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A Game of Thrones; Sansa The day of the Hand’s Tourney is arrived, and George R. R. Martin forces us to view it from the clear-seeing eyes of Sansa. . As annoying as it may seem to listen to Sansa spill on about songs, heroes, do-daring, yada-yada-yada, it seems fitting that we have to view this event through her eyes. Sansa is the epitome of the romantic, and she is totally naive when it comes to the true ways of men in the world. She sees gold and beauty first, and everything else seems to come secondary. During the joust, an interesting event happens. During one of Gregor Clegane’s tilts, he kills the opposing rider. Sansa describes the rider as a young knight of the Vale of Arryn. This is not a coincidence, as we learn later. I do believe it was the young man to be questioned by Eddard. Gregor had conveniently removed the young man. As a side note, Sansa doesn’t react with remorse to the death. The finalists of the joust: Jaime, the Cleganes, and Ser Loras of Highgarden. Ser Loras likes to pranse around after winning, and give out white roses to fair madens. Loras is the youngest in the field, at the age of 16. On his final joust of the day, he gives a red one to Sansa, who is melted by him. She thinks he is lovely, blah, blah, blah… After this incident, Sansa meets Petyr, who recognizes the Tully in her. The finals are put off till morning, and now they retire to supper. Joffrey sits all night with Sansa, who is enamored once again. She had not spoken with him since the incident with Arya and Mycah, but was pleased with his company. When supper grows late, there is a tussle at the head table, where Cersei and Robert were arguing about him fighting in the melee the next day. In reality, it is a hoax by Cersei to get him to fight in it, by telling him he can’t (revealed later). Robert is drunk, and yells at Cersei, who leaves, and then pushes Jaime to the floor and taunts him as well. At this point, Joffrey excuses himself, and has the Hound escort Sansa to her quarters. Here, the Hound kind of gives us a break back to reality. He sees through Sansa’s polite training from her septon, and calls her things like a “little bird” trained to repeat niceties, no matter the occasion. The Hound gives a bit into what Joffrey is truly like as well, as Joff would not escort Sansa himself. The Hound also reveals that Gregor killed the boy in the joust on purpose, and the story of how the Hound was burned. Gregor was always big, and when he was 6 or 7, he took one of his brother’s toys. Gregor, 5 years older, took Sandor and put his face to the coals of a brazier. The story was covered by the father. Sandor truly hates his brother. Notes: I guess this is as good a place as any to make a guest list. The seven knights of the Kingsguard are present, but mainly Jaime and Ser Barristan are named. The Cleganes, Sandor the Hound, and his brother Gregor, the Mountain that Rides, are present. Gregor is a HUGE man, and is a terror. Lord Yohn Royce, called Bronze Yohn, for the color of his armor, colored with protective runes, along with his heir Andar, and younger son Robar. Lord Jason Mallister, and his son Patrek. Thoros the Red Priest of Myr. Ser Beric Dondarion. Ser Balon Swan. Lord Bryce Caron of the Marches. Ser Horas and Ser Hobber of the Redwynes, twins. Six Freys of the Crossing: Ser Jared, Ser Hosteen, Ser Danwell, Ser Theo, Ser Emmon, Ser Perwyn, and the illegitimate Martyn Rivers. Lord Renly is also present. And Ser Loras Tyrell, the Knight of Flowers.

Man, my abs are sore today! Whenever I sneeze or cough, the pain just surges through my core! Perhaps I should continue these new exercises...

That is a nice touch. Perhaps the instructor feels a level of trust in your son, and is letting him acquire some responsibility. Good deal.

One mistake that many people make when point sparring is that they assume a technique has landed, and then stop and look for acknowledgement from the judges, only to find that they didn't catch it, and then you get popped with your hands down. Don't do this! Make sure you have a flow of techniques, and don't let up until the judge yells "break" or "point." If you want to get inside the legs of taller fighters, that is well and good, but be sure they are set up well. Once you are inside, don't just hang out there. Punch away, get them driving backwards, and then try to finish with a kick if you can. By finishing with a kick, you put yourself (hopefully) out of their reach, where they can't just launch something at you while you still hang out in close. Everyone has a bad day now and then, so don't let that get to you. Just push through it and go on. As far as not being aggressive; you can make this work for you. You may want to try to start counter fighitng, instead of being the offensive fighter. I do believe that over time you can make yourself more aggressive. It just takes time and some confidence in your techniques.

I prefer to pay by the month. That way, I don't have to worry about constantly bringing money with me to pay to go to class that day. I don't always have cash on me, so I like to pay by the month. I also have an EFT set up, so that each month, the money comes directly out of my account. That way, I don't ever have to worry about being paid up; I just show up and worry about training.

I don't believe so. I am sure an internet search in some research journal sites could give you better studies, but nothing really beats getting 8 hours all in a row.

Yeah, that could be a psychological attack, so to speak. You have to wonder how good he is, or how bad the other guy may have been.

This is the case; however, you don't have to wait for them to make an attack in order to defend yourself with a pre-emptive strike. Crippling force may be one of the steps on the ladder, but if the attacker has pulled a knife or other weapon, then the use of force ladder will most likely jump to the deadly force level. You just have to be able to articulate that you were afraid for you life or great bodily harm, so you acted the way that you did.

I always like Segal as well. Van Damme was popular when I was growing up in the MAs as well.

If you think that way, then you will perform that way. When it comes down to it, it is them or you, and you had better pick you. There are ways to train yourself to get more accustomed to these kinds of situations. It is called adrenal-stress training, and you can find plenty of information on the web about it. You may want to look into it.

I am not so sure. Power=mass x velocity squared, I do believe. If this is the case, then I don't think that you can really cheat the machine. If the machine is reading power, then it is detecting the mass in some way, and using it to relate the power.

So, even if you are controlling your fear, it is still there. I don't know if you can really get rid of fear entirely. Controlling it is possible, and being able to act in spite of it; we call it courage.

I have not seen this preview. I like the name, though. Perhaps we are seeing a comeback of the old style MA films. I would like that a lot!

Could this be due to the fact that the other people in the class will be heavier than he is? Or does he just like to teach adults?

3-17-08 Chest/triceps Bench press: 155x10, 185x8, 205x3 Dip machine: 215x10, 8, 8 Seated triceps push-down: 90x10, 120x10, 135x8 This was a different lift, and I can do higher weight. Biceps Barbell curls: 70x10, 80x8, 90x4 Abs Hanging leg raises: 2x10 Hanging knee pulses: 3x10 Cardio: Spinner for 10 minutes. Not much, but got the blood flowing. Combat Hapkido: 11:00 - 12:00. Went over Purple Belt curriculum. Took some notes, and learned a few different things. Very useful stuff, when you break away from the rote curriculum, and begin to apply the stuff in different ways. TKD Class: 6:00 - 7:00. Taught class tonight. I had a good time with the class as well. I don't get to teach the adults all that often, and the 4th dan Jr. Master allowed me the opportunity to keep teaching after he showed up. I was greatful for that.

I guess that is true. It seems to spread to the strangest places.

Yeah, I think you are on to what I am saying, Throwdown. A guess I view a throw as something that comes more over the hip, really bringing the opponent off of his feet, and over that fulcrum. A takedown, I look more at taking the opponents feet out from under them, even if it is a violent sweeping motion. I suppose they could all be called throws. Just depends on how you view it, I guess.

Hard telling. It sounds like it was messing with knocking you out. I would maybe see if you can replicate the feeling again, and see what you think. Then do some research.

I think that you will. There is a lot of stuff to get used to, but it is worth it, I think. I just hope I get another opportunity to do something like this again soon.

That does sound interesting, but I am not sure how well it would work. Have you ever punched a car tire? Not a very secure area to punch, I think. Your hand would bounce right off, don't you think?

I think that it can have different connotations, depending on how the word is used, like JohnASE has mentioned. Like in most TKD styles, when you achieve the title of Master at a certain rank, it is more like a descriptive term: "Master" Instructor; supposedly, an instructor with quite a few years of teaching experience, and demonstrating the level of instructor that you are. Otherwise, it could have the connotation of one who has excelled in the physical aspects of their particular style, and has garnered a great amount of respect and admiration from those within and without the style.

Hehe, cute idea.

Right now I am reading Treasure, by Clive Cussler. It is my main focus, anyway. I have also started a book titled Axe Kick from the Achieving Kicking Excellence series. These are pretty nice books as well. They each break down a different kick, and help with practice, training, and applications. Not too bad.

Our testing fees are seperate from our monthly fees. So, it wouldn't really matter in my school. He would pay monthly rates, and follow the school rules. Like I said, though, I would love to work with different approaches on doing different things.

You should sit down and talk to him about how things will run in your school. If he has questions, then he should perhaps raise them with you after the class, and not just say "this is how I did it before, and it is better." If he likes something better, then that is great. However, let him know why you do what you do, and that he may be able to benefit from it as well. If you really think his mentality is not right for your school, then tell him this, and send him on his way. You don't want to sacrifice 5 good students for one bad student.