ShoreiSmurf

It would not surprise me, she is awesome. I googled: "scorpion kick history" and the search engine turned out all types of websites, but I don't recall hers coming up I too remember Ms. Rothrock's kick that she did in her movies. Their two kicks do seem to be very similar to each other's. No offense to any of Rothrock's fan, because I'm a huge one, but I do like Ms. Bruce's better

Tell you the truth, I would not know. Personally, I would not think it would be, but I never felt or experinced it. I to would rather use the knee when in that close, but if it works....use it! (if you can....lol)

Congrates and good luck to the bothe of you

I put her name in the search engine. Wow, did you see her rewind video She is very good.

I think that is the best step for you to take. If you and your man are happy training together, than forget the rest and stay happy training with him. On a bad side of curiosity : Up date us on any actions taken if you know of any. Not that I'm hoping for anything bad, but someone needs to reign her in before she scares off to many new students.

Wow, what a clip. She did a great job. Thanks for sharing that

I do not know if you would consider me a long-timer, but I have no regrets. Even though it has taken a long time to achieve my goal of opening my own school, it was all worth it. As I said: my father moved around a lot with his job and I also moved around a lot due to the military. However, Once I settled down three years ago. My sensei ranked me really fast to the level he thought I was at and even helped me open my own school two years ago. Now that I am teaching, I can really count on all my past experiences to help teach my students, even those that have past training in other arts

I agree with the fact that the youth can burn out. However, I do not think it is just an age thing. I have even seen adults achive high ranks and do awesome things in their martial arts training (and work) and just give it all up for something new

Which thread are you going to do it so we can partake in your poll

I too think that there needs to be a lot more cross training. My kajukenbo instructor had a funny little saying, that I found to be very true once I started to teach full time: "A white belt is the greatest teacher" I think this is true, because after training for so long, I find students just do as they are told. Where as a white belt will ask: "Why?" I think this can be applied to cross training when you tell someone I am going to do this technique this way, and they look at you and go: "Why?" It makes you think. This is what I find so important about kata work. It makes you think. However, to be well a rounded MA's you need all the stuff that DokterVet was saying too.

As a teacher myself, you just can not allow your personal life into the studio. I know that is hard to do, but it is the way it is. If it was their first offense: than complete removal of teaching duties may be harsh. As I have already said: at our school an outburst like that is a 2 week suspension.

I started in boxing and wrestling as a kid, I do not count those years as a student. I, unfortunatly, moved around a lot due to my father's work and than going into the military. I have trained in a few different arts, and I never took more than 3-4 months off at a time. This was simply to move and find a new school that I liked. Now that I am out of the military, I decided to open my own school and still persue black belts from other systems. I am currantly working on my bb in Shorei Kempo. All in all: it has been 16 years with my own school only opened for 2 years

I am not 100% for sure, but I believe that Shaolin has a scorpion style. If all else fails you can always google it

tke010: there is wisdom in these words, but I do not know if I fully agree that waiting for any move will get you beat up After all this is why we as martial arts learn to block, duck, perry, and avoid attacks, is it not? To wait our opening to counter attack. And as you said: to attack with whatever makes itself apperant during the fight. Personally: I feel holds are a better way to go because unlike locks, you do not need to be as percise with the set up. I'm not saying locks do not have their place, and they are some of my more favorite moves. Just in my real life experiences, the holds are easier and quicker to set up. And like with elbow_and_knees, I never have found a time when a hold has not worked for me. As where I have seen locks fail, as I have already stated in this thread.

What I am wondering is why that assistant instructor thought it was okay to yell at anyone in the first place? I never have meet anyone that learned from negitive feed back. Even in the military they use positive reenforcement on a mistake made. Except in basic of course, but that is the purpose of basic is to weed out those that can't hack it. Not that I don't think discipline is needed, but there needs to be tact involved. I agree 100% with jaymac about any action needed is to be done by the head instructor.