mary_jane

For kyokushin---left.

Elila, what style are you training in if I may ask??

Cool. Thanks for all the answers.

Check out http://www.kyokushin.ca and go to Dojos on the menu at the top of the page. I'm sure you'll find one in your area and I hope you join up!!!

I usually spar with women, but do spar with the younger guys on occasion!!! I'm a pretty low belt, so when I spar with the guys they tend not to throw too many punches or kicks, which makes things pretty boring!!! There is an older brown belt I spar with regularly who I always have a good time with, he's not afraid to throw a punch or kick my way.

Good answer.

Having to fight anyone who knew what they were doing.

In kyokushin if you leave for a year you must return at white belt, I hope I have that right. Do all systems have a similar rule? What is the longest you are allowed to be absent from training to still be able to hold the same belt level?

Well, I drive a half hour to go to school every day so I would think I would be able to commute at least that much to go to a good training hall. Luckily, my dojo is a ten minute walk away.

Yes, I can see that it would be difficult to teach how to use presuure points when fighting. I would not think that memorizing any text book would be useful, but memorizing a specific chart and going over P.P.s in class I think would be better than just class work.

That really hurt my feelings...

I hate how everyone says the stuff he says now!!!!

Yes, I played soccer before karate as well. I think that is maybe why my kicks are not super-weak now, I just need more flexability to get the kicks higher!

I hate when parents "get weird" about their kids!!! They want them to be perfect and then when they aren't, they complain to the wrong person!! Maybe they should brush up on their parenting skills if their children aren't meeting up to their demands!!!

It should have been made into a redneck joke, that would have been kind of funny.

In big cities where there are tons of buskers sometimes during the year you do need a liscence, but in small towns I don't think they'd care.

Three days a week, two hours a time at kyokushin karate.

In the books I have gotten about karate and kyokushin karate I have found that none of them talk about pressure points. Furthermore, that none of them have "charts" for pressure points laying out the most common and effective. The books that I have gotten are older books as well, are pressure points a newer thing and is that why my books do not speak of them? In Sosai Mas Oyama's books there is no mention of pressure points. Thank you for your information!!!

Orange belt, but testing the end of this month!!!!!!!!

Firstly, what is the definition of a pressure point? Secondly, are their ridgid requirements for places that could be called pressure points or can it be virtually any point on the body? Is there a set number of pressure point on the human body? If pressure points are an effective way of causing an opponent pain, then why are they not used more outside of self-defense? Thank you!!!