Roc

I train in other- chidokan karate

At my dojo we also have junior black belts and I believe that that is good way of doing things as well. [ This Message was edited by: Roc on 2002-06-11 08:03 ]

I had quick look through a book thingy that I got when I joined my dojo and there is a head butt in there thats called Men Uchi Tsuki but it has a little star next to it, the only technique with one in the whole book, but I don't know what thats for. It's called a head butt so I guess that's what it is

I do chidokan karate and we practice take downs quite often, though I don't know if they are similar to BJJ or not.

I thought that your shins were the hardest bone in your body??

I do chidokan karate and my sensei teaches small circle principles and techniques when we do locks and stuff, it's very powerful stuff when done correctly.

I was born in a small country town called Renmark in South Australia, Australia. I am currently learn Chidokan karate.

I would really like to learn Muay Thai and BJJ, there used to be a guy at my dojo that taught Muay Thai but unfortunately he left a few years before I joined and it isn't taught anymore . Oh and perhaps some kung-fu if I ever came across a place that teaches it. [ This Message was edited by: Roc on 2002-04-22 09:45 ]

My strongest side is my right side and I feel most comfortable having that side lead, but it all depends on little things on the day for which side I have leading.

I scored myself 67.5% which means I'm Edgy. If your nice to me everythings peachy but if you piss me off watch out!! [ This Message was edited by: Roc on 2002-04-20 11:17 ]

Thanks everybody

Hey, I was wondering does anybody here have a good way to toughen up shins/top of feet?. Whenever I start to kick my boxing bag I can only do between 5-10 before I have to change legs because they start to hurt (abit like when you kick a football without any shoes on). Kicking a kickpad (or whatever they're called) is ok it is only when I kick something reasonably solid, like a boxing bag, that they start to hurt a little. So is there a way to toughen them up or do I have to just keep on kickin and they will toughen eventually?. Cheers in advance.

Thank God I'm not the only one who closes doors with a kick haha

My favourite stance is my free fighting stance which is basically the same as Kokutsu dachi, except my weight is more evenly distributed over both my legs. Or I suppose you could say it's just Kokutsu dachi .

Because where I train it's only a small country town so it costs $35 a month (this is in Australia don't forget so it's about 15-20 US).

I'm green belt ,yonkyu, Chidokan Karate

Just found this forum and I have to say . A bit about me is that I'm 20 (21 in may), I'm from Australia, living in a little town know as Renmark in the Riverland, and I am learning chidokan karate. I started roughly 6 months ago and boy it's good, fun stuff! .

We do hardly any free sparring at the level I'm at (yonkyu), but during march we had a fight-a-thon, mainly a fund-raiser for the dojo, where we had to do one hundred rounds of semi-contact free-sparring, so much fun can't wait until the next one . We learn the same katas (in the naming at least) with the exclusion of Kanku Dai and the inclusion of Taikyoku which is the most basic, and therefore the first, kata learnt. Other katas are learnt once you reach higher grades but I cannot find reference to them. Kancho Sensei was learning Kyokushin before moving to Chidokan, so perhaps some of the stuff we learn comes from there. [ This Message was edited by: Roc on 2002-04-16 09:34 ]

Hey SaiFightsMS, sorry that came out wrong, all I meant was I was just interested in who trains in chidokan is all. To answer your questions....I don't know if the katas that we are learning are traditional shotokan katas or not because I don't know what the tradional shotokan katas are. Kancho Sensei hasn't mentioned if they are or not, I am currently learning Heian katas, but I would hazard a guess that most of the katas are traditional shotokan katas. As I said I am not sure. The emphasis on kata, kihons and kumite are that we do quite a bit of work on kihons as getting good basic techniques, movements etc (as you would know) is very important so that you have a good, strong base to work from. Kumites on the other hand we don"t really do that much of, with the exception of kihon kumite which we do quite a bit. Kata's are considered important, although we only practice them in the last 20 minutes or so of the lesson, as we should practice them at home more so than during the lesson. [ This Message was edited by: Roc on 2002-04-15 12:16 ]

Hey how's everyone going. Just found this wonderful forum while doing a search on google, and after a not very successful search on chidokan I was wondering who here trains in the chidokan style of karate? I was just wondering because I often get the feeling that even though chidokan is an offshoot from shotokan, it isn't really all that well known in the world. I know that there are chidokan dojo's over in New Zealand as Kancho Sensei has mentioned them, and there are of course chidokan dojo's here in Australia, but other than that I haven't found very many(if any) refernces to chidokan dojo's outside of these places (and Japan of course ).