bushido_man96

Good stuff! I enjoyed watching it. Chariots of Fire was classic.

Solid observation! I find that it's pretty pointless to be secretive about certain things. An instructor told me that something was a secret of the system once and I showed him where someone had already posted a YouTube video. This made me chuckle a bit. Did his face drop when he saw this?

I agree with Bob. Everyone has their own knack and talent, and teaching may not be it. But, I do think that like anything, learning to teach can come to those who don't do it well, given proper instruction in how to teach. Like anything, it comes with time and practice.

Martial Arts is a great cure for that. At the very least it worked for me. Yeah, the Martial Arts forces you to learn patience.

What version(s)...huh? Versions of Seisan kata that individuals on this site do.

Sounds like a fun fighter to watch! I'll have to dig up some clips.

Someone told me this because, apparently, humans now think that when someone yells rape that it's a joke, and the person doing this is joking. Generally when someone yells rape from an alleyway it seems pretty serious to me. I agree with you. I don't see how that can be looked at as a joke, or think to do such as a joke would be funny. Some people are sick. Better to investigate and look foolish in the end, in my opinion.

I would spend 3 months on drilling and picking out forms applications, figuring out the process and working things over and over again.

Hadn't thought about this. Cool number anomaly.

Thanks, Danielle. I'll need it!

Congrats!

Everyone has offered great advise so far. If you've narrowed down your choices to two or three (including the MMA gym), then spend time each week viewing each of the classes. See different classes each week from each school. Tuesday class may have a different focus than Thursday class. As far as the experience of the instructor goes, I'd take it with a grain of salt. Learning from an instructor with 25 plus years of experience teaching is sure to gain you some valuable knowledge. But don't discount the less experienced instructor, either. He may have good ideas and methodologies, and may offer a curriculum that is more up your alley. Best of luck in starting your journey, and welcome to KarateForums, too.

Not a recent one. It was from a while back. I'll do some digging to see what I can come up with.

Not too sure. This is a good example, there's at least 16 different Kyokushin organisations in the world and many of them dictate to their Branch chiefs that to remain at the Honbu, listed are an authorised Blackbelt, then you are not allowed to train with/at specified Organisations or allow anyone from specified organisations to train at their Dojo's or attend non-sanctioned events competitions. I know this as one of the local Kyokushin Dojo's the branch chief told me I was ok to train as I was Ashihara but if I was Kyokushin and a member of XYZ, then he can't let me train with him etc. Yep, that's the inter-style stuff I was thinking of.

You need a DirecTV NFL package or something, Patrick. I feel sorry for you. And here I am, getting to enjoy every heartbreaking loss the Chiefs suffer this year in their entirety..... Speaking of which....what a thumping KC got from the Browns, who are not a good team, either.

I think the beginners are always the more care-free and dangerous in just about any task. They get excited about what they are learning, do lots of practice, then start to play around more, leading to a chance for injury. In times, this cools, like with anything, but its important for weapons to be reigned in. Perhaps the best thing a Kobudo instructor can do is keep the weapons at the school, and only allow for practice with them at the school.

As an update, our three candidates for 3rd dan tested on 12/8, and it sounds to me that everyone passed. So, we'll have a total of 4 3rd dans in the school, which means it is definitely time for me to test.

Good job!

De-briefings are good for instructors and students alike. A good class idea would be to reconstruct the scenario from start to finish, and try to find ways to avoid the confrontation and then work up to the actual confrontation, and working on defenses. Lots of value to be found there.

Kumite!

All too true. A few weeks back we were dealing with a drunk gal, and she ended up slapping me on the chest a few times when I was trying to restrain her. It didn't hurt at all, but I had that "what the hell?" thing going through my mind. It doesn't pay to discount anyone. I've seen lots of big dudes get arrested, but more often than not, I've seen the little guys be the fighters.

But do you see the issue from school to school? Even within styles, its easy to see this kind of competition for students with the lure of a "tournament champion" instructor, or some such proclamation. Many times we only see the style vs style version of student competition, but it does happen within styles, as well. Like so many issues within the Martial Arts, this is part of the ego thing, in my opinion. If someone comes to me, and asks why my school is better than someone else's school, I'm not going to give some answer to inflate what it is I have over someone else. I will only tell them what they can hope to learn from me as my student.

My mom was really limited on her flexibility, as well. But she had a good belt level side kick, and was really quick to get inside and use her hands. Its nice to be flexible, and if you keep working at it, you'll get there. Just be smart when you train, and listen to your body. There are also a few stretching routines out there that you might look into like Elastic Steel or Stretching Scientifically. Maybe those will be of help, too.

12/10/2012 One-steps: all 30 Do-Kangs: 1-4 Colored belt forms Chon Ji, Dan Gun, Bo Chuung Do San, Won Hyo Yul Gok, Joong Gun Toi Gye, Hwa Rang, Choong Moo Black Belt forms Kwang Gae Poe Eun Gae Baek Se Jong Yoo Sin Stretch. Breaking things up a bit allowed me some rest and recovery to hit some of the little things. I really slowed down and paced out Yoo Sin, and I felt good with that pacing. I may keep working at that for the testing.

You're giving humanity too much credit, they just want to make sure THEIR stuff isn't burning. Yes, that could be the long and short of it.