HapkidoDragon

One of the things I have learned in martial arts is to value loyalty and honor. I have a question. Everyone here has been under a teacher/sensei/master for their martial art career. Let's say that your instructor (which you received your black belt under) formerly was with the (insert organization name here) and something happened that caused him to break affiiiation with that organization. Would you stay with the person that instructed you or would you stay with the old organization? For clarification purposes I'll use fictional names and characters. Let's say that I trained under Sensei Rick and he is the only Karate instructor I have ever trained with. I have my own school. He was part of Karate King Federation. He broke off from that organization. Would you stay with the organization and kiss of Sensei Rick or kiss off the organization and stay affiliated with your instructor?

Supposedly in the Original Method there are 14 kata's correct? Does anyone know how many are in the other methods?

http://www.iisports.com/product.asp?dept_id=2302&pf_id=WF1550A Anyone know if these are any good?

As the title says. Anyone have any recommendations? I want to stay away from sport schools though. I'm not into tournaments or trying to be the next big MMA fighter. I just want realistic ground based self defense.

Anyone know of any good teachers in that area that teaches stick and knives? Any help would be appreciated.

That's my experience as well. While most of the instructionals that I have bought were informative I'd say that out of the 30 or so techniques per tape/dvd I only actually learned 3-4 NEW techniques. So I think this might be a good idea. Instead of paying 29.99-39.99 buying the dvd's for those 3-4 new techniques you can rent them for whatever the rental price is. Of course based on this poll I might have to tell him to ditch the idea altogether.

I learn from them alot too. I think if you know how to analyze techniques instead of just doing them DVD's can help a lot. 100+ views and only 6 votes? Please. Just a click guys.

So have you used any rental companies on the internet?

I have the Tedeschi book. It's very nice and informative. The techniques are very well photographed and explained step by step. The book has a lot more in it than Hapkido techniques. Some are definitely from other styles. For example I've never seen any Hapkido school teach a Boston Crab move which Tedeschi shows in his book. The ground defense part is definitely BJJ in a Hapkido book.

Just curious how many people here rent Martial Art training DVD's or tapes. What are your experiences with it? If not why not? What's stopping you from doing so? Cost? Rental time? For those that rent do you feel like you can pick up things over the short rental time? What do you mainly use it for? Reference? Picking up a new technique or two? Do you mainly rent from your own style or do you mainly rent other styles since you're getting all you need from your primary style and don't need reference material on it? An associate/friend is thinking about opening up a Martial Art video rental store that caters both over the internet and to local schools. I personally have never rented them (only bought). I thought I'd ask some people and give him some feedback.