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wow!! what a great accomplishment. tell him to keep up the hard work. when he comes of age, he'll be wearin a black belt around his waist, as long as he doesnt give up.

hey, glad to have you on board!!

nice to have you with us Derek!

out of muat thai and judo... go for the judo. if you want more of a grappling style though, try to find a jiu jutsu school around. i think jiu jutsu would go great with your karate training.

wow thats great. i wish they had some more arts to choose from though.

welcome!!

welcome to KF!!

thanks a lot guys. i had to perform kicho 1 and 2. in my school we learn hapkido and tkd so because we learn 2 arts we only do 1 poomse per belt so that we can work more on the other things.

thanks guys!!

i just passed my orange belt (7th kup) grading today!! im pretty tired and the test was a lot harder than my previous yellow belt test so im gonna go catch some zzz's. cant wait to go to class again tomorrow

welcome to the forums what is the style of japanese karate you practice?

thanks for the participation guys. its pretty cool to see that something as simple as our uniforms has a whole history and purpose behind it. once again, thanks for the theoies... some pretty interesting ones out there.

welcome to KF!!

well... once again Bushido man is right... what a surprise. its because the samurai carried 3 swords and the smallest one was tucked under their gi, and so, if the left side was on top it would be easier to draw the sword.

nice to meet you dude

welcome to the forums Dan

wow... many theories. thanks for the answers guys. i'll ask my instructor to see what the answer is and post it to you guys.

my instructors friend asked us today, why does the left side of the gi or dobok go over the right side? the only thing i could think of was because the school patch goes on the left side, but he said that that wasnt the answer. do you guys know why the left side of the uniform folds over the right side? he wouldnt give us the answer and told us to try to find out why, so hit me with some theories.

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never had anything but windows. to tell you the truth, i have no idea what the other choices even are. im not a big "high tech" type of guy if you know what im sayin

lol... judges sometimes... ughhhh

lol... very good joke

nice break

congrats!!!

lmao. thats was good