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Cool.

^^ That should do it. You can also just type Abernethy in on Amazon and search books. His titles will pop up.

6-26-08 Little Lyons class: 5:15 - 5:45. Assisted with this class today. We focused on Balance for their stripe, and the kids worked pretty hard. TKD class: 6:00 - 7:00. Taught this class today. After basics, I worked with the students on the twist kick, and they were getting the hang of it pretty well. There was one blue belt kid, and the rest were black belts. The black belts got lots of forms work in, and then after one-steps, I worked on some self-defense drills with them. We started by doing some action/reaction drills by having them take their belts off and hang them on their shoulders. Then, they would switch back and forth trying to grab the other's belt. This showed them how hard it is to react to someone who takes action first. From there, I moved into some simple work with keeping distance, putting up the fence, and then noticing factors that could lead one to use a pre-emptive strike. It was a pretty good drill for them.

Hi Bushido, Given that his background knowledge in traditional Karate is Wado, it does not surprise me that he uses Wado Katas to explain his applications. Thanks.

Look into Iain Abernethy's books and websites...his sole focuse seems to revolve around bunkai and what he calls "Applied Karate." Very good stuff.

Will do, tallgeese. I have a few places I can look; I'll keep trying.

I do agree that a state of mind is important to combat applications. However, I feel that I can develop this state of mind practicing combat applications better than I can by performing calligraphy. I do think, as I mentioned earlier, that you can apply the same frame of mind to doing different things. I just don't think that practicing calligraphy or shodo is as beneficial to combat training as combat training itself is.

Ouch! I'll bet that was no picnic! How did that happen?

Well, the article stated that he would be teaching younger kids classes at this point. I don't have a problem with this; so long as he is supervised by an adult. As far as the rank thing goes, I usually don't put much thought into this. If it were my school, would I allow someone this age to achieve this rank? I don't know for sure. Maybe not, but at what age is it ok?

It sounds to me that you are more of taking a state of mind when it comes to doing something, as opposed to it having actual combat applications. And I am not saying that it has no benefit; we can find the benefit in many things. Basically, it comes down to the fact that any job worth doing is worth doing well. My dad had a saying along the same lines: there are two ways to do a job; right, or again. This is basically the same principle; strive to do the job right the first time. I would also point to the fact that you could probably find as many great warriors in history that were illiterate as were literate.

From the ARMA: http://www.thearma.org/Manuals/master-ott-wrestling.html Master Ott had an influence in several of the different fectbuchs that are in existence, relating to Medieval combat in Europe. Enjoy.

Wow. I can't even begin to imagine what its like to deal in that kind of money!

I have seen the majority of Abernethy's material and it has more in common with alot of RBSD stuff than most might think, its also what got me back into karate. Its very good stuff. I agree. I am really enjoying his book, so much so that I ordered two more of his works. He is very practical in his approaches to the concepts of kata, and I am going to be looking into incorporating some of it into my own forms training.

hehe, well played, tallgeese! 6-25-08 Treadmill: 15 minutes. It isn't the 5k, but its a start!

Really cool. Thanks for sharing, Patrick. Its interesting how they incorporated their knowledge of knife fighting into their Boxing strategies. I'll bet those guys would be fun to watch.

Thanks for the clarification, Zanshin. I did see the name of the organization he is with, but can't remember it off the top of my head. I did see where he said he practiced the Wado katas, though.

It would depend on what the change is, and why. There needs to be a reason for it; a legitimate reason. I would be inquiring into these.

I would like to think that I would try to help. At the very least, I would get on the phone with the police, and get them en route as quickly as possible. I would hope that if I tried to seperate things, that others would try to do the same as well; kind of fuel the pack mentality, I guess. At any rate, it is really hard to say. You never know if someone has a weapon or not. You always have to keep these things in the back of your mind.

You bring up a good point, DWx. It isn't fair to say that MMAers aren't doing "true MA." Every MA has its place.

I do know that Musashi was a caligrapher as well. Whether or not it would be a supplement to MA practice, I don't know. I wouldn't think so, anyways.

Personally, I feel that teaching students to always wait for the technique to be thrown is setting them up for defeat. Action is faster than reaction, and if you intend to wait for every attack before acting, then you put yourself behind the 8-ball from the start. Its easy to say "I'll block whatever they throw at me before I attack," but in reality, I feel that this is very difficult, and unsafe. I feel that teaching ways of identifying the characteristics of an impending attack and teaching the discretion of the pre-emptive strike is far more practical than telling students to never throw the first strike. However, this is just my opinion.

I was wondering how many of the practitioners here have basics/kihon as a standard part of their class training? If so, what does it consist of? Is it a set group of basics that you always go through before class? Or is it random? What is the order? Just curious. My school has set basics that we perform at the beginning of every class, and it takes about 15 to 20 minutes of the class.

I think that their behavior is just about typical for a reality show. When you put someone on TV, they don't usually want to look dull and boring. After all, this is their 15 minutes of fame, so to speak. Now, I am sure that some of them aren't the nicest people in the world. However, these people come from all walks of life, including the TMAs. We just don't see them because there isn't a TMA reality TV show.

RIP.

That, and if we have 400+ active members right now...that is another area of concern.