bushido_man96

I'd say wearing work boots to do some kicking in would be the modern version of this, just minus the benefit of squeezing the toes together to hold the sandal in place. But, you could squeeze the toes together inside the boot and kick objects with the toe of the boot.

Not necessarily many, but a few, for sure. We used to some Combat Hapkido as a supplement to our TKD training, but not anymore. I really enjoyed it, though.

Good points here, Danielle. Being strong and athletic can make up for a lack of experience (but not totally). I'd say that experience comes with time, but that isn't necessarily true. It comes with time and opportunities. These opportunities can present themselves in different ways; experience through sparring (in class, at a tournament, or in the ring), experience through cross-training, and experience through real-world encounters (actual self-defense, fights, line-of-work duties like LEOs or military or personal protection services). These aren't the only ways to gain experience, but I think they point out what I'm trying to say. Experience gained over time like this will always be of benefit when it comes to the younger, more athletic crowd.

What do you mean by "contracting" in defending? Are you saying you bring everything tight into you and kind of ball up, like tucking your chin and shrugging your shoulders?

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7/3/2017 Strength Training Squats: warm-ups: 45x5, 235x5, 185x5 Press: warm-ups: 45x5, 65x5, 95x5; work sets: 115x5, 115x5, 115x5. 7/6/2017 Strength Training Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x5, 115x3; work sets: 120x5, 120x5, 120x5. Squat: 120x5, 135x5, 185x5.

I agree. There are some police abusing their authority. They need to be dealt with. More importantly, how they got hired and trained needs to be discussed as well. Is it the gradual influence of weak-kneed elected officials that set the conditions for bad hires and bad training? Use of force training is taught to legal minimum standards. Legal minimum standards are ultimately determined by budgets and politicians (who do not do the job). However, the use of force is never pretty. It does not look like a heavily choreographed movie-fu fight. A 30 second recording never tells the whole story. No, a 30-second recording doesn't tell the whole story, even in a scenario that looks lopsided. The thing to remember is there is usually an incident that an officer gets dispatched to, sometimes with limited information, and then who knows what happens when they arrive on scene. Then the report follows. But the sensationalism is what wins out on the news. Training is also very important, but, no one can force officers to dedicate their time off-duty to self-defense training. So, the training that many get is limited to what they get from basic training and then from department training. The ones who actively seek out training are more often than not your defensive tactics instructors, special response team members, etc. With all that said, what Paul Harvey said about the public's expectations of what officers should be able to do, like "whip a man twice his size and half his age" without hurting them, is not always how things will work out. We like to have compliance, but that doesn't always work out, either. And then, to top it off, an officer has to fight by a set of rules that don't exist for the other. And then the scrutiny comes. So when I see something passing on the news in regards to police use of force, I take it with a grain of salt, and no that there is always so much more to the story than we see in a 30-second bit of violence.

I don't agree. You don't get to choose who is going to use violence on you. You only get to choose to react and defend yourself. If this mentally ill person is trying to cause you great bodily harm or death, then you have to be ready to defend yourself as necessary, if you have to. Its similar to someone who is high on drugs or highly intoxicated. I don't care if they don't realize what they are doing. What matters is that they are doing it, and they have to be stopped from doing it. If that means escalating use of force, then that's how it has to be. Actually, it probably would be the best time to use a rear-naked choke. You apply the choke properly and the person goes to sleep. They are done hurting you, and you are done hurting them. Actually, it would probably be a best-case scenario, but I honestly think it would be one of the best applications of that technique.

I have never sparred with violent intentions. In my opinion, that isn't what sparring in class is for. Sparring, although competitive, is still a learning environment, and if you take care of your partners, they take care of you, and you both get to learn something.

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6/20/2017 Strength Training Squats: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 135x5, 155x5, 185x4; work sets: 225x5, 225x5, 225x5. Stretch 6/22/2017 Strength Training Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3; work sets: 127x5, 127x5, 127x5. Lat Pull-downs: 110x10, 110x10, 110x10. 6/26/2017 Strength Training Squats: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 135x5, 155x5, 185x3; work sets: 235x5, 235x5, 235x5. Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3; work sets: 128x5, 128x5, 128x5. 6/30/2017 TKD Testing: 7:00 - 8:30 pm. Made it back finally! Got into class early, and went over a few of the higher rank colored belt forms before we got into testing.

I would love to see a suplex in combat sports like UFC. I'm not sure if its legal or not, but I'd love to see a Greco-Roman Wrestler pull it off. I think it would take a lot of fight out of someone. If anyone's seen Deadpool, Ajax does a pretty sweet suplex on him in their fight scene in the burning lab.

As an instructor, this would irritate me as well, and I wouldn't stand for it in my class. I would probably have asked you to leave after class. In my opinion, there are two reasons to seek out different schools to participate in. One is to learn what they do and how they do it, and be a good student. The other is to show up with the intent to try to show the instructor up, shoot down what they do and how they do it, and try to make them look bad or incompetent. This sounds like what was going on to me, but that's just what it looks like to me. If a practitioner's goal is to dojo hop to make instructors look silly, then there will be times that the student will get kicked in the ribs or the head or otherwise. I'm not saying that's the way it should be done, but we all know that it doesn't always work this way. The problem with approaching things in this way is escalation. Instructor attempts to demonstrate A, and you resist, so instructor has to go to B, when instead he was trying to teach A. There is a big difference in learning the technique, then training the technique, and the applying the technique. When one person decides to be difficult in the learning phase, then it affects everyone else who is trying to learn it. In the end, no one learns anything, and the class is a wash.

I'm not a talented natural athlete, so in that, I'd say I'm pretty normal. Especially as I get older, and the body doesn't respond as well as it once did.

I've done it before, but don't care for the practice. Balance gets harder because we rely so much on what we can see in our kinesthetic awareness. Take away one of the senses, and things get a lot tougher.

Agreed. Once you start, don't stop. Keep going. You'll be glad you did.

Just learning and appreciating good and proper technique. I always loved kicking, and trying to get it right. Its a complex thing that you can really spend a lifetime getting right.

Just a very quick story regarding bowing... In the west I think we have a tendency to consider bowing rather insignificant (apart from the intended display of respect and humility) and easy. I remember a course held by a senior Japanese instructor I used to train with where, after starting with a bow in he preceded to spend about 30 minutes explaining how to bow (tachi-rei, and za-rei) - as he was appalled by the fact that, as he said - 'no one knows how to bow properly'. The course was attended by many 6th,7th and 8th dans from all over Europe - many of whom hadn't a clue they weren't bowing properly and more importantly why! Disappointingly however - most didn't seem to care. K. I can see both sides of this. Its cultural. In the west, we tend to the handshake as a form of greeting. In the east, they bow a lot more, and for a lot more things. Its natural that they are going to understand it more than westerners. In doing Karate or some other Martial Art, we really only get a very small sample of the culture where it came from. So, we just won't be as adept at it unless we decide to really immerse ourselves in it, and spend some time living in the culture. Now, as for the Kihap or Kiai. I hear it vocalized more now in a word form or a vocal yell than I used to. I hear a lot of people yell without bringing the air up from their abdomen, and that really defeats the purpose of it; at that point, your just trying to be loud. It should be a short, forceful exhalation of air from the abdomen that causes the trunk muscles to tighten, and ideally, the yell should peak at the completion of the technique.

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I have not ever "fought" outside of my style, but I have worked with others of different styles and sparred with different rule sets. Its always fun and educational. There's nothing like rolling with an NCAA Division II All-American wrestler to show you where the holes in your grappling knowledge are.

Was this TKD instructor trying to use you as a punching bag at the time, or just trying to demonstrate a technique? I don't know how this school worked, but when we teach one-steps (which this sounds like), we don't try to beat each other up. Block the attack, and proceed to apply the counter attacks to the proper open targets. Its a learning tool. I'm guessing that this instructor decided to not target a fully-powered crescent kick to your wrist to prove he could move it, so moved on to using a different student. Now, the discussion as to whether a crescent kick is an appropriate technique for blocking a punch is a viable technique is a different discussion for a different time. The idea in class though, when practicing with partners, is to not get hurt. Resistance at the point of demonstration can get people hurt. If you don't like the technique, or think it doesn't work, or whatever, then the more respectful way to approach the problem is to grab some private time with the instructor after class and talk it over then. But trying to show up an instructor usually doesn't end well.

I've never demoted anyone, but I have seen an instructor take a belt for a short period of time to prove a point to a higher rank.

6/13/2017 Strength Training Squats: warm-ups: 45x5, 135x5, 155x5, 185x3; work sets: 215x5, 215x5, 215x5. Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3; work sets: 122.5x5, 122.5x5, 122.5x5 Stretch 6/15/2017 Strength Training Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3; work sets: 125x5, 125x5, 125x5. 6/19/2017 Strength Training Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 95x3; work sets: 126x5, 126x5, 126x5. Lying Triceps Extensions: 35x10, 35x10, 35x10.

I was in the ATA system initially, doing their Songham forms. My current school performs the Chang On forms.