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If the forums keep growing as fast as they seem to be, that might not be impossible.

To answer my own question: My short-term goals are: Improve overall cardio-vascular fitness to the point where I'm not getting winded during a workout at the dojang Get my yellow belt by the end of the school year Gain some definition and better muscle tone My long-term goals are: Gain a black belt in Kuk Sool Won. The very-long-term goal in sight would be to never stop training and someday become a Kwang Jang Nim. Improve flexibility (test: be able to do the splits!) Eat healthier to lose fat and gain weight in muscle Learn Korean

The achievements thread got me to thinking: what kinds of goals (either short-term or long-term) do you have in martial arts and fitness in general?

My parents have a Mustang, and it handles exceptionally. I don't much like the ride, though.

Lots of threads about this. Try: http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=2772&forum=19&1 http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=2687&forum=19&6 http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=2611&forum=19&20 HTH. Chris

To be honest, I think it's a situation where both sides have to come to a compromise. I'm 19 years old and teach Russian to students and tutees older than me--one of my tutees is 25, and her fiance is older. I don't expect them to respect me as wiser in all aspects of the world, because they have more experience with that than I do. But I go about teaching Russian with confidence, knowing that five years of study and a residency in Russia serve me well. Because of that confidence, they respect my abilities in Russian. So just go about what you do confidently, and try to be humble. If people don't respect you, you can't demand it from them. Ultimately, the ones who truly follow the spirit of MA will have respect for what you've accomplished and realize what they might learn from you.

I ran across that site a while back. I love the cartoons especially.

Hey, I am a master in six different arts and could beat all of you up if you attacked me together. Who do you think you are, making fun of people like me?!?!

Well, I'd suspect that depends on the art. In Kuk Sool at least, forms are supposed to be very fluid. Just focus on all the little details. something I'm having problems with lately are that I tense my shoulders too much. What you need to work on is very much a personal thing, and only you and your teacher can really get at what needs work.

I just took a look at it, too. I'm going to take a look at the stuff on the website OxygenAsh suggested. Makes me think I ought to do a KSW demo video for our martial arts club's website...

Fans are one of the coolest things about Korean martial arts, I think. The demonstrations I've seen are amazing.

Software engineering in general is a sadistic art. Anything more complex than "hello world" can be impossible to read unless you wrote it. Wait three months, and even that doesn't help. "Uh...what was I thinking here?" The thing that's nice about MA is that you can practice forms all you want, but to really improve your techniques, you need someone else's help. Anyone who said they got their black belt through their hard work alone isn't telling the truth.

Y'all are twisted. Twisted, I tell you.

What arts, in your opinion, are good for multiple attackers? It seems to me this is a weakness of most any martial art--from what I've seen anyway. Defending against multiple attackers and winning reliably is just something that's very hard to do, and unless you're a top MA, no amount of practice will put you on top every time.

Hiya, I picked Wing Chun because because it's totally different from what I'm doing now (Kuk Sool Won). For me, choosing hapkido would be like speaking American English and then taking British English classes to broaden my horizons. Better to take Japanese or Russian, no? Also, Wing Chun just really strikes me as interesting. It just seems really cool, and its practioners strike me as serious about what they're doing. For a little more on self-defense, check out http://www.karateforums.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=2727&forum=2&7

Welcome to the forums! Bring your husband and son on too.

Welcome, dark_king. You might want to post an introduction in the Introductions forum.

Good luck with your goals, Prodigy Child.

I saw it in Russia and was pretty disappointed too.

Welcome! Good to see more Korean MAs on the forums.

Even in a society like ours (in the US), I'd be very surprised if anyone were able to shift responsibility onto their dojo for an act of violence they committed. If you learn to shoot at a gun club, are they liable if you murder someone? Obviously not. Likewise, your teacher is not going to liable if you break someone's neck using a technique you learned in class.

That's what I meant by being ready--needing to re-test to show that, etc. How often do they re-test to check up on their abilities? Can they have the belt revoked or something?

Welcome to the forums, tenshi!

You might want to check out some other threads in this forum, like A typical diet... and Hunters and Gatherers Diet. In general, calories aren't everything.

But they do move straight to a black belt when they're ready? What I would be concerned about is dropping the kid to a color belt, or even worse a white belt, just because they learned some things as a kid.