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The SKA shotokan guys I've worked with are very narrow in their stance. Being from a JKA background and niw FSKA we are much more square. I understand the SKA logic but IMO it's not as good in real life as it is in tournament point attacks. Nothing else negative I can say. That's not negative just a disagree,net in opinion.

I have never asked students to do push ups or set ups or run. IMO they pay me to teach karate and I'll teach muscle development through martial exercises. I've always had a problem with paying to learn to do jumping jacks lol

We often warm up with kata on a count as a group. We espically do this on days we are going to focus more on basics, self defense or sparring. Likewise I also use it as a cool down exercise on those days.

We train one step 2-3 times per month We do 3 or 5 step probably double that, just becomes of newer students One step is more beneficial IMO

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I think the changes happens for a few reasons 1. Age - assuming we study a give style our entire life we should be more physically fit and healthy in that 18-32 age area. When we were younger we may not have had the strength or when we were older the speed, flexibility, reflexes etc. 2. Mental growth - because the more we study the more we understand what we are doing and how to do it. Let me be clear I, nit taking about Kia or th force. However mover application and body alignment can allow a older person to preform better because they are maximizing all their ability. This is also a reason I don't allow black belts under the age of 15 I know now that I'll never do what I did 15 years ago but that don't make me a worse martial artist. No matter how hard I train things get sore quicker and pain lasts longer lol. However, I find myself moving with greater efficiency and I have became much more precise and l as wreckers with age Long story short if your no changing or adapting your not growing. My karate is not your karate althoughwe train the sa,e style from the same teacher in the same dojo. We must adapt to fit our body, age, ability, handicap, lifestyle, environment, laws, etc

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First the student must have a physical ability to do the technique. They don't have to win every match but they should be able to defend their life if needed. Second their has to be a working knowledge of the the how and why. This makes the physical possible if the student is older or something Third as stated above time. The person can't be given it but must put in hours of sweat and study. Hard work and desire can make up for the first two.

Internet is the ability to study at home. Before we had very few means to research and check our content. I agree it's a little broad.

The revelance is we needed a black hero in the civil war. Not saying he is not deserving but does his actions, deeds, and bravery exceede the others I listed? My answer is no but your free to disagree.

Douglas was a great man but IMO not the most important by any means. Don't get me wrong, I like the guy but would things have turned out the same without him? I'll venture to say yes. Douglas himself said John Brown was much more important in regards to abolition. Wendell Phillips, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Thadius Stevenson, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, William Lloyd Garriaon, Dread Scott, Daniel Webster, William Seward are all much less famous who played a huge part in abolition If Douglas had not been a runaway slave, do you think he would be as famous than those listed? I do not mean that in a racist tone by any means But those list d above moved the public bar to where the anti-slavery movement really had a platform both politically but more so emotionally.

Sounds lik a combo of Ganganku and Heian Yondan from the Shotokan schoolse

ALICE Is the system we took the training under.

If you can exit the building and run absolutely. I was referring tithe old option of hiding in a corner or closet vs spreading out and attacking the gunman. No question that when it's real it changes the emotion but that's the point. If the shooter can aim while we hide under desks he will kill us. If he has to react to getting hit with books he is less lily to hit his targets.