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Patrick...it is foreign...we call a cafe a cafe, but it is a french word...we call a tortilla chip a tortilla chip, but tortilla is a word in Spanish...

Luge. And I don't do winter sports...i've never even skiied, so I REALLY prefer the summer olympics .

It doesn't matter what they have won, how many little stripes are on their black belt, it is all about what an individual looks for in a teacher or a role model. Different people learn different ways. For me, I like instructors who are more on the strict side, but they have a sense of humor. I like to be pushed hard, but not to the point of meltdown. I want to have an instructor that I know is not only teaching me, but is constantly learning new things from his master and trying to incorporate them into my training. I want my instrucor to know ME, me as a person and as a fighter. I want encouragement, but much constructive criticism as well. And modesty is also a good thing .

damn right .

It depends on my mood. I have two doboks, one medium weight white one, which is what I usually wear (it does make those snapping sounds that I like ), but a lot of times when it is a less strenuous week like fitness week or something, I just wera my lightweight red one. Whatever floats your boat .

I think my instructor started the schol just before he got his 4th degree...I didn't join until he was testing for 5th degree. What does it matter! Is he/she a good teacher? Do you like the things you are learning? Even 5th, 6th, 7th...degrees are constantly learning. TKD is a never ending process.

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We're in a strip mall...the "A&P Shopping Center"...not the best, but our dojang is reall;y nice.

My friend told me a funny storey yesterday...she goes to a public school and I go to an all-girls catholic school, Angus, and this reminded me of you... she said that they had a pep rally, and the wrestling team cme out to "pump the team up" and...well, she said it better than i could... "Wow! You know those uglie onesie spandex things they wear...well, there was the captain, dancing around in the center of the gym, and everyone was watching him and stuff, you know...he must have spotted his girlfriend before he came out or something, and everyone started cheering and ugh...it was gross." Sorry. That just cracked me up.

That they don't think they suck. If someone thinks that they are not a good fighter, they CAN'T remember their form - they can never be good until they have basic confidence and esteem. Fighting is not only in the physical aspect - it's also much in your head.

In my school, we do a tiny, miniscule amount of grappling. It's because a lot of the younger kids have trouble remembering the guard, the mount - very, very basic and elementary things, and must be taught them 836759 times, so we never do learn much new.

I could find nothing "in the Quaran either, but I'm starting to think of it like this... Now, the beards were enforced by the Taliban, I did find that, and somehow this is making me think of when the Chinese moved over to the U.S. Remember how they had to grow those long ponytails back in China, and then they moved here, and they didn't cut them off 1.) because they might go back and get in trouble, 2.) because it was routine 3.) because it had been drilled into their head that it was right 4.) hey! they liked it! Now, the Taliban says that their inbterpretations of the Quaran would permit a law MAKING men grow beards. A lot of other countries agree with this, althoughit isn't enforced. Saudis and Pakistanis have beards, too, and maybe the Afghans think it's a religious thing, even if on the surface it doesn't seem that Islam would warrant HAVING to grow a beard. I don't know...it's all very confusing to me...

Who said you couldn't post that?

Metallica, Dream Theater, Iced Earth, Megadeth, Guns N Roses, Ywengie Malmsteen, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Tool, Deftones, Sevendust...hmm...that's about it. :pony:

Guns N Roses. If Appetite for Destruction doesn'yt get you pumped...you must be dead . Also: Metallica, Sevendust, Tool, Iced Earth, some Malmsteen tunes, Zepplin, Sabbath, Moby, Basement Jaxx, the Who, Springsteen... as you can see, I like music

If you want a Muhammed Ali movie, see "When We Were Kings." That's an A+ documentary.

Hmmm....I pondered this for a while, and in the end failed to see anything but way too much emotion and a lack of thinking. Somehow, we have forgotten that we have jails overcrowded with people who have done the same thing - but on smaller scales. Timothy McVeigh was treated like a king, as were John Gotti, JOhn Wilkes Booth, Hadden Clark, and so many other killers, serial rapists, spiess, and downright degenerates when they were under United States custody. I think that if Eddie Gein (the model for Norman Bates and Buffalo Bill) deserves the basic rights such as deciding that he wants to have his hair a certain way, then so should Taliban members. And hair grows back, but they see it as a bad sign to Allah if they don't have a beard. I don't know, but this is a fun arguement

Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is my first choice, but the teacher isn't even a black belt - I feel very skeptical about that, even if he has been training for a very long time and has a black belt in judo also. I mean, my TKD instructor is a 5th dan black belt and HE is looked down upon in the TKD circles...a brown belt with his own school? But the dojo wins a lot of tournaments and Royler Gracie comes in to do the seminars a lot... I just don't know about this one!

Since the attaks, I have read a bit on Islam, and I remember reading something about beards...haven't you ever noticed that a vast majority of Muslim men have them? It isn't right to change someone because of religion...Would you make a Jewish man remove his yarmulka? Or force a Catholic woman into an abortion? Well, lice is so minor...it's called treatment shampoo ... so in that case, I would absolutely be against shaving them...Now I'm off to look up that point of Islam...see ya.

I am definitely leaning towards judo

I only know two guys who do BJJ, one is my TKD instructor, he's a blue belt after I think like a year or so, and the guy who's school I was looking at earlier this month, he's a brown belt, but I think he's been at it for a LONG time! He was a purple belt for four years before attaining a brown belt. Oh, and by the way...the ranks in BJJ go like this to anyone who doesn't know them (I think this is standard Gracie grading...I've done some reading...White, Blue, Purple, Brown, Black. So yes, two years for a purple belt is a short time, but then again, some just pick things up more quickly!

No...the question is...why NOT

Hey, the judo school I am interested in studying at is where jeremy Glick trained from the age of seven... there's a story about him there, too... http://www.kokushi.com

I think next month or maybe March I am testing for my red belt

"offensive"? How is it offensive? Oh, and I wear my red gi. .