Azula

Michael jackson permanent...ne'er to come back permanent.

i suggest you hug your husband and tell him your his other half.

I'll see(regardless of rank) if i can train with higher belts as well as low belts just so i won't get bored doing the same things since i go 5 times a week and not 2 or 3.

aye, so is the purpose of life. Which many do not understand.

i know but this place is the best around my area, until i move out of the area then i don't know what i'll do.

I think im just going to have to train other things on my own and perfect those of which i do at my dojo.

btw, im not saying im exceptional, all im saying is i take it seriously but many do not, and i don't think i deserve to be "held back" because of some people who could care less. I ne'er said i was good or bad.

im sure, because i've even been told by almost all of the instructors.

I don't care much about the ranks, but the ranks matter as far as what you're learning. So if the others don't progress and im yellow, i'll be stuck doing the same things over and over. As opposed to if i were a green belt, maybe i could learn new things. Yellow belts aren't expected to do too much and thus aren't thought.

First of all, im a fast learner and I take what I do seriously. Meaning, when I started my karate around 4-5 months ago, I would come 5 times and also train the other 2 days at home or at the park. When we didn't do a few of the stretches i would do them at home. Anyhow, after a while until now, I progressed much faster than most others in my group, being the beginner/intermediate class as im a yellow belt 8th kyu(skipped 1st yellow at 9th). What angers me is that there are both adults and kids at our classes, and most of the kids are not doing it by choice and could care less, so they come about 1-2 times a week, and so do some of the adults. Because of these individuals my training is left behind tremendously. We do partner work and kumite, as well as practice Katas together, and I was doing better than some of the green belts, and at my dojo green is right before brown, which is before black. There is nothing more I can learn with some of the class(not all) being so behind. Since I train in the headquarters[where the grandmaster (also founder of the art]resides, there is an offer to train with Soke for an hour class and i've to pay somewhere around 50$ which is too much. What can I do?

More muscle compared to fat also makes one much faster, but you're right about the tenseness. My karate instructors always tell me that im too tense and that i need to be more response, and i ne'er asked them why, but now i know why.

there is a diffence to almost any attack im aware of...stupid movies.

Gosoku-ryu: Gosoku-ryu style karate is a hard/fast style and is mixed with Goju-ryu and Shotokan karate, Judo and Aikido. It is a form of karate with more grappling and usually more faster. 55% punches 45% kicks. It is of Japanese origin and it's used mostly for 'self-defense'. Also a very traditional art. Katas are from Shotokan karate, stances are a mixture of Shotokan and Goju-ryu. It also has weapons training in it, such as the short sticks, and the swords, and many more japanese weapons(i don't remember all the names in japanese). I say the art works well for both short and tall people.

I do everything you said except for weight lifting, because i like to be skinny/muscle and fast. I currently run everyday, I do Judo and Aikido pushups everyday, i work on my stomach in any way possible until i nearly pass out, i do almost everything to get my body in perfect condition. And i never have even tried and boxing/kick boxing, i've only done Traditional Japanese martial arts, which they train me very hard. Flexibility is also very important to training the muscles, and in martial arts im sure there is much more of that then in boxing. Now answer one question... do you think Lewis(by the time he's 70 years old) would probably kick a martial artist's butt?

See if you can find Gosoku-Ryu(what I do) style karate, there are 54 dojos world wide, and 'tis a very useful art when applied in the streets. It was thaught to many police.