karatekid1975

I agree with Koreantiger. I've been researching different schools and their requirements (WTF). Most of them have the Taeguks, and the WTF style rules for sparring, and step sparring (although they are different from school to school). Some are sport. Some have the freedom to teach self defense how ever they like. I'm kinda likin this idea. If I ever open my own school under the WTF, I will have the freedom to teach self defense in what is known as a martial sport style. My students will have the best of both worlds

I usually don't eat heavy meals like that no less than two hours before class. Specially Judo. But in TKD, we do intense warm-ups, so there is the same. But if that's not a problem, it might because you are just not used to rolls and stuff. Before going into a roll, focus on a point somewhere ahead of you (another student, something on the wall, ect). Do the roll then pop your eyes back on that point. This helped me when I did it at first. Then I got used to it. I hope this helps

gheinisch, I hope spring comes soon. I never really liked cold weather, but this winter just drove me batty! ggggrrrrrr We had way over the average of snow fall. bbbbbrrrrrrrrrrr I am from NJ where snow was almost none. But the cold was just as bad. I can't get away from it LOL

You got it, too huh? We got slammed last night , too. ggggrrrrrrrrr I live three to four hours from Kickchick. When one of us gets hit, the other feels it LOL

In my dojang, we start sparring at yellow belt. Light contact with gear. White belts "mimic" sparring with no contact or pad drills only. My second advanced class was full contact sparring (with gear). I don't know if it just happened that way, or a normal thing, though. The black belts spar full contact all the time except if they are paired with a lower rank. I don't care either way. It depends how my partner spars. If they are light, I'll spar that way. If they wanna go at it full contact, I will too

In the small area I live in, there's only about 4 dojangs. Mine (TKD and Tai Chi) Tat Soo Do ( not sure of the spelling ... newer style created up here) Judo (at the Y, which I now take) Some kind of McDojo mixed art. With a 25 year old grandmaster. The city of Rochester has a lot. Shotokan Isshin Ryu Jujitsu BJJ Judo/Sambo Boxing Kickboxing TKD (on every corner form WTF to MDK) Another karate style that I can't remember. Kali Philipino karate/weapons (can't remeber the name). And probably others I don't remember or know of. But no Hapkido or Tang Soo Do

We need more Tai Chi peoples here. Welcome

Hehehehe you admit it LOL Just kidding I'll check out the book.

I'm about 40 (depending on what area of the city) minutes south of Rochester New York (upstate). A town called Canandaigua. Yea, a mouth full to pronounce LOL.

OMG!!! I didn't even get to chokes yet!

I did Shotokan with my buddy Ann. She is now a yellow belt. I found that it was similar to TSD. Which both styles do the same forms, but Shotokan goes deeper into the forms (kata). I thought pyung ahn cho dan (hien sho dan) was a simple form ..... not. Her instructor showed me so much bunkai in that form. It just totally blew me away. My TSD instructor showed us stuff within the forms, but nothing like this Shotokan teacher did P.S. at testing, they do fight full contact. If her school wasn't so dang far away, I would have joined with her.

I think TKD and Judo go good together. But I am sore from breakfalls LOL You might want to look into a YMCA. There is no Judo here either .... so I thought. I learned about Judo in the YMCA through word of mouth. Lucky find, I guess.

Welcome to the boards

I when I did TSD, we practiced ALL the forms. We were also tested on ALL of them. In my TKD dojang we practice all of them. We have to know all of them. Because at testing, we don't do all of them, but we don't know which form the instructor will test us on. He'll just randomly pick a few.

We are with the WTF. I don't think the assn's matter or the style. It's the person training in that style that really matters.

I agree, G. Practice, practice, and more practice

Same here. I learned that in TSD. But my TKD dojang uses these type of kicks also. On a side note. My TKD school doesn't use much of the arial kicks. High kicks, yes. But I like doing the arial kicks just to say "I can do that." But I wouldn't use them in a sparring or self defense situation. They are just for "flash." That's it

* you say to the salesman in the men's store, "Nice pants, but I don't think I can kick in them."* Yes, I have done this. * when you say "I'm sorry," and involuntarily bow.* Yes, I have done this also ...... many times. * you go to the shoe store to try on shoes... -Instead of walking or jogging around the store, you practice pivoting, sweeps, stances and kicks. -You check to see if the shoe has a sufficiently hard striking surface and whether it protects the toes well, or that it is soft enough to use your natural striking surfaces. -and lastly, you don't even care if (and they probably are) the other patrons are looking at you funny.* So that's why they were looking at me funny ..... ok, I get it now * Now when every time you pass a wall you start to wonder:'Is that structural or drywall?' THEN you know you've gone overboard.* Overboard???? Really? Does that make me nuts ????? hehehehe * When you hit your head on a low doorway or ceiling and kick it in anger and _damage_ it.* I'm not tall enough, but I have it my elbow on something and automatically "counter attacked" an object. * "GAK! NO! The *left* side of the bathrobe goes on top...."* Well it's true! ..... right????? * when you use various strikes to turn lights off and on;* Hehehehehe. I like the axe kick or backfist .... depending on the switch. * don your clothing with kicks, thrusts, and punches* Hey, if you can't move in them as if you were in a dobok, why where them. * open and close doors with spinning kicks* Well, my hands were full. I had no choice. * can't walk by anybody else from your school without casually exchanging a flurry of mock strikes and kicks* Well, they started it, darn it! * leap to your feet and shriek with indignation while watching "Kung Fu", "Walker, Texas Ranger", and "Highlander" at home* It's not my falt they did a bad technique LOL * try to backfist the correct floor button on the inside of the elevator, based on your memory of the button's location, before you get in far enough to see it* Is that bad? * notice you never stand with your arms crossed or your hands in your pockets* This is definitely not a bad thing * buy shoes either because they're particularly flexible or have steel toes* I like the flexible ones * have begun to master the reflex to commit a very messy homicide when, directly after someone finds out you practice martial arts, they immediately ask "Are you a Black Belt ???"* I can think of a few, yes * feel an urge to bow every time you enter or leave a room* Yes, and I have even if I wasn't at the dojang. * When standing in line you find yourself practicing some stance from your art* Yes, in the grocery store. * When you don't use any tools while splitting firewood.* I do use tools, but I think of how I can put "hip" into it * When you are introduced to someone and you bow to greet them.* Been there, done that. OMG!!!! Have I lost it?????? Am I addicted???? What would you call a meeting for MA addicts? Instead of AA, would it be MA-AA???

I agree, Sai. The forms are the same (except for a few minor differences). I did TSD, and I showed my friend Ann, who does Shotokan, how to do her first three forms (she only needs to know two).

I do TKD and Judo. I think it works well. I also have done TSD and Jujitsu in the past.

Welcome

Welcome. I'm glad ya enjoy it so far.

Welcome

Same here. I shouldn't have "dissed" my TKD dojang, but in a way I was right. But I was wrong at the same time. It's not a bad dojang. They do teach good stuff, but as far as self defense, they make us wait till red belt to learn self defense, take-downs, ect. If I were in it for sport, and wanted a little bit of self defense, it would be an ideal dojang. But I'm in it for self defense, not sport. So, what they lack, I'm learning in Judo. It just took me awhile to "wake-up" so-to-speak to why they teach the way they do. My instructor (TKD) is very big on basics. He wants us to have strong basics. Which there is nothing wrong with that. I like the saying that goes: "Be affraid of the man who practiced a few techniques a thousand times, than the man who knows thousands of techniques and mastered none."

I do TKD, and I can do the high flying kicks. But I didn't learn them in TKD. I learned them in TSD. My TKD school isn't very "self defense" minded. But I do have to say, they do drill the basics. My TSD dojang was very self defense minded, but they still taught all those cool kicks I got the best of both worlds there