Zaine

A black belt is where the real training begins? that not how it goes, blackbelt is just a belt, but anyway, youll get stripes up untill you get 10 stripes or if your in an okinawan system at 8th (i think,) you'll get a red and white belt then at 10th you'll get a red belt.

It is considered SOP that women and men spar each other, since usually there are not enough women in a karate club for they and the men to avoid each other. Also, a lot of instructor's feel that the self-defense aspect requires that you be able to face a man. However, it was never SOP in my karate club that women be injured because they sparred men. Injuries mean someone goofed somewhere, and some apologies and corrective action would be expected. Caveat: bruises are not "injuries" in a karate club. Anything that bleeds, bones that are broken, joints that are messed up, torn muscles - those are injuries. Bruises are "badges of honor." They are inevitable and cannot be avoided. I agree, it is stupid that women dont spar men in some classes anyway, its pointless cause there are a lot of things that they can learn from sparring men

Punch them in the throat

id go for the heavy weight if you have the money to spend but if you dont go for the light weight one

yeah why would you want to wash it?

what are you kidding me? no, in my school tattered gis are the best, there way more comfratable than new ones, i recently got a new on and im wearing it all the time to try to break it in, hey im wearing now!!! but back on the subject, there just jealous because there gi doesnt look as cool as yours

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Yeah for one, dont go with the guy with the contract, and as long as your kid understands that jujistsu is for self defense and that he should not be going around trying to pick fights then he sould be good

pyush up on them it doesnt matter how big they are there going to move. and if that fails just tire them out.

Nothing, but breathing l0oudly can cause a couple of problems in a fight, although most people use them in forms and not fights, they might get mixed up and use them in a fight and all someone would have to do is time there shot to when there breathing out and then there down for the count

Yeah its normal for women to spar other men in our class

learning weapons as a begginer is not smart, in my school we wait two ranks and then the third we learn the bo, but i think waiting till brown belt is a little absurd, but, its too much for a begginer to remember all at once if he learns weapons early

im on wansu

what an eighth dan in any okinawan system like goju ryu would be a master...

They arent a shame and you shouldnt think that, everyone does it, you will, (if you already havent) do it too, knowing how to fight can be very dangerous on your self more tha other people and they just need to learn how to control there urge to be rough and fight all the time.

pay attention, girls dont have problem with the strength aspect, its not about the strength its about the technigue behind the punch and knowing where to hit them. And a lot of women do progress faster, i have seen it, its because they have a lot more grace and flowing movement than men, its what we struggle with at lower ranks, flowing movements. But think about it, a lot of times the girls will progress faster than the men, im not saying all the time, but a lot of the time

Well your in martial arts, your gonna hurt people without meaning to cause now you know how to punch and you know how to block, thats why i stopped screwing with my friends for the longest time unless they were in karate, you just got to have a little control thats all

yeah i know but, id rather take it when i have a good solid understanding of what i am doing and i do, and, all i asked is what yall recommend i take

Bo, it is a very versitle weapon, `

Kabudo, Shorin Ryu, Ishin Ryu, and a lot other japanese systems, ecspecialy okinawan systems

you should get him a 5 foot bo for now, but if starts to grow plan on getting him a 6 foot one

you really cant do anything except talk to her, the rest is up to her, if she decides to try harder in karate then she'll do it, other than that there is nothing you can do

what are you kidding? dont wash it, my white belt had so much gunk on it that when i got promoted to a blue belt and stopped wearing it it got stiff and really hard to bend.

Well yeah that is a sign of a school that hands out belts, when there are too many black belt, but there is also schools like Tong Il Lo that have a lot of student that are blackbelts, and believe me they deserve it so you cant really judge if they hand out belts by the number of blackbelts in the class what i would do is just take the class untill i got my first belt, if i get it really fast id research on how long it would take a good school to promote a student, then i would determine if i were to stay or not,

lol thats great!!!!!