three60roundhouse

I don't know about bjjbarbie, but I am only 14, so the Gracies have made three "extra" belts for those under sixteen - the yellow, orange, and green belts...just, I assume, to show that the kids are progressing very well and are getting the technical moves, but also to show that they aren't big/strong enough to ever really meet the BJJ requirements. Rockson Gracie held his green belt until he turned 16, and as a green belt could beat many very experienced purples...the BJJ guys are trying to make sure that BJJ doesn't become too "watered down" like many arts did in America. As far as I know, the only people ever to move outside the blue, purple, brown, black progression are those under 16.

My tae kwon do instructor had just tested for his fourth dan when I joined the school...he is a very good teacher, and that matters a lot more, ro mw, then how many little stripes are on his belt! In the other art I study, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, MOST instructors aren't black belts! I am taught by a couple of guys and NONE of them are black belts....so it all depends on who you think will be the best teachrer FOR YOU!

This ins't some little runt here - he's only a few months younger than me, a girl - and he's a boy who is much taller and outweighs me by a bit, too...he just isn't all that technical...he isn't comfortable on the mat.

woops...bad post sorry [ This Message was edited by: three60roundhouse on 2002-04-09 13:54 ]

What exactly do you mean by "sport jiu-jitsu"? I train in BJJ with the gi, that is considered sport.

No....he's a Sempai, not a forum black belt...there is a difference, and with as many posts as you've got I would think you'd have realized that 564 posts doesn't get you a "black belt", but being a Sempai does.

Movie: The Silence of the Lambs Show: CSI Song (at the moment): Glass by Incubus, last week it was "In Bloom" by Nirvana

I want to know more about that guy...he talks like avery sick man....he says some sort of sociopathic things

Red belt in tae kwon do....our system goes in this color order, and there are "high and low" rankings of each belt...white, yellow, orange, blue, green, red, brown, black. Been training three years, and one of the instructors did a lot of nunchaku when he studies karate, so we do a lot of that in class, I'm pretty good freestyle. I, too, am a white belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.

That post was just a random rant...I don't flame people, so post however you like...it wasn't meant to be rhetorical, it was just badly worded. I was thinking...I am not currently romantically attatched now , but one of my best friends is a guy that I train in both TKD and BJJ with... and I have beaten him many times in rings in both arts...I could just see us going to see a movie, or hanging out or whatever, and someone doing somethig inappropriate to me...what would he do, seing that I am a better fighter? I think that would make him feel and look silly, as would my protecting of a boyfriend who couldn't fight. It all comes down to what we were talking about in my English class the other day ( I go to an all-girls school) while discussing Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" Women always talk about being liberated from looks and being a woman being the thing that carried them through the world. However, I think a lot of our social tendencies in groups outline the fact that everyone still thinks the same way. (Men usually ask women out, "ladies first") My own personal theory is that in a relationship, even if both people seem totally outgoing and flambouyant, there has to be a dominant force and a person in the background, even if people thik a relationship is mutual, it really isn't. Usually, traditionally, the sominant force was the male figure, the football playing man, served by his loyal wife. As many stay at home dads as there are, a lot of guys are simply turned off to martial artist by the fact that I can whoop their ass, even though I insist that I don't enjoy fighting. It's late.....none of that probably made any sense.

I don't get why guys think they have to go beating the pulp out of someone who does/says something bad to a girl or (GASP!) in front of them. Girls should be able to take care of themselves...this isn't the middle ages anymore, here - we aren't damsels in distress.

Go Maryland - good game.

Krystyn ITF tae kwon do - red belt Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu - white belt I'm 14

we aren't allowed, and I probably would go with traditional barefoot, but there was this girl who had something seriously wrong with her foot, she was a yellow belt i think, and she wore those shoes for a few months, and it was kind of strange...

I recently got started in BJJ, but I can only make class once a week if I'm lucky, with sporadic sparring with friends at offtimes at the TKD dojang....and I'm wondering, have any of you read.... (if you have, give me opinions?) 1. The Fighters notebook (I've heard there are good techniques, but I've been told that there are better books for jiu-jitsu) 2. The Master Text from Jiu-jitsu.Net....heard it's great, it was written by Gene Simco, a purple belt. 3. Renzo and Royler's book Theory and Technique? Heard some of the illustrations were hard to follow, even though it was well-written. 4. Any other good books?

I'm in high school, I work a bit at the dojang here and there and this summer I am going to be a soccer referee for $40 a game .

I recently had the flu, and I didn't feel up to going to class - but I didn't like being in a vegatative state either - so I settled for tredmill/stationary bike .

I'd like to try muay thai.

I drive the, 'Mom, can you give me a ride"? Very nice model, but it's hard to get the damned thing started!

There are Muslim Americans, so I don't really get what you are saying.

Does this thread have a point?

Yellow belt - 6-8 months.

Not that familiar with Michigan, but here are two I could find...sorry if they're not near you. http://www.gomezacademy.com/ http://www.umich.edu/~armbar/ I'll keep an eye out. Happy hunting!

Just becasue someone was trained by the best doesn't mean that they give the best training.

I think it's not her fault that she was mentally ill. Also, I don't think that killing her can ever bring her children back. let her rot in a cell. Did you people hear about that guy charged with negligent homicide because his really bad dog ate the next door neighbor? If that guy can be charged with handlking the dog negligently, why can't Russell Yates be charged with handling his wife negligently?