bushido_man96

This is a tough situation here. If it were me, I would make sure the first form was down and memorized before going on to the next one, just to keep from confusing the students.

This is a good thread, guys, with a lot of good points. Remember, keep everything constructive. Everyone is making very good points, and we all are learning something.

These are great so far, thanks everyone. As for those that mentioned sweeps, could you give me some examples of techniques that you use to sweep/takedown the opponent?

What would the translations be for each? Thanks I have learned the kanji for each, but since my mother tongue is neither Japanese nor English, I can only try to hint at a translation: "shin" is written in all three cases with the character also pronounced as "kokoro", meaning "heart/mind" "so" is the character which the online Kanji dictionary translates as "principle" or "prime (number)", I understand it also as "essential, without any additions", so maybe soshin = essential mind "kaku" (not kako) means to wake up, like in "alarm clock" so maybe kakushin = awake(ned) mind "cho" is written like in "to clear, to become transparent" so maybe choshin = clear/pure heart/mind the idea is that of a lake without ripplings so that you can see through to the ground I have been taught the kanji by my hanshi, but possible errors in the attempts at translation are mine I hope this helps. Best regards to all readers (this is my first post in this forum). deshi Welcome to the forums! Glad to have you.

It appears that Funakoshi kind of carried the torch. Funakoshi also did a very good job of nationalize the art of Karate for Japan.

What Funakoshi did was based off his experiences with Itosu, if I remember my history correctly. Inform me if I am wrong. I think, though, that Itosu did it first in Okinawa (introducing into schools) and Funakoshi did it in Japan.

I view fighting kind of like sparring in class. Why wait? In class, you may wait, because the of the rules, and knowing your opponent will give you an idea of what he is capable of. But, even in class, I will not always wait. I think of it the same way in a fight.

I am currently looking into all different kinds of styles, just because I like to do that kind of thing. I was curious as to what everyone's in-class sparring rules were. Be specific about contact areas and levels of contact, and differences between sparring at different ranks, etc. In my TKD school, there is no contact to the back, nothing below the belt, no hands to the head, but you can kick to the head, but no side kicks to the face (mainly precautionary, probably wouldn't matter in a tournament). Contact is pretty moderate at the school, but in tourneys, you have to have body displacement (a lot like Olympic style). I am looking to try other ways of sparring, and will welcome any and all suggestions. Thanks in advance!

Very nice, very entertaining! And, as always, we keep coming back for more, don't we?

What's great is after you have taught for years, and you remember teaching someone something, and then when they get it, you kind of see them light up a little. What's better than that is when you see them teaching what you taught them to someone else, and then you see that person's face light up. That's a great feeling.

Ah, the good ol' days. I remember these obligations to the dojang. It is kind of a nice sentiment, and teaches a little humility and a little respect to the place you practice. Is it necessary? Not really. Is it a nice gesture? Sure. If my instructor asks, will I do it? Yes. Will I ever offer to do it? Now, not so much, because our dojang is in a gym, and he has employees who get paid to do these kind of things. I wouldn't want to take their work from them!

I agree with parkerlineage. If I feel a threat, I will strike first (if I am off duty!). I don't like being hit, so I won't allow it if I feel it is coming.

Incidentally, Don "The Dragon" Wilson was a very successful kickboxer, who was a Chinese stylist.

I have trained in the ICHF curriculum as well, and I have enjoyed it. From what I hear, GM Pelligrini is great to work with as well. It is a very intesive system, with a lot of options.

Those are kind of cool. I had seen the first one. As for the last one, I think I would drop the guy on his head before I tapped out.

He was on the Tonight's show or something like that once, and he was asked about them. He knew about them, but couldn't understand where they came from. I think he enjoys them, though. I know I would.

Weapons kata does not interest me. What interests me is actual weapon on weapon drills, or weapon on one or multiple attackers.

Very nice. Where did you get it from? I have one book on TSD, but would like some more.

Something that a 3rd dan from Germany that I knew did was have the student draw the form he had learned on paper, with stick figures, and drawing the stances and where the techniques were landing. Kind of interesting, I thought.

Glad you are back into it. I had a layoff once, and have regretted it ever since! It wasn't a year long, but it was too long. It'll come back.

Hello, and welcome to the forums! We will be glad to help out in any way that we can.

Sounds like you have good thing going there. Keep us posted!

If you want to stick to Korean arts, then Hapkido would be a good route to take. You could try TKD, but I think you will find it is fairly similar to TSD. Just a guess, though. Hope you find something, and good luck!

This question needs to be looked into deeply. I don't like to make generalizations about arts, so perhaps with some digging we can come up with some more subjective information.

If there has been a large gap, then I can see this taking place. If someone wears a green belt, let's say, and a low rank asks them for help, and they can't remember the low rank form, then they need to do some retraining, in my opinion.