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Yeah bong (Bo, staff, whatever you want to call it) is a good place to start. It's where we usually start in my school. Lot less painful than nunchuku when first starting out!

The high school drama at my karate school thickens... I swear we could have a soap opera up in here. I'll start with me being Dude A... Dude A meets Dudette A. They like each other but it doesn' work out. They remain very close friends, almost like siblings. They are both put on the state team so they are well known around karate school A. Well, Dudette A has a best friend Dudette B. Dude A totally falls for Dudette B. Dudette B is also on the state team, etc etc. Dude A has a black belt friend Dude B. Dude B isn't as well known as Dude A and Dudettes A and B. Dude B falls for Dudette A. Dude A hooks up Dudette A and Dude B. After a while, Dude A suckers Dudette B into liking him. They hook up. The dudes and dudettes spend the whole summer together and have a lot of fun. Dude A and Dudette B become very intense. Then they break up. Complications arise but they try and work things out. During this Dude B and Dudette A are still together. But the "quadrilateral of power" is broken and their bond isn't as strong. Dude B is getting unhappy with Dudette A. He finally cheats on her with Dudette C. After that their friendship is messed up but no one knows until a month later when she tells Dudes A, C, D, and E. Dude E is Dude B's best friend but a lot of the time doesn't like him. He holds Dudette A in high regard. He plans on telling her. But he isn't the right person to do it. Dude A tells Dudette B about it and she decides to go off on her own. She calls Dude B (last night) and tells him that she knows what happened. He didn't know that anyone knows. So,she tells him that and says that he has 24 hours or she will tell Dudette A. He comes to school today very unhappy. Also it was decided that since she and Dudette A aren't as close anymore, Dude A should be present and maybe even do most of the talking. Haha, everyone understand that? This is what happens when your karate school has a million teenagers.

People fight because they are stupid.

I read through Bbelt magazine and laugh at all those ads that promise a person that they will win any street fight after a 2 hour video that costs $40. My mom called my brothers and I "karate snobs" a while back and that's almost the way it should be. Why settle for a place that will just hand you a belt for being there and paying? My instructor does make the promise, however, that any of his black belts will survive on the streets. I do not totally agree, but it is not easy to reach black belt. Only about 4-5% make it there. It takes 5 years. Once you reach black belt you've dealt with knife,gun, sword, and stick defense. fighting 2 people at once. The black belt test is 8 hours long and your partners are not the people you have been working with, they are a black belt. Often not even from your school but from a different one within the system. I do not like how non martial artists discredit anyone that's not a black belt. They don't understand why I'm not one yet even though I've been in for 3 1/2 years and am on the state team. This also shows the ignorance of many people and how they can be suckered into a McDojo. I've got a friend who's the same belt as me but has been training off and on for 10 years. It's not that he doesnt have the skill but that he has not put in the time between testings. I always go to other schools in the area, regardless of style. I don't train, but just go to watch. I like to see how they differ and what I can learn from watching them for when I open up my school eventually.

TSD= Tang Soo Do Stud= my dad and I always used to compete on who could get more girls after he got divorced. I'd often get more and he'd joke around by calling me a stud

I'm so much younger than a lot of my students, so I try ask them questions about their jobs and life. I learn things like that from that about them.

I throw an axe-front. I throw an axe and chamber it back when it comes to my chest and throw a front kick to their stomach.

Breathe. Usually before tourneys I go around and and watch my team mates and try to help them all out. See what they're doing wrong and everything. Then with a little less than an hour left I kind of go off on my own and don't talk to anyone. Put my headphones on with "motivational music" and get pumped.

Hmm.. I listen to lots of different stuff. I've got to go my favorite as "Broken Home" by Papa Roach when I'm doing forms. Just puts a lot of emotion into it. My parents were going through a divorce when that came out. But Linkin Park's a classic before sparring. Gets the blood flowing.

Yeah doesn't help that I make friends with their moms and talk to them all the time either. And accidentally bring up new girls, get evil stares that way. Or when other friends bring up their new b/fs while you're still in love. Not cool. It really sucks when they "want to be friends again" but the only time they'll talk to you is in class when they need help with something. Going through all that right now if you couldn't tell haha. By the way, what exactly is a "shoulder slap"?

Just a tip for the guys, don't date too many of the girls from your karate school. Pretty soon you have a whole school full of ex's. Not always a good situation haha. Speaking from experience

First off I'll admit that I'm a point fighter and that I would get smoked in a real fight by an NHBer. But we mostly train for the streets. Its only our competition team that gets different techniques for tournaments only. The big thing is to be able to tell the difference. In point fighting, I'll throw 5 kicks at someone's head without dropping my foot. But I know that if I get in a fight like with my friend Connie who's reading this, she'd grab that leg and beat me. It's all in knowing how to do it.

First off I'll admit that I'm a point fighter and that I would get smoked in a real fight by an NHBer. But we mostly train for the streets. Its only our competition team that gets different techniques for tournaments only. The big thing is to be able to tell the difference. In point fighting, I'll throw 5 kicks at someone's head without dropping my foot. But I know that if I get in a fight like with my friend Connie who's reading this, she'd grab that leg and beat me. It's all in knowing how to do it.

One of the requirements for our black belt test is to get a certain amount of teaching hours in before the test. The theory behind that is that they have to know their stuff enough to be able to teach others. Sometimes you learn best by teaching. Our instructor has way to many students to lead class all by himself. An average class size is 35-40 students. So black belts and people on the leadership team are put in charge of a group of students while our head instructor circles between the groups and making sure we are doing it right and often teaching them new techniques.

I'm 18 years old and practically live at my school. I'm very insulted by what TKD McGee had to say. I want to be an instructor eventually and I bust my butt to do the best I can in teaching or in class. I've been on our leadership team for 2 years now. I don't teach a whole class but am usually assigned a belt level. We've got the 2nd largest ITF school in the country with 5-600 students. I'm not a black belt yet, but my next 2 tests are just pretests for my black belt. I find I get less respect from little kids than I do adults. Some little kids really do look up to me and feel honored when they see me out in public but most of them figure that since I'm not a black belt or adult they don't have to listen to me. Adults know that I'm the red belt to caome talk to with any question on technical things. I get respect from that. I guess just pretty much let it be known what you know.

OK,commenting on my own thing. If anyone actually read taht, it only works if you're faster than the other person. My instructor wanted to spar me today and kicked my butt. Ouch

Yeah, we have Sip Soo

yeah, I think you are right, nunchakus are more for show. We learn them more for tradition than anything. And we hold them "Bruce Lee" style.

well.. at my school we have a "tiny tigers" for little kids 2-4. They get in there with their parents and basically just have fun. They do work on hand eye coordination and physical fitness. They play a lot of games. Actual training starts at 5. Which seems too young a lot of the time. They don't have the attention span. They just stare at me when I'm trying to teach oh well

Well my fighting style usually isn't a good one to copy cuz its tailor made for me and fighters like me. I do use a lot of cut kicks. I also rarely use my hands to block kicks, 75% of the kicks thrown at me, I knock down with my feet. I like to hang my front leg out and search for openings, throwing multiple kicks. If I can get away with it, I won't drop my leg for 30 seconds at a time. OK though, some tips for normal people, not weird ones like me. when your legs get tied up in the air, spin off and throw a spinning back or spinning round kick with the other leg. When you're inside tight, throw an in to out crescent or axe, it's rarely picked up on if you keep your shoulders straight. backfists are always great, if they are allowed. also, lots of double and triple kicks.

Mine has got to be Steve Terada. Does anyone know who Kevin Kowalczik is?

http://www.steve-terada.com

We have naihanchi forms too. I just learned the first one, I think there are 3 of them.

OK, I've got a new one now. Steve Terada does it on his website, http://www.steve-terada.com. He calls it a halftwist axe kick flip. He does a front flip with his feet split, and grabs his front leg, leaving his back leg to fall in an axe kick. Awesomest kick I've ever seen.

It's funny the timing of me reading this post. I am in an entrepreneur class at school. Our year end project is to write a business plan. Guess what mine's on! Haha, well I am going in to talk to my instructor tomorrow night to get financial information as well as other advice. So, I'll tell you what he says