bushido_man96

Wow, that jumping technique was crazy! I would like to learn that! A big guy like me jumping like that would scare some people!

Wrist grabs are great to learn some of the basic ways that the body will move and react when joints are put under pressure. The likelyhood of your wrists being grabbed in this manner, as others have said, is not high. However, what is learned from the wrist grabs will apply mechanically to controlling the wrist when other scenarios arise, like the lapel grab. From the lapel grab, you can manipulate the wrist of the hand grabbing the lapel...it just happens from a different starting point. You can also manipulate the wrist after parrying a strike, etc. My conclusion: great for training, not so great as for practicality.

TSD also teaches the naihanchi (tekki) and bassai forms. Hmmmm, that's interesting, these are Japanese forms. Does anyone know where the crossover between Japanese and Korean content occured? The crossover occured during the Japanese occupation. Korean masters learned Karate in Japan, where they were usually educated. When Korea broke away, they wanted to start a nationalistic movement, and TKD became a catalyst. Everything Japanese about the art was deleted, and all of a sudden there is the existense of this Korean style, that is very similar to Karate. In order to seperate the two, the Koreans "discovered" their 3000 year martial heritage, and made it Korean for good.

Because he was great, doesn't mean he wouldn't have been better if he'd have spent more time on it. Then I guess comes the argument of balance. How much should we balance out the various activities in our lives. In this particular instance, I think it's fair to say he was finding the balance between MA and other interests, but two different MA's I don't believe fits into this category. FYI - My father was once disciplined for going to the gym. He was told, "If you have time to go to the gym, get in the dojo". So does that mean we shouldn't go lift, because it interferes with dojo time? And if this is the case, we should all quit spending time doing anything else, and go practice forms or something.

Nice first post. Welcome to the forums!

You can really tell when you are flustering someone with the side you are fighting with. If you switch sides, and then they switch, and then you switch again, and they switch again, then you know you can get them flustered.

I'll bet you and I could have a contest!

No problem!

Very nice idea. I like it.

I understand what you are going through. It is all political. I think the main thing is he wants your business. What he tells you is that he wants your 300 students under his organization, and what he doesn't tell you is that a percentage of your income, bearing his organiztion name, or being under the umbrella, or whatever, will be owed to him, or you will have to have each of your members pay a membership fee to him, or something like that. All of the politics of the martial arts really makes me pretty sick. The GM of my current style is very narrow minded, and feels that TKD is "all you need." I love TKD, but I could round myself out. I also have other interests, and I will not let someone I see only two times a year, and talk to for maybe 5 minutes, decide what is and is not good for me to do.

How did it go?

Good deal. I enjoyed the time I had with Combat Hapkido, and wish my school would bring it back. It is a good style, and will complement a striking art very well. I think it just lacks extensive ground work.

I agree with you here. Not all of the current forms systems were designed at the same time. It began with one, and now you have 26 in your style. So saying to create new kata is to undermine he who created the first ones is not really fair. New katas, that are applicable, can be created, and this is good for adapting your martial arts style to your body, beliefs, and theory on combat.

If the dojo is named under an organization, and if the organization has a claim to the syllabus you use, or you are franchised or something, then the head of the organization would probably have the final say.

Very nice. I think I have seen it in my college classes before, I had just forgotten about it.

If you start taking time away from your current practice, then it could, but not necessarily. If you practice karate 12 hours a week, you probably would not have time for another style (if you have to work like I do!). Then, you have to start getting into an arguement about how much time does it take to make you an expert or a master. Then, if you can put a time on it, does that leave time to take up something else? I think that we get caught up in this with two martial arts, but not with other things. Musashi was also an excellent calligrapher, was he not? No one ever said that his swordsmanship ability began to wane because he was also a penman, right? I think it gets taken out of context some times.

Please elaborate more on your general idea of the paranoia. I think I know what you are getting at, but would like a little more to go on.

The Moo Duk Kwan was more traditional. Everyone wore all white until Black Belt, then you could have a black strip down the side. We did pal-gyes and tae-guks. In the line of self-defense all we did were one-steps. There was more of an emphasis on kicks, especially higher kicks. We learned Korean terminology, history and philosophy. The Tae Kwon Do that I moved to is more open-minded. This is mostly because the Instructor had previous experience/rank in other styles (Kenpo, Jiu-Jitsu, Kung Fu, Judo, and more). We learned Chang Hon patterns. The self-defenses were much more realistic. There was more of an ephasis on what works now rather than what was taught a long time ago. These two were similar enough that I could keep up with both, but different enough that I had to keep them seperated when practicing. Thanks again for your feedback and all. When my dad did TKD years ago, he learned the old pal-gyes. The system I am in now does the Chang Hon system.

I agree with Zorbasan. I think I would offer a gift certificate through some local venue, instead of ebay. So, I do like the idea, just not the medium.

I have two comments, and they are not meant to offend. They are just my opinion. 1. Working in the county jail, I have seen first hand that it does not matter who through the first punch, or who started the fight, or how....all parties involved are brought in for disorderly conduct. I suppose the rest is worked out in court. 2. Martial arts, practices, theories, philosophies, etc, where all originally developed for war. That being said, the idea of martial arts being meant to defend and not attack, or to wait for the first strike, in my opinion, is merely an idea that evolved over the last couple of hundred years as the arts became commericial. I don't think very many samurai warriors or medieval knights subscribed to the 'never strike first' maxim. On the battlefield, this maxim would likely be the end of a warrior.

I imagine the pain you are feeling is on the outside of the leg, which is from not using those muscles very much prior to TKD. These muscles will get stronger with time. Doing side leg lifts and concentration kicks while supported by a wall will help to strengthen these muscles.

First time I have ever seen this form, and it looks very nice.

Lots of good information here. You couldn't go wrong with these suggestions. Your own description has good stuff as well. A good thing to keep in mind for your solo workouts is to have a focus, like chambering kicks, or speedy strikes, or something like that. It gives you something to focus on, when thinking of exercises to do. Generally, if you can go for an hour or so, you are doing well.

Yep, that's right. And if you know the opponent likes to throw a back leg round kick to the stomach, then you give them a target. You can bait them, and counter with a spin side kick.

Still not quite sure what you are asking for. Could you please elaborate a little more? Thanks!