ShadowFox

Well this is opional because it all depend on how good you are with it. Me personally I prefer the staff because of it reach.

Ok I got a clear answer for you and that NO. Because my mom thought that when I become a black belt I would have to register but the Head Master told her no because he said that they havent done that since like 50 or 60 years ago.

I dont know what being a Christian have to do with Martial arts. Now if you thinking they'll hold back. Well they wont. I have like 10 friends in martials or who have taken it and 5 of them are black belts at it. So Christian are no better or worst at Martial arts

Ok I just talk about this in another thread some I copying and pasting my story : I'm in the same stitch what happen is their a guy who came from another Tae kwan Do and was a red belt at it but then he come to my school and kuk sool won and tae kwan do is 2 completely differnt things and from what my friends tell me him is that he mad at the school because they didnt acknowledge him as a red belt. So he act really sloopy on forms and when practicing throws he act to rough with people (which is worrying me when we start to spar that he may hurt someone or if I get team up with [which I usually do] that I may fight out of anger [which i dont want to do]) And it really annoying one of my friend because he act like a know it all around him. But what really cheese me off is that the inscrutors take that type of bull from him because he act that way infront of them too and also I dont see how he pass test because of how much he miss class and how sloppy he act on test. Yea so what I do is try to avoid him and not get into arguement with him....

TO be able to protect love one, become healther, wanting to be the best I can at it and the focus that it give you.

Almost can but really I dont like to do the splits so much...........

As one Kuk Sool Won member to another I am truely sorry to hear about your lost. If it not too much can you give me a link so I can read his obituary and find out more about him.

Nice job. I know it feel to get tense doing rank test. . 2 THUMBS WAY UP

That why I say never act cocky for when you lose it will be even more disapointing than if you had acted humble. I know a lot of black belts friends and I can problary take a few of them. I don't really like wasting time arguing with cocky people they dont listern and it a waste of time and energy. THey dont get that they not all that till it knock them in the face, or in that guy case till he got punch in the face

May he rest in peace

I gotta go with the staff, yet for some strange reason I have an easier wielding Nunchaku.

A pocket knife but most of the time nothing.

Hhhhmmm well if you taking the martials arts, then one of your reason maybe because that you want to be in shape. Then why would you go out and waste you good health by smoking or drinking excessively.

Yea I heard of those learn karate online website, I dont like them. I just believe that you should learn martials in person. It like my instructor say with doing techniques, "sometime you cant learn something till you had it done on you". And how can you do that over the internet

Congragulation You know you did something good when the judges brag about you.

Really good jobs KSN Doug, every new kuk sool won member who talk on this forum need to read this 2 THUMBS

As for your first queston I have seen 2 girls actually throw done and street fight (more like school fight). It was brutal, one girl that we didnt even know could fight that well kick the other girl butt (it was so bad that my friend look on the pavement for blood!!) But this fight was out of the blue it seem those girl have been calling each other name as we walk down the hallway and then they fight. But girls do not usually fight that much; where other situation where 2 guys would fight girl my instead just get inot a huge argument calling each name and getting into personal attacks on each other. Boys will boys. That bascially sums it up. Boys are just prone to fight more than girls.

hhmm. Someone sayed somthing offensively about my sensei; I would stick up for him but I wouldn't challenge him to a fight for one reason, I dont like to start fight over someone talking bad about someone else because usually the person that say stuff like that have low self esteem and the only way he can feel good about himself is to bad mouth someone else. So what I problary do is defend my sensei and walk away and laugh at him.

Ask your instructer to go over some sparring drill with you. I think you should pratice some more before joining another MA, but if you dieing to join another MA try kuk sool won; it go over the basic sparing drill from the beginning and dont even let you start sparing to blue belt and by then you good and ready to start sparring.

Start drinking some milk after your ribs heal, get some calcuim in those bones Seriously if your ribs keep on cracking or breaking then you defenitly need some calcium to strengthen those bones

I have a temper problem but I keep it mellow whenever I go to spar, sometime it force me to hold my full strength, but I'm working on controling my temper but also making it so I dont hold back. So I guess some people think that if they go full fury at their opponent that they can win matches really fast.

Yea those 3 fingers push up are brutal but they use to strengthen the finger, so then you can do those finger pokes of death that you see in all good karate movies

Why would a person want to wear down their belts? I mean I went through a lot of training to get to that rank of belt and I think look tacky a worn belt. But I guess if you asking how tough training, sand paper, or draging it around would do the trick

Say relax and remain focus. ANd if you make a mistakes just roll with it.

Pros: good experience that cant get in class and meeting new people. Cant' think of any cons, well unless you didnt do as well as you wanted to.