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hey im startin on kwanku or kanku dai, at the end of the kata there is a flying front kick, ive seen people do it with 2 kicks kindof a kick with the left first and then the right and u land i think in a foward stance and and augumented right block, can u help me i just wanna know wht to do and wht other people have done

i look at the eyes or the chest area at my karate place we are told to look eyes but ive heard from tai boxers that they look at the collar bone so i guess its just wherever u can see all w/o lookin to focused on them its hard though i just look eyes, like mr miyagi said "eyes alwasy look eyes" lol ya

ya thats just dumb to brag that u know an art , ya it is good that if u tell people and they dont care then its no big deal

i like all ur posts and im glad people can argue this point, i would love to go to that school where they taught martial arts too, at my school theres a lot of people i dont like there and to teach them martial arts i think would be like giving a demon a pitch fork, and i forgot who said it but about practicin martial arts but not saying u do is incredibly difficult i thinks, i mean i only tell my really good friends or nice people i know who take martial arts but i never say "oh ya i can break 8 bricks w/my head or beat up black belts" i say i do it but i just keep it like " ya i take karate its really fun" and if they(people) ask me kould i do this or kould i do that i just say maybe i kould, also a thing i would recommend not doing is telling ur teachers that u take martial arts cuz then they bring u up in stories and senerios but if u like that kind of thing then by all means go ahead i just dont want me doing martial arts to be exploited as hey i take karate i can kick ur butt, i hate that and you are about it leading up to fights and people sayin oh well hes only this color i can still take him in a fight, thats happen to me a couple o times and i just say ya u probly kould then there just like ......ya thats right (stupid jock laff) lol jk its a good activity i think do have at school but i think only for people who need it or are mature enough to handle it should be taught it, u know wht i mean some people are so ignorant there like " oh u take karate wht with like 5 year olds i loath when people talk like that or if u do tell themur in martial arts then they atart laughing. just thought i share a few things on my mind, -peace

ya they do it now i think as more of a dance using instruments , and the tempo of the music indicates how they should be "playing/fighting" but none the less i think its a magnificent art

hey ive looked into capoeira i dont practice it because it is unavailable to me but it is a style of fighting, it started a long time ago when portugal inhabited brazil and slaves were forbidden to fight and there hands were always tied up, so the used a style which involved kicks and mostly only kicks, however they were not aloud to practice fightin so they had to make it look like a dance but at the same time use it to train, the later rebeled and fought off the portugese , then they took over brazil or somethin to that affect , didnt mean to go into a history lesson but it is a style of fighting, but ya most people now probly interpret it as a dance/fight rather than a fight,

really mostly all the people that do karate i know is shotokan maybe just bigger in other places idk, where i went im lookin for new places now i took shotokan ,TKD, and kyokyushinkai. it was mostly the first 2 the kicks are TKD mostly and the katas are shotokan, i like doin katas im workin on kanku dai or kwanku and jihon. wht about u ?

ya ive had a similar problem i would pull my hamstring and it would be botherin me for like 3 days wht i do is put icy hot on it which helped me a lot and light stretchin with that leg and if u must kick nothin above the waist ya its a pain and happens or can happen a lot

i would be all for that if someone wanted to do that at myschool im in grade 11 i got almost 2 years exp in karate i dont know if i would ever hold one but if like a group wanted to then i would there are some people i know that have about 6 years in MMA and some black belts so it would be kool i think it might be hard though convincin the teachers or administrators to co-operate with you, unless its a non-school activity but after school and promote it at school. What style is your karate>?

oh ya i see wht ur sayin , and my belt went from a white to yellow how does that happen i didnt do anything?

wht is MMA?

oh ya, well its actually gung fu but i think it might be like kund fu u know if it is?

i think martial arts is one of the greatest involvements there is and it can really spark a crowd, so why not put it in public schools , like junior high through highschooli think students would benefit greatly now im biased to the fact of this but i can think of a bunch of different things that would be negative and they do out weigh the good but wouldnt that be good u kould learn to fight and then there kould be like performance katas and sparring for meets, good idea?

Don't get too serious with the book instructions - you may show up your first day knowing something completely wrong. exactly, you may do the book thing for one style and sign up for a completly different style. ya i totally agree with u i always find it much easier to see what is done and do it sometimes though books can kind of lead you to what your doing mostly i was askin about books so that when i do start it i can find ones that are similar or have an idea of what to expect

hey been off here awhile but in my area there is gung fu at a community collage, classes dont start till january so i dont really know wht itll be like or the instructor is, anyone think i should go and watch one of the lessons this semester just to see how it works?