bushido_man96

Matsushinshii, that's an excellent post, and that's the way that applications should be trained, on an escalating scale to improve reactions to stimuli, essentially. How do you make it work in the full contact mode without anyone getting hurt?

This has been the hardest part for me over the course of the past few years, arranging some training time outside of class.

Good to see you, italian_guy! Have fun on the new endeavor! I think Wing Chun would be fun to learn, so keep us posted on your training!

Well said, Danielle, well said. Happy Anny, KF!

I view discipline as the wherewithal of applying acquired skill in the proper time and place. I think this comes mostly through experience.

I agree. The trick is closing the gap from compliant drilling to more realistic scenario type training without getting someone hurt. Over the years, sparring has been the closest to this, but then you bring in the rule sets, which adds another twist to the argument that the rules won't always apply. Its a tough line to walk as an instructor.

11/6/2017 Defensive Tactics Club: 1:30 - 2:30 pm. Reviewed some head lock defenses. Strength Training: Press: warm-ups: 45x5x5, 65x5; work sets: 95x5, 95x5, 95x5. Lat pull-downs: 120x10, 120x10, 120x10. Dumbell Incline Press: 30x10, 30x10, 30x10. 11/8/2017 Strength Training: Incline Bench Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5, 75x5; work sets: 100x5, 100x5, 100x5. Trying to work the shoulder back into shape. Deadlifts: 115x5, 135x5, 170x5, 197x5. Kind of sad, but just use my son's weight. 11/9/2017 TKD Testing: 6:00 - 7:30 pm. We had one testing for 1st dan, and several brown belts testing. Overall, they did pretty well. All the board breaking was excellent. 11/13/2017 Defensive Tactics Club: 1:30 - 2:30 pm. Worked on pistol disarms. Strength Training: Press: warm-ups: 45x5x2, 65x5x2, work sets: 95x5, 95x5, 95x5. Lat pull-downs: 120x10, 120x10, 120x10. 11/15/2017 Taught TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:00 pm. Basics, then forms review, and finished with some paddle work. 11/16/2017 Taught TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:00 pm. Basics, forms review, one-steps, paddle work.

It sounds like the important thing is to learn to keep doing what you love here, but reducing the stress in doing so. How to do that, I don't know for sure. Perhaps a different approach, a different outlook? But at any rate, I know you will find the answer!

Boxing was trained for "civilian combat" many years ago, in ways in which we would consider applicable to self-defense training. It has evolved considerably into the sport of present-day Boxing, but it is still applicable to self-defense. Learning to strike with the hands, defend with the hands and with movement of the feet and body (some might call that tai-sabaki) is all applicable to self-defense. I call Boxing a Martial Art, as I do with Wrestling.

Like most techniques, with the proper applications they can be very useful tools.

This happens just about everywhere we go in life, be it the MA school, the workplace, school, etc. Any time you get a group of human beings together, these kinds of things rear their head. Its pretty unavoidable, unfortunately. What one must consider within these groups, is how close-knit the group as a whole is together, and how big the group is. Smaller groups can make it more uncomfortable than in big groups. One also has to consider if it is the group as a whole that is affecting you, or if it is a vocal minority that is the issue. Me personally, I would not want to give up a situation I enjoy being in because a few others in the group want to make it less enjoyable for me. If I do, then they've won, and got what they wanted. Do you feel you are going to lose closeness with your Karate family because of what is being said, or if you would choose to leave? If it were me, I'd choose not to leave, and try to work through things as best I can. Over time, things tend to settle, cooler heads prevail, and relationships will begin to mend themselves. Just out of curiosity, was this a former personal relationship that was ended or went sour, or something else entirely?

Knee spring and sine wave are two different things. Knee spring creates sine wave. Knee spring is in all (ITF) movements. Sine wave is only in movements which travel or involve a stance change (but not all stance changes). This is not true. In ITF Taekwon-Do you never finish the leg before the punch. Everything MUST finish at the same moment. The punch should finish as the leg drives straight and locks the stance. I'll admit that the movements you see nowadays are over the top with this movement (often for competition) but from what I've seen recently there is a conscious effort now to reign it back. I've never really done knee spring in any of the TKD that I've practiced. Power generation has almost always been from the hips.

I can see the convenience in not having to rotate back into the quick follow-up technique.

11/1/2017 Strength Training Incline Bench Press: 45x5x2, 65x5x2, 75x5, 95x5, 95x5, 95x5. 11/2/2017 TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:00 pm. Basics, stretch, forms (Choong Jang), one-steps (blue and green), sparring. 11/3/2017 Strength Training Press: 45x5x2, 65x5, 85x5, 85x5, 85x5. Lat Pull-downs: 100x10, 110x10, 110x10. Dumbell Incline Press: 30x10, 30x10, 30x10.

When you are strength training, if you are doing the big barbell exercises like squat, deadlift, power clean, snatch, bench press and press, you will get flexible through the whole range of motion so long as you are doing the exercises correctly. However, if you want to get more flexible, for kicking high, then you will likely have to spend time stretching independent of lifting weights, and probably after your strength training session.

In DT club, we have a warm-up drill we do where we practice an armbar, then flow into a triangle choke, then flow into an omo plata. We used to do some lock flow in Hapkido, too.

I've had to do so because of moving and such. We've had students that move on and have to find something new to do, so it tends to be just part of life at times. Other times, though, I see students realize that what we do just isn't for them, and they pick up something else that suits them better or they enjoy more. Kudos to them. Its great that they consider what they are getting out of the deal, and not just what I as an instructor can provide.

Sure it is! How else are non-MAists going to be introduced to the MA properly??!!?? However, as a MAist, I've only one chance, and one chance alone, to make that first expression; it better be a good one!! Agreed! Its so important to expose MA to "regular folk" because they are the future of the Martial Arts. We want to get them exposed, get them hooked, and have more training partners to share this wonderful journey with. Now, I am regular folk. Just ask Bob, he's met me and we've hung out. Just ask him... Oh, wait, nevermind....

Congrats!

Congratulations on 10 years as a moderator, Danielle! You've been a rock here at KF, and the community is better for it. Here's to another 10 solid years of moderation!

Welcome to KF, Mark! Glad to have you here!

I'd say there are a couple of caveats to this. I obviously can't hand everything on to a white belt, but I can do my best to prepare that white belt for the rank requirements and anything else I judge he/she is ready for. Talking black belts, I can't think of any time I'd consider holding anything back. If a high rank shows more interest in class and out of class, I tend to work with them a little extra, mainly because they are coming forward and expressing an interest outside of class. Sometimes its easier to cover some things in more informal settings. But, I can't think of any time that I've looked at one student and thought, "I'll teach him all of it," and looked at another student and thought, "I'm not going to give this one as much." I've never done that before.

I think they spar a lot, but do different types of sparring. Sometimes going light and getting combo work in, or other times just working the mitts or the bags. I'm sure sometimes the sparring contact is kicked up a few notches, because that's the game, but its too risky to do that all the time.

10/30/2017 Defensive Tactics Club: 1:30 - 2:30 pm. Not a lot going on, but did some review of the "jits flow" we do, otherwise known as the "three brothers," I think?

Moving to the different cast seems to be a mild improvement. Hopefully it starts to pick up a bit for you. It must be tough, restraining yourself from punching!