marie curie

You sound like you are in High School. For real, in whatever you do where there are girls and guys, some people will flirt- its a consequence of the age. I date my boyfriend, and he is an instructor in one of my classes- a big no-no according to most people- but really you just have to make it work for you. If he is worth it and karate is worth it, you will. Good luck!

That sounds wonderful! What a great thing to be able to wow your kids, and share something like this with them! I mean, no, maybe these techniques aren't practical, but if you are in MA for excercise or fun, then they are totally accomplishing your goal. Go you!

This depends largely on the school- my bjj class involves lots of standing speed drills and practice fights (we roll for 1/4 of the class), but I've seen some where they go over a lot of techniques without training for quickness. Also, are you very strong now? I know that the strongest 2 guys in the class (way strong- like very large, muscley 25-35 year old streanth) don't get a very good strength workout, but the rest of us do. Even the guys that are mostly the same strength. I reccomend you go watch a class- are the people sweating at the end? are many out of breath?

I'd like an intellegent, personable, dark-haired guy who is into martial arts and driven in his work. I like a guy who is up for tennis one day, poker another, and walking in the park or snuggling on the couch another. I like them tall and compact. Dark eyes and soft hair. Willing to put up with my Mom and grandma hanging around two days a month, and doesn't mind that I like a lot of attention, since I give it right back. I like a guy to let me cook and clean- as long as he takes out the garbage and empties the vacuum filter (yuck!). I like a guy who makes me watch ESPN for an hour every day, and puts up with my soap opera (as long as he can play on his computer at the time). I like a guy who can argue with me about current affairs and be my wild lover when I need some excitement. I like someone who thinks my kookiness is adorable and lets me worship his wonderful self (like arms- yay arms are awesome).... So basically, my boyfriend (exept he has red hair and blue eyes, but is hott all the same )

Thanks for all the thoughts, and thanks you two for the myspace pages I use facebook too, but that is really just people I know in real life. I like myspace because I get to meet a lot of people with similar interests or who work in the same feild as me, as well as keep in contact with bunches of people. I thought about all this in the beginning, but then I decided that the chances that someone thinks to hunt me down for some reason are small. The chances that they actually do is way less likely. The chances that they actually find me given the other two, are so small as to be negligable, since they would have to wait outside my work and recognise me from one of like 8 pics (not all of which are me), follow me through the city, in broad daylight, and to my apartment building where my doorman will make him leave or call the cops until the doorman goes off duty and he maaaaaybe could convince someone that it was his building and forgot his key (but people don't usually let people in with that story here) find my apt out of the 80 or so that there are, break through the mult. locks, and not get his butt kicked by my bf, before not getting his butt kicked by me. Anyway, if he went through all that, then he deserves to get to shoot me or whatever- that's some dedication.

Hey, is anyone on myspace? here is me http://www.myspace.com/_jenniferlyn

I think they mean in grappling competition...

Hey everyone- thanks for the replies. I went to the dr, and he thinks its a torn meniscus. I'm getting an mri in two weeks. Has anyone every had this going on before? Any experiences? Thanks again!

my bf likes the xo atheletic pro supporter best (he bought it at Dick's, and it was cheaper than the ones he likes less) It has a whole shock absorber around where it makes contact with the body, so the force of a strike/kick doesnt translate directly to the area of contact.

Seiei Kan also teaches weapons- bo, sai, kama, tonfa, nanchaku Kajukenbo teaches stick and knife defenses

My bf teaches bjj and kajukenbo- I'm a student in both, and train with him, provide a body for him to practice on:) and do most of the buissness end of the work

WelcomeQ!

We call it a flying armbar

Definately!!! But get subtitled- not dubbed. My copy has neither (I bought it while in China) and I had a freind who's Mandarin is better than mine translate most of what I couldn't follow, so it was a little (only a smidge) less rediculus than the dubbed one and the subtitiled one

I probably would have done the same thing, but I'm pretty sure that the threat that you made was illeagal, and if he were to go to the athorities with a witness, you'd be in trouble, but I'll ask my Law Source when he wakes up

I think that your instructor would understand, and even be impressed, that you are willing to plan your surgery around your testing. Approaching it from a "I don't want my health to get in the way of my training,"wya, as you seem be seeing it, should be reason enough that it isn't bad etiquette.

I've found that a mix of striking. locking, and grappling works best for me. As far as a time to use joint locks... Well, realistically, If I (a 140 lb 5'6" girl) am fighting off an attacker, I'm probably ok to go full-force. I probably won't kill him, and if I do, the courts will understand that I had to hit as hard as I could to even get away. Of course, if I were a guy, and another guy attacked me, my first thought would be "dont get KTFO or dead" but my second would be "don't go to jail- just make him stop" so I think that joint locks are an effective way of diffusing a situation that you don't want to end up in jail for. Also, many people will chill out after they realized that you could kick their butt, so you don't actually have to do it. I think the most effective way to make this work is to block or parry a strike or kick, stepping into the opponent, softenup strike (knee to the groin, fist to the throat type of thing), then takedown with a joint lock. Is he still resisting? Broken joint- find another. Need to break another? Keep hold of the broken joint and control him by it. Anyway- just my 2 cents

4 years with Seiei Kan 2 years Judo 1 year Kajukenbo <1 year BJJ <1 year Kung Fu <1 year TKD

I asked on a Medical Professionals board I post on, and this is the message that I got am a hand therapist. Usually after a metacarpal fracture, a bone callous or "lump" develops that can be seen under the skin. The skin on the dorsum of the hand is thin and as we age there is less fat under the skin in that area (that's why old people look vein-y on top of their hands) These fractures usually do not heal well and require pins and plates and are a total pain in the azz! It's true that weight bearing exercise MAINTAIN bone density. Just look at an x-ray of anyone who's been immobilized in cast for a long period of time....and you will see de-mineralization of bone. HOWEVER: the bones of the hand were never meant for weight bearing or high impact...the hand is for precision and fine motor activities and should NOT be slammed around! Strike out with a stick or weapon or lower extremity....don't hit hard with a hand/fist if you can help it. ------ I'll keep you posted on what others have said too.

We wear black so the blood doesn't show up.

Ok, first of all, you don't strengthen your bones by beating on them. If anything it weakens them. The reason athletes tend not to break as easily is because muscle protects our bones. Anyway, some people bruise more easily than others, but you will probably bruise a little less after a time, as scar tissue builds up in little bits around your cappilaries (which burst to cause bruises). Take that as to be good or bad, but that is what happens.

Why not try out doing both for a while, and if they start getting confused, you will havetrained in each long enough to know which you like better.

No. It will not. It will, however, cause your muscles to cramp much more easily. If you've gained a lot of muscle in a short period of time, while loosing fat, it will take some months before you skin is tight enough for that kind of tone. More likely, its body fat percentage. We have fat covering our muscles, and if yours aren't as defined as you like, it's probably because of your body fat. Just as a guess, but Lee's BFP was probably around 5. The only two guys I ever knew that looked like that had BFP's of 4 and 6. (This is not healthy for most people) Honestly, you are 15, it is a really bad idea go nuts on dropping body fat right now, because of how much your body is growing- if one day it starts to shoot up, or put on more muscle, itself, and you don't have fat storage necessary, it will just stunt your growth in height, bone size, and muscle development. This will be bad for your body, and subsequently for your martial arts. If I were you I'd stick to your protein and Creatine, and let your tone come naturally- ask the guys here, in the next 5 years your body will put on muscle mass anyway, so if you keep working out, you'll see real results. Good luck! And the waterpills will not work, but might help damage your kidneys and cause muscle cramps, so bad bad badness.

Welcome to KF, David!!!

A search of fda.gov only returned a creatine testing system, so I'm guessing that no governmental research has been done on it. Universities (and their institutions) are good sources of info, and this is pretty representative of what I've found as a summary and you may want to look http://www.berkeleywellness.com/html/ds/dsCreatine.php Here is the only study that I could actually find on PubMed reguarding Creatine/muscle stuff http://jp.physoc.org/cgi/rapidpdf/jphysiol.2006.107359v1 but it just really says that there was an increase in satellite cells, which are a couple of steps before muscle. Here is an interesting article hmmm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3145223.stm This is large and detailed, but keep in mind that it is user-submitted, and user-edited, so you never know... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine In conclusion: It really looks to me that if you make enough of your own creatine, this isn't really going to help you out. If you damage muscle or work out satelite cells are recruited to make muscle, and it helps make more satelite cells, but people have a tendancey to send off to waste most of what isn't necissary. What if your body sends off too much? Usually, when there is a disruption (and in a healthy person), chemo-equilibrium is mantained in a wave pattern, starting off with a big wave in one direction (too much creatine, here), then a smaller wave down as the body detects how very much you have and stops producing it on its own, then a smaller wave up when the body notices how little, etc. So I don't know how this would work on a very long term scale (like years) Plus, very short term, it only makes you gain water weight. Also, it definately doesnt help (and might even hurt) strength in an aerobic condition. Anyway, I'm not convinced that it's worth the money and risk (that you may have some unknown to you kidney or liver disease and that this will harm you), but mostly it just costing people money smile.gif