ckdstudent

I study Choi Kwang Do, I'm never sure whether or not it could be classified as a Korean style, or if its more an international style with a handful of Korean military traditions.

A focus on effective techniques rather than those that look good, and scientific backup for everything we teach.

I thought Jackie was trained as an acrobat more than as a martial artist?

Often these people are held as hostages at gun point, trying to call our bluff. Both sides are equally responsible.

A few months ago I was hitting around 70wpm with 99.4% accuracy, seem to have dropped since then. Oh well. [ This Message was edited by: ckdstudent on 2002-07-30 18:29 ]

That's what the biosphere projects are for, and the Eden project.

To be honest I don't really know of any stretches that'd help. You best bet is probably to just keep throwing the kick, gradually moving it higher.

Its the might that bothers me, not so much the twenty years. I believe there are currently several dozen viable designs for a manned mars mission.

No, twenty years itself isn't a long time. But saying that they *might* commit to a mission in twenty years? Why wait, why not go now? Depends where you take your volunteers from. There are plenty of people who'd find their lives much improved.

Yes, I know the physics of it. I'm studying physics as a degree course with plans to go on to a doctorate. There are other options. Why does everyone assume the mission has to return? I assure you that you'd find plenty of volunteers willing to leave Earth and become the first permanent human inhabitants of another planet, and they could pave the way for more. But of course, this is all science fiction, just like those small hand held phones that let you talk across long distances without wires, and those special gun-like things that give you injections without needles, and being able to see inside people without cutting them open, and being able to go to the moon, and lasers capable of knocking out ballistic missiles from space. You never know what's possible 'til you try.

"It is always useful to face an opponent willing to die for what they believe in. This means that both you and they have the same aim in mind." I wouldn't say I'm afraid to die, any more than I'm afraid of the flu. I'll go out of my way to avoid it, but if it grabs me anyway that's life.

Now I'm confused, I was always under the impression that a hook kick was the same as our reverse swing, essentially a swing kick reversed, whereas a twisting kick is closer to a front kick performed in an almost arcing motion.

What a suprise, another comet heading for Earth. Seeing as one recently passed inside the orbit of the moon and they didn't notice it until two weeks after it passed by I can't help but feel slightly sceptical.

Wow. They might commit to a mission in the next twenty years. Personally my opinion is that we should have gone as soon as we had the technology. We can do these amazing things, like putting people on the moon, or hoisting them up into space, and we don't because its too expensive.

Not really. Not particularly. Yes, lots of them. Head strikes too. Yes, infighting techniques are something we train a lot. Yes. Takedown maybe, not a throw. More likely just keep hitting them until they fall over. Vaguely. We don't compete, and the one time I did (in an informal in-class TKD class) I discovered that half of my best techniques are illegal and got myself disqualified. Shield sparring (people holding big padded foam targets and moving around or standing still), focus mitt sparring and when we have the equipment bags as well.

None of the ones I've been involved in have gone to the ground. Yes. I know that I can handle two, and three if a particular friend of mine is there. I very much doubt it, can't really say having never seen the UFC.

Actually if you do a twisting kick right its fairly powerful, easily enough to break a board. Anyway, the way we get taught is to chamber up, bringing the knee across your body, and then sort of throw your foot out to wherever you want to target it. That's one of the great things about the kick, you can target it to whatever height and angle you want, knee, groin, shoulder, head, someone standing in front or beside you. Its also great for sneaking up under a guard and catching people by suprise because its a fast kick.

9 unidirectional cardiovascular patterns, once each side 9 four-directional cardiovascular patterns, once each side 18 combinations, twice each side 16 speed drill combinations, two or three times each side Current techniques 10+ minutes full shield sparring (various levels) 10+ minutes full focus mitt sparring (various levels) 10+ minutes defense drills (various levels) Terminology test (15 words) Examiner's choice, any or all of: Two on one shield/focus mitt sparring Multiple attacker shield/focus mitt sparring Multiple attacker defense drills Infighting techniques (with or without takedowns) Stick defense drills Knife defense drills Power test (board break, dropping out of favour now) Anything else the examiner feels like dreaming up All in all the grading usually runs between one to three or four hours, with later dan ranks having longer gradings. The panel of instructors must either be a dan rank higher than the highest student is going for, or made up of three instructors of that rank (i.e. someone going for first dan would be graded by a second dan, or three first dans, at least if first dans could act as examiners). [ This Message was edited by: ckdstudent on 2002-07-26 04:16 ]

Drink every Friday and Saturday, train in class heavily the next day, enjoy myself. Practice my sprinting every other day.

I try to block everything I can, dodge anything I can't, and hit them whenever there are openings with whatever happens to be available at the time, running from hands and feet to small children in pushchairs if necessary.

Great plan! I think I'll go out and buy myself some class A drugs right now to try them, only three times though. Of course that's assuming that they haven't been cut with something dangerous and don't kill me straight off. But hey, what's the risk of death in pursuit of screwing your head up royally?

About half of the petrol stations that you see over here, ('least in the south I don't know about the rest of the country) sell autogas. Not a great revolution overnight perhaps, but its a start.

I'd have to go with Minister for Defense, or maybe Education. Then again Minister for Health wouldn't be too bad.

A little over my own head, with a crescent kick (I just don't do roundhouses that high) I can clear my own head with the foot, which makes it at least 5'10".

They don't let them adopt, but they let them have kids in the first place. That's usually how they find out, a lot of the time they find out too late. Reasonable meaning not coming home staggering every night. There are probably very few people who will argue that getting completely drunk each and every night is reasonable.