, and doing individual practice is sooo not the same!

Depends. Ideally there is a pendular motion with the hips, to where they rock forward into the kick, then back as you retract teh leg. But I tend to extend the hip of the kicking leg forward for a little extra thrust. As for the supporting foot, I haev always been taught to rotate it in order to assist the hip thrust, and also to avoid blowing out that knee when the kicking foot makes contact. That may just be a reflection of my hip structure, though.

Nah, the instructors at TSK drive Iroc Z's.

http://www.tsk.com/mediagallery/video/intros/2001intro.html

We work our way up to about 50, beginning with sets of five at the beginner level. I don't do them on my own anymore. Ironically, I got in trouble for doping them in Basic Training. I was dropped and did my "twenty" on my knuckles (the only way pushups seemed natural to me at the time ), and found myself with a hollering drill sergeant inches from my face, adn was made to continue until "he was tired." It was only another forty, but I learned my lesson.