bushido_man96

I've got Panther, Giants in a close one, Ravens, and Steelers (I think..)

I am currently in a holding patter with three books: 1. Deep Fathom by James Rollins. This is the one I am concentrating on for the most part right now; my pleasure reading. I have read a lot of fiction lately, kind of re-discovering it. And I'm loving it... 2. The TaeGuek Cipher by Simon John O'Neill. Pretty good read; its an interesting take on the self-defense applications of the main set of WTF colored belt forms. 3. Total Aikido by Gozo Shioda. This is a pretty complex Aikido text, and I am hoping that as I go along with my Aikido lessons, that more and more of this book will open up to me.

Well said.

That should make for a good fight. I think White should set it up.

The thing about that, though, is that there are two other titles out there that he isn't holding right now. If he really wants to legitimize himself, he would work toward unifying the titles.

I'm not claiming that its right or wrong; just putting it out there.

This is excellent advise. To expand on that a little, if you don't know an answer to a question, don't be afraid to admit that you don't know. Along with that, don't be afraid to tell them that you will do what you can to find out the answer, either. Be honest, with yourself, and your students.

It'll give me something to focus me to actually do them on a schedule. I'm looking forward to it, actually.

1-5-09 Defensive tactics: 8:30 - 10:50. Opened up with some stick work. We are going to try to do a little stick work at the beginning of each workout. I plan on reviewing some material, and making something to hit with it. Then, we moved into doing arm-wraps again. I really enjoy working on these, especially the outside ones. With just a few options to practice, I have found that I like what I have to work with. The last 20 minutes of the session was spent reviewing Combat Hapkido, orange and yellow belt material. Chest/triceps Dumbell bench press: 50x10x3 Cable crossovers: 50x10, 50x8x2 Triceps push-downs: 105x10, 120x6x2 Abs Cable crunches: 105x15x3 Cable trunk twists: 70x10x3 Treadmill: Jogged for about 15 minutes, and I got close to my mile. Running just sucks! 1-7-09 Jog with the dog. Not as far today, but I made an effort to get out and do a little.

Man, that's a bummer, Kez. Get well soon.

Its good to see that you are able to train again! Feels good, eh?

Here are some of the standards that I was originally taught the back stance: 1. With your feet together, make an L with them. The lead foot will point forward, and the rear foot (that bears most of the weight) will point 90 degrees. The feet should make a right angle to each other. 2. Start out with 3 or your own feet length for the stance. Measure the foot that points forward in kind of a heel-to-toe fashion so that you get to 3 of your own foot's length out. Lengthen the stance as you feel comfortable, but remember; if it becomes difficult to transition out of, then it is too deep or long. 3. 70% weight on rear leg, and 30% on the front leg. The front leg should be easy to pick up and kick with, without having to move the body too much to telegraph. Something that I have focused on of late is keeping the weight more to the toes, as opposed to being on the heels in the stance. Bend the knees good, but not so much that you can't come out of the stance without a noticible adjustment. These points should help you to keep the knee over the toe of the rear leg, and should help you get more comfortable with the stance. These are only some basic teaching guidelines that I use. Depending on height, leg length, etc., you may be longer or shorter than others. In time, you'll figure out how your body likes it. Welcome back to the MAs, and welcome to KarateForums.com!

Sure you can complain! It just won't change things much....

I wonder if it will get overturned. I didn't get to see the fight, but it doesn't sound like Valuev does much to help his resume out. I wonder why he has refused to fight the Klitschko brothers?

Enjoy your time teaching. You will learn a lot, once you start teaching.

It could be. But, he also dominated a tournament circuit for several years, and there were some very good, "legitimate" black belts in there.

I would agree that the roots of TKD are there, with the Shotokan influences. In the end, it will depend on what he would want the forms to represent. Does he want them to have the segments be more like sparring segments? More kicks? Higher kicking? In the end, I think it will depend on what you want to take out of the forms, as to whether you will find them interesting or worthwhile or not. Stuart Anslow has found quite a bit to take out of the Chang Hon system. I don't think that this system of forms is any more or less exciting to watch than any other MA forms system is.

Even if no talking takes place prior to any actions, if one can talk/yell during the altercation, stating the things I mentioned above, it can help one's cause. This is something that we covered in a weapon retention/control class that I took in early 08. If your gun gets grabbed, you yell out "gun grab!" as loud as you can, as often as you can, so as to alert others around you to the circumstances of the situation. This kind of thing can be trained for scenarios as well.

Even if no talking takes place prior to any actions, if one can talk/yell during the altercation, stating the things I mentioned above, it can help one's cause. This is something that we covered in a weapon retention/control class that I took in early 08. If you gun gets grabbed, you yell out "gun grab!" as loud as you can, as often as you can, so as to alert others around you to the circumstances of the situation. This kind of thing can be trained for scenarios as well.

Thanks for the review, tallgeese. I have seen the book around, but haven't picked it up. Perhaps I'll give it a look sometime.

Wolverine Origins should be good. Terminator Salvation should be too; the article mentioned that 2 more should be coming, too? I'd like to see how they do Where the Wild Things Are. My kid loves that book.

Well, I went 2 for 2.

I pretty much just listen to the radio. My wife has Sirius in her car, but otherwise, I just hear the local stations. I buy a CD every now and then, but not very often.

I thought that the main idea behind using a graphite bo was because it was lighter and faster, thus easier to twirl and such.

Tallgeese's checks are a good way to defend against the straight punches. If you can check and step outside that first punch, then you can help negate the second punch by being off-line. We try to do a little of this with our Combat Hapkido work. It also works well with trapping a bit.