JusticeZero

Right. A lot of what Christian monks did and do do are meditative practices. "Quieting your mind" can also be viewed as "listening", and I doubt that any pastor can fault someone for something along the lines of "trying to calm their mind so that they can listen for the Holy Spirit".

rest it, use ice, wrap it to protect it, eat Jello, spend a lot of time moving the ankle (not like yanking or walking on it, just gently moving it back and forth and such to keep things moving.) I don't know how badly you sprained your ankle, but most sprains can be walked on after a day or three in my experience so far. You may want to use a cane for a few days.

"Special" stuff? I can get all the ingredients that i'm aware of at a grocery store?

Right; lately i've been having a few days of *show up to class on time by 9 AM having bicycled 7 miles in 105 F weather to get there* *stand around in the studio* *students come dragging in at 9:30*

Let us know if you have any other questions!

There are a few bad food habits that make me feel sluggish, so I wouldn't say there can't be any effect.

You would think! but that isn't actually how peoples' brains calculate that out. And if I have to explain an exercize twice because someone walked in after I set everything up, my time is indeed being wasted.

I can see applying something for being late, because there are a lot of adults that see nothing wrong with being habitually late. Low stance stuff maybe.

We don't. =) We call that "pretty normal for no contracts". in America, "by the month" is pretty standard, and a mat free tends to be pricier if you are going to a number of classes. A "contract" would be "We think you will see lots of great results, so here is a two year contract that obligates you to pay every month for classes, even if you break your leg or move out of state, with a $$$ cancellation fee for early withdrawal." Think weasel cell phone contract or lease.Learning a skill tends to be a commitment. Commitments have rewards, in this case if you already know you will be attending the class for a long time, the bulk rate is lower than the mat fee. Again, pretty typical for a martial arts school. We train to do martial arts, not oversee a complex fee schedule. Again also a reason why the bulk rate is less than the sum of the mat fees. Yeah, that list sounds pretty unreasonable. I wouldn't have a student have to buy all that stuff; depending on the art I could see the gi and the sparring gear, but paying for a manual? Optional at most and i'd only ask to recoup cost for copying and let them get their own binder; DVD? NOT a requirement definitely, gear bag? "You'll probably want a bag to put your stuff in. I can sell you one, but you can use whatever." Birthday party??? Tahwha??? All I can say is - shop around, do your research, stop into various schools to try out classes. Do not give them a penny on this class. (Possibly a mat fee in some places but no uniforms etc.) Demand straight answers. Ask us questions if you are confused by what they say.Be a good example to your child by having them see your process of finding what works best, instead of what is glitzy. Once you find a school that is a good fit, they can settle in. I think you pretty much nailed it that that school that is making outrageous claims is mostly about milking you for money rather than giving you good skills. Check out community centers and the like. Martial arts schools do not pay well enough, as a rule, to pay for the space it needs without either situating the school in very scary and low rent places or soaking the students for extra money, so a lot of people teach in parks or yoga studios and the like. Attend with your child. I can't stress this enough. A lot of people treat martial arts schools as a form of daycare dump. This act in itself waters out a lot of the benefits. Martial arts are a skill. the benefits come because learning a skill is difficult, and it is a neverending spiral of refinement that must come from within; you have to learn how to critique your own performance and constantly work on improving, not just in class but also outside of class. A family that trains together is all on the same page and can bounce feedback off each other to continually push themselves upward and forward and build stronger habits and ethics. A family that has one kid in it who goes to a special room to learn, then spends the rest of their time in a setting that might not reflect those values will not see near as much effect.

Not enough to go on. What is your diet now?

so what's this now? Trouble with belts when visiting another school on your end lately?

Sure but the flight sim has real piloting stuff. Training with no guidance is like trying to learn to fly by playing a flight sim that you created yourself without knowing how they should work.

Well, how about if you start by dissecting what happens? First __ happens, and then you respond by ___, and then you lose. Do you know what that chain of events is? If not, maybe you should find out. Have you asked the people you're sparring with what you can do to improve? Your teacher? Get someone to film you with a phone and watch your own match. Do you have a bad habit? Are you falling apart on something specific? There's always a reason, and if you address the reason you can fix it.

Well, Xingyi and Bagua are commonly paired arts that tend to be welded together quite regularly. If it's in the same school, the people there will know about connecting them. If you go to an MMA school, and they offer Muay Thai and Boxing and BJJ, that they will know about connecting them together. The relationship between those two appears to be (from what i've heard) similarly close.

Sparring without throwing a single punch or kick, just by dominating the space and moving to angles that are hard to defend.

Dunno, i'd debated on using low stancework for a similar purpose, with the idea being that they aren't doing stuff with the rest of the class, but they aren't getting to rest either.

Nifty. Toss in your two cents a bunch, we dint bite even if it might start sounding like Chiun sometimes.

It also avoids a lot of issues with "they tried to attack me, therefore it was completely reasonable to break every limb of their body then cut them twenty-eight times with a knife over the next ten minutes while they were helpless before shooting them in the head just as the police and ambulances arrived!" problems that your interpretation above would consider completely justified.

I think ive heard of somewhere that had a special belt color for such cases. (I think it might have been white, with "white belts" actually wearing an offwhite unbleached belt.) Not sure where i heard it though.

You can jimmy your body weight up and down by modifying the exercizes to change leverage and weight distribution.

@shadowspawn: Yes, or to move on. They are being used as feet, not just hands-on-the-floor, and I refer to them accordingly.

Oh, I agree. Though I was stating the backpack idea in response to.. ..for which a good frame (internal or external) backpack would be a better alternative.

Right. It's sort've like any other field. I'm working on my PhD, and I am reading ridiculous numbers of books. Some undergrad student might think that by now, I know most of the field. However, what I actually know is how little any of the people in the field know, and how long I am going to have to work to add even a paragraph or two to a typical textbook of knowledge. In a compact subfield of a pretty specific field.

Not stored of me; i'm on Skype not talking to anyone at the moment outdoors at the moment, or I can dig up something tolerably close on youtube, given all the variant substyles.

Frankly, in that situation, I can't imagine that anything would work much better than a rasteira sweep or benção para negativa which would be a... sacrifice thrust kick? The concrete is wet. He's not necessarily needing some huge mortal blow. -I- have to worry about the concrete being wet too, which means i'd rather just help him off his feet with a sweep or push kick while getting a third or fourth foot of mine on the ground so I know I won't beat myself up with the weather. My two heaviest hitting impact techniques are probably a half-moon kick - circular - and chapa de costas - linear - both with three feet on the ground and both powered by a large body drop.