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That's a nice explanation, scohen! Thanks for sharing that Ted Talk!

This, is awesome! A good thing to know going into testing!

Highest congratulations, Danielle! You've been such a stalwart member of KF! A bulwark! Your contributions to the community cannot be marginalized! Your posts are always well thought-out and meaningful, and always helpful to other community members, and your contributions as a staff member are innumerable, as well. Here's to another 15 years!

I haven't watched the Boba Fett series yet. I think Kenobi should be a fun one, depending on what it is they are attempting to do with him.

I do enjoy the show, and enjoyed the original movies as kid. But, I have to admit, that I find the show's plot elements a bit laborious at times. There are some things in the rivalries that feel forced to me, but overall, I have enjoyed, and I enjoy how they keep going back to the old movies to dig up new stuff. It is worth a watch.

Most college professors....

Congrats!

5/12/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 180x5, 250x3, 325x1, 360x5, 325x5, 325x5. Press: 45x5x2, 95x5, 135x3, 165x1, 179x1, 179x1, 179x1, 180x1, 181x1, 182x1, 183x1. Lat Pull-downs: 147.5x10, 147.5x10, 147.5x10. Range: 2 hours of long gun work. Sited in rifles, then did some malfunction/transition drills, from long gun to hand gun.

Sorry to hear that, Bob, but glad it's not more serious. Tailbone injuries are horrible things.

Woof, that's rough, Bob. I hope you are ok!

5/10/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 185x5, 255x3, 330x1, 375x5. Pin Press: 45x5x2, 95x5, 115x3, 135x3, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3, 140x3. PR on deadlift. I took video of the set, and reps 1 and 2 were nice. After that, it all slowed down and started to grind. Moving some things around and giving pin press another go. After seeking some programming advice, moving bench press to Friday and doing pin press on Tuesdays. Right now, just practicing the movement to get it better.

Good news!

5/9/2022 Strength Training Squats: 45x5x2, 180x5, 250x3, 325x1, 357.5x5, 325x5, 325x5. Press: 45x5x2, 75x5, 105x3, 140x1, 169x5, 169x5, 169x5, 169x5, 169x4. Lat Pull-downs: 145x10, 145x10, 145x10. Stretch: hams, quads, glutes. Squat work set felt really good. Press was going well; rep 5 on each set was a grind, and seemed to require a little more layback than the other reps. I think I short-changed my rest between set 2 and 3, and I think that may have resulted in the failed last set. On set 5, I drove rep 5 up once, and it died about 3 inches shy of lockout. I took some breaths, reset, and drove it up again....and it died in the same spot, again. I had never worked so hard to fail a rep twice in my life!

Good stuff! Hopefully they are lifers!

5/6/2022 Strength Training Deadlifts: 135x5, 185x5, 225x3, 275x1, 315x5, 315x5. Pin Press: 45x5x2, 95x5, 135x3, 165x1, 185x2, 187.5x2, 187.5x1, 187.5x1. Instead of power clean, I did deadlifts, 2x5, at 85% of my work weight earlier in the week. I then tried pin press again, but I don't think it's the right thing to do right now. It's a partial motion lift, and seems like it should load heavier than 5 lbs over my heavy press day to be yielding results. Back to the drawing board.

The first DT certification I got was taught by Royce Gracie. He said he offered to teach law enforcement where he lived for free...seemed like a good investment for him and his family. He rarely had anyone show to do it. But hold weekend seminar and charge $300 or so for it, and people show up in droves.

I agree with you here. I think its unfortunate that there doesn't seem to be as much adult interest in this kind of training like there used to be, but being a parent myself, I know parents tend to stay busy and don't get a lot of free time, and the time they do get probably doesn't fall at the same time the class schedule does.

That is awesome! Congrats on your promotion! I think it is very cool that the Master took such an interest in your previous training like that. And he also apparently recognized that your level should be somewhat higher, which is very cool, too.

I agree, that’s exactly what happened with kickboxing. However if KC sticks around it is very clearly karate, and the modern karateka in MMA are very open about how their karate is applicable to actual fighting. Something that didn’t happen historically. So what do you classify as "classical?" More open-minded to training with other styles, and exchanging theory and technique?

This is how I've done it, and in TKD we have a form, Poe Eun, that has the similar technique, and I do it this way here as well.

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Welcome to KF, Ravman!

Welcome to KF, LionsDen!

Happy Mother's Day!

I'm glad we don't have to wait much longer!