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Well Pont sparring has a nice place in every class. Its good for kids. Its good for older people. It good to warm up and play arround with. To say it is useless is like saying the jab is useless because I don't like it. Everything has a use reguardless how much we use it. Now with that said full contact is nice but at the same time if you go FULL CONTACT. Someone gets hurt. No if and or buts about it. When I was in HS me and some of my friends thought we were going to do FULL CONTACT. I broke my friends ribs he was spitting up blood. I got my nose busted many times, we has several other guys get KO'ed. Full Contact is no joke and you can not practice it because someone will get hurt bad. Bottom line. Now Semi Full Contact where you hit enough to sting but you don't try and hurt. We do something called Shock. Meaning if I hit you and it was a bit hard and I see you are dazed or short of wind. I stop. Shotokan teaches One Punch one Kill. We pride oursleves on our power. Just like MT does. I know that if I hit anyone with a side thrust kick or a elbow they are going down. No questions and my power is not as good now as it was 3 years ago when I was training everyday and not teaching. You need full contact to let you know what its like to get hit but at the same time it has to be done only when both people can defend themselves and between friends who wil not try and hurt the other person. Also there is one other thing in play here. I don't care how much you train and what style you do. If you got a glass jaw their is not much you can do. So Full Contact is not for everyone and IMO if you do it everyday all the time it won't be for you for long either. (if you are really doing full contact) There is a reason boxers and other top fighters only fight 2 or 3 times a year.

MT Some of the thing we worked on. Lots and lots of wrist locks and Hapkido type escapes and locks. We tied in weight traing as part fo her in class training. When we did kicks or kata or something she obviously could not do. (we did make her a kata BTW) She would be doing arm curls, wrist curls, tricep work, wroking on her grip, etc. Because she could not change postions she had to have good strengh to match a male attacker. We also work with her on how to use her chair as a weapon. From running over toes, bumping into shins, using it as a shield etc.... Pressure Points were also a big part of the work we done. As was "dirty moves" 1. Such as Spitting in the eyes (gross but effective - she could laungh some lugies LOL) 2. Biting 3. Pinching 4. Groing Grabs and Pulls Then other simple things about being smart. She was a college student so she always had bag on her chair for books. She kept mace and a batton on her key chain she could get to quick. She got good with the batton. Although I had never worked with one nor had my Sensei we worked with her and she was very falsh with it. If you have ever played with a batton you know they pack a punch. As far as chokes thats really no problem. A front choke knock the arms off and roll back. A rear choke means they are bent over and off balance and you can back over them. Again train the mind before you train the body. Your questions had merit but you attitued in not just this post but many others makes you a prime target its not that MT is not a great art its just that their are many other just as good. There are many ways to get to the top of the mountian. If you want to get there quick MT is a good way but I like to see the trees as I climb up and understand how they grow and see other hikers and other ways back down if I get in troulbe. Again seeing the big picture is great but the little pictures that help make it up offer a lot as well. Keep an open mind and don't rush to words or the response like you got here will happen again.

Durring college I helped my Sensei develope a self-defense program for a lady in a wheelchair. They are not going to win the UFC but self defense can be done. Just because the body don't work don't mean the mind, don't. The mind is the most dangerous weapon and the true martial artist knows this.

Well time has a lot to do with the number of Kuy ransk you start at. We have 8 kuy ranks. Most have 10. Some have 12 or more. So if you say three months at any given Kuy rank you can see a year being added to anyones time in training.

Your not going to pick up rocks with it or anything but it is real and can be felt.

There is a lot to be learned from point sparring but because you are good at it don't assume you are good at full contact. They are much differant. Read other posts on this topic.

Full Contact or Semi Full Contact. I hate point sparring. Everyone wants to label Shotokan as a point system because its a traditional art. Fact is Shotokan is very physical espically when it come to sparring. Point Sparring IMO will get people hurt. Its one thing to land a back fist half a second before I land a elbow. You get the point but if we trade in real life I win. I think Point sparring builds false confidence. Now with that said this is where Shotokan gets its critics. Because of the great power we work on developing we don't usually free spar until the later ranks because it is so eaisy to get hurt. We spend our early days learing control so we dont hurt each other. Speed + Techinque = Power Speed is all you need to be a good point fighter.

If the mind is not right the body don't matter. Like I tell people lifting weights the workout you do don't matter if you do it with intensity. Just like the art don't matter if you buy into it. The body can be beaten but if the mind is still alive you win. Only when the mind is beaten do you loose.

Ended my Football playing days. Never would quit karate for anything. Despite any injury it is possilbe to train and learn.

I don't know that ingrown toenails is embarassing as much as they are painful. I had one and almost never got it better cause people kept stepping on it in class. You got to like youself before others will like you. No big deal. Go to class learn and have fun.

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Honor other ranks yes. If a person comes to class with a rank in another style they are welcome to wear that rank as long as they wish. However they are expected to fall into our pecking order based on rank. Its sort of a gray area. Our low ranks are to respect them but at the same time we do things a certin way they can learn from our low ranks. So to answer you question yes. NOTE: A person can't come into my class with a brwon belt in TKD and test for a black belt in Shotokan.

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If you were to change styles it would be differant but being in the same school and of course the same style they should allow you to pick up where you left off.

Should be. Most styles let you pick up where you left off. If you change schools you may need some proof of training such as a letter from your old teacher or certificate or just a time period to show you are up to speed.

I agree as well Hapkido is very balanced and would mix well with most other arts.

Nope In Karate they say you must do a Kata 10,000 times to learn it.

Today is March 8th. I joined or found KF on March 30th last year. It has been a good year. I normaly don't make posts like this so I choose to place it in my first post. That way I can come back year after year and see where I am at. I had planned on hitting this mark on the 30th but I could nto slow down. So my 1500th post is this one. It took me less than a year. Im still upset I did not get to see my Red or Brown belts. LOL. But ole Pat let me see the Purple one for a few days. LOL. This is just a way for me to keep track of when I hit certin milestones. Se next year at this time I hope to be at 3000 or so.

LOL BKJ1216 if you can pick up women with that Ive been going about it the wrong way. LOL.

Anytime I do bag work I do. AC/DC man ROCK ON..... WWWWOOOOO.....

There is a book sold in Century that is called something like Martial Arts and Weight Training. In the book it lists workouts for Karate, TKD, JUDO, and other forms of MA that focus on differant ideas. Its a book worth having for referance material for students but if you have any weight training exp. you can do without it. Being a football coach I have been arround a lot of good workouts. I have always seen that when people work hard it don't matter what lifts they do. On the flip side when they don't go so hard they don't get bigger or stronger. So to answer your question it really don't matter. However I would focus on the 2 big lifts that is a staple of every weight program Bench Press and Squats.

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IMO any black belt with the blessing of his or her Sensei can open a dojo. The key words being the blessing of their teacher. There is a differance in beling a black belt as and being able to teach. I would sugest you get a 2nd Dan before trying to open a dojo but a 1st will work as long as you work close with you teacher. Because their are still some things you don't know and will have trouble with espically when it comes to teaching higher ranks. EX: I will never win a a black belt tournment. However I think I am a very good teacher.