ShotokanTre

Hi, I'm new too. Glad to meet you.

Nice to meet another new person. I look forward to discusing things w/ you via posts

Thank you all for your advice. I greatly apreciate it. I am not in a hurry, because I'm not looking to know to how to fight, I already know to fight. I want better discipline, so I can definetly see how longer=better. Thank you very much for sharing this. I promice you that I won't quit. because karate isn't even the hardest thing i've ever had to do, and I need a hobby. I work way too much and obbcess about everything. Actually, about a year ago and half now, a guy walks into the store I was working in coked out of his mind and verbally assulted me, and then was aprehended by the state trooper who was checking out porn and intercepted me from going for his throat. I want to get out of fight mode. I want to karate to teach me how to avoid a fight, but also what to do if the time arises. Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it is usually the only answer. E.T.A.: by the way, are you a TKE at Princeton?

Those are wise words bushido man

Just thought I'd say "hey" and introduce myself. Let's see...well, I started Karate when I was a kid but quit because I was still undiagnosed and not in treatment and I didn't have the discipline. Then I went to college and did mixed martial art, mostly informal. It was there that I picked up nunchaku. I recently (like a couple of weeks ago) went to the dojo again. It turns out that the head instructor is the father of the people who instructed me when I was a kid, and another of the instructors is my neighbor- and-friend-for-about-20-years-now uncle. (that's my favorite smiley on the internet. I found a ninja smiley that I will try to make work here.)

that is good advice...that type of behavior is not acceptable from anyone especially a higer ranking student

Good luck! What do you have to do?

congrats

Congrats

I'm just wondering. I've heard one year from books/DVD's or between one and two years or even three or more. How long should it take?

well said there are a few speciffically christian dojos, so I would avoid them. However, here is the answer: Its okay. I'm a Buddhist and I practice Martial Arts and became a Buddhist at an in between training point.

this is how it is at my dojo

I would say apologize, but that might get you sued. I would first call an attorney and to see what s/he has to say. I would defintatly check on the statute of limintations on this though. Apologize to him after that time period is over.

I'm new to both this forum and my dojo, but I think that kata are immportant. You obviously wouldn't fight like that, but that is not really the point of kata. Kata are exagerated forms that were used as a way to pass down a system of knowledge in a peroid and place in time that the people practicing them were illaterate. Kata is inneftive if you try to use it in a fight, just like a screwdriver in ineffective if you are hanging a picture. If you are haning a picture need a hammer, if you're fighting you need fighting techinques. If you're putting shelves together, you need a screw driver, if you are demonstrating technique and working on a practice to improve form, balance, focus, spirit, ki, and endurance, then you need kata.

I know H-Pattern I.