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My old TSD instructor did (for BB's, that is). Of course you had to show that you knew your stuff (ability, certs, ect). He honored TKD, karate, or a similar art's rank. He would give you a certian amount of time to learn TSD forms, and stuff. Then he would re-test you for the same rank in TSD. For color belt ranks, he would start you at white belt, but allow you to double test till you got to your old rank as long as you knew the material. My TKD school starts everone at white belt (except Heidi LOL), but they advance you faster. I made it to blue belt in a year. Now that's fast! LOL. But now I'm going back to normal speed. It's taking me three months to get to high blue (pretty normal, I think).

When I meditate, I don't think about anything. Before class, it's time to clear my mind. I do Danjun breathing. I actually "see" my mind clearing ..... weird, but it's true. After class, I reflect on what we did in class.

I did a hook kick during breaking class last monday (with my front leg). The board broke like a twig. There was no effort on my part, except just doing the technique. So, I would advise on just praticing the technique over and over, like I did. I also do it during sparring, and no one knows its coming. Because it looks like a side kick when I start out. Then I bring my heal up to thier head, and WHAP! I nail them. Practice makes perfect

I do it like a tornado kick (360 cresent). Except that I land on my kicking leg, basically like you were taught. But I'm trying to do it with a roundhouse kick, but you have to turn your hip over more, and have a lot of speed to land on your kicking leg. Check out https://www.bilang.com for trick kicks

I really enjoyed Tang Soo Do. I joined for self defense, and I did get it. But it was a "hybrid" (sp?) style of TSD, because we learned TSD forms and one steps, but with Combat Hapkido self defense with a mix of Muay Thai kick boxing. I thought it was awsome. If you ever watch me spar, I do Muay Thai low kicks, and cut kicks, but I do the typical korean style high kicks. It looks weird, but that's how I learned. Not much ground work, though. That's why I did jujitsu for a while (which was taught in the same dojang, different instructor). My TKD dojang is much to be desired. I do enjoy the high kicks (any kicking actually ), and the Chin Na (when they do teach it), but it isn't much for self defense. Judo, well when I get my butt outta bed for it on a saturday morning is great. I see a lot of joint locks, ground fighting, ect. But I'm only a white belt, so I still work on falls LOL.

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It's best not to tell people you are in MA. My close friends know, but most of them are in MA anyways. My boss knows cause I b**** if I can't go to class, because I have to work (plus my boss is related to my instructor. She knows anyhow). I did have a similar situation when I was still in NJ. I was studying TSD, and I worked in an auto part store (delievery driver). One of the other drivers found out I did MA and he kept "testing" me. He did his "fake punches" and all. I egnored him till he came at me with a box cutter. I side kicked him brushing his shirt. I didn't want to hurt him, just give him a "warning." It worked

Done hehehehehe. Ok back to the subject. I totally agree with Sub. Thai boxing and Kickboxing is similar. Both kick, and punch, but Thai boxers use knees and elbows. It does depend on the rules, somewhat. I do agree with that. I think if I sparred with TSD rules against a WTF'er, I'd win. Only because TSD rules allow hand techniques and head contact. But If I did the same under WTF rules, I'd loose. Because no hand techniques are allowed, and I'm much faster with my hands than I am with my feet. I do WTF now, too! I stink at WTF sparring, but in TSD, I'm good at it. So it all depends on the fighter. In the street, there are no rules. If you train hard, and work hard, you will be a good fighter. So train hard!

I always say that because my TSD instructor told us a story similar to that quote I think I might put that in my sig

It was so much fun. My dojang has breaking week every year (around march). I want to go to class this morning, since I didn't get my butt outta bed for Judo. It's the last day of breaking.

I personally use Martial Info a lot (https://www.martialinfo.com). You can search schools, org's, styles, ect. I did a lot of research starting from Martial Info. It has links to a lot of good stuff (depending on what you are looking for). Or like Patrick said, a good ol' Google search does the trick as well.

I was 24, then turned 25 soon there after (two months).

I'm not a fan of sparring, so I'd rather do forms LOL. Or like this past week, we did breaking woooohoooo!!!!

I'm with Korean term. In TSD, I was taught A LOT of it. In TKD, we don't use most of what I have learned, but I still keep up with it. Because I know that if I were to go to another TSD or TKD school, and they also use Korean term, I would know what move they wanted. In english, it's different. For example: in TSD, we said roundhouse kick. In TKD, we say turning kick. Guess what? It's the same in Korean (dollyo chaki)

Heidi, you took my answer LOL. I did a little thai boxing. Great workout and very straight forward kinda martial art. Lots of knees, elbows, and punches. Oh and kicks LOL.

Hiya. I do Judo also. I only had three classes though. My fourth is on saturday. Maybe we can help each other out since we are both beginners. Welcome to the forums

It's not the martial art, it's the martial artist Enough said from me

Sorry, I'm new to the term. How would I go about doing that? Changing to "warm" as you put it.

I agree Ken. That's how I learned it in Tang Soo Do. I havn't learned in in TKD yet, so I can't comment on differences. I haven't done a wheel kick in so long, I prolly forgot anyways LOL.

No, it cool. Good idea. I like to chat, also. What does the others think? Comments anyone?

My Tang Soo Do dojang used to split everything up evenly. We do forms, at least twice a week. We do self defense twice a week (usually on thursdays and fridays .... they were my fav classes), and sparring and one steps twice a week. Our classes were and hour and fifteen minutes. The extra fifteen minutes was for warming up. Then he split the classes up. We would do forms for 15 minutes to a half hour (depending on how many students and/or ranks). Then we do self defense, and maybe spar at the end of class. Or we do self defense, one steps, and something else. It depended on the instructors mood LOL. But he mixed it up pretty good, so we'd get a chance to do everything twice a week.

Good advice, Crash. SoulAssassin, as far as the forms go, I did Tang Soo Do also. Does Pyung ahn ring a bell? or Bassai? Just curious.

Good idea, Sub

Hiya all. This is a very interesting thread. I just started to read stuff on Ki. Just the little I know now, I know I have too much Yin (negitive energy). Jerry, can you help me with this?

Same here. Good thread. My TKD school does everything on the right side (like step sparring, ect). My TSD school did both sides. Since I been here, my left side suffered I can kick head height with my right, but not my left