obiwansbane

heh your classes are alot more broken up than ours... ours go 5-10, 10-14, 15+ so by kids and adults i meant 5-14 for kids and 15+ for adults... our instructor especially doesnt take any back talking from high teens its most prudent in self defence to NEVER say that you dont think a technique will work...

im the kind of instructor who HATES students telling me im wrong if i'm right. If they don't realise what they are doing wrong and need to be shown thats perfectly fine by me, but if they are doing it for the sake of being argumentitive, or they just don't have the common sense to think, "hey wait a second this guy/girl's been doing this for ages... of course he/she knows better than i do about whats going on" then i have very little patience for those people... in short... your lucky you have such a patient instructor especially seeing as your an adult student. Kids can get away with more stuff usually that adults would find themselves learning hands on why they are wrong and the instructor is right.

i think what he meant was just layer on the tape till u have a kind of jut around the bottom that your fingers will hook onto instead of sliding off... personally... and i just thought of this on the spot so ud be a first to try it.... try buying tennis raquet grip tape, and using that to wrap the handle of your bokken... it might work... it seems like a genius idea in my head right now

i used shodan up to green and still pulled off firsts... nuff said

haha Tom im an uber point sparer... its my noob friend xepher who you should be congratulating

haha i wouldnt get it engraved if i was u... unless it is one of them cheap crappy $100 ones that you're gonna get then go for it.. but if you do eventually end up getting a high quality one, if the maker him/herself doesnt engrave it... i wouldnt take it to a third party to engrave... btw... BOKKEN FIRST, SUMMER HOLIDAY SECOND, KATANA THIRD

just watch then you step on their boot that you a) dont fall over somehow and b) dont get called by the judge... some of them dont really know the rules to well and even if it is legal, they can call u on it just because....

told yah so

well done!!!!!!!!

i like the idea of report cards, although it might be a bit disheartening for young kids who aren't all that great... In our dojo its just a pass/fail and then after the test if you want or, anytime other than the test really, you can ask the instructor what you need to work on

i feel EXACTLY the same way as you do, except i would probably change the "." for a "!" I would make sure to add in with the registration sheet a waiver just to avoid this scenario... as for the baseball kid... how do you not know how to block sunlight? its called A. sunglasses B. a cap C. your hand D. just move outta the way E. COVER YOUR FACE! F. toughen up... i could go on but i digress

thats where the interpretation part comes in... especially if you go to an open style tournament... you will see different basai dai's all basically the same, but they all have a few differences due to how someone has decided the kata should be done... As for saving things off youtube id love to help you but right now i should be going to bed i have exams... if you go to https://www.digg.com and go back through the pages you will eventually find a link about getting videos off youtube

hey! As for changes to bassai dai, i highly doubt that... The instructor must just interpret the kata differently, or picked up someone elses interpretation... About the videos.... your best bet is to youtube it... I found that you can usually find whatever kata you are looking for, so long as its not obscure, and you spell it the same way the poster does

What dancing means... Strengthen your muscles to properly be able to cope with all the motions you have to go through, but in the process of strengthening don't let yourself get injured but doing anything stupid. As for my opinion... always the doctors kid, id tell you to go see a doctor and ask for his opinion on things, as he could probably tell you better than we can what to do that would allow you to continue your training...

best of luck to you! but isnt thursday morning kind of an awkward time for a belt test? i mean either work or school? >_

ah yes you guys learned higher rank katas.. I personally would chose Ji'in just because im familiar with it and Empi is an extremely demanding form. Best of luck to you

i have no clue what you mean... If your doing it for your Shodan grading, i would do basai dai, just because EMPI is too high a level for shodan... but if you are competing in a tournament and feel comfortable with empi i guess you could do that. A good empi will score higher than a good basai dai.

Ive had some of the same situations as DWx, i dont really mind i just tell people that i blew a whole in a brick house with my foot once and walk away... sometimes people get upset because they are busy and lower belts start nagging them, and they see it as a sign of disrespect. I don't know how that would apply to a forum but hey... to each his own... i got my black btw

meh, usually what i do if someone doesnt care about what we are doing and we are doing kumite, is i hit them... and take the warning from the instructor if he sees it. He usually doesnt give me any because he hates slackers so he knows im trying to get them to actually train... They usually smarten up and starts focussing... If im teaching class ill make the lazy ones do push ups while i give the others a break, that also seems to work. just keep at it and you will eventually find yourself in a situation where you can once again train fully. Or talk to your instructor about private lessons

haha anis isnt anything new he's been rippin up the circuit for quite a while.. what hes doing is tricking... if you asked him yourself he'd tell you most of everything he did in there would get him killed in a real fight... but it is really amazing the kind of things these guys do im actually starting to get into it...

haha wondering... DEFINATELY call the doctor ASAP the faster he can put you on the road to healing the more chance you have of being okay to test... black belt tests are EXTREMELY demanding and anything less than you best and you will fail... so call... now!

twitch the front foot a few times and lunge with a backfist doesnt really work now, but back in the good ol days of low belts it did wonders

haha welcome back u look pretty back to me kez

just a question patrick.. was the selection just completely random? first five names you saw on the screen or wat?

aw i got owned :'( at least i got a temporary belt... it looked nice on me gives me something to look forward to... but you had definately gotten me.. it didnt cross my mind that this was a joke