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.13 I think. I chose bright pink as my background and it kind of blinded me for a sec for when I looked at my time.

How many people here are from Oregon? And how many are near Dallas, Oregon?

Yes, I've done a lot of searching for schools in those areas. I'd have to find a school I really like to make me want to go out there for lessons twice or three times a week. So far, I'm pretty sure the two schools I'll be joining are Hit's Family Martial Arts (MMA) and Steele's Karate and Kickboxing (Shindo Jinen-ryu/boxing/kickboxing). I'm still in virginia right now though, so the only schools I know of are schools I've found from searching on yellowpages online. If you know of any schools though that are not listed on the internet that are near dallas (carvallis/salem/ mommouth etc..) please inform me! Thanks! Josh BTW, PM me if you don't mind and tell me a little about yourself, love to eventually have a few KFers to practice with occasionally!

Very impressive. I guess, as usual, it boils down to how the two schools (goju ryu/shindo jinen-ryu) and their teachers compare. If I truly like sensei taylor more, I'll go with him, even if it takes me an hour and a half to get to class. If I like the other sensei more, I'll go with him. Thanks for showing me how to figure out the answer.

Is that sufficient enough for you? Also, I'm eventually going to be learning goju-ryu, unless sensei taylor doesn't want to teach me. Do you think I should just go up one-three times a week (depending on schedual) to learn it now? Or more like once I get out there. Or should I go with shindo jinen-ryu for a few years to get more of a base in karate (only have one year experience in shorin ryu) and then join sensei taylors school once I'm out of high school and have more free time? I understand it's up to me, but I enjoy hearing other people's opinions and reasons for them. Thanks

I'd rather be tried by twelve than carried away by six... Perfectly said.

Shorin-ryuu, How many days a week on average do you go to that school? I would think it'd be difficult to go more than once or twice a week. Pacificshore, my apologies on the kejukenbo remark, I guess it all depends on the instructor. I e-mailed the goju ryu instructor yesterday and told him of my situation (I've talked to him before), and he said he'd recommend the shindo jinen-ryu school, he said he knows the instructor and has a shodan under him. So, unless I see it as better to drive over an hour twice a week (once a week isn't enough) then I'll join the shindo lilen-ryu school.

Matrix, where do you learn how to do that?

3-5 yr old White German Shepherd. Great dog, very intelligent.

elila, do you live in va? if so where?

Ugh.. I couldn't stand the first 1/2 hour, i left after that.

O, theres also quite a few Kajukenbo school in portland. Though, unless I'm mistaken, that style isn't as street worthy as these styles I listed already.

I've been having knee pain also for a while now (months maybe?). I got it checked out and the doctor said that there was nothing wrong with it. Would you think doing weight trainging and running would injur it more?

Today while practicing soccer by kicking it against a brick wall, I kicked it a little hard and had to stop it with my chest and it felt like someone punched me (I've been trying to find some way to toughen myself up for punches against me), so I got the idea to go up close to the wall, and throw the ball (which eventually turned into a basketball) against the wall and have it hit me in every part of my body I could think of. Would this do anything to possibly touchen myself up a little, or is the force of the soccer/basket ball too light/soft to do anything?

I'm in a bit of a dilema here. There are a few good school in my future area and have researched them pretty well. I've already decided to join a MMA school almost next to my house, and I have two karate dojos under 15 miles from my house (arjukenka Karate and shindo jinen-ryu karate-jutsu). But, a little over an hour north in portland there are two true okinawan karate schools teaching KORYUKAN GOJU KARATE-JUTSU KAI and Okinawan Shorin-ryu Karate. Their sites are http://westsidemartialarts.com/home http://www.northwest-koryukan.com/ If you were in my place, what would you do?

Worst case scenario... having to defend yourself AGAINST a loved one trying to kill you and won't stop unless you kill them. (I'm a christian) having you and your spouse being captured and having to either rebuke your faith or watch as your spouse/gf/bf is slowly tortured to death.

o, nono, you misunderstood what I said. I said with more mass comes difficulty in retaining or developing flexibility. That's why kids have a much easier time developing flexibility. Also a lot of bodybuilding type weight lifters tend to ignore the flexibility aspect of fitness and therefore have a MUCH harder time getting any flexibility while large. But you are right in that olympic lifters have amazing flexibility. I'm training in olympic lifting and you have to have a lot of flexibility in your shoulders for the overhead lifts, flexibility in your lower back and abs to keep your shoulders/arms behind you while squatting, and flexibility in your hips for squatting. As for adding mass, if you're adding on useable mass (useable being mass to help you do more oly/power type lifting for every day things as opposed to trying to add mass to your biceps for looks) then all power to you! It's just that a lot of people don't know how to properly lift weights for functional mass.

You practice both arts, you do NOT just forget the previous art you learned. If you are quitting lessons from one art and taking up only lessons from the next, just frequently practice what you learned from the previous art. For the most part in arts, a kick is a kick and a punch is a punch, so just change around a little your kicks/punches (and most other striking objects) to fit the style you're currently practicing. The main stuff you'd need to practice from the previous style would be katas, one steps or whatever makes your style unique from the style you just took up.

KarateChick, I believe one reason they have such things as junior black belts is because they want to keep the kids humble, among other reasons of course.

^^^ um... sorry but, I don't believe Karate is about pressure points... I think you're mistaken my friend

For the most part you're right, mass doesn't hurt, to a certain degree. If you're above 5'9" and weigh more than 200-220 though (unless you're like, 6'2-3) it gets to where it's mass that will get in the way. It's a lot harder to retain flexibility with mass. I'd rather weigh 180-190 at 5'11" and have the advantage of being both faster AND stronger. But whatever floats your boat. If you really just don't care and you want size, there's folks at this site that can help emensely... wannabebigforums.com

If you play drums for an hour with only stopping for a few seconds between songs, (depending on what music) it can be as good as an aerobic workout!

Deep stances... I'd love to continue my shorin-ryu training or take up goju-ryu but both of those dojos are an hour or more from my location, so I guess either this style or arjuken karate will have to pay the bill for a while.

Anyone know anything about this style? Specifically can I learn street self defense through it.

crossfit.com its a fitness routine that incorporates almost every area of fitness into one general routine. If you go onto the site it may appear to not give you much info at all, it took me a while to understand what it was about. To help you out there's a site menu on the side, click crossfit journal, on the page that comes up there a trial version of the crossfit journa that talks about what true fitness is. Great read! Hope you like! Josh