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He goes twice a week for two hours. And no offense to him, but from what I know of him from school, he's not the smartest guy. Really nice, but not the quickest (mentally). I think his sister got her black belt in around the same amount of time...

As my profile says, I train in kyokushin, but I have a friend who trains TKD. I happened to ask him today how long it took him to get his black belt and he said a year. But that is to McDojo quality, right? This is not the same for all TKD dojos? How long does it normally take to get your black belt? And how long for each stripe after that? He said it would take him a year to get each stripe.

We have grading at the end of january... so double grading is grading for two kyus at a time?

See a nutritionist! She/he will tell you all! But as to carbs... go carbo loading a couple of hours before exercise for lots of energy!

What my sensei told me is that for every hour of working out in the gym you do (weights of all kinds) you should be doing two hours of martial arts. It almost sounds like you guys are overdoing it to everyone's standards!

No way am I ever going to attack first. Because I do not want this person slipping out of the grasp of the law because I attacked first and they were just defending themselves. Even if they had provoked with words I'm pretty sure every defense lawyer in the history of mankind will say that I attacked them and so their client is not guilty. Plus I get to react to them and have them come into my space on my terms.

Well, there is a Japan Times, but online they have no record of this story, but it could be from a while ago.

I don't know why, but the Sound of Silence (the song, not just no music) would be kind of cool. If it was a sad fight scene maybe...

Yes, I'm very weak in the upper body, but I have access to a gym. Any gym fanatics out there who could give me some tips as well?

I like "Date with the Night" and "Black Tongue" by they Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And Shut Up by Blink-182, all the profanity in that song gets me going.

Has anyone made a post purely on McDojos? When and where did this word come from as well?

What about the super old and dubbed martial arts movies? The ones you can only find in VHS in quirky movie shops?

Don't go down the girl road that young. They have cooties. Instead push them down on the playground and pull their pigtails.

Yeah, I'm starting my own pillow fighting dojo and I was wondering what type of pillow I should get for my students. Goose down? Stuffed with synthetic materials? If any senseis of pillow fighting dojos are out there post and help me out!

I thought he was talking about the nerves being able to be trained to contract the same muscle fibre, but harder. Now I've just confused myself though.

What is this dipped foam kind? We may not have it at the dojo, all I can ever remember seeing is the cloth kind.

There seem to be a lot of things wrong with this conversation. Drunk Monkey seems to be implying that the student was disrespectful when there is no proof of that if we are to be taking to original poster's word for it. Even if the poster was disrespectful, the young blackbelt should have bitten his tongue and taken the place of the bigger person. As always, more senior belts should be an example to lower belts. It is a bad reflection on their sensei and their dojo to say anything that is overtly cruel. There should not be false encouragement for students, but creative criticism or nothing at all would be better. Drunk Monkey seems to be like the teenaged black belt in their disrespectfulness for their dojo, sensei and others.

But this is a joke, right? Where did your friend get it from?

Too deep? Karate helps everyone stand a little straighter.

I'll check my TV listings to see if I get TSN... I do! Score!

Hmmm, I don't know about that. Your muscles have an all-or-none contracting mechanism so I wonder if they really could be taught to contract "harder." I just can't get my mind around how that would work. It could make more fibers in your muscle contract, but that wouldn't be so much harder as more.

The pictures I have seen are mostly from lakes, but I suppose it could be done in a pool. Dodgeball in the water? Hahaha! Oh, that would be funny. What Van Damme movie was it?

If that comment was directed at me, no, I did not. I am too junior to be fighting at such a big event.

I do not know how to tell when they are catabolizing. Watch the supplements though! Food competes in your body to be absorbed so follow what a health care specialist tells you or you can end up with deficiencies in other areas of your diet.

Well, since there is a spiritual aspect in Martial Arts you could say that taking them away from you would be religous persecution and then sue them for millions! Mwahahaha!