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I love to re-test in your dojo.

i guess south of the border they are still lookin for you guys.

it keeps giving me 1 second penalty. You are waiting till it goes yellow before clicking aren't you! First go was .24 No, it's against my philosophy, i hit it as soon as it tries to change the color,

i like to see female students in the dojo, they make the practice more formal.

easy...a high side block while moving in to the boxer{this enables me to block with the tricept and peri my blocking arm in an outward motion,causing me to wrap his arm in to my arm pit,at the same time my fore arm is directly under his elbow,my next move is to place my free hand on his striking arms shoulder,and place the hand on my blocking arm on top of my free arms fore arm-thus causing a figure 4 arm lock,and he then has two options: option 1, submission or option 2 Crack,snaple, pop there goes his elbow. well, this is good for dojo practice, in a real situation it will end up to a clinch, we do the same thing but we wouldn't try to make the full lock using the free hand.

come up softly from last move using one leg and stay in "karate kid" stance for 4.6 sec.

i used to do rockclimbing but living in Houston means zero elevation, we only got lots of bridges. i shoot long bows.

it keeps giving me 1 second penalty.

we do forearm and shin conditioning but no board breaking. there was a good thread on conditiong 2 months ago , search for that thread.

i am gonna buy a new mouse my reaction time is 1.0

you may be familiar with this form, it's Bassai Dai (or as we call it Itosu no passai or passai sho), in in this dojo as you can see , knife hand blocks starts from a wroung foot and to make it right they have to do 4 kinfe hand instead of 3. http://www.afkka.com/videos02/afkka_movie0215.htm this is a standard version

1- i used to do that too when i was a teen, then i just stoped doing it one day, i gotta tell you my finger got infected once. at least wash your hand all the time. it won't affect your finger training 2- there are many style which use finger strikes, any style based on crane , mantis or snake would use fingers. I practice white crane and we use lots of finger strikes, i also do push ups on the fingers and some other training. 3- i don't think so, the damage will come when you start hitting a makiwara with your finger, it's better if you learn hitting from someone who knows how to align and positin fingers, the other thing you need to do is training your forearm tendons the closest guy to you as i know is this guy http://www.fujianbaihe.com/fujianbaihe/main.html let me know if you need more info

the pattern of the kata is almost same as the original , hand techniques are altered as well but the main problem is foot work . Goju ryu like any other style has a specific way of stepping, sliding or turning, I can't change these fundamentals and still call it Goju ryu.

happy birthday, I had a good birthday date . but not any more after Sep,11.

I thought this one looked good. By a "nightmare" version, do you mean that you did not like it? I thought it looked ok, but I am no expert in karate kata, by any stretch. the karateka who performes it , is OK . the version he is doing is made up. the refrence is the first one or the third link.

this is the Okinawan version the way Mario Higaona does: http://www.spokanekarate.com/kata/index.php this is a nighmare version this one is Japanies version but Yamazaki being a shindo jenin ryu master ,there is a good chance this version comes from Mabuni sensei(shito ryu) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2240416169660848843&q=seienchin&hl=en

i don't think about striking but i do visualize my throwing techniques and the setups i need to do before executing the throw.

don't promise anything till after thanks giving.

i think you should go to a specialist, one of my close reletives had the same problem and they keep telling her it's a growing pain, but it was not in the bones it was in the joints and some years later they admited that it was juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. if you also have inflammation in the joints then this is a possibility, http://www.niams.nih.gov/hi/topics/juvenile_arthritis/juvarthr.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acZI-6Xnijs I practice 3 days for 90 min each, it will take me forever to dismount and remount a kata to a point useful for self defense applications,I spend my time only on applications of Naihanchi shodan and sandan as for self defense plus some limited white crane and BJJ techniques, rest of it for me is just a art, i try to perfect my art in performing kata and knowing the bunkai the way i was taught so i can pass it on to the next student. in every single dojo i have been they do a kata and they show some bunkai then you get to practice with a partner , how many times? 3 each? No 10 times each? if you ask me each single application should be practiced for months and tried to be adoped for full contact sparring as well just like a boxer, knowing tons of techniques seems cool but it's not effective same as kata.

I think kyokushin stylists are the best to ask about mawashi geri , but this is the way i return to my stance, after i snap the kick out , i pull it back to chamber, i use this chambered leg to gain the stance back, my chamber pulls back and down while my upper boddy comes up and i turn on my ball of suppoorting foot , if i kick with left then a counter clock wise tourque by my upper boddy and chembered leg turns me on my right foot while i am still chambered then the chambered leg goes back to zenkutsu dachi.

Hi and welcome.

i grapple with my karate sensei sometimes, there are some factors that i have to deal with , Technique Stamina strenght unorthodox moves i normally loose in around 70% the fights( we spare around 15 min or when i feel like dying whichever happens first), but i rearly loose the first fight and i am allways do the first throw, i become defensive after around 3 min. of ground fighting even when i am attacking he turns the table, he is way ahead of me in stamina and strenght although i can run a 3 miles with no problem but i just can't keep up with him. so to me stamina and strenght are important after first 2-3 min, if you can finish the job by your good technique quickly you will be fine.

i like your katas, Empi was better i think. your hands move very fast and sometimes your footwork has a hard time catching up.

i guess compare to you guys/gals i am a 36 years old grandpa, i started with BASIC codes for Spectrum computer, we could save the files on audio tapes(could you believe that ). then i fell for 8088 assembly language. then came Qbasic and ANSI C,FORTRAN 7 (we used to write the program and submit it for punching on the cards ,it was a painfull process) , then i moved to batabase programing with DBASE IV and FOXPRO , the funy thing was that i was a Mechanical Engineering student and paying my tuition by writing programs and removeing boot-sector/file-directory viruses from people computers( that was a big deal 16 years ago) . the last Professional program i wrote was a 50K code in FORTRAN 90 for parallel computing of a Computational Fluid Dynamics problem that was 2001 and now a days i only write small codes for my friends or my databases at work. I really don't enjoy programming like before maybe i am old but we used to sit behind computer all night just to learn one cool trick by trial and error in DEBUG.