ShotokanKid

Thanks everyone for your replies so far. I appreciate your advice.

For me, it depends on who I'm sparring. Since I work with young karate people (7-11 or so) I work from a cat stance. Good for jamming their kicks, and good for nailing them with a front leg shot. If I'm sparring an adult or a teen who knows what they're doing (I wouldn't do this for a purple belt teen) I work from the regular kamae stance and occasionally fire of a front leg kick.

Yes, carry a "muggers wallet" Good point, CagedWorrior.

I will be attending a tournament in September. I attend all the classes offered to me, but I want to train more to better prepare myself for this. What do you suggest I do at home? I plan on practicing my kata in the living room. What else do you suggest I do? I wont have a partner at home to practice kumite with. Also, should I do stamina drills?

Does the extra hair chaff you? or are you just uncomfortable?

He would never fight, and I go to church because my dad considers it a family thing, that we all have to do together.

None, for now, my guitar got broken by our bassist. Hopefully, my insurance covers it.

Welcome to KF, you'll find a lot of posts containing stuff like your question.

I like that, It's good. Thanks for sharing that with me, Kicks.

Muay Thai Kickboxing doesn't wear a gi and it's a martial art because it's an Asian for of combat or however the definition put it.

I am the only one in my family (other than my cousin in TKD that takes a year to get BB)

I was just joking around so I would have an attempt at being funny in the title.

sweet, is that what you use most?

Just for fun, tell me about your favorite knife you own, and the one you use the most. I'd say that my favorite knife is my USMC Ka-Bar. The knife that I use the most is my Smith and Wesson CK212 Homeland Security First Production Run knife. What about you?

A woman in Japan wanted to be a musician. She practiced for hours and went to music school. Right before she graduated she decided she wasn't good enough to become pro. She decided to take up shooting. After 3 years she went to the Olymipics and won (not sure what place) It's not important when you start. As Jax_Evolution said, you're not getting any younger. So do the best you can now.

I learned some of the Iaido kata from a book. A shihan from Japan taught me a little bit of Iaido, so I borrowed a book from my friend to learn the kata. What exactly do you want the kata to look like? How long do you want it to be? What type of strikes do you want to do? How much space do you want to use?

I don't feel comfortable telling my parents just because my dad completely freaks out about stuff like this, he gets really, really mad, and I don't want it to come down to this yet. My youth pastor has already talked about this to him a bunch of times, but as you can see, no change

Ditto

Well, we have judo, karate, sometimes kung fu, who use our dojo, and a bunch of TkD

What styles are there in your city or town? You can go to google local and see. http://www.google.com/lochp In my city, over 70% of the martial arts schools are TKD. What style is most taught/ most schools? Just curious

http://www.compfused.com/directlink/857/ http://www.compfused.com/directlink/865/ Some interesting stunts

Lol, I'm not that good at a lot of those I named And I broke my Gibson guitar yesterday AAARRGGGHH!!!!!!!!! Hopefully, my insurance covers it.

Well, he's at it again, this time, he grabbed another boy in a headlock and was bouncing his head around and stuff. How do you think I should bring this up again to the youth pastor?

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