OkinawaKarate04

Yeah soooo i am hearing all kinds of stuff about mikawara and i was wondering (from people who actually use them) how should they be mounted i relize usually on some kind of "moving board" But i have also seen them on a wall i dont know what i need to do ... common sence tells me the wall MAY not be the best due to the lack of "give" any re: would be good haha side note my girl friend and i are getting married! she can kick major butt "trust me i know" owwwe (1st Dan)

Thanks Could you explain this 5 element theory has anyone here actually traveled over seas to train....? i hope to someday after i get done at Ball State

I mean ki as in using it as a means to draw on more power and or focus in a situation for training or self defence

I am a 1st Dan in thw whole time i have been training i have focused on ki very little i am just wondering if this is a fault of my sensei or is karate just not very ki oriented? i understand that all MAs are ki oriented i am not trying to sound foolish it is just somthing i have thought on for a long time i know that ki excists and i know that i can feel my own energy but how can i focus into a more karate understanding. from what i have seen i feel it the most in my styles hard strikes and deep stances so if anyone wants to give some in sight it you be great. I am a little embasserased bc i feel like this is stuff i should alredy know... but it has never been taught to me or even talked about thank you Style: Shore-goju-ryu

Thank you both

This is more of a qestion of who can relate. Has anyone found themselfs in a situation where all of the self control fails? I was in a bad situation about 2 months ago in which i was provoked into a fight with in individual who i knew was just talking trash. I know that i was the one to put my self in the bad situation the first place bc i prearanged our meeting. I hope to scare him a little maybe get him to stop talking about me. I had just tested for my 1st Dan about 12 months earlier and i felt an urge to prove myself ... to myself (if that makes sence) Well i met him there and at the point when things became heated i just snaped i came away with a couple of brusies nothing unexcpected in a fight he left with a broken nose and some cuts i was charged with assult and was on probation for 6 months his parents persued the fact that i caused excessive damege and tried to get me kick out of school I am just worried that what i did wrong and that i might be alone in the way i acted I feel like i let my dojo, my family, and all other martial artist down after the incedent kids from my highschool came to my dojo and said they wanted to start lessions bc they saw what i did at that point i had caused alot of stress for my sensei from all the bad publisty (i live in a small town if you cant tell) if anyone has thoughs please tell me

I guess i shoud refrase some of what i said i dont excpect any mastery of chi i would just like a better undstanding of it. And on the matter of teaching i am also under the supervision of my sensei i guess i should have worded that diffrently i only mean that i am at the stage where i teach solo but i am still under supervision i agree that i am nowere near ready to teach alone i am still novice for that. Thank you for your wisdom. When it comes to chi... i just feel that some times i feel energy that i cant understand i feel like alot of what i do contains alot of wasted energy and i hope to understand myself more the actual development of my chi is somthing i dont even grasp yet. Sorry if this is too personal but how old are you you speak as if you have age and excperiance over mine. Thank You

has anyone else had frustration with the street fights that end up as a flailing braw .... Is it just me or is it hard to keep your own control when someone decides to flail uncontrolably it scares me when i try to keep control as to not cause permanat damge (in a situation were you could be punished harshly)when someone flais my first instinct is to just land a few well placed blows... i would rather just neutrilze the situation ....its not the fact that they ever do any substacial damage just that what is an affective counter agaisnt this besides just a few powerful attacks

Ok, I have been training with nunchaku and kama since june when i got my 1st Dan and i am about ta start with bo and i have heard the purple heart is the best...sorry for bring up a topic i am sure is already on here i just need to know where i can find one price is not a issue i just cant find anything i am about 6'2 and need somthing that is about 6'6 I also feel like i have hit a wall and i am wondering if anyone can help me out or if anyone has been in the same situation: I have been teaching for about 2 years and i have hit a point when i would like to start controling my ki more or at lease have a larger increase in power more on in inner level then on a physical level and i have found it hard to talk to people about it with out getting some wierd looks. I guess many people see the martial arts as a strictly physical activity not as a way of life as it was intended. Does anyone else feel that frustration. I feel to many people lack serious dedication Thanks

has anyone else had frustration with the street fights that end up as a flailing braw .... Is it just me or is it hard to keep your own control when someone decides to flail uncontrolably it scares me when i try to keep control as to not cause permanat damge (in a situation were you could be punished harshly)when someone flais my first instinct is to just land a few well placed blows... i would rather just neutrilze the situation ....its not the fact that they ever do any substacial damage just that what is an affective counter agaisnt this besides just a few powerful attacks

Ok, I have been training with nunchaku and kama since june when i got my 1st Dan and i am about ta start with bo and i have heard the purple heart is the best...sorry for bring up a topic i am sure is already on here i just need to know where i can find one price is not a issue i just cant find anything i am about 6'2 and need somthing that is about 6'6 I also feel like i have hit a wall and i am wondering if anyone can help me out or if anyone has been in the same situation: I have been teaching for about 2 years and i have hit a point when i would like to start controling my ki more or at lease have a larger increase in power more on in inner level then on a physical level and i have found it hard to talk to people about it with out getting some wierd looks. I guess many people see the martial arts as a strictly physical activity not as a way of life as it was intended. Does anyone else feel that frustration. I feel to many people lack serious dedication Thanks