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That's a great pic! We have two patches; a Sun Yi's Academy patch, and a Traditional Taekwondo Association patch on each chest side. That particular uniform has stitching down the sleeves that say Sun Yi's Academy on one side, and Korean on the other. I also have a uniform that has an Instructor patch under the left breast patch. That seems about right to me. In the ATA, we had a school patch on one side, an ATA patch on the other, then on the sleeve you had judge patches for black belt, between 1 and 3 depending on the certification you held. I think they have more depending on what they do, now.

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Welcome to KF! I'm excited to hear more about TSD. Good luck with your upcoming testing!

6/25/2012 Floor Kicks Side kicks: 3x10 each side Round kicks: 3x10 each side Hook kicks: 3x10 each side 6/27/2012 Floor kicks Side kicks: 3x10 Round kicks: 3x10 Doggie kicks Side kicks: 3x10 6/28/2012 Firearms training Building searches using sims rounds. We went through 3 scenarios as two man teams, and then did a debrief after each and discussed things. One scenario, I gave my point of view on what I had planned doing in regards to armbaring someone to secure them, and the lead guys said they thought my tactics were sound. After my 3 run throughs, I got to run through with another guy who needed a partner, so I got double the fun. Even got to shoot some sim rounds a few times. 7/10/2012 Range training Did some shooting from cover, rolling out to strong side and knocking down what we call "pepper poppers," then switch hands and roll out to weak side and knock down a pepper popper. Then, we advanced to another position, shooting a pepper popper while moving from cover to cover, reloading behind cover. After that, we did a drill where we stood at 21 feet with our hands on our heads, and the rangemasters pulled a target on wheels at us. The goal was to draw while retreating and get three shots off. Good times. Then we did some patrol rifle shooting at 60 yards, which went ok, put 3 rounds through the shotgun at the same range, then did a bit more practice with the pistol.

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That's a tough situation you have there. The problem with home study courses is quality control; there usually is none, and unsupervised technique work might end up getting you hurt. Instead of courses, you might just see what kind of channels you can find on youtube to learn and have a bit of fun with. I don't really condone learning without an instructor, but if you're looking just for some fun, it might not hurt much. Just be sure you understand what you are actually getting out of it.

Check with your instructor to see if it bothers him/her or not. You won't know if you don't ask, and he could clarify better than we could. We will only have opinions, whereas the protocol of your school will be learned there. At our school, we start teaching new material even before the belts arrive, because the instructor knows if they pass or not.

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Welcome to KF, Naked Snake. Glad to have you!

Welcome Todd! I think its great you are working with the kids like that. Hope to hear from you in the forums soon!

Great posts. I can't add much to them. As far as "learning more advanced stuff" goes...it really has more to do with fine tuning the basics, which ends up being the advanced stuff. The advanced guys make the basics look easy, becauase that's what they do all the time.

Interesting analogy there.

If you don't have time for it, then take time off. However, if you are coming up with other excuses to yourself in order to avoid the sparring aspect that scares you, then I think you would be doing yourself a disservice by quitting. Take sparring in gradually; you don't have to win, the goal is to learn something. And you will eventually overcome your fear, which will make you feel great. Life is full of things to overcome. Don't walk away from them all. Otherwise, you spend life looking over your shoulder at what you could have been doing.

Another thing is that a good side kick requires the body to be in alignment to deliver power, and getting into this alignment is a bit tricky, and in MMA, the cons of the technique just might outwiegh the pros of learning it.

I agree. It would be a great study to show supervisors in regards to justifying a continuing DT program.My DT partner has actually succeeded in getting mandatory DT training quarterly for his department.

I tend to agree with the others in regards to the isolations. If you want to get stronger, then you only really need three exercises per lift day, doing 5 sets of 5 reps each, adding weight in increments each workout; 5 lbs each workout is good for progression. There are good programs out there, like Starting Strength, or Stronglifts, which is what I got started with for a while, and got really good results with. Those are good beginning programs, and you can probably progress on those for a year or two, working out 3 days per week. The barbell is your friend. As you get stroger, you can add in assistance exercises to aid with the main lifts. Also, a PROPERLY PERFORMED squat is an ACL neutral movement. I'm not telling you to do it right now; talk to your ortho first But, lots of doctors don't do squats, and automatically have the negative opinion of them that most people that don't understand the squat do.

6/11/2012 Teaching TKD Adult class: 6 - 7. Basics, forms, one-steps. Worked some on breakfalls since the orange belts have to fall in a one-step. Prior to class, I got some stretching in. 6/13/2012 Floor kicks: side kicks: 3x10 each side; round kicks: 3x10 each side. Tried to work them with my 6 year old son, but he had lazy floppy body going on, so we didn't do too much. 6/18/2012 Floor kicks: side kicks: 3x10 each side; round kicks: 3x10 each side. 6/20/2012 Stretch: seated straddle, working to the left and right, and a bit of hip and glute stretching. Continuous Kicks Side kick: 5 each side Round kick: 5 each side Hook kick: 5 each side I did the sides, then rounds, then hooks, rapid succession, so there was no rest between each; just long enough to switch sides. Used a bannister for balance. Forms: Kwang Gae and Poe Uen, just walk throughs in the house for review. I've been unable to get to the gym regularly, due to my right shoulder issues. I go see an ortho this week, and we'll see what we get to do from there. I can't lift weights, and doing strikes and blocks aggravates the shoulder, too. This is misery.

In the same vein, I would also mention that 300 push ups is not the same as a 300 lb bench press, and vise versa. You can't really correlate the two. Also, free weight exercises do force the body to balance itself in order to get the weight to move in the most efficient manner. Body weight exercises are typically a great assistance exercise to weight training. Dips are a great assistance exercise to bench press, and if you use the chain belts to add weights, you can progressive load your dips, which means you can see your progress go up. Pull-ups are great for the back and arms, and by adding small weight increments to them, you can progressively load and see the results. Body weight exercises and free weight exercises compliment each other so well, but there is an idea that the two are separated due to the "bulking up" myth that weight training is tagged with, and the idea that bodyweight exercises will make you look leaner automatically. In the end, I'd say do both. Find a program and do it (not somone's "routine" in a muscle magazine, but a true weight training program).

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In Shindokan, we don't block...we deflect. Yeah, you deflect people to the other side of the room! And I enjoy it quite a lot; better them than me!! I see how ya are!

First off, self-preservation should never be viewed as disrespectful. That said, I would talk to the instructor and inform him of your experiences, and what you usually do when falling/rolling out of something. He shouldn't take offense to this. From there, if you are really looking to get into the Aikido experience, the instructor should have you go over some basic rolling and breakfall instruction with you, so you can become familiar with it. Also, most instructors are good about demonstrating the techniques, and letting the uke know whether they are rolling or breakfalling out of it. That there should give you some guidance. If all else fails, don't let someone's perception of respect keep you from protecting yourself in the class setting. If a flip bails you out uninjured, then do it. Then maybe slow the next move down, so you can work on the projection part of the technique, and thus how to land. Enjoy Aikido! Its great fun!