dear john

battle field survival or street survival?

okay i relize that for entertainment purposes my pick isnt the greates, but thinking of who is the best in a fight i have to go with Steven Seagal. the guy supposedly never lost a fight while training under his master instructor and when he started his own dojo in japan, he lived to tell the tale. being a Round Eye so to speak and starting your own dojo in japan is not exactly the smartest thing in the world to do.

good info i would like to know if any of you out there knows when exactly TKD was UPHILLso to speak. when the hell was it VERY effective?

the thing is , is that she is very partial with the whole time thing. she sets peoples dates for BB like 3 years before hand. i was told that there use to be more master instructors(5th dan) and the required time thing wasnt really inforced but when two of them left things changed as it was believed that one person could not decide whether or not a person should moved ahead more quickly, but on rare occasions it has been done.

i take two MA's and after a year of TKD i started Dan Zan Ryu, on my second day there i got moved to blue belt(next up to white) people say i get things fairly quick for my low belt lvl. TKD has no move close to what Dan Zan Ryu teaches, but i got so used to making my body do what i wanted it to that when i started Dan Zan Ryu i knew how to do the move with less effort. for me TKD has been about learning my body and its limits and the limits of others, in that since black belt, a good one that is, should understand mechanics of the body and be able to do most moves with less effort than others with no MA experience. i believe that your MA experiance should carry over. even if you are not a BB

that is the popular opinion. i do not know what shotokan teaches but you should really know what it doesnt teach. like does it teach throws? does it teach kcks? does it teach punches? does it teach on the ground fighting? blah blah blah, like i said i dont know what it does and odes noot teach only you would know that and to answer your question about all MA's being balanced, NOPE not one bit. some MA's yes , but there are MA's that you will find that are really limited in what they teach. a perfect example of this is boxers, insainly limited to what they teach. you should really start to develope your own MA. find what you like and train it to death. in my opinion sticking to one MA can really limit you as a martial artist. balance in witthin one MA? i have not seen one. think of it like a teetor toter, if one side has more weight on it than the other, then the fun goes away and the skinny stay stuck in air.

one of my instructors says that a few of my techniques are akready at 1st degree level, and another instructor has started to really nit pick at most anything i do (i asked her to ) plus i know a lot of the curriculum for several belts ahead of me and i know all of my next belt curriculum. it just seems to me like i would much rather have an instructor who will push me really hard and move me ahead a little faster. in the end it is not really the belt i want, it is the knowledge, every belt higher they teach you more stuff, but i learned all the stuff and mt technique is getting good. but know for the past week i have learned nothing.

it goes like tis at my school. the higher belt you are, the longer it is in between testing. in two weeks there is a test (every month they hold testing for those who are ready) i am OBVIOUSLY ready for my next test, but in order to test i must have 5 black tips(for technique) and i only have 3. they wont give me them because they see that im not supposed to test for another month and a half, so they do not go over my curriculum in class until my test is closer to date. im thinking of just stop going until the test, but last time i took nearly 2 months off, they wanted to set back my date back further. and when i went to the test on time, i did better than everyone in my belt rank. the reason i know im ready, is because i went overmy curriculum with a couple of the instructors after class and they tell me that my technique is very good for my belt lvl.

he is actually giving me pointers on it, my GAME so to speak is improving. one thing i have been geting away with alot no other people is doing a double round house kick in the air. i seem to get some points with it, the only defense seems to be going straight back.

any reponses? from what i have seen, i like wing chun, but then again it is not a current MA that i study. i ask tis question becuase i take TKD and they focus heavily on keeping distance in a fight becuase it is best for the type of strikes they do.

this is for those who say they cant learn something Student"Master i cant learn how to do this" Master"sure you can, but if you ever learn how to not learn, you come and tell me and we will have both learned something" my instructor says this to me all the time[/i]

i read on another post that Krav Maga was not combat tested and their gun disarms can get you into big trouble. ] i thought it was? any answers

i know i have done my share of bad mouthing TKD and its sparrinf, but i would like to say some good about the sparring. i feel that i should convey the good things one picks up from TKD sparring. 1. learning confort range 2. learn how to circle, rather than running straight back 3. learn to read peoples feet and body tone 4. better your timing 5. better reflexes 6. develop accuracy 7. better posture 8. develop some blocks needed in a fight 9. develop some strikes needed in a fight 10. Learn patience if you have a good instructor 11. endurance depending how you train though i still believe that it lacks way to much to be considered as a simulated fight, but i do think TKD sparring will help you develop things that are needed in a fight. just wanted everyone to know where i stand. recent statements may have contradicted this. please reply if you think i am wrong in what TKD teaches you or if you think it teaches you more.

MM47 i know that you already told me info such as thid but i wanted to know what other people thought on the matter

i havent read the previous posts just the topic sentence so excuse me if it seems like i am repeating someone elses post. i dont think it is just the blackbelts, it is the upper belts before BB too. i think in order to solve this problem they need to put some humilidy back in them. the only way to do this is through VIOLENCEmuhahahahhha. well maybe not like that, but still if you showed them that they are not as badass as they think they are, i believe that they would calm down. a good example of this was one day in sparring class this candidate belt was goofing around when we were sparring, he wouldnt stop, he kept on dropping his guard and i would tag him, for some reason he thought it was funny, so the next time he dropped his guard i kicked him a little harder than i usually would in the stomach, he stopped goofing around. see a little violence goes a long way.