lordtariel

Good job of handling the situation. Takes some courage to stand up to more than one person that way.

Good for you! Enjoy the experience.

That was very good. Thanks!

I assume by it being illegal you mean actual fight events, not the practice of martial arts in general right?

Make sure you're doing some cool down exercises and stretching after class as well.

Welcome to KF

Welcome to KF

I found my chapter of the SCA a bit too political and a bit to boring. If I want to go camping, I'll go camping, if I want to fight, I'll fight. I don't wan't to worry about being a knight or some nobility or such. I'm sure not all chapters are like that, but mine was. The other links were interesting though.

All things in moderation. There are other things to worry about in chips than salt, like saturated and trans fats. Not a big deal to eat a few chips with lunch or dinner, but I'd watch out for big bowls every day.

We train in bunkai from time to time. Usually our sensei does it in the form of drills and later explains that the moves are from this or that kata. I'd say we probably do it about once a week in the classes that I take. The more advanced classes may have more. We also do some bunkai in kobudo, but we do that quite a bit less.

Welcome, nice to meet you.

There's nothing silly about close combat in the military, especially in this time of urban warfare. The problem with using a particular style is you will find that you tend to go into more description than is necessary for such combat. Also, if you use specific names for moves, only people that read your story that are in that art are going to understand. You would probably be better off just finding some combos (there's lots of them in the strategies and tactics section) and incorporating them. That being said, I believe Krav Maga is actually the official art of the Israeli military and the Chinese military use San Shou. Don’t really know much about either, but it’s somewhere to look. Another place to look is in novels. R.A. Salvatore does a really good job of describing martial arts style combat in some of his books.

Interesting, but makes sense.

I've been thinking about this a bit and kind of want to just get it out. This last weekend I was driving back home from the store and I thought I noticed a guy sprawled out on the side of the road as I drove through an intersection. I went a little ways trying to figure out if I really saw someone or not and was certain enough to warrant turning around checking. I wouldn't have lived it down if it had been someone in trouble and I just drove off. I got back and sure enough, there was an older, probably homeless guy on sprawled out on his stomach halfway up an embankment. I shook him and he didn't respond, I shook fairly hard a second time, then a third and still didn't get a response. I could tell he was breathing so I sprinted up the embankment and through the parking lot to the restaurant to call 911. The guys at the restaurant didn't know their address and wanted me to call it in. I didn't feel like I had time to argue, I just grabbed the phone and ran back to the guy, dialing as I went. I got back and he still wasn't responding till I checked to make sure he hadn't hit his head had some other injury when he started groaning that he was just trying to sleep. I could smell the alcohol on his breath. The woman on the phone confirmed that the police had already been there once to talk to him and couldn't do anything about it because the people at the restaurant said they didn't mind him there. So, crisis avoided, I gave the phone back to the guy from the restaurant, got back in my car and went home. I got to thinking on the way home. This guy had been laying there for some time. I was the one of two people to stop, and nobody else stopped when I was checking on him. My girlfriend was afraid for my safety when I said I was going to check. I was a little ashamed to find I was slightly apprehensive as well when I went up to the guy until I didn't get a response from him. Then it kind of faded and I was too busy doing things to think about it. I didn't get any help from the people from the restaurant one, only one person came out a bit later, nor did they tell me the police were already out there once for him. It's kind of sad and scary to think that most people won't stop to help someone in need. I don't know if I would have had the courage to check on my own if it weren't for my training. What makes me ashamed was that in my mind I was thinking this could be some meth-head that could try anything if I go up to him, just based on how he looked. I always thought I was pretty open-minded. Anyway, I just wanted a place to vent this.

It was a really good read. Thank you.

Good article, there were many good points.

Tried searching with some spelling variants and didn't come up with anything either.

I used to be fairly serious about mountain biking. Then I moved to a more urban area where there wasn't many trails to play on. We finally moved this year back to a more rural setting, so I've finally broken out the bike again. I have an older Cannondale M500.

bo, tonfa, sai, kama, eku. My sensei doesn't like 'chucks so he only teaches how to attack with them, none of the flourishes and such.

A lot of the basic katas follow the same types of stepping patterns such as an I, T or V form or some other variation of those movements. This is the only way I could get the stepping to draw out. -------------------- -------------------- | /|\ | / | \ | | | or | | \ | / | \|/ -------------------- -------------------- This cuts down some of what you have to think about. I sometimes draw these out and put numbers at each step, then make a legend to the side on what move that number is. Helps me get it in my head a little better. The rest is just chalked up to practice. Also, if you have two really similar kata, don't practice them back to back, put a different kata inbetween so you don't get confused.

I've seen a little of it practiced, and done a few drills when I was in tai chi, but that's about it. I would really love to see some of the work with the oversized bagua weapons. I've never seen a 5 1/2 foot chinese broadsword used before, and in tai chi magazine, they have a picture of some guy using what looks like three foot long 'chucks.

I think in other words, they don't want you teaching anyone without a pat on the head from the high muckety mucks. I'd find somewhere else, any dojo that requires something like that screams that it's way too mired in politics. It could cause you trouble down the road if you ever thought to teach, even if it wasn't that system you were going to teach. By the way... how do you copywrite a punch or combination? It's like Trump trademarking the phrase "you're fired"

If everything is always done exactly the same, there's no room for discovery and improvement. That being said, I feel things within a system should be at least somewhat similar.

I think that having an answer about the time it takes to get a black belt is a legitimage thing and doesn't neccesarily mean a place is a mcdojo. Can someone reach black belt level in 2-3 years? Maybe, if they trained in and out of the dojo dilligently every day of the week for the entire time period. They'd probably be better at the late kyu levels than some of the black belts out there with that kind of dedication. However, if a dojo guarentees a black belt in two years, it probably is a mcdojo.