martial arts patches

[niel0092]

No, there's no required memorization involved but you do pick up on the meaning of the symbols we use after awhile and it is part of our school, who we are and where we come from. Dr Haaland is very into the connection of mind, body, and spirit so it's fitting that he chose to include those themes in the logo. The korean characters at the bottom of the symbol are the names of some of the forms we do so after a time in our school you really should be able to discuss those as well.

When your head instructor is a pHD, 70yrs young, and still teaches he's bound to have had the oppertunity and knowledge to explore deeper levels of meaning. And that just adds to the experience dont you think?

good luck in your training

[White Warlock]

how long has he been actively practicing?

[niel0092]

He started MAs when we was in his mid thirties. He had done his service in the marine corps and studied kenpo for a while in New York before returning to MN. There wasn't a kenpo school here at the time so he looked into shotokan, Gung fu, and Taekwondo before choosing TKD with master Hyon.

here's my school's website if you'd care to take a look:

http://www.mntaekwondocenter.com

[Goju_boi]

By the looks of things I'm guessing that you learn kali and judo at another school(s).

[niel0092]

Yep. I did judo at the UofM for a bit with Northstar martial arts in Mpls. Kali is kind of on again off again with the Minnesota Kali group. A number of our students train there as well and our friday night instructor trains there extensively and brings alot of that training to our classes.

[Goju_boi]

So the only art your focused on is TKD?

[niel0092]

Yeah that's where things are at right now. I can really only afford to do the one art, time and financially speaking but I may switch over to one of the others eventually. I'm happy where I am right now though so it's all right with me. Who knows though, I may have already won the powerball tonight then I could do all three! LOL What about you Goju? How are you combining your arts? Could you describe them for me (maybe it's better suited for another thread however)?

Wow, we've digressed a bit from the topic it seems. Anyone else have any patches on their uniforms?

[lgm]

Does anyone know of any sites that explain the meaning of different martial arts patches that you put on your gi??

Patches in karate or martial arts uniforms depict symbols of the karate or martial art school, organization or style.

Try this link http://www.panlane.com/karate/hist/hist5.htm to check on our JKA inyo (symbol of shotokan karate) and others.

[Goju_boi]

"What about you Goju? How are you combining your arts? Could you describe them for me "

Well as for me I can't really mix both of my styles together because one is karate style and the other is a weapons based style.Although I have done kickboxing before.As for that the kicks are very similar so I don't really mix that up, but the punches are boxing punches.I tried to mix them in to my karate sparring once, and my instructor said stop doing kickboxing and use karate.Anyways if I were to be fighting someone, I would be using mostly karate , but what I would use from kick boxing is it's hook punch that I think we don't have in karate.As for weapons,if I was fighting in the street I would use them, but I think it would be pretty hard to find something close to a bo staff in the streets.