bushido_man96

You don't need any kind of certification to teach. Having some credentials will be beneficial to your endeavor, though. Being a black belt is a good start. Years of experience will be another factor, etc. As for finding a building to rent at and teach out of, it can be more sticky there. Before a landlord decides to let you teach people how to fight, they might like the idea of you being credentialed in some way, affiliated with an organization, or perhaps insured in some way. Those are all things you need to check with the landlord, and perhaps any local codes or business bureaus.

The PT punishment arguement is one that has been going on for a while. I think the negative aspect of it comes from the more discouraged kids, who aren't good atheltes, who loaf to class, because they hate it and dread it, get there late, and get punished by being forced to do more of what they already hate. What needs to happen, is to get rid of that negative attitude. It usually stems from frustration of not being good, and also from demoralizing comments from those that are talented. I'm not pointing to one or the other, but neither factors help the matter. I'll be the first to admit that I am fairly out of shape. If you saw me, you'd probably not think of me as a Martial Artist. I'm 5'8" or less, and carry right around 250 lbs. This is not a good weight for me, and I know it. I've never been super active, except for a stint from my junior year in high school to my second year at junior college that I lifted more weights, and watched a bit more of what I ate, and got to taking some thyroid pills. I tried to Wrestle my 8th grade year, but I sucked at it, was out of shape, and didn't go back out after that year. Now, I wish I would have. I wish I would have tried out for football, just so I would have been in better shape, making the team be damned! Also, I'm a video game kid. Loved my Nintendo, and still do! Its not good, and I try to make sure I get exercise in. But still, I don't see results at times, and it does get discouraging. But, I keep on, and do what I can, and try to make a better lifestyle. Of course, sleeping all day and working all night doesn't help much, either.

Man, that's too bad. Also last week, on Thursday (9/9/10), we qualified KS C-Post with our new Gen 4 Glocks. I shot ok, scoring 43 out of 50, but I would like to get that number up. 9/16/10 Side kicks: 25 each leg; being at work, a bulk of them were low level.

Well, I'd agree that waiting for anyone to do anything is a bad idea; action is always faster than reaction. So yeah, if you know its a fight, going on the offensive is a good idea. I'd say, punch, and be ready to sprawl, and like was suggested earlier, keep moving.

Its good to see that common sense standards cross various lines of difference.

Wrestling is the 6th most popular school sport in the united states. There are over 9500 sanctioned schools. It's actually quite likely you may come across people with a wrestling background. While you're right about the rankings. I wonder how much there is of a drop off between the big three (baseball, basketball and football) and wrestling. For example, if football got 40% of the athletes, baseball got 35%, basketball got 15%, soccer got 5%, swimming got 4%, and wrestling got 1%. That means that wrestling is the 6th most popular. But it's still only going to get only 1% of the student athletes. There are a lot of multi-sport athletes out there, and many football players can end being Wrestlers, too, like ps1 said, becasue the seasons are at two different times. The drop off in the talent level isn't going to be as big as it might seem. Also, the weight classes of Wrestling effect who does it, too. Not a lot of 115 pounders are playing football, but they can Wrestle. It sounds to me like you had 20 in there with Martial Arts training. Boxing and Wrestling both count, don't they?

So Alex, are you still on track for the NAGA tourney? 9-7-10 Weights: push day: bench, incline, and some dumbells. 9/8/10 Weights: pull day: worked on pull-up exercises, doing assisted and what not. 9/11/10 Did some running today, but it was incremental for the most part. At my daughter's cross country meet, I ran from spot to spot to watch her. 9/15/10 Side kicks today: 25 each leg. I'm going to try to start doing this more often, just to get in the habit of doing something with my schedule being all messed up.

That's going back to living off the "one hit wonder" principle, and its not a good idea. Most Wrestlers are going to be athletic, and will be able to move. They may eat a punch, but they can probably move enough to shunt some of it, too. Also, a Wrestler isn't likely to be standing straight up fight you. They are going to hunker down and work that shot. They'll have their hands up, too, in a ready position. So, they won't just be waiting to get hit, and then work a takedown.

Very cool. It was a nice change from all those screamers out there.

I've read this book, as well. There are some good things in the book, but I felt that his translation of the WTF forms were a bit more stretched than those of Anslow's and the ITF forms. Still, reading it made me think.

Maybe you need to change the way you're sparring then. Start padding up or using props so you can do this type of stuff. You can't really poke someone in the eyes or crush their testicles in drill work either. Drill work's fine but you do need to spar once in a while for the unpredictability factor. Drill work you know what your partner will do, sparring not so much. sensei8's willing uke is also a big problem in drills too. I agree. Sparring is great for the interaction it gives the trainers, along with resistance and reaction. Those things mentioned above couldn't really be drilled safely, sparring or not. Its good to train them in drills, and then in sparring, see and note when those opportunities arise.

That's funny! Good that you could use it as a teaching moment, too.

I'm not sure that the 90% number is right, but I think that more often than not a fight probably does go to the ground, at least one party if not both. If it comes to LEO stats, then I most likely one person does end up on the ground, for cuffing. But, its a special situation, too, and won't happen in all "fights." You can search for all kinds of fight footage on youtube, and start your own study, if you are interested. Then interview people who have been in altercations, and see what you learn. With the advent of MMA, and MMA becoming more mainstream, more and more people who have been exposed to it will likely attempt it in fights, so the stat could start to go up.

Yeah, the Boxing gloves usually had some studs in them. Pretty nasty. I'd heard that the reason the Spartans wouldn't fight in the Pankration was because of the chance of losing...and the effect that would have on their image. I could be wrong, though. As for the comparison of Pankration and UFC, I'd call the MMA the modern Pankration. MMA is basically an evolution of it, and to compare the two, in my eyes, would be like comparing NASCAR of the 50s to NASCAR now.

Congrats!

I tend to get into slugfests a lot when I spar. The key is being able to slug harder, longer, and faster than the other guy.

I was browsing the channels late the other night, and came across this on ESPN2 at around 2 or 3 am. Of course it caught my eye, being MA, but, I found that it was just hard to keep interested. I can do without all the yelling and screaming in the forms competitions. And they were the open forms...no traditional forms. And the girls seemed to want to yell more than the guys did. And it seemed that the same winners kept repeating from the previous year, as well. The weapons displays were quite athletic, but other than that, not enjoyable to watch. There was one practitioner that was a soft stylist of some kind....Kung Fu in some way or another. Watching his weapons and open form was kind of refreshing compared to the others on, as he did no yelling or screaming at all, the Wushu style of movement was very good. I think that because he was a soft stylist, he got slighted a bit on his scores, which was bunk, because he did some very tough stuff with his weapon and open form. He even added in some Drunken-type elements, which were cool. Other than that, I guess it was what I thought it would be. Not very enjoyable.

I think writing a book would be an excellent idea for you, Bob. I have never seen a book on Shindokan, so being able to learn more about it would be great.

9-2-10 Weights: push day: shoulder press, rear delt flies, dumbell shoulder presses, and did some leg extensions and curls. Legs are sore today! I love it!

I'll post it eventually. I have an "I don't care what others think" attitude when it comes to that stuff. I'll do what I want with this stuff.I checked my encyclopedia, and it does say to perform the pressing blocks in a slow motion.

You might try a site called Alibris.com as well.

I think that many of the higher kicks began to develop out of the basic, lower level kicks learned in Karate, and then they just started being done higher. As for the spinning kicks and jumping kicks, I'm not sure I would jump on the Taekkyon bandwagon. The main issue I have is that Korea has done such a job in fabricating the history of TKD, and the newly revived Taekkyon, that I take any Korean MA history with a grain of salt.

I'd have to agree with Tony on the applications. Most of them from the encylcopedia are simply bunk. I think that's why some people have dug into the moves to find applications that make more sense.

I've looked, and haven't found anything from any of my people, or that do it like we do. But, to describe it in words, I'd say our TKD has more of a Karate feel to it. Or perhaps, ITF forms done the WTF way, because I think our GM was a WTF practitioner first. When I do post a vid of my form, I think it'll be the first of our org to do it, and if word gets around about it, I may get in trouble... ...oh well, what the hell!

Last week's game was a better one. Against the Eagles in the first half they started putting some things together, and looked better. McCluster looks really promising, and it may leave a decision for next year as to what to do with the 3 running backs they have. Bowe caught some passes for a change, which was good, and Eric Berry looks great. Sheffield went down with that concussion, but was released from the hospital earlier in the week, and is doing ok. Thank heavens.