lordtariel

Here's a theoretical question for you. Say you're in a dojo and one of the jr students is messing around and then comes and tries to talk to you about random stuff. He's a higher belt than you so you can't really tell him to get back to practicing and he's really interfering with your practicing during the class, following you around when you move. What do you do during the class?

That's a really good idea. I'm going to tell my sensei about it. Thanks!

Kobudo is practice of okinawan weapons: Bo, Kama, Tonfa, Sai, 'Chucks, and Oar are the main ones.

Well that one wasn't nearly as bad as my first test. Guess obsessive practice pays off in the end. Yea me!

I don't know quite how much it would have spread. When it did spread, it would have done so faster, but part of the reason it took so long was that the masters didn't want to teach their forms to outsiders, especially foreigners.

Tai chi is a very effective martial art...IF you can find someone who knows the martial applications and you practice it as such. Look into push hands and silk reeling for more of that. It is also good for internal concentration and meditation. Like all things though, it all depends on finding a good instructor. Check out these videos. http://taiji.de/taiji/head5e/index.htm They have all of the big 4 styles(chen, yang, sun, and wu), some weapons forms and some self defense demonstrations.

oh... tkd never mind... I was thinking karate. Sorry.

I thought they were going to be in florida this year...

herr... should have read the title...

Good article, my day runs pretty close to the same way. I sometimes use my lunch break at work or my 15 to practice.

like everyone else here, not a problem if you're learning it from an instructor. Our sensei sometimes will teach portions of a kata as a drill, then later put the pieces together. Next thing you know you're doing a new kata.

One of my friends taught me a jo kata from akido. You can get much closer with the jo then a regular bo, which would make it good to use when space is limited.

I'm assuming you're talking about the yang style short form. I believe it was developed in the 1950's as a simplified and shortened version of the Yang Long Form(108 moves) for use as exercise and for use in competition. As it was shorter, it could be taught realitivly quickly to all skill and age levels.

I believe that you're taking things too literally. I believe the bible is refering to master in the spiritual sense not the physical sense. If you follow somone and serve them as if they were god, then you have a problem.

That was great! Thanks for the article.

People call it moving your energy through your body, but in actuallity, what you're doing is conciously increasing the blood flow to their extremities which causes the temperature increase.

It varies depending on how I'm training in the kata. When I'm working on it's effectivness, I'll visualize each movement as if I'm actually blocking or striking. Other times I'm checking form and footwork. But when I'm actually performing the kata as opposed to training with the kata, I've gotta completely empty. I trust my body to do what it's supposed to. If I think about it, I usually wind up too distracted to perform to the best of my ability.

I don't know... they say the universe is expanding... I think it's just running away from chuck.

Just twist your torso sideways and the push will slip right off. Try to grab their hand closest to your body as you twist. Now you have someone with locked or almost locked arms standing at a 90 degree angle from you where you have control of their wrist and your other hand is almost resting near their elbow... oh the possibilities...

I was 27, 5'9 and 220 lbs. I'd been off martial arts for about two years and spent those two years at a desk job. If it wasn't too late for me, it's in no way too late for you.

I've done it, it's easy and hard at the same time. It's easy because all the things that apply to normal kata competition apply in team kata. It's hard because everyone needs to be in sync, so it requires getting together and practicing on your own. I'm in AAU, so I don't know if grading is the same, but there's three judges and on top of all the criteria for kata; Spirit, form, ballance, vigorous application, and effectiveness, you're also judged on syncronization, timing, and apperance. It's points based, so you only compete once. It's lots of fun if you prepare in advance with your team and get a rythm going. We trained by giving one counts between normal moves and three counts after kiais and the last move before close.

Way to go!

Well, turned in the paperwork today, belt test is in exactly one week. Not so nervous about the regular belt test, it's the kobudo test I'm a little nervous about. I haven't tested in kobudo yet, so I don't know what to expect. Sensei said that there's going to be kata and bunkai. Hope it goes well.

Manbuni developed what he first caled the hanko or "half-hard" style. Later, he changed the name to shito, deriving the name from the alternate reading of the ideograms found in the names of his former teachers. Shi for the "ito" of Itosu and to for the "higa" of Higaonna.

Here's a quandry... we all know Chuck Norris drives an ice cream truck covered in human skulls... but if he roundhouse kicks everyone, where does he get the intact skulls?