G95champ

Fox News and CNN keep saying its not terrorits related which I do agree with because if he wanted to kill people he would have had much more than just a hand gun. However someone on TV said it could be a distraction attack which makes a lot of sense. I really don't look for them to try anything. I think we took there best shot by far already. However you never know. God Bless the famlies of the ones shot and hurt in LA.

One of the better MA movies of all time. I don't know if anything is better than Bloodsport but Best of the Best is good. Anyone have any others to throw up.

We call the double knife hand when we use both hand to do knife hand blocks. The one Jack is talking about is our normal knife hand postion. The Double Knife Hand is from like a Horse stance with both arms out in from pushing the attackers hands off to each side. Like from the choke as I stated above. However I am a Shotokan guy the Korean version may be under a differant name.

Last time I saw Tank fight Vetor Belfor warmed his ears up. LOL.

Yeah we are big on low stances. More than anything that low stance is to make you strong. BTW you have good balance because the stance should be as wide as it is long. When confronted by a problem and 2 possible answers are there its more likely the more simple is correct. (Auctmon (sp) Razor) that is sort of the idea behind shotokan. K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid Thus the early part of our training only consists of about 10 or 12 basic strikes as we go up in rank we add in more but it alwasy comes back to doin hundreds of reps of those basic few each class. With that said what you saw was a traditional shotokan class. As I have recently told Spinninggumby and Karatekid1975 I don't focus on that low stance as much as a true shotokan school does but we do use it. You would be shocked at how well some people can move from such a low stance. _________________ (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." [ This Message was edited by: G95champ on 2002-07-04 17:36 ]

I missed one. Back in HS we had to watch a film of a lady giving birth and yes guys women are stronger. LOL.....

There is no question England is part of our history. However with that said we don't study British history in HS or anything. Unless its just a special class offered at different schools. Most Americans look upon England as our older brother. Although he may not be as strong as he once was he is our friend and we will always stand together despite our family fights in the Revolution and 1812. Our American History class usually start in 1492 with the discovery of the new world. So that era from 1500 to 1775 what the British crown is doing is what we are doing. Still we don't focus on a lot of European affairs but its influence on the Americas. As the joke goes America and England are 2 people separated by a common language

As far as being real looking no one is better than Chuck Norris. However I like Seagal a lot.

I guess you need to know a lot of what England had been doing to us to get the most out of that but Jefferson out done himself on the D of I. Washington, Franklin, J. Adams, S. Adams. Pain, Jefferson, Hamilton, Clinton, Henery, Madison, Knox, and all the other founds had no clue what they were doing. However their actions have lead to the formation of the greatest country ever. The only reason we have made it IMO is because this group of Men we call the Founding Fathers were such great men. They all had flaws and knew it and made a country with flaws but allowed us the ability to change it later on. God I love History. Happy 4th again.

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States: For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences: For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies: For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments: For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated Government here by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends. We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare. That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Happy 4th everyone. 1776 we told King George we have had enough. We have hit a few bumps along the way but we are still going strong. Don't forget where we came from guys and think God for what we got. Only in Americia can we do the things we do. God Bless the USA.

Don't know the rules arround the world but in the USA according to my friend who is a black belt and WV State Trooper anytime a person assume a Martial Arts stance a cop has the right to shoot them.

We had the same question on how to order our kata when I first started training. My Sensei Howie Harvey took a simple way out. He bought K. Funakoshi tape series and did them in the order they were on the tapes. LOL. So that way if we are wrong its Sensei Ken Funakoshi's fault. LOL You are right according to it Ginn or Jinn is the middle one. I got the listing on my web site. http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/wvka _________________ (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." [ This Message was edited by: G95champ on 2002-07-04 01:49 ]

Some branches of Shotokan don't use all of them. http://www.angelfire.com/wv2/wvka thats my school web site and I got a referance list as to how we test on them.

Think of breaking a choke hold or a person grabbing your shoulders or something. If we are talking about the same move that is the general teaching. However if you redirect it a bit you can work a X choke with it as well. Then it can be showing a block if 2 people are attacking you. The thing is with any block there is a simple reason and many many more that it can be used for it you just rethink it a bit.

I tend to like the UFC. No its not style vs. style because to be a good fighter you got to cross train and its clear that some arts gear you towards fighting a lot quicker than others. However with that said I think for the most part it does a good job. I do wish they would go back to the rules at first and allow kicks while the person is down, holding the fence, and the no time limit. The rounds are ok I like to watch the ground work but a fresh start keeps it exciting as well.

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I spar in a cat stance a lot. Im a football coach and when I hold bags for my guys sometimes I get in a front stance. That is real life. LOL

Patrick did not maen rap as the wrong thing as much as items that go with it. Durg related things. The same can be said for heavy metal and the devil and country and beer. Was not dishing rap by any means. As much as the mommy and daddy buying a kid a t shirt that has a pot plant on it or whatever. _________________ (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." [ This Message was edited by: G95champ on 2002-07-03 00:17 ]

sorry connection problem _________________ (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory." [ This Message was edited by: G95champ on 2002-07-02 23:55 ]

Say Hey We got a lot of guys here who speak their mind. (as do I) We have a lot of good discussions and I have learned a lot about other styles and my own in my short time here.

Hello good luck with the school.

I am a teacher as well and I don't like to see the rap influence. However mom and dad have to buy that stuff for their kids. Its one thing to listen to the music but its another to buy them stuff that goes along with it. Sure HS kids got a bit more freedom to buy what they want but if Mom and Dad had done their part the first 15 years they would buy the right thing. BTW how real is a video game that allows you to steal any car you want by walking up to it. Thi is not war games at Fort Bragg. Its a video game you put into a machine and control with a joy stick. If you can't tell the differance in that and real life well you got problems the game did not cause.....

I do both bare knuckle and gloves. I may wear bag gloves only because I am bad to hit the chain links at the top when I get into a combo and the bag starts to swing. I do not punch the bag with my fists. This is a real simple way to mess your wrist up. Unless you wrap them. I always use palms and and other open hand strikes on the bag. As far as your feet goes. Yeah you need to try and hit more with the shin or instep instead of the top fo the foot. I have never had any real pain from this. If I was you before I went to pads I would get some sweat paints or something to maybe give you a bit of padding without actually having pads on.

I personally am not a fan of tournaments although I love to go to them and meet other martial artists. IMO it can go both ways. You can get a lot out of them. As far as excitement and the expierance that goes with it. However in the end it is a controled fight with limited moves as you pointed out. So the fastest figher usually wins not necessarly the best fighter. There is no reward for having a good jaw in it lol. However the expierance is usually a fun one. I say go to as many as you can they are fun to be at. Pack a lunch oh they last all day. If you compete take it with a grain of salt. Its nice to win but it is far from a real fight. You will be amzed to see the quality of other people.