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i loved it...so much. Me and my karate friends saw it as a group, and we had just started wushu. So it was cool because we would see a move we recongnized and shout "OMG! IT'S THE FLOWER!!" and people were annoid.... i just loved it so so so so so much. It was beautiful.

i love that show!!! hehe...*the little kid in me comes out of hiding*... it is very acurtate too, they really do consult actual martial artists to assist in the fighting scenes.

i love that movie...

well...i've trained most with eyaku (oar) and wakizashi...eyaku has more reach...sword is sharp...hmmm tough, but i think i would need to know what weapon i was up against...grr...i hate making desisions okay i have it...bladed eyaku, hehe. I win.

at my dojo, there is a saying. "There are no women or men here. Just Goju people." Thats the way people treat it. We are all equal as people, but our skills and ranks are different. We judge by abillity not gender. It used to be guys lower rank than me wouldn't train with me because i am a very scrawny girl...so theirfor i must be weak and not worth training with... that made me angry as well as one of my senseis (the girl sensei of course XP) and she lectured them. hehe, now i fight with the big boys. I think, i get respect because i work hard and i am a black belt. I take hits, hard hits, without complaint. I've never felt that i had to prove myself because i was a girl. I felt need to prove myself because i am a teenager and so many are younger and bigger than me if anything at all. So i guess the answer is it is just forgotten when i bow into my dojo, and i become a "goju person"

i have done a lot of kumite seminars with world champions and the like, and they all bounce. I bounce. I shift my weight from one foot to the other, but i usually make sure their isn't a rythm to it because it makes it harder see when i am going to attack. My sensei uses the "light in a dark," analogy. If you are still and then you punch or kick, it is the same as being in a dark room when someone suddenly turns on the light; there is no way you can miss it. Bouncing does make you lose energy, but it makes it easier to move, lunge, doge, and quickly throw or slid up and throw kicks.

when you teach, always remember that you are in charge. Don't let the kids walk all over you, and don't do things that will make them think they have the right to. Examples: Make sure your voice is always loud and commanding. If you sound quite and nervous the kids won't respect you or want to listen, and they will get bored and become restless. Keep the energy up. Don't be afraid to punish them when they deserve it In my dojo, we have a method for correctiong mistakes called PCP; Praise, Correct, Praise. When you see someone, for example, doing a front kick incorrectly, you could say. "Good job, your working really hard but don't forget to do this," and when they have fixed it "Thats it!" This way kids never feel they are bad at it, and it keeps them positive to hear praise so they don't focus on the fact that they were doing it wrong. Of course there are times when kids aren't even trying, don't praise them just tell them what to do and praise them if they do it. Give them a few chances but if they keep goofing off threaten to make them sit out or whatever punishment you chose and then punish them if they continue to not listen. Keep up the positive energy, your goal as an instructor is to teach them, but also make them want to learn. If you are to tough they won't want to learn. If you are two happy and giddy and fun they won't learn. You have to find the place in between where they are enjoying themselves and learning. Most important, confidence. Your instructor wouldn't let you teach if he didn't think you could do it, so don't be afraid.

All of the basics. Then crazy combonations that are ment to confuse you. Then Kata and Bunkai. Then you spar every blackbelt there, and all of the black belts are supposed to show. Then bag work Then push-ups, sit-ups, squats, leg raises, and every other kind of warm up drill. I did 150 push-ups for my jr. Shodan. And a guy was testing for nidan with me and broke some ribs during sparring. It was intense.

If you hit it just right, with less power needed that you might think you could kill the person. It just has to be right when the heart is expanding. Football players with pads on have died from headbutts delivered to the chest at just the right moment. So it's possible, but very very very very very very very unlikely.

At my dojo, the black belts are expected to train harder that the kyu belts, and often scolded if they don't. After training that long to get their black belt, they should develop a greater sense of determination. The black belts need to set a good example. They don't deserve any special treatment at all.

http://www.spokanekarate.com/kata/index.php This is my Sensei. We do traditional Okinawan Goju-Ryu and he trained under Higona Sensei. So it's the real deal.

i do goju-ryu, and although their arn't any actual knees in the kata, they are their. Everytime you bring up a kick to load, you are essentially doing a knee kick. When we do bunkai variation training we often do knees instead of kicks. I use knees a lot when i spar to, when some gets in really close and keeps punching i grab them by the neck or shoulders, pull them down and knee them in the chest or face.

i loved it, thought it was amazing. everyone should see it, well...maybe not everyone.

i love naruto!!! I would watch it, but i live in the middle of nowhere with only 7 channel. And i would download it, but my computer is to slow. So i read it online, and i love it bunches.

I love manga!! My faves being Naruto, Inu-yasha and Ph.D. I rent a lot of Anime movies too.

my two best friends in the dojo date...and then went through a pretty tough breakup. They both tried to prentend that everything was alright during class, like it never happened, but the first few weeks were hard because they wouldn't hang out with eachother and it was like i had to choose between friends. It was really akward, and it was hard on both of them. But at the same time my instructor married a student and they have been happily married for a few years now. So i don't really know what my veiws are. I think they are okay, as long as you are strong enough to continue your training normaly even if a break-up occurs.

i have no idea, we have been having problems for months now, and I havn't heard any word of him even being aware of it, but I'm not sure. To bushido_man96, the IOGKF as a whole is far from a McDojo. But it is true that the US cheif instructor is attempting to turn it into one. He is making sure he gets money in all sorts of needless ways. He even rose the price to an insane amount for a Seminar with Higaonna Sensei, the head of our org. The email he sent out to the blackbelts eligable to go was written like an annoing car commercial you hear on the radio.

well thats another thing our wonderful cheif instructor has already thought of. It used to be members payed $15 a month to be a member, but now a dojo has to pay $600 a year of $70 a month, even if they only had one student. So it doesn't matter, he still gets the money money. And I can't just quit the organization because my whole dojo is involved in it. The IOGKF is THE organization for goju ryu. And i beleive things will change. This is a world wide orginization, but only the US faction is having these dificulties. Members all throughout the US are writing letters and taking action. It's practicaly a civil war...

I am curious if anyone who does Goju-ryu and is in the IOGKF in the US knows about the troubles that have been taking place between our cheif instructor for the US and dojo owners within the organization. Recently, the US cheif instructor has decided that only Black Belts should be recognized as membersof the IOGKF. So, the message is that you don't count unless you are a black belt. i'm just curious about your thoughts on the subject, even if don't do goju-ryu do you think it is right for non-dans to be (for lack of a better word) discriminated in this way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------My opinion is that I am a black belt and am therefor part of the organization. But I still welcome any advice that anyother students can give me about my sparring or kata, no matter what belt they are. I am not a very good sparer, and their are blue belts my age who can beat me. So just because i am a black belt, i get to represent and be a member of this organization, while people who are, in their own ways, better than me don't simply because they havn't made it to black belt yet. Karate and goju-ryu is more than just getting a black belt. And in a sense the message being sent is that all the IOGKF stands for is getting your black belt. Which isn't in the least bit true. It's about keeping the tradition of Goju-ryu alive as Miyagi Chojun would have wanted it to be. Their is so much more to goju ryu than just the thought of being a black belt. The moment you step foot into a dojo and bow you become a part of something huge and you represent hundreds of years of tradition. I say white belts are just as important as the black belts in the scheme of things. We all had to start somewhere, they deserve to be acknowleged as part of our organization.

name: Hadley Rank: Jr. Shodan Chujyu Style: Goju-ryu karate

You know him? How? I agree with you though, he is a very good sensei and i feel very lucky to be training with him.

i just went home and ate a bunch of ice cream and watched tv my sensei had to take the guy i tested with to the hospital so i couldn't really do anything with them. The guy bruised his ribs while sparring.

my god, it's people like him who are ruining all that MA stands for. When ever someone finds out i'm a black belt the first thing they say is "So you think you can take me?" I was at a music store with my gi on once, because i was on my way to class and wasn't informed that we were stopping at a music store, or else i not have worn my gi. Not 10 seconds after i walked out, this stupid teenaged guy, trying to show off to a bunch of girls says: "Hey do you do karate?" (i was still a brown belt at the time) i said "Yeah." "What belt are you?" "What does it look like?" "Hey, you wanna fight me?" my little brother was with me, so i just laughed and walked away. Other wise i would said something back. I mean, what an idiot. "Hey look at me, i'm an 18 year old guy who is going to show off how tough he is by challanging a scawny little 14 year old girl to fight me." It desgusted me. A black belt used to be something that was respected. In my city, there are three dojo's within a 3 mile radius of ours. One is part of a gym, the teachers their are totally incompatant. Another is a school where one of the rules on the wall is "Be loyal to ones country." You can get a black belt in less than two years. And the final is called "Elite Martial Arts" Again, everyone is practiacaly garunteed a black-belt. And these are some of the rudest kids ever, they love to challenge people to fight, at tournements, their instrutor has filled their heads with nonsense about how their school is better then everyone elses, and they are so competative that it ruins the whole point of a tournement. You go up and introduce yourself to one of them as a guesture of kindness and good sportsmanship and they are compleatly rude to you. MA, is supposed to make you a better person on the inside, it teaches you values that in this day in age are rarely seen. Yet even now our our beloved word of MA, those values are being trampled on by people like the guy this post was written about. I would love to be able to lecture this guy...

i've only done goju ryu...so of course it's my favorite. But I still love it lots and lots and lots.

good job i am most proud that you did use MA as a first resort. It's always best to try to find a non-violent way out first, even if the guy deserved it. I've had a few issuse like that, and i always grab the wrist get them in a position where they are on the ground, unable to attack, or i can easisly cause pain when they struggle, (such as an arm bar where i can threaten to snap their arm like a twig...hehe). This way i have a chance to talk to them about why what they did was wrong/stupid. i just love to lecture while they are on the ground whimpering.