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any one going to the isshinryu 2007 IWKA World Championship in NJ?

Sensei Deborah Pittak Nana-dan in Stow ohio how about you?

It's a good site

"SANCHIN, FROM A WESTERN MEDICINE PERSPECTIVE" http://www.olemiss.edu/orgs/karate/sanchin.html this is the only thing i have read about it being bad for you. http://wholeheartednews.com/staticpages/index.php?page=20060119183253541 " Many Okinawan Karate authorities criticize the regular practice of Sanchin Kata for health reasons. Sanchin is a pseudo-isotonic and pseudo-isometric exercise which enables one to achieve and sustain a high heart rate with low impact. The deep tension breathing in Sanchin also opens the lungs, increases blood circulation, opens the capillaries, strengthens the heart muscle, massages the lymph system, and opens epidermal glands. However, Sanchin has also been blamed for the early deaths of many Okinawan karate masters, mainly from the Naha-Te based Karate styles, which practice Sanchin rigorously. The incorrect practice of Sanchin results in physiological damage due to the rapid, drastic haemostatic pressure changes and hastens the onset of a stroke or aneurysm to those individuals prone to arteriosclerosis. When Sanchin is practiced correctly, without putting excess strain on the smaller arteries and the bowels, it proves beneficial. Forced Sanchin practice increases blood pressure due to strain placed on small arteries of the body. Sanchin should always be practiced with dynamic tension and students must be careful to proceed slowly when learning this kata and clarify its purpose. An already healthy individual will not experience any adverse effects from Sanchin, but an individual prone to heart problems should exercise extreme caution. As a spiritual and mental exercise, Sanchin provides numerous benefits. It induces memory, both neuro-muscular and cerebral, of the feeling of being either hard or soft. This is beneficial because it enables one to obtain an awareness of inappropriate muscular or mental tightness or looseness. Sanchin also serves as a strict Zen exercise of breathing and mushin (no-mindedness) and induces calmness, awareness, and egoless confidence. It also develops ki by focusing the energy into a single-minded purpose. Master Shimabuku felt that Sanchin was perhaps the most important Karate kata and stressed its constant practice"

i am going to say 3 years

fall of 1997

Sai, Tonfa, Bo, traditionally. we also do some Nunchuku, Kama and jo

17 for shodan

You should not be "bouncing" in your forms

Yes

Parts of it looks like you are looking down. try and keep your eyes looking up.

I Have one!

when you say "He" do you mean Patrick Hickey?

Really nice

This is a good forums! you have come to the right spot. can i ask what belt you are?

Not really. I just wanted to know who started

any one know of a web site i can get some info for Kwanmukan?

same here

Only if you let it.

NO ONE masters anything by your age.

Well said! In my dojo black belts teach. if not teaching we can take the class and help when needed. None of the black belts just show up and Don't do anything. We may not be doing the class, But we are working on something. Raphael

If a kid gets a jr. black belt What Role will he play in the dojo? I say no to kids getting jr. black belts (or any black belt)before 15. even at 15 the kid would have to be real Special

Good to have you here. How long have you been doing Shotokan?

Hi

That breaks my heart