bushido_man96

That sounds great, glockmeister. At $25 a month, that is one heck of a deal, too.

There are many Martial Artists that are of the opinion that being on the ground is the last place that you want to be. It really isn't anything new, and being of that opinion doesn't mean that they don't know anything about ground fighting. Just that they don't prefer to do it. I am not sure exactly what you mean about the video's move being a lie. Could you elaborate?

Well, you did mention it...

Cool. I wasn't too far off then.

I got my first exposure of TKD with my dad, when I was around 4. I did it for a while, but I never even got a uniform; I just went and tried to follow along with what the adults were doing. Later on, in middle school, a friend of mine signed up for classes, and asked me if I wanted to go check it out, too. I did, and the rest is history. When I was in school, I always got picked on, so that was one of the main reasons for getting into it. Now I do it because I can't imagine not doing it.

What is a cap block? 12L 8W 2T concrete slab basically. Ah, nice.

This is basically what our school does. We do some abbreviated basics, then some forms, some one-steps, maybe a bit of free sparring, and then the high ranks will do some board breaks.

I disagree. There are many things about the Martial Arts that can be learned from a book or video, or DVD. There are many things that are harder to learn from these sources, like some of the very minute details. However, there are many applications and ideas that one can get from reading a book or watching a video that can help in learning some things. Is it the best way? Not necessarily. But it is a good source, if you have no others.

I am just sticking to my guns.

Since I have been working with law enforcement, I have seen just as many women attacking officers as I have men. There is no point in letting yourself get beat up.

I believe that if a person is attempting to kill you, then you have to meet force with force. I believe that most Use of Force ladders advocate this as well.

To be honest with you, BB of C, I think that you worry too much about something that is very unlikely to happen. The human body is quite resiliant, and the likeyhood of you killing someone in an altercation, short of striking their throat or the like, isn't as high as you might think.

Yeah, that is quite high. It sounds like you attend an ATA school. Is this the case?

You see, just saying "high block" saves time.

I have never done it in my TKD days. I thought that it was exclusive to Aikido, to be honest. I have not done it in Hapkido, either, but I use the ICHF curriculum, and it doesn't contain everything that a more "traditional" Hapkido curriculum would. I have never really played around with it, and I think it would be interesting. One of our college students is also in the Aikido club with the college, and has talked about it before. I may get to experiment with it sometime.

I agree, pittbullJudoka.

That is what they say, yet you never hear of it happening.

...this, along with the fact that you don't have the advantage of any leverage to use in the strikes, either.

What is a cap block?

Congrats!

1-31-08 We had a small testing tonight, with only 4 testing. Before testing, I worked BOB over for around 10 minutes. Not an intense workout, but I was hitting hard, and working on combinations. After testing, I taught Orientation from 7:00 - 8:00. There were 6 fresh college students in the class, and I felt pretty good about what they had done so far when the class was over. Teaching Orientations always gives me a little bit of a workout, too, because I have to demonstrate more.

No-one is perfect. Accepting and understanding this will help you improve alot more than ignoring you weaknesses. But i do agree that you shouldnt focus solely on your weaknesses in a negative light. What is important is to be able to identify what your weaknesses are (even if they are small; they are still there) and then train to make them strengths.

I don't know; I am not so sure. Many of the people that I know that find out that you know MA, end up wanting to challenge you, to see what you got.

Good idea. Have them come dressed and prepared for class. This will help you out a lot.

Hopefully, they don't raise it anymore on you. Who knows, maybe the rent went up. As for the belts, I think that perhaps they should have done it only for the kids, but it may not matter in the end. Keep an eye on things, and see if they make any other changes.