Luckykboxer

god let this die already... It has already been handled. Thanks for the reasonable responses i got from some people, but man some other people really need to think before they type.. like the last guy... I need to move? I live in one of the best places in the united states to live. this isnt a normal incident here. the average hoem price is oen fo the highest on the planet, the average income is one of the highest in the United States... its not a crappy area. Just a crappy group of people who wandered into the area. And I know that i could have been shot if i had done really anythign different at the time then i did... the point was after the fact... I do appreciate the advice from people, but I really wish some people would think more before typing and if they are unclear ask questions and specif as much as they can before giving a blatantly wrong answer... I have done this as well although i try to not ever do it.

I have never ever heard of this... Now if you are taking steroids in conjunction with your weightlifting.... well then you might have a problem with shrinkage.

/chuckles ok this is my last attempt to reason here... Lets remember we are not talking about anything other then inside a martial arts school... I could care less what peopel wear on the bodies or faces outside the school. I dont even care what they wear in the school... This is however geared towards a standard martial arts studio that requires a uniform be worn and training be done. Once we agree on that we can move on.. If you want to get into what people wear or how they act outside the studio then thats an entirely different topic then we are discussing here. umm i dont knwo what you mean by take a hit, but your comment was meant to be sarcastic, or cute, or whatever you want to call it... thats all my point was.. /shrug /boggle... this has absolutely nothing at all to do with the topic on hand.. an interesting off topic, but still has nothing to do with the conversation at all. umm no i wouldnt use an old yellow Gi because thats not what the requirements are for our Gi. And the only reason I clean my Gi at all is so it doesnt smell, and isnt dirty to offend myself and others, no other reason, I actually dont Iron my GI, and dont really expect that from anyone as long as its clean. The problem is the karate studio is a society in and of itself, it isnt the streets, it isnt the dance club, it isnt your grocery store, etc.etc.etc... Its a an environment seperate from teh rest of your existance, unless your entire existance is martial arts. I have never seen anywhere in any martial art that asks for anyoen to wear perfume and Makeup or cologne.. As a matter of fact I have seen the exact opposite, the only times i have ever seen it mentioned at all is when it is asked to not be used period. Ok first of all, Makeup is a corrosive substance, it can ruin karate GIs, It can stain the carpet, It can create aggitation and allergies in some students. Nobody wants to have someone elses makeup on their Gi, its offensive, Show me one person who wants to have a strangers makeup on their clothes, and besides the sexual references which would be your only valid response here..... which is in appropriate int eh studio anyways. As far as a reason for wearing a Gi ill give you many. first it creates a standard uniform to help with the discipline structure when training. second it creates an atmosphere where there is not competition to dress nicer then other people.. a White Gi looks like a White Gi looks like a white GI... the only differences are hardly noticible except to the person wearing it. third it is a functional garb to wear and train in. fourth it covers for the most part any body parts that may cause reaction of embarassment or desire in class. fifth its traditional and has become part of the martial arts mystique. I am sure other people can come up with many many more. Well I know makeup can cause harm to clothes, and to people. If you cant agree with that statement, then it doesnt matter what i say you will disagree. /shrug Once again the absolute only part of a custom made Gi, or a heavy weight Gi that stands out is the tag... a 1 inch by 1 inch piece of cloth... I dont know anyone out of a hundreds and hundreds of martial arts students i have seen that buy a high quality gi to show off..They buy it because they want a Gi that wont fall apart. A light weight Gi on me has a lifespan of about a month tops.. now at 30 dollars a pop after 6 months I have already spent as much as a Tokaido or other heavy weight Gi will cost that lasts me several years. Also a standard made Gi that fits my thighs is huge in the waist and long in the legs, so i have to have it altered anyways.... put that cost in and your adding more money.... It is actually a bargain in the long run if you train for a long time to buy a better quality GI.... for practical purposes not to show off... The absolute only thing I can see as showing off would be people and studios that allow you to put as many patches and advertisements as you can fit on them.... JiuJitsu escpecially comes to mind.... Now try to be a woman and wear makeup to one of the BJJ classes.... you wont make it long...why? Because its offensive to have someones makeup smeared all over you, and soon thsoe women wont have anyone willing to work with them. And your comment about womens and mens opinions is absolutely ridiculous. I have yet to see any of the studios that acts this way, not in southern california by a longshot! I have no idea what you mean by this comment.. I dont see anything about men controlling womens lifes... not in America... As a matter of fact women have much much more power then men.. you reading this thread? because I didnt get that impression anywhere... I dont think anyoen said a woman who wears makeup cant be a good martial artist, It was said that makeup doesnt belong in the studio though. It adds absolutely nothing positive and only adds problems or possible problems. Ok first of all I never said a GI makes the karate or the martial artist.. And secondly the ideas of uniforms did not start with Funakoshi... Uniforms were worn for thousands of years before he was around. and we are talking about inside the karate studio once again... apparantly you seem to want a bunch of peopel training in street cloths and makeup /shrug... maybe an exageration but it seems to be what you are debating for... /shrug Anyways no hard feeling for sure.. I completely disagree with your opinion, but you are definitely entitled to it, and if you ahve enough people who believe like you then you will have a happy group of karate students.. For the most part, adn for the vast majority of the rest of martial artists, I think they will be well advised to not wear makeup to class, along with perfume and cologne and jewelry and dirty clothes, etc. etc. etc. Just common sense... you have to work with other people... hands on... why would you not try to make sure you dont offend them? btw... thanks for posting your views... while i disagree i think it at least gets people thinking, and unless someone is threatening or getting really ugly i think debate can be a good thing

exactly what seven star said.. visualize this.... you are kicking downward into the thigh and through it.... remember you are on a downward angle though... Now to do this kick how must your planted leg be? If its straight your kick will either be straight parallel with the ground, or slightly up.... IF you are able to make it go downward it certainly wont have the power that is associated with these kicks.. By bending his planter leg he can turn his hips down and create the right line to execute this kick

well it depends on how good a business man this guy is.. If he is a good business man then he had you sign a no compete clause, that says something along the lines that if you leave the school or are terminated you cannot steal or take students with you for a period of time, generally a 1 year period. Also that you wont recruit or steal his intructors, and probably also the curriculum that he has created, that wasnt passed down to him. If he did you are pretty much screwed. Now most martial arts instructors are terrible businessmen.. so most likely you will be fine.

damn i guess i have to spell this out really well, sicne you cant seem to get the idea... no if your foot is .2 degrees off you dont get failed automatically, but there is a standard that you cant go below, your post made it sound like your instructor allows people to pass that probably shouldnt and bases that on them being lazy in his opinion. sure .2 degrees wont get you failed.... but what about 50 degrees? If your instructor is passing people who suck, then he is only making money he isnt adding anything to the world that is of any substance

i think i didnt make my thoughts clear on it.. Most people dont know anything about martial arts other then you kick and punch people... they see the ultimate fighting championship and think that is all martial arts is about. When people find out I am a black belt, the usual question i get is... OOO I bet you can mess someone up/beat someone up/kick someones butt/whatever? the general impression of martial arts is one of fighting period...

the problem being this.... Football and wrestling had a strong foothold in American School sports long before people thought about sueing other people, for liability as we know it today. Also people look at martial arts and the first word that comes to mind is... FIGHT.... and we all know everyoen gets hurt when they fight. Its a mind set, and with the current state of affairs being what they are, It is almost an impossible battle to fight to change non practitioners minds.

If you are practicing Elbows in sparring practice, your going to run out of training partners really quick. Elbows are brutal even with padding. I have always used feints when practicing against live people and have used dummys, bags etc to practice my elbows.. I dont know of any elbow pads specifically to use, but anything you use is going to be hard to keep on your elbows

you know.... If i were you, I would work hard to trace my lineage back to the Samurai, that would be a very very impressive thing to be able to do. I have traced my family heritage back to the 1400s, and from there i am having problems, my heritage goes back to europe, and another branch ends here in North America... unfortunately I dont think i can ever trace the North American heritage back any farther Oh and as far as my martial arts lineage in my family goes... I am pretty much the first... some basic training here and there but noone to the extent i have gone and not in the arts i train

Ok let me try again... If a 45 Degree angle is perfect, and the right way to do it, and he is allowing something other then this to be acceptable, wouldnt that make it less then perfect, or the wrong way to do it? In my school it goes like this.... 1 + 1 = 2 not 1.2 + 1 = 2 does that make more sense? It seems to me that he is allowing subpar performance in his students, which eventually will create Martial artists that may be teaching other students the wrong way to do it.... It doesnt seem very practical or proper to do to your students... If students dont want to work as hard i can see having them take longer then normal to learn the curriculum, but to just pass them through because they kinda have the gest of it, seems really bad :/

oh god give me a break here. if you dont think a Gi that is custom made to fit you better, and be able to take wear and tear better is going to help you perform better then you are just arguing to argue and are not looking at facts or common sense. But i guess thats why Drunken Monkey added his comment... It should be common sense. Trust me Kazuya you dont want to be a smart * with me because i can most definitely trade it back and forth as good as anyone... so your cutesy little post about if someone wears cologne or perfume should they bring a bar of soap is just lame. this whole commentary below just makes me drop my jaw in disbelief... you cant honestly believe this can you??? fisr of all if makeup isnt to show off then whats it for? Is having something for presentation not showing off? Come on now lets not try to get tripped up with semantics here. Now as far as having little time to remove makeup I just spoke to my wife, who wears make up, just not to the karate studio... it takes less then 5 minutes to completely remove her makeup and thats not even trying to hurry. All the ingredients fit very nicely in a tiny little bag, so dont pretend there is no time to remove makeup either. As far as instructors not looking at her makeup but her technique.... they will thats for sure, but the no makeup rule isnt for the instructor as much as for the other students, unless the instructors are doing contact work with the person wearing makeup...... Once again its a pretty simple task of removing it that takes less then 5 minutes, and wont create any distractions.... Are you the same type of person that feels that churches shopuld change their religion to accomadate people who want to partake in only part of the religion and not the whole thing? Tell you what... how about if i want to smoke a cigar while im teaching class, should i be allowed to do so? I mean after all peopel should be focused on their karate not my cigar or the smoke right? As far as your comment about peopel buying Gis to show off, I think you are confusing something here, the Karate studio sets the requirements for what a Gi should be. A white Gi is a White Gi period... if the tag says Tokaido, or Shureido, or KI, doesnt really show readily, so knowing what was spent on a karate Gi is not really going to be viewable and distractable in teh studio, I mean come on. Are you kidding me? I tell you what show me the makeup that makes yoru technique better and Ill start wearing it. Ok so now you are talking about wearing street clothes to class as well? Why not train Naked, nothing wrong with the human body and then noone has to feel bad about not being able to afford the best Gi money can buy? Gee kind of sounds alot like wearing Makeup to karate classes doesnt it? Maybe your coming around.... I am really dumbfounded by this post as it doesnt seem to be founded in common sense or fact as much as in a pure desire to just argue /shrug

wait till you get to level 23 its a killer

this reminds of the game i had as a kid, you know the big blow up ballon man with the weighted bottom that you would punch and it would fall downa nd get back up and allow you to punch it again and knock it down.. it never made much sense, but was really easy to knock downa dn you laughed every time. I think this thread has gotten about as much useful information out of it as can possibly be had, i guess we are all going to pretty much have to agree to disagree and move on. there are so much more better topics to discuss, and i really think this is starting to resemble the proverbial dead horse...

i would think that someone in you neighborhood could cut it off for you problem solved and you would even have the opportunity to kick someone while they are down again but really though... arthritis can set in at any age... if your finger is still swollen after one year it is most likely not swollen, but permanently that way, either broken and reset wrong, or arthritis has set in and you are basically stuck with it

ok tell you what pick a specific snecario and give me all the information.... your height... their height.... etc. and ill give you the best scenario. you are asking for an answer to a question that i dont ahve enough information to answer... if they are taller or shorter you will do two different things. Obviously if a person has their forearm down in a block position you have to do another attack... its as simple as that.. and what do you mean wasnt i a green belt? if you are refering to my color posts here then yes i guess i was... i post quite a bit, probably too much i am sure... if people want me to stop they only have to ask and ill be happy to oblige them.. /shrug but in real life i havent been a green belt in ages... many many moons hehe

besides buying a better Gi doesnt mean its a different color, or its a shinier gi, it means its a heavier duty gi, or a gi that will last longer, or is more comofrtable, or allows the person to focus on the curriculuma dn no gi Problems... buying better equipment isnt a show off its a bonus to allow you to train better. adding make up adds nothing to the curriculum. huge difference. Its like saying that adding performance tires to your sports car is equivilant to wearing a silk jacket with yoru sports cars name on it... not even the same universe in my opinon

Excuse me a minute while i mop the hypocracy off the floor. you mean that he requires all the same specific curriculum as his teachers did, yet he allows it to be done poorly? Sorry that is a bad teacher allowing bad students to kid themselves so he can make a buck... i am definitely not impressed and he definitely has you snowed

anyone who thinks martial arts will ever be taught in americas public school system from K - 12 grade is kidding themselves. the liabilities are far to great, it will never ever be allowed.... that being said, the american school system is a pile of crap. its outdated, impractical and creating only mindless drones to earn corporations more money. If i could overhaul the american k-12 public school system i guarantee that within 24 years the entire american school system would be spitting out students 10 times great then what we do now. practical studies like, martial arts, finance, real life studies, etc. would be the subjects. Todays world isnt our parents world, you cannot go and work for moeny for a corporation and expect to get retirement when you are old and grey. You have to learn to make money work for you and do things differently. Its not about anythign they teach now days... peopel going to high school now are screwed, unless they inherit money they are going to be old and homeless because they definitely wont ahve social security

well let me put it this way then. I have officially made sure that all the students in my school do not wear makeup, cologne, perfume, or jewelry. Men or Women. problem solved here. You can train how you want where you want, but if you are one of the 400+ students in my school, you will not be using that /shrug simple solution

the big problem i see is that your instructor is falsly passing people to a higher grade and using the excuse that americans are lazy to justify his greed to make more money. If a person can pass the requirements then they can pass, and visa versa if they cant then they shouldnt... It sounds to me he is just passing people /shrug I would guess that his students are being lazy because hes not pushing them. There is a big difference from pushing students to perform better, and beating the crap out of your students and forcing them to quit. I will agree that most children and ordinary adults who take Karate do not want to get hurt, and do not want to feel pain from getting hit or kicked very hard, but i will disagree that they cannto be pushed to work harder, work crisper, work cleaner, learn and maintain their skills longer and improve on them. Its about creating techniques to teach and push them to be better. Sounds to me your instructor is also lazy and has given up on improving the students and is more intent on adding that hot tub in his backyard next winter....

well as just a principle lesson think of this... the biggest problem i see when i work with fighters is they try to use just the leg/knee when throwing a knee strike. A correct knee strike is really going to incorporate your entire body to get a full effect. if its a knee tot he front or a flying type of a knee remember to thrust your hips forward, stretch your abs out, sontract your lower back muscles, use your arms as a counter balance, keep your chin tucked to avoid an opening. if its to the body as in a side knee, use your clench or grappling skills to manuever your opponent into the side knee as you "snap" the knee in and through his ribs, or just below his ribs... many people i see just bring the leg up and pull the knee in to the ribs.... you really have to snap it in with a combination of your hips and your legs, using the hard part of your knee to penetrate your opponent. its really hard to type out, fairly easy to show on the body, or better yet show on the heavy bag. try to be self correcting when you are practicing..... what i mean is when you use a knee strike think about how it feels, think about what you could do to get another 1/2 inch of penetration, another little bit of stability, another little bit of speed, power, a little more acuracy, etc.etc.

ya i agree... once you get that low its not only about metabolism, its about diet, and exercise, unless someone has a seriousmalfunction in their metabolism that burns it really really high it takes a combination of the three. when i was at 8% it was hard to maintain, I literally had to watch my diet, we are talking extremely low carbs to virtually none, and i worked out everyday, not just weights, but cardio, and lots of it. literally 3% is on the verge of beign dangerous, it is in my opinion impossible for anyone to maintain this level. at this level your body starts to shut down. Like I said the pro bodybuilders, who are indeed the best at the world at changing their bodyfat percentages only dip this low for a very short period, literally for a few days at most, and even then its dangerous. IF you are maintaining a 3% or close to it, I certainly hope you are working with someone to be careful with your health. I find it hard to believe, but I dont dismiss it as impossible, the dedication it would take to maintaint hte exercise, the diet, and all just seems incredible to me.

I cant find anything on Sharkey, other then he was teaching in Levelland, not sure where that was, It is entirely possible he isnt teaching anymore. sorry

pixie dust? no clue what you are referring to, I would imagine its some type of a topical medicine that numbs the area though