Eric7_27

tkd basically

Thanks for the help guys

Cool! Thanks for the link!

How do people keep like a katana on them. If I'm doing a tournament the last thing I want is to have to put the sheeth on the floor as I'm doing my kata. And if I put it in my karate belt that won't hold and will drive me nuts. Is there some kind of belt thing that can tie to your waste that holds the sheeth? What did samurais use in the first place?

I don't know which tournaments would even allow you to use a sharp sword. Mine doesn't.

what? no throwing knives?

cool thanks obiwan- hope you're kidding about the high score with a sharp weapon

^^ lol.

Walmart carries weight suits now for pretty cheap. I'd try looking there.

This guy sounds like he needs to be in flag troupe and should be twirling nice and safe flags, not sharpened swords in an uncontrolled manner near impressionable observers.

Thank you guys for your responses. Yes- I would definately prefer a full tang and maybe a more tempered (right phrase?) material. But I'm not looking to do any cutting or anything. It appears that there are NOT many options in purchasing a sword for competitions.... Many come razor sharp also. Perhaps this is why swords are very rarely seen at tournaments.

I'm trying to buy a non-sharpened sword for competitions but I don't want to spend like $400 on one, but I also don't want a wall-hanger. Is this one that both the blackbeltshop and centuryfitness sell (as a "competition sword") any good??? Or will it fly off it's handle and stab someone as I'm doing a form with it? (You normally lose points for killing a spectator ) http://www.blackbeltshop.com/competition_sword.htm

What kind of tournament or whatever is this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jWLmKyjiTw Why do they wear the chest protectors and other tournaments don't? I noticed the fighting style is more like olympic style and does more kicking, where like the AOK tournaments I have here in Texas use more punching, and no one wears chest protectors. Is it just something they do up north or is it a different thing like ITF or something. If so- where would I find those tourneys?

The red thing is a bean bag that they throw in that shows that the match is over.

Here's some stuff from my most recent tourney. Anyone go? It was the Dallas Heatwave Tournament in Duncanville. I placed 3rd in Forms and 1st in sparring for my division. Video of part of my fight. I'm the orange belt. http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/bigbob4million/?action=view&current=Erics2ndTournament018.flv Pics: http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/bigbob4million/S5030450.jpg http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y29/bigbob4million/S5030464.jpg

1. Sparring: Don't do backfists in tournament sparring where face contact is prohibited. (eg., in lower ranking matches) Judges often mistake a hit to the side of the helmet for face contact since your hand is covering view of their face- dispite hitting it or not.

I don't take notes on paper. Everything I learn and do I blog for later reference etc. http://mytaekwondoblog.blogspot.com/

Thanks again guys. Thanks Elky, "just dance, tag and enjoy." guess I'll try that.

thanks for the replys guys. I'll probably go to class tomorrow but will feel kind of bad still. thanks

Yesterday I helped out at a belt test being held for white and gold belts as I normally do. Since I have started martial arts regardless of how long I can stay (job permitting), I always come and help out with the belt tests in self defense, sparring and whatever my instructors need help on. But I seem to have trouble when sparring the kids. Like for instance, I try not to hit hard obviously, but when I was sparring a gold belt girl who's about 10, they said go and she came at me and I tried a light jab to the padding on her helmet, but it hit her kind of hard. Immediately I went to her and tried to see if she was alright as did the head instructor, I felt extremely aweful as it looked like I hurt her as her head went back a bit. It looked worse than it probably was- specially for those spectating. She didn't cry but was kind of shocked. Sadly, I have to honestly say, for someone like me who never does, I felt so bad that I had to fight back not crying myself... And as karate will do- dispite my clear evidence that I did NOT want to continue fighting, they had her finish fighting me. IT was all I could do to not hit at all but basically take everything she gave me including a nice hit to my eye (I wish it hurt more.) Her parents didn't seem upset but one of the lady instructors who is one of two that has brought up my dojo, I could hear objecting to my head instructor how it seemed quite excessive even though he defended that she clearly ran into my extended arm. None of the other instructors said anything at all. I don't at ALL justify my actions. Obviously accidents happen, and I went and asked her if she was alright again later on- which she really seemed to be. But it IS my responsibility to somehow manage the fight as I am older etc. I'm not some fat big kid who doesn't know his strength. I'm 5'7, 150 lbs. I'm not a maniac when I fight, and I definately don't try and hurt anyone. I wasn't at all yesterday trying to win, but I feel like my motives aren't wrong in that I try and give them something to block and something to hit, but I'm not trying to hit hard at all or win. It's not that this seems like just an accident, but a pattern hence the title. My instructor has talked to me about being lighter etc., but this still seems to happen even though the whole class before and after, there was no problem at all. I've fought some other kids and had simular things happen. But now when I fight I am completely off and it effects me when I fight those my size, rank or higher- in that I often don't fight hard. I just felt so bad that when the blackbelts were in the other room discussing who got a "red star" for achievments that day, etc., I just left. I didn't feel like there was anything else I could do in apologizing etc., so I just got my stuff and went home. I didn't want to be in the picture and leave a negative memory for the others. I don't know what else I can do. All the kids seem to really look up to me including the girl, which is one of 4 kids in her family who train at my dojo, and all kind of look up to me. I'm not thinking about quitting karate because of my inibility to somehow not hurt others while sparring, but I'm thinking about not helping with tests anymore. I try and be completely humble, I'm normally extroverted, but at karate I'm completely intro- and at the tests, I doing only what my instructor tells me, fighting when they say to, and who to, and hardly ever speaking unless spoken to. I feel if in class if they ever ask me to sparr a kid I'll have to decline, but how could I humbly decline when I am told and have to listen to what I'm told to do? What else can I possibly do?

http://img483.imageshack.us/img483/2935/segataob9.gif Good for the street, but might be excessive for tournaments

*pardon me- I "DIP" my pizza crust in soda. Has to be dr. pepper. Should stop multi tasking. can't type and talk at the same time...

I did my pizza crust in my soda. sounds gross yeah- but delicious.

yeah those do make sense guys. and bearich, that really makes sense about the sparring.

Ok- I've always wondered about this. I've heard that it's impolite or bad etiquette to look at the person who you are bowing to. What do you guys think? Guess it's not that big of a deal, but in the dojo when I bow to an instructor etc, I ALWAYS wonder....