Menjo

thanks bushido_man96

lol. thanks dineshm, i guess you right since things will work themselves out anyway

Hey and thanks everyone, I guess the only left is to actually do it, which I'm planning for next week. Thanks!

Thanks ps1, it was thrown into the garbage by mistake.

I'm leaning more and more into telling him what happened, thanks again.

menjo

After going through my black belt examination my instructor gave me a black belt from his youth, and in the end the only thing I can say is: I lost it after a year or so.

I Once got mud on it and he was seriously annoyed.

In fact its been months since this event and I haven't found the strength or the balls to go back without it, what do I do?

Shotokan Dan Ranking

These are the rules that the JKA goes by for dan rankings. Certain amount of years have to be spent in each aswell.

2nd Dan

"Examiners test for understanding and proficiency in the foundational techniques of karate."

3rd Dan

"Examiners test for understanding and proficiency in the standard techniques of karate."

4th Dan

"Examiners test for understanding and mastery of all karate techniques; for an understanding of the philosophy of karate; for an ability to apply these fundamentals and functional aspects in practice; and for an ability to instruct"

5th Dan

"Examiners test for high-level mastery of karate techniques, and the ability to apply technique in one’s own unique way"

6th and 7th Dan

"Must demonstrate extensive, matured mastery of both the physical and mental aspects of karate training"

8th 9th and 10th Dan

"Must demonstrate total mastery of karate, both physical and mental, and show an extraordinary level of spiritual development"

***Also a 1st Dan usually isnt required to preform Unsu for thier 2nd Dan grading. Katas used instead are the four basic starting black belt kata, with a choice to choose several more if you know them.

The katas are grouped up according to difficulty and I think until 3rd or 4th is the practitioner supposed to be completely ready for any kata.

One method is to hypertrain your body but to keep it short, you could try sprinting up stairs, hill sprints...ect.

Not because this will develop speed but your muscles will have less difficulty dealing with each pound pressing down on them. That way, your breathing and heart also have a better time.

Just training for running by doing that specific exercise may be good for long term results, however if you want maximum results within minimum time, overtrain all the muscles involved and give the ones you need a rest well before the race.

Instead of one well trained muscle(which takes a long time), you have a team of muscles indirectly directing all the energy to your main muscle group.

Basicly, what you lack in technique and experiance, you can make up in sheer energy and conditioning or body connection. It would take a week max to be ready to use this type of method. The downfall is that by the end of the race youll probably feel totally exausted.

2 days rest for the main group, 1 day rest for the others starting on the first day for the main group.

What do I have to support this?

1.) Its well known fast twitch muscles are the deciding factor to how fast an athlete builds results. develop fast twitch muscles in your less specific goaled muscles and built up muscle there is just like how knee muscles can support a weak knee joint. These small muscles are much more sensitive to overtraining and thus faster results.

2.)Without support, your body will feel the stress of the situation, suddently, your training time will be doubled and youll feel 30 pounds heavier. You can minimize it with fast twitch mucles fibers, that support it through the difficult times.

Hi Menjo,

I'm really glad you're ok.

I really must commend you for telling the instructor too.

Too many people keep quiet about these sorts of things... the person gets away with it and they can continue to upset more and more people.

It's a shame there are these sorts of people in Karate.

Thanks, Philosophical One. Its like some sort of sickness with people like that, and I just can't understand how screwed up thier morals are.

Hmmmm that is nasty.

I know who do u feel. The other day , at the university a professor grabbed my bicep and said ´´ I need some strong boys because I am gonna move to another house ´´ . I pushed his hand away and said ´´ Hey , u are touching me . I m gonna tell that to the authorities ´´ in a semi-serius tone...

He walked away....

How old are u ?

Thats unfortunate, but its good you solved it so fast, and I'm old enough not to trust people like that!

Yeesh, how awful.

Just to commiserate, I was once mistaken for a prostitute on the streets of San Francisco when I was in high school. I have no idea how this idiot thought I was a hooker because I was a very down-home, wholesome-looking girl with braids and freckles. I was standing in the doorway of my acting school waiting for my mom to meet me, and I had only been there for maybe a minute when this way older guy (he had to be at least 60) came up and told me I was very pretty and what was a "working girl" like me going for these days? I told him to go to hell and went back into the building. I never told my parents or they would have made me quit the acting program in the evil big city.

You should definitely report him to all the other dojos in your area, if not the police. Good for you for keeping your wits about you. You definitely did the right thing.

That sounds like heavy desperation on the old guys part.

yeah, I'll just see what happens next, because physically I dont have anything to worry about, just the wierdness.

You shouldve spit in his face though...haha.

If the same situation happend at another club, maybe it is worthwile to make it known that it is continuing to happen. Otherwise eventually, someone may take him up on his offer, and if he is as creepy as you said, maybe it won't end so well for them.

Thats a good point A_Train, I'll make sure to do so. Hopefully my instructor knows this as well and will fix it up.

Ok, I have recently learned a new lesson in life.

I'm going to Shotokan class one average night(last night) and everything is normal. As I'm approaching the door theres a member there who seemed to be staring at me alot. I sent the negative body language signs as to let him know I'm only friends in terms of fellow karateka.

This is where it gets, creepy, strange, and for me, downright terrifying. This isnt for the faint of heart! Firstly, hes over 40 years older than me. Secondly, were both guys and theirs nothing wrong with that, but he should know better than that.

He comes up to me and asks some questions about Heian Nidan, I answered them with ease and let him knew I was open to kata questions. He then says that he wants private instruction, really just one on one training. A reasonable concern, "theres sunday free workouts availible" I replied, but then he said he was to tired. Its gets worse...

Anyway then he offers me MONEY to go to HIS CONDO in some REMOTE LOCATION. At this point my spidy sense are really tingling here.

Then he offers me a lift home and WANTS TO KNOW WHERE I LIVE...

I told him I lived somewhere in the city so he would never find out.

Then hes like, well moneys really not an issue, I could pay you as much as you want. Anyway, I said I'd think about it, sent him negative signs with body language to show I'm not homosexual at all, mentioned my girlfriend and walked home.

I told my family everything and they said I did the right thing, but its hard to sleep with something like that happening.

I told my instructor and hes going to take care of it.

Turns out he was KICKED OUT of another club close by, probably hitting on other high school students....hes over 60 by the way. Whatever the case, its not his first time.

Anyway thanks for reading this, If anything like this has happened to you, then post your story.

Its always good to know what situations predators may create to get the upper hand and have thier way, I know I'll always be ready.

If there was talent this butcher did have...

:lol:

Sorry you had to go through that.

Thanks, although, I'll admit I probably did overeact alot!

HAHA, yes it hurt ALOT. My experiance was with a student doctor who when he was putting them in my head (after it was cracked open I waited a quick 3 hours when I was 8 ) and he says "oops" right out loud and

1: stuck the sharp part under the wrong area of skin and didnt try to take and left it in, because it was one of those dissovling ones.

2: Turns out, it wasnt a dissovling one and it the skin healed over it and they had to tear skin to get to it.

and finally 3: If there was talent this butcher did have was that he knew how to make a needle insertion feel much longer than it actually was with this sort of slow driving technique into the head.

Good times.

Your probably mentally not focused in the comfort of indoors, and outside your body is more awake so to speak.

I'm not going to disagree with you. However, you would be surprised how quickly even great standing martial artists fold under this pressure. It's not, in my opinion, because they are taught inferior techniques overall. Rather, because they don't train against people who can do what that grappler did to him. I was in a dojo that was pretty rough in terms of sparring (even groin shots were fair game). Sometimes we'd get a high school wrestler who would try to take us down. It was usually unsuccessful. However, this is because the technique of the young wrestlers wasn't good. As I mentioned earlier, when I came against a world class wrestler, I was down extremely fast. On the ground, everything changes. Especially when the opponent controls your hips.

In my opinion, if tma practitioners spent more time training with grapplers instead of bashing them, they really would learn to thwart them well and remain standing. There are plenty of guys in MMA who have realize this. Look how Randy Cotoure handled Gonzaga in the most recent UFC. He did the whole thing on his feet and from the clinch. There are plenty of others who do well and remain standing for most of the matches. They learn how to get up properly and defend the take down.

My point is this. We need to get past the idea that we already have the answer to everything and realize that we must always progress. Mastery is a journey, not a destination. And it must be maintained throughout your life. That doesn't happen by being stagnant.

You have some great points there ps1.

I'm glad you mentioned that how on the ground everything changes, even having experiance on the ground may not be enough agaisnt a world class grappler.

It comes down to the fact that the "karate" guy in the gi simply lacked any skill,

I would NEVER beleive him to be a champion of any kind of sparring, inclding point.

The reason why is he had no concept of distance, stance, hand speed, and looked like he expected the grappler to run back at the start.

The karate guy from the looks of it, never had a day of REAL training in his life, if he did, he is naturally made to never reach a certain level unless he changes his living habits.

That or hes just a fool.

rivalry is the most important in a teachers experience, especially young teachers. this is how the arts get developed, one guy says, you know i think i can beat this guy. i was with a teacher who didnt like another one, so when he knew i was going there (to invte them to my tournament) he came. any way, long story, but the conversation became, you told one of my students i'm fat and no good. he asked him to spar now, or later he can come back. the guy (who talks lot of trash, they dont do tournament only streetfight) told him, you guys leave or i'm calling the police.

he didnt realize, he violated one important skill of becoming a teacher, which is, hold your courage when your in the presence of another teacher. john was not going to hurt him, he even said, come on we can spar light, the other guy still said, get out.

I think though that in this case the guy has a right to say no that he doesn't want to fight in front of his students. I think that actually this display was probably more beneficial to his students as he can say no that he doesn't want to fight and showed them how to deal with a conflict.

Patience to deal with the ignorant and the even more plentiful blind ignorant people, deserves respect in my opinion.

And having the courage to accept the title of cowardice or ignorance for the better good is pretty courageous in its own right.

So switching to kicks might show that maybe the other guy was not condifdent to punch, and switching itself would be losing...like two rams smashing head on until victory.

In a way, it sounds like a really honorable fight, no tricks, no numbers, just fighting in its bare form.

I've been in two highschool fights, currently a junior, and I know whenever I kick or shoot on a guy and take him to the ground, people think I had to cheat....but I guess they don't realize is that due to my training, Leg kicking and shooting have became natural reflexes.

I'm pretty sure this is what a Martial Artist wants to achieve. It may look like cheating to others, but to me..2nd nature.

Yeah, you know as well as I do that, thats just ignorance of non-martial artists.

I didn't want anyone to think that I agree there is such thing as "cheating" techniques

You have a great point too. If you know how to switch things up, when the time comes to do so, for any reason (such as grappling to avoid legal issues, or even survivng), youll be 100% prepared.

So in the end are you saying that your first option is never dealt with by your serious side, but with everyday tactics unless, it doesn't seem fit?

I guess it goes to prove that the people who usually try to give off a tough appearance really don't have much to back it up.

I don't understand what you are saying here. I try to consider everything seriously the first time, especially if someone is trying to be threatening or overbearing towards me. I don't try to act tough. I just try to be myself. I always try to be prepared and aware, though, too.

Ah, I see, I wasn't implying anything, I meant those who attack the innocent usualy dont have anything to back it. And not that you wouldnt take it seriously, but not overreat, so it was a positive statement.

Here is my interpretation of speaking of someone trying to hurt me: If you want to hurt me, I am going to try as hard as I can to make sure you get hurt. In fact, if you want to do harm to me, and resolve to do so, then I want to hurt you even more, so that you don't think that it is such a good idea to try next time. That is just the way I think, though. Sure, some will say "turn the other cheek." However, you only have two cheeks.

Interesting view bushido_man, and I think you have a good point when it comes to "turn the other cheek".

You can only turn once before you turn on your ideals again or surrender both sides of your defense, external with dealing with everyday things, and the serious side in which is only used in emergencies.

So in the end are you saying that your first option is never dealt with by your serious side, but with everyday tactics unless, it doesn't seem fit?

I guess it goes to prove that the people who usually try to give off a tough appearance really don't have much to back it up.

I also don't mind topic changes, I was just a bit confused as to what exactly was being said and where it was going.

That makes two of us.

I think the thread may be diverging here from the original ideas.

oops, sorry Baron, at least the original ones spawned a whole whack of new ones, and thats the sign of a good topic!

But I did want to ask you, maybe its cultural thing? It always seems like theres internal conflict in France and they seem to have a different attitude towards living completely. Also, did you see any martial arts centres around?

Had a skill directed training day this morning followed by more skill stuff.

4k run

800 metre sprint X3

All the basics, 20 for each.

Evening: Class, and then went home to develop stuff I learned.

If by morals you mean not trying to really hurt the other person...well, if it isn't just light sparring around but an actual fight, my favorite moral is : Do unto others so that they don't have a chance to do unto you.

ha, yeah thats a good qoute! I'll try to explain in my post below.

Sorry to be antagonistic but:

Thats terribly black and white, not everyone who has been in a real situation throws away thier morals. Not to say i think that using different technqiues is cheating at all by any means. And not to say that honor is the same thing as morals. But the implications, reply to both sets of words. Just trying to create a colourful multi-facated discussion.

What do you mean by "throwing away morals" in a fight? If you could elaborate some, I would be able to issue a better informed response.

Hmm, what I mean by that with non-offensive intentions, is trying to argue the difference in what people believe to be the result of real life experience. Some view it as thinking this way, or thinking this idea, when really we can only speak for ourselves.

Really, it is all about people's perception. Those who have never been in a fight for their life would maybe call it cheating; the others would call it surviving.

So when I read your post, which had a good point in one regard, it only gave two options of opinion. So it’s commonly agreed that people who have never been in a real life situation are usually stubborn or bull-headed about their argument, and I agree.

However just because many people who have been in real life situations think this one thing, doesn’t make it acceptable to only acknowledge that one idea of true experience.

After someone’s first real life situation, they may have found they didn't change views or had suddenly been released from their previous ignorance, but had strengthened the ideas and strived to improve them.

Simply surviving is great, but that person might find something to work on, and go long distances to improve them, and if need be, prove it through a dangerous situation if they know its a smart option.

I can see how my statement was unclear, hopefully this is better.

The point that not everyone has been in a situation where they had to test the difference between what they say and what they do, is also valid.

True, and I agree, but to only a certian extent. Theres many different views of life experiance, and its hard to find words to match all of them.