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i dont have any stories about taxes on tax day... today My little sister got her tonsels(sp) out. so that was the highlight of today was my mom flipping out about is she ok. my mom gets her taxes on the 4 or 5 every year. She says that they are easy but she never really does anything. my step dad used to be in law school and used to be a CEO of fairly large Company in Arizona...he gets most the work. My mom step dad and bio dad all get along ok which is really wierd if anyone has divorced parents. the great thing is they fial taxes at the same time. My dad almost always gets about $500 more than my mom. there they all my geat stories... NOT. P.S. My sister made it through the operation and is doing great.

Well, I know i will be training at my house, that is if I can find time between school projects. My dojo has classes the whole week, or at least i think. I haven't heard any announcements yet.

1. a 3 years 2.Tae Kwon Do- Modern America(monkeygirl,jake) and would like to learn Kung Fu 3. 1st Dan/ Black Belt 4. any... they all interest me

1MA 2Baseball,Basketball(whichever) 3Sleep

I am sooo sorry you all...after i got my blackbelt i went to put in the site but the problem was i put this in karateaforums.com for a month or so and never really payed attention to it(that is why i havent posted for a long lon time) so today i tried it again.... It works i achieved the Rank of First degree Black Belt My nickname is Bam Bam. I dont really know where that came from but monkeygirl may be able to help shed some light on that issue. Overall the test i thought was well a great great challenge but the last 10 minutes of it were GREAT!!!! i got to break boards... for the first time ever at my black belt test i broke 6 one inch thick boards(one at a time i should add). Hey even Monkeygirl broke one. Overall i must thank you all for your support and good luck wishes.

Hey Jake Glad you joined. So bet ya didnt know i was on here did ya? well now ya do.

Hey I'll gladdly join. So Put me in.....( do we get voted of the forum or just the game)?

I enjoy drafting and reading. and between school martial arts and chores. i love to sleep. i am starting to pick up skateboarding.

I am going to have to go with the Raiders because i have always like them since i was kid. The only team i had trouble pronuncing. Other than that i dont care. I was For Tenesse

THe one move i srtuggle with the most is jump back kick. I am fine if i have something to hit but if there is just air it is a flop. I dont know why or how this happens i am working on it and it seems to be getting better.

I would be interestted in playing now that my computer doesn't freeze every five minutes.

My most confident move would have to a roundhouse kick then a backfist/knuckle. I usually will throw multiple round house kicks at varing levels then end low and backfist high to the head or pectorial muscle area.

A good way you can work on speed is by using power in your moves. In saying this i mean you should exert all you force on a block. If doing a Side/Toson(spelling?) block make your intial block then use all your muscles to move you then should start shaking(or your arms )this will make your move faster. Go ahead try it . It sounds wierd but works.

I generally use "a" but i keep my foot up on the ball(kinda like on your tip toes.) this allows for thrust kisk(low pwerful snap/front kick) which acts like a side kick. and this also frees your back leg to push into your oppenent.

I am in TKD and have been traing about 3 years. I actually got my first injury Sat.the 18. It was a bloody nose and i still can barley touch it. Other than the ocasional bruise i havent had anything majopr.

Most of my stuff is in my signature but the reason I started Martial Arts is not. This is corny and old but like most of my friends when iwas 5 or 6 i wanted to be a ninja turtle. My mom wouldn't stand me being in such a contact sport at such a young age. Well, 5 years later my little sister got going in it and i couldn't just let her do it so i joined. I was hooked my first class. Since then i jsut kept going back.

Hey everbody my test will start Feb. 24 and be a three part test just as monkeygirl's. I will have the final leg(if i pass that far) on march 1. Just thoght i would pass the information on. I thanl you all for the encoragement.

I was just wondering.. when talking with your friends do you say iam going to karate or do you say that you are to _____ (whatever your art is). I personally call it karate because half of my friends rolly couldn't repeat Tae Kwon Do.

MA hs taught me alot of things. One big is to do my homework right away. I get home and do chores eat supper and then change and go to Karate i have regular scheldule. It also has taught me to respect now in school sometimes instead of yes. it yes ma'am/sir! and the teachers like that kind of aprriciation even though i was day dreaming and it was a genral reaction. It also has taught me that if you want some thing it isn't always going to be given to ie-BELT TESTS. Another thing is to calm down and enjoy life while you still can say ahh i don't have class tongiht and i dont wanna teach i'll stay home instead ok gotaa get this this and this done by 4:30 to get to karate to instruct.

hey thanks fungku. That is what i am doing and i am coming with nothing. Thanks for the Wing Chun idea and how it would go with my tae kwon do. I think karateforums is going to value your input you have been posting in alot of areas thanks.

Okay once I achieve my black belt in TKD i am intereted in starting up in Kung Fu. I don't know that much about it. So any tips sugestions, etc. would be appreciated. THaanks ahead of time

In our demo team we have what we call the "Purse skit". Well monkeygirl genrally does the skit along someone else . We were goofing off one saturday about 5 months ago and during practice we were switching the rolls of the guys that sits beside the person with the purse. Well it came to be my turn. I put the purse on and started to walk towards the chairs where the guy who does the skit is and he shouts "Hey Cutey," At that point i was laughing so hard along with the demo team that the whole skit stopped dead in it's tracks. I have a feeling that this is gonna be one of those you had to be there to get it things We get nicknames on our blackbelts. I think that cutey has been decided from that day on.

In the past few months i have tried to stay with a daily workout( mainly whatever a class at my dojo is doing) and i have noticed a slight change in my stregnth this has come with pucshing myself a little harder everytime i do puch-ups conditioning and what not. So i belive you can get "buff" without have to go do wieghtlifting.

Well as you all know monkeygirl has just passed her blackbelt test with flying colors. Now My instructor (also her instructor)has informed me and 2 other students that we will be testing for our BLackbelts in January or February. I know this is very far away but i thought i would say it so i dont have a post sometime that justs says i got my blackbelt.

i haven't had to use my fighting skills for a street fight for a few reasons. some have been mentioned. My training and what we teach at our school "common sense before self defense". i am also very rarely around people that arent my friends. So this also helps on the people that just wanna see if they can beat you up or not since your in karate.