Kieran-Lilith

They're longer than that. They're long enough that even if I lock my knees out and stand straight up they're just about brushing the floor.

I have been a loyal Mac user since age 6, and I wouldn't give up my precious Mac for any other computer. I just can't understand the other ones...

I've come to the conclusion that I need mine hemmed. They're fun to move in, except for the first half hour/hour, everytime I had to sit down, stand up, or something like that, I would managed to slip on the material and fall down, get my toes caught and fall down, or be standing up, have material get caught (again...) and end up almost face flat on the ground. I think it means they're just too long...I suppose it could mean, though, that I'm incredibly clumsy.

That was going to be my next question, thanks. Training went well, but now (of course) the hakama is dirty...and besides needing to clean it, I have to figure out how to fold it properly. I have pictures and diagrams, but I cannot get it to work for the life of me. Ah well. It'll come eventually....

I'm not a senior student...or I might be, depends on what you call senior...I'm past the point most people drop out, let's put it that way. The other students have no business making fun of you. You have a right to be there and train, and if you're more dedicated than they are, then that's not your problem. What is your problem is their remarks and comments because they affect your training mentality. To me, it almost sounds like high school. And as I am a high schooler, I know the pains of that. Have you tried talking to the people who make comments? My other suggestion would be to work with them. Break up their little groups and work with them one on one. If you're good and can correct them where they need it, be kind about it, be a friend, essentially, then they almost will have to have respect for you. When we get new guys in the dojo, it usually seems to me like they look at me, the teenage girl, and think "Oh, look, a girl. How cute. It's so sweet she thinks she can do anything." So, I suppose my advice would be talking to them, respecting them, and being kind to them at all times. Even if they bug the heck out of you, even if they're rude and crude back, even if they're absolute jerks....most people can't help but respect someone who is kind and helps everyone, especially in today's world. I wish you luck.

Gah. The one day I'm gone from the forums, everybody talks! Sensei Dave, I think Sensei graduated. I know the class gave him a graduation present, at least. I, too, would love to see that book...What's the blue book? I'll be back later...maybe...I just got home from work (at 11:00 pm...) so maybe not.

True....but to my knowledge, I am the only girl doing the training. It really is kind of akward to have to ask a guy how to put on your pants.

I don't know where else to put this, so.... Today, I got my first hakama for some training we're doing on Sunday. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to put them on. Could someone please tell me how so I don't have to ask?

You know, I think it's almost easier to start when you're older...you aren't so blindly accepting, you can question more, and because you question more, you can understand more. We teens are the lucky ones. We still have our whole lives in front of us to question and wonder.... I'm 16, got into this when I was 14. Really, no age is too old to start. I mean, that's like saying you're too old to believe in fairires and Never Never Land!

You know, I almost feel bad about this.... I said five foot spider, which everybody remembered. You forgot the "you were one inch tall" part.

We get our packets, yeah. They just have things we need to know, like vocab, etc. It's useful, and I have one packet that's been folded, highlighted, and marked all over in the process of my studying for tests. It's really quite pretty, now.

No offense taken here. I think the non-Eugue Ryu karateka are pretty much ignoring this thread... Anyway, I'm not a shodan, I'm just a gokyu. I wonder how the Texas school is different...hmm...You guys have all the belt colors that we do? We have white-yellow-orange-blue-green-purple-brown (3)-brown (2)-brown (1)-black. Then the blacks change eventually, but that's not the point right now. If the book has a lot of judo in it, I would lean towards it being made by Sensei Adams. I wonder if we're going to have anymore unknown Eugue Ryu dojo pop up? Where is K.C.?

Ping Ahn, in what I think is TKD. When I was about 10, I went to a martial arts school that had "Patterns" (which I now know are kata). Pattern #6 (as I also later found) was Ping Ahn number three....or, Heian Sandan. I finally found the old kata list, and I decided after comparing its kata list to the standard TKD list that that school had to have been TKD...you know, it's funny, but I don't think we were ever told WHAT we were studying...we all called it karate. In my own school, we have Pinan instead of Heian, but we're a heavily Japanese-influenced karate school.

Huh. You learn something new every day. We don't promote really fast, though. You can't get to shodan in less than five years here (Wapak, Ohio). Five years is the minimum, and it usually takes more.

Hey! I'll point out that I'm a girl, not a guy. But I'm a teenage girl (one of the non-anorexic ones), and thus, I like food. Has anyone thought of what's for desert?

I didn't know we had a school in Texas...Sensei Dave, did you? I don't think we do, but it's quite possible I'm wrong. Yes, our school definitely teaches humility...you can rarely base what's true in one school as a rule for the masses, though. Everything is normally school dependent.

Hey, what about the ribs?

Awww...poor spider...it's more afraid of you than you are of it. After all, how would you feel if you were an inch tall looking up at a 5 foot spider?

Wow. Somebody actually went back to the point of this thread... Thank you, bushido_man96, I think I'd forgotten this thread was not about a cook-out (and food).

Hi Sensei Hunter! Nice to meet you.

Awww...okay! More food for us!

Glad to hear the little one is doing well. I split my head open when I was around that age. My grandma had a phone shaped like a teddy bear, and my dad was talking on it. I wanted to listen to the conversation and play with the phone (it looked like a teddy bear, I couldn't help it!). I was wearing socks while standing on the leather couch, and I fell off the leather couch and cracked my head open on the glass table. My grandmother hid the phone in a closet until I was 10. Seemed to think I would crack my head open again....

You can't put the food in that! Then the underage kids can't eat it! Only an incredibly cruel person would deprive constantly starving teens of food....

Highschool years are Freshman (9th grade), Sophomore (10th grade), Junior (11th grade), and Senior (12th grade).

I'm just a weird girl, what can I say? In our dojo, it's never been half and half, from what I've seen, and I've been there two years, almost. As it is, I'm the only teenage girl, we have a few adult women, and there's usually around 3-7 younger girls. Most of our women are in the aikido class our sensei offers. I'm just counting the karate classes because that's what I do...though I kinda do aikido, I'm not to great at it. I rely on strength and power too much. Rateh, your teacher hasn't met many girls like me, has he? I'm one of the few girls (it seems) that has always had natural strength and a more boyish frame, thus, I rely upon strength. In my old McDojo it worked just fine....ah well. True martial arts is worth learning to be gentle. Oh, and I agree with KarateK, too. I'm trying to keep out of that "friend" zone. Before and after class I might kid with the kiddies...during class I have to remember to be mostly serious. My biggest fear with them is that they might fear me because of my rank, age, and height. One of the other students in the dojo got the kids to fear him (on purpose or accident I don't know, but I don't think he likes it) and the little ones have told me that they're afraid of him. I was actually afraid of him, too, but I know him better now. Anyways, though, I don't want them to fear me being within a ten foot radius of them.