snorri

I'm curious to know, do you actually train yourself or do you just sit and watch your son's classes for 2 to 4 hours a day?

I don't think there's any "requirement" to read anything about martial arts, what is required is good instruction and lots of practice. Having said that I love reading about martial arts. I second a lot of the suggestions above and would add Angry White Pyjamas by Robert Twigg, a brilliant read.

Forbes was another guy from the Contender TV series but he had held some sort of world title in the past if I remember rightly.

To me master is just a title used to attract students to a course or school. Until you actually see the guy in action it means nothing, and often still means nothing after you've seen him!

I really enjoyed the old contender but after seeing Manfredo and Gomez getting thrashed by Calzaghe and Cotto it kind of puts it in a different light somehow.

Just a note, Shilpa Shetty, as well as being jaw droppingly gorgeous and an absolute paragon of dignity is also apparently a black belt in karate!

Karatekid feels like an old fart at 31, well I'm 50 in January, so you're still a baby in my book.

Check your weight again, check the scales you're using in case there's a fault with them. If you still think you've lost 10kg in a month then see your doctor ASAP. However if you don't feel ill, you're able to do cardio work, go to a gym and presumably [as you're on this forum], practice martial arts it sounds more like a mistake of aome sort rather than a serious illness. Better safe than sorry though so see your GP.

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