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This is a good tactic. Musashi advises the same thing.

Martial Arts in general is rough on the human body.I'm not a fan of negating foundational basics. Sure, it's boring, but important enough to bust out every class. It's also surprising how much farther you can go in a shorter period of time because of basics.

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Stretching would help injuries like these. Also as Martial Artists we are constantly trying to push harder and harder without properly warming up or throwing things too hard and tearing muscles. Shoulder injury is also pretty common to hard styles. I think to answer your original question about Judo I would equate it to poor stretching and warming up.

You'll find great training in some of these places. Some of the best schools I've seen were in a one car garage in the back yard. This is true. My school was 100% word of mouth, he never advertised but the training I received was invaluable.

I think it is if you take that training seriously. It's quite the feat but seems like an awesome thing to accomplish. Keep us updated about the training progress. Good luck, I hope you can accomplish this.

Agreed. Great observation.

Solid observation! I find that it's pretty pointless to be secretive about certain things. An instructor told me that something was a secret of the system once and I showed him where someone had already posted a YouTube video. This made me chuckle a bit. Did his face drop when he saw this?The face was priceless. It was a mixture of disbelief, disappointment and amusement. He eventually shrugged it off and told us that it wasn't quite the same.

I think that I would devote it to re-learning and mastering Chinto. I might not master it in three months but I would certainly be well on the way to.

Solid observation! I find that it's pretty pointless to be secretive about certain things. An instructor told me that something was a secret of the system once and I showed him where someone had already posted a YouTube video.

Merry Christmas! I hope everyone has a fantastic Christmas with their loved ones! Let us all hope that the post Christmas/New years day hangovers aren't too terrible!

Martial Arts is a great cure for that. At the very least it worked for me.

Someone told me this because, apparently, humans now think that when someone yells rape that it's a joke, and the person doing this is joking. Generally when someone yells rape from an alleyway it seems pretty serious to me.

I don't know about you but I'm immortal.

It was never a problem of continued research and putting in miles. I was just curious whether or not certain styles dominate certain areas in other places.

The closest example for me is the Seibukan example.

Congrats!

Interesting article, thanks!

Lol no it is not!

I was lucky to find an Okinawan school really. Shotokan and TKD rule the are I'm moving to, which happens to be the are I grew up and first took Martial Arts in. My family new a guy from church who trained under Al Gagne (who trained under James Coffman who trained under Fusei Kise and so forth). He mentioned starting a school so my family got into it.

Congrats!

It was taught to me that most times people who rush in to help strangers generally have confidence in their bodies enough to believe that they can save the stranger. This seems true to me. How many people think "I would help but I can't?" I think that most people do instinctively shy away from danger as a survival instinct. I think the thing that separates a hero from everybody else is that they go against this instinct to survive long enough to make a difference in somebodies life.

Nothing like a good meal to finish off a hectic tournament schedule!

Upon looking for a new style to thrust myself into I began looking at Martial Arts directories for the area. I am interested in doing something that is more the opposite of the bulk of my training and so, having spent the last 10 years doing Matsumura Seito Shorin Ryu, I have recently desired to start softer styles of Martial Arts. To this extent I have started to train with a Longfist/Mantis guy who has taught me a lot of cool stuff and has really helped me grow not only in the softer style but also in Shorin Ryu which, for those who don't know much about Shorin Ryu, has roots in Shaolin Kung Fu as it is. On to the main bulk of my dilemma. As I am moving to Texas in January, I started looking through directories and noticed that Texas is absolutely dominated by Karate. I mean almost across the board. Now, this is not to say that there was no Kung Fu on the list and I'm sure that there are hundred of unlisted schools but the amount of karate being taught is overwhelming! I know that there are programs that allow me to buy their DVDs and film myself doing their program but, while I'm sure that I could do that and learn a system with some success, I prefer classroom settings. Anyway, my question is this: Has anyone else run into this? That is to say, is your area dominated by a certain kind of Martial Art or is it fairly mixed between Karate and Kung Fu?

Congrats on your second place finish and the new way to spring from an attack!