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I showed that to one of my friends. He asked me if it was the "scare straight" tactic. I told him yes and he said "It works."

I love the snow too. I'm getting out the sleds later without a doubt.

I think we both have two different views on what good is and how to get there. So we'll just nevermind that for now.

I see. Do you think it was effective?

I see.

That's an interesting way of testing and getting graded.

Do you think it would be possible to train yourself to think like this so quickly during a fight that it seems like a reflex?

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Backflip then a corkscrew.

In Kuk Sool Won I have yet to touch a weapon because only black belts are the ones who are allowed to practice weapons. Not true. You'll begin jung bong spinning and moving techniques as well as the basic sword cutting techniques with a wooden sword after you've reached Dan Bo Nim (2nd black stripe). Earlier if your school offers the extra "Black Belt Club" classes. Still too late in my oppinion. Part of me knew that though. I was just kind of angry at my school again when I posted that

I see now. Thanks a lot

Mine are "Samurai X" and "Samurai Champloo"

Karate Ed, you think that advanced techniques are introduced early on? I dissagree. I am too a yellow belt in the style currently and in my oppinion most what I do seems pretty basic to me. PSBN Doug, just curious, because I believe weapons should be introduced early in training as well as all types of basic attacks (etc a spinning kick would be one of the first things you'd learn instead of waiting 18 months before you're allowed to do it in class), what is the purpose of waiting 3 years (or until I get my brown belt) before I should spin nunchucks?

I sure am hoping you will someday Otherwise I'm probably not anywhere good. Getting back to the topic at hand. I understand fully what you are saying. Though I am pretty sure you knew exactly what I meant by "Get as good as possible as soon as possible." I would like you to know that I do take the martial arts very seriously and I do learn quickly. I just need to be taught. Basically right now we've got a student that can learn very well and wants to taking lessons from a teacher that won't really teach. You were also very correct when you said "Frustrated with the fact that I don't get all three aspects from KSW." I wouldn't be complaining right now if I did lol And even if they did teach all of it there, they do it way too slowly and I'm nto saying that just because I'm really eager to learn. I mean it, you come to my class one time and stay there for a year and see about the pace you move in that class.

Yes I do and will always respect my father. I am 16-years-old. I do have a plan, not to quit this school, but to start mixing it with Wing Chun Kung-fu and possibly (more so hopefully) gymnastics to complete my skills (Kuk Sool Won for basic fighting techniques, gymnastics for strength and advanced exercise as well as being able to do cool flips and stuff, then Wing Chun for much needed speed). The one problem is that my father told me he'd support Kuk Sool Won classes. Everything else I have to provide for myself. So I have to find a job. Coincidentally I'm trying to find work in the worst city in the United States of America to find a job. Litterally. I would also normally have patience for Kuk Sool Won but I'm trying to incorperate my martial arts, my writing, and my acting (all my favorite hobbies) into a career and I got started on it all really late so I need to get as good as possible as soon as possible and Kuk Sool Won alone is not going to be enough especially at this particular school.

What level did you get to?

For a year now I've been going twice a week to my school and I'm beginning to lose faith in it and I'm not sure what I should do next. It's not at all that I believe I am learning in a "bad style." I don't even believe there is such a thing. But it's my instructor's I have no faith in. They are very hypocritical which is not a trait I respect in anyone and continuously say things to me and the other students in the class that later get absolutely contradicted either by their own words or actions. A few examples follow. They told me when I started that one could be an individual in the class and move at their rate: Wrong! The instructors are always either hardly pushing me at all or pushing me to the point my chest hurts. Then this is what I hear the most that really gets on my nerves "You're only a yellow belt so you can't do that yet." Mostly for falls. I'm not afraid of jumping in the air and falling on a mat. Training at home with my older brother, to this day there are several instances I am surprised my arm, wrist, legs, and in some cases skull weren't ever cracked in half. I'm fairly confident I can jump and fall on a 2-inch-thick mat in class without hurting myself. Then, the class actually started getting easy for me. I don't know if it's because it's winter in western New York and it's colder and I tend to last longer in the cold or if it's really I'm starting to round off with the class. Either way, I want to know I'm getting a good workout, but they won't let me bring in the wrist and ankle weights so I have to work harder. They told me that everyone in the class is respected equally reguardless of rank: Also very wrong! I often find myself getting put down and discouraged in class a lot for doing things someone one belt above me could do and nobody would care. The black belts do basically whatever they want. 90% of the upper belts in that class are weaklings: Sorry, this is true, some of you may get on my case for this but it's true. I am a gosh darn yellow belt and if things are really as set in stone with the belts as they are in that class I should not be able to beat half of the black belts in there (like I have on several occasions in sparring despite their rules). We train and I practice my techniques properly to make sure I'm actually doing them right and they "get hurt" when really I could be doing them so much harder they don't even know it and I get lectured and yelled at for being disrespectful. THEY SHOULD BE ABLE TO HANDLE ME! Then they turn around and do their techniques and I get thrown. Sometimes it does actually hurt a little bit but I don't complain once. One time I almost got kicked out of sparring for reflexively grabbing someone's leg when they kicked at me and "torquing it." 30 seconds later I get kicked in the mouth and my mouthguard moved and cut up my gums I bled a bunch. Nothing happened to him, he was a brown belt (and I still won just for the record). They claim to be a self defense school: They should call themselves and aerobics class because all I get out of there is flexibility and it keeps me in good shape. They do not teach you how to use the techniques in there. Then they tell you sparring is a good place to learn how to apply them. Then you go to sparring and you're so covered in gear you can hardly move and they tell you "no throws, grapples or take downs." What the hell is that?! How am I supposed to learn how to use those weird throws if I can't spar with them? And trust me, those are some weird throws. All the really good training is only for black belts: Do they think only black belts are capable of handling any training they can give? They do all sorts of things every other rank should learn as well. Weapons, gymnastics, fighting techniques, all of it. One question about that. WHAT ABOUT ALL THE OTHERS WHO NEED TO GET GOOD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE AND DON'T HAVE TIME TO WAIT 4 YEARS TO GET THEIR BLACK BELT BEFORE THEY CAN ACTUALLY LEARN ANYTHING?! And I understand basics, but believe me people the level of "basics" they give at this school is absurd. Just all those things drive me out of my skull. Normally I wouldn't have a problem with it IF THEY HAD TOLD ME WHAT IT WAS REALLY GOING TO BE LIKE WHEN I JOINED INSTEAD OF FEEDING ME A LOAD OF IT STRAIGHT TO MY FACE WHEN I STARTED! I'm still there only because my father won't let me quit. And I really don't know what I'm supposed to do because I'm getting really sick and tired of all that crap. Anyone have anything that might help me out here?

Three straight punches with a spinning kick.

I see what you're getting at now. I did not know the Mushin concept before you said anything but judging from your description it does sound like a tuned natural instinct that would work as the mental part of a fight or spar.

Yes it is. They're really good at what they do too. I often find myself comparing this group's work to things I've seen in the theaters.

(From youngest to oldest) White Yellow Blue Red Brown Black-Brown Black 10 degrees to black.

I can almost do that too. It's not common in my class but there are others who can do it in there. I often get called a freak during gym class because I can streatch 3x better than anyone else in there.

Kali sticks are easy to use in my oppinion. I doubt I could recreate the style Kali but I feel if I had a Kali stick I could defend myself decently.

I finally feel accepted. Bushido_man96, that is very interesting what you said. I'm not sure if I completely understand it. Did you say that the "mushin" idea is good unless a situation goes beyond your training or what you've prepared for and in that case you should think about your strategies to react?

It does have 24 different weapons. Daggars, spears, nunchucks, canes, tonfas, Korean swords, short sticks, knives, throwing knives, bo-staffs and fans to name a few. But at my school we're not allowed to use any of them until we're black belts.