bushido_man96

I think that you will enjoy the class. In the end, the participants will be very appreciative of your participation, as well. I am sure all of you will learn something.

They're not??? Then you should be training harder I guess that will be an area of my training that I will never excell in. I like it that way, too!

I take it you've seen the videos of the Shaolin monks conditioning their testicals? Part of me wants to be able to do that. Part of me wants to never see that video again Trust your feelings here....go with the latter!!!!

In the JKD sense, I think the trapping concepts come from chi sao and lop sao techniques. It has to do with removing and obstruction (arm or hand) from a line of attack, along with possibly pinning it and keeping it out of the line of attack.

That's a good lesson. Something about "it hits all by itself..."

Yes, American Taekwondo Association. My brother and I had both judged in tournaments for the ATA, so we knew how the form should look. The ATA keeps there poomsae a lot more uniform, with lots less interpretation than other form sets. The forms are also copyrighted, so they can't be taken and used by other organization. It allows the ATA to keep things fairly standarized.

I look at it this way: if you have to stand and take a shot, he will have to stand there eventually too....

Okinawan? Wouldn't that make it Naihanchi??? Ah, its semantics, isn't it?? For my TKD style, I think Choong Moo.

I don't know if you really have a choice here. You may not subscribe to the whole "spirituality" aspect that some do, but that's not the only place where the mind-body-spirit connection comes in. I explain to my students that when you are training hard and your body doesn't want to go on and your mind is having trouble focusing, it's your spirit that pushes you forward. Well, that could be, too.

That is exactly what I was thinking. As a board holder, I absolutely hate standing there, holding boards, and waiting for a breaker to do there 14 practice attempts before they then MISS and have to set up 14 more times before trying again.

Yet another way to recycle your Nintendo Entertainment System!! Pretty cool.

No kidding. That team just got drummed the whole tournament, it looked like.

That's cool.

I tend to agree with tallgeese on the size matter. One other thing is that I would never assume that my opponent is unskilled. There is a difference between a big guy who never fights and a big, strong, football player who knows how to move a guy off a line, or can run through a tackler coming at him full speed. I would say that knees should be a primary target for you. You also have to watch if he is wanting to charge you or not. If he appears to be a charger, lunging at you, then work your angles, and maybe try to trip him up; then get away.

Well, if thats what you want to do, then great. I just no that I wouldn't take a shot to the groin, full blast, by a female that you are trying to get into the mindset that she is being sexually assaulted. And that is just one of the females. In the end, they all get to take a shot. The jewels just aren't that durable...

Thanks, tallgeese. I have the Talhoffer title as well. I like it, too. I have been hard pressed to find one that I don't like, yet. John Clements also has a new title out, on polearm combat. I will be purchasing that one shortly, as well. As for these titles, I usually do a review of the books that I have and read in the Martial Arts Research Library thread, if you want to check them out. I know, I don't have a life...

I agree. Everything starts with the core.

9-10-09 Push-ups: 2x20 Crunches: 2x20 Stretched: seated splits, leaning left and right, and reverse hurdler and butterfly. 3 sets of each, except the hurdler. From Tae Kwon Do: Skipping step: advance & retreat, 20 each side. Change cover and down block: retreating, 20 each side for 40 total. That was it tonight. Not much time.

CPR training is required, but not basic first aid. All of our instructors are CPR-certified (per ATA requirements). I have taken the Red Cross first aid course, and one of my instructors is a trauma nurse. We have had a few accidents over the years, so it is nice to be prepared. Thanks for clearing that up. It has been a while...

So much politics involved. It is what sucks about the Martial Arts world. But, in the end, we are still human.

I do believe Kuk Sool is the closest thing to that though. In my art, Soo Bahk Do, there is seeking to go back to the oldest Korean martial art that Grandmaster Hwang Kee could find, su bak or subak. He translated the Muye Dobo Tongji, a book about three hundred years old, and found su bak under “Kwon Bup: Fist Fighting Method.” In the book I have, Muye Dobo Tongji: The Comprehensive Illustrated Manual of Martial Arts, it says (p. 311): "t is recorded, 'The king watched the fist fighting (su bak) and archery contests.' In the note it is recorded that su bak is a martial art contest of wrestling." (parenthetic reference to su bak in text) But in Wikipedia, it says: "Subak, Soobak or Soo Bak-Gi is an ancient Korean martial art. Historically this term may be an older name for the Korean martial art of taekkyeon. "The Subak style was created in the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo. "It was a style heavy in the use of kicking as opposed to punching, and relied more on upright fighting styles as opposed to grappling and wrestling." Subak is apparently very old, and its roots may be truly Korean, but what it originally entailed is likely simple and can be debated; time advancing gave it the opportunity to evolve. I own and have read the Muye Dobo Tongji as well. It is a rather interesting book to read. I think that many of the Korean stylists, after the Japanese occupation, turned to sources like this to try to dig up a past for their country's Martial heritage. That is fine, but what is not fine is claiming that the arts of today are descended of these arts. Even here, we see two sources citing differing concepts of Subak. In the end, there just isn't enough evidence to link the styles. It is one thing to study the Martial heritage of Korea. It is another to call the Korean arts of today those of centuries past.

I do believe Kuk Sool is the closest thing to that though. As far as I know, it was founded in 1956 by In Hyuk Suh who studied the martial art of the royal palace, the martial art of the Korean Buddist temple, tribal martial arts, accupuncture, and gymnastics. They're all supposed to be Korean forms that have been used throughout the history of the Korean penninsula before the Japanese takeover. Yeaaaahh, but.....you would be hard pressed to find any Korean style that does not claim this. TKD is one of them as well. When I hear this kind of information on the "origins of the Korean styles" I take it with a grain of salt.

That's interesting... I don't know how he made that determination. Katas are often changed and/or taught differently by different instructors. He may have been doing the form exactly how he learned it. In the ATA, the way the forms are done are fairly uniform. There aren't a lot of alterations made from school to school.

That was some pretty cool choreography. You guys must put tons of time in to make it work. Nice job!

He did not open the post with restrictions to Karate styles. He mentioned how a few of them do it, but did not restrict the options in the post to the traditional Karate methods, as I see it. I did not edit the post. I posted the relative questions by the OP.