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ATC — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:19:42 GMT

Not sure who sent this to me but thanks. I will assuem that only someone from this site would have done so. Great stuff thanks again.

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Heavy bag

dortiz — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:09:41 GMT

In all this talk about traditional TKD I started looking at how I came up training.
We used to work the heavy beg for hands but especially for our sidekicks and back kicks. A friend of mine on FB had a great photo of the bag going horizontal. A great measure of power.
In class I also like having a holder use the larger square pad and the attacker hitting it real time hard.
I think this last drill really teaches effective striking. I think the heavy bag also lets them know quickly if its right, wrong or has any or a lot of power.
Anyone else still work the bag?

Dave O.

What Do The Tenets of Taekwondo Have to Do With Hate?

dancingalone — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:46:38 GMT

Quote:

Originally Posted by chungdokwan123 (Post 1242163)

In everything I've ever read about what constitutes the pure martial art aspects of TKD.......there is included a philosophical aspect that seeks to embody in us positive characteristics........and HATE is not and cannot be one of them. Therefore, to both sides of the debate, if HATE in any way forms the basis of your arguments, especially if you claim to be a participant in the "art", your points are moot from the first word.

This new thread seemed appropriate instead of sidetracking the sport TKD thread. I thought chungdokwan123 made an interesting point and I thought it would be good for further discussion.

Regardless of whether one "hates" sport TKD or not, let's consider his point that you cannot be a taekwondoist if you hate. Is that necessarily true? We all have negative emotions from time to time: sadness, greed, anger, and yes, hate. Obviously some of us feel these more strongly than others, perhaps even to the point of excess or loss of control.

We should all strive to be better people, to show kindness and patience to others despite any notion of warrant. But if we don't manage to be perfect paragons of virtue or even if we choose to let a negative emotion win for a time, does that necessarily contradict the tenets of taekwondo?

I learned the tenets of taekwondo as Courtesy, Integrity, Perseverance, Self Control, Indomitable Spirit.

Where does it say one cannot hate? Self Control, perhaps? Is this debateable?

As a further discussion point, where is the balance in all of this? Yin and Yang or Um and Yang. One cannot exist without the other and it seems too ascetic to deny oneself everything deemed 'negative'.

RVD? How can somebody take this guy seriously?

RoninX — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:21 GMT

I don�t know...just tell me! How can you take seriously a guy who seems to be more concerned about selling his products than speaking from his heart about this art?

I mean...ninjutsu.com? What in the blue hell is this? A shopping? Is this what Ninjutsu is all about? Marketing?

I don�t think there is anything wrong with making money off this art, but i do think there is A LOT of things wrong when commercializing the art seems to assume such a strong importance. C�mon... a person go to ninjutsu.com hoping to find good information about ninjutsu and the only thing they can find is a guy doing his best to sell his products?

Do you see the HUGE EFFORT this guy is doing to promote and sell his products? I mean...banners all over the place almost begging me to buy his products? How can i take seriously a person wich his main concern seems to be making money off the art? I don�t know! Please, tell me.

What�s next? A ninjutsu shopping card?

The Lost Art of Tang Soo Do - Part One

maunakumu — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:02:48 GMT

http://www.examiner.com/x-25229-Hono...o-Do--Part-One

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Tang Soo Do is a popular Korean martial art that has practitioners all around the world. The art has incorporated elements of Chinese, Okinawan and Japanese martial arts in a synthesis that has produced a great art to practice.

Yet, along its syncretic lineage, Tang Soo Do has lost some things. Important elements that were part of the Japanese, Okinawan, and Chinese roots were left out of the synthesis. In a first of its kind book, I have traced the history of Tang Soo Do through my lineage and back into Okinawa in an attempt to not only discover the missing pieces, but also to suggest a curriculum for teaching them as part of the art.

This is part one of a three part article. Thoughts?

FMAT: Accuracy Training

Clark Kent — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:51:55 GMT

Accuracy Training
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Hey All,

Was just wondering what kind of things you all do for training accuracy with a stick. Hope to pick up some tips and different ideas.

Thanks,

Simon.

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Fire in the sky

Bob Hubbard — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:30:57 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ryd_p20XEU

Watch. Listen. Remember.

I met the scariest contial artist today.

Galens — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:51:08 GMT

To give some background first:

I have been pretending* to box for about 1.5 years now. I've also recently taken TaeKwon-Do to help improve my stand up. I'm also very very interested in ground work, even though I'm like a ninja turtle that became shell shocked when I do ground work X.X

I put out fliers around my school, hoping I could find a serious training partner, or teacher, and hopefully someone with my schedule and for free(If a teacher) My struggles failed, and eventually I joined a free gym with maybe one-two fighters that rarely ever show up.

I walked into my school's bookstore to buy some Nestle Green Tea and some mints, I had my private school teacher and didn't want to blow dragons breath on her. I was talking to the gentleman behind the counter about the new Windows 7 (We're both nerds). Out of nowhere comes this man named Steve. And my awkward era (Era lasting 10 minutes, not 10,000 years ^.^)

Steve walks in and hops into the convo. He's a computer guy too apparently, and a fellow metal head. He was discussing about his talents, and I had replied that I didn't do much besides hobby in computers, study, train and sometimes fight. (Oh here's the part where I forgot to mention that he was wearing a military hat with the Korean flag on it. It was his grandfather's. I had asked if he had been there or knew the language in hopes I could get more study time or culture shock from someone else than my private teacher whom I was about to meet in the next 5 minutes. He did not know either.)

Steve begins to tell me about his great skills in Jujitsu and how he could teach me some moves. I'm interested already. Unfortunately, it all goes downhill from here. Steven...*pause for a moment.* (Lets call him Robby, because he has the hyperactivity of Robin Williams...No...lets just call him Steve or Steven...) So Steve decides to expand further upon his abilities and tells me about things called kill moves in Jujitsu. Although very fascinating, was really beginning to sound like someone paddling a ship through the desert with a coffee cup...bulls$#@.

Steven continues to talk about special ubertastical moves against every single finger and toe on the body..yes thats right...one specific move for each finger. I interrupt him and write down the details to where I train and invite him to train with me on two certain days. I also mentioned that I learn a lot with instruction and then real time demonstration. Captain Iceman...I mean Super Ste....I mean Steve decides to continue rambling on RIGHT after I finished. He didn't seem to grasp what I said, so I said it again. Steve decides that he instantly forgot his incredible destructo skills he learned and now claims he only knows basic things in Jujitsu.

Now I feel incredibly awkward and embarassed sitting there in the bookstore, ON VIDEO BTW, having master Steven, I mean..Steven perform these uber martial arts things around my body, and telling me all kinds of crazy stuff, including the one about how he used to keep his nails long so he could do tiger claw fighting and scratch his enemies to death. (Or just scratch their itch, I dunno. I hope neither) Oh, btw, this guy is in his 30's.

My private teacher shows up and here I am jumping up and down inside my mind. "안녕하세요?" She says. I reply. "안녕하세요? " I turn to Master Steven and tell him that my private teacher is here and that I need to go. I nearly wanted to grab her and give her a giant hug for inadvertently saving me from the doom machine called Steve. Steve walks out after I start mumbling goodbye to him "ymayahmmm"

Steve leaves and I am now stronger and wiser because of it.

I learned today:

Always carry a pocket knife.

If possible, carry a roll of duct-tape

If possible, inadvertently have your teacher save you from awkward and embarassing contial artists.

How to deal with young martial artists?

Galens — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:15:04 GMT

I recently became involved with martial arts after a long personal desire to do so. I personally get more satisfaction and motivation when training with a group or a partner. However, recently, I've been having a lot of trouble with training since I started training together with a younger martial artist than myself. This individual is a child at heart and a teen in body. He also happens to be extremely unfocused, unorganized, extremely skeptical, bossy, showy and overall, way too hyper for me to keep up with. I tried getting this individual to train with me, but he doesn't grasp that training is serious and not a contest to see how many tornado kicks you can do within 3 seconds. I unfortunately regret coming to this particular training area now because this is where his other friends are, and I have an overwhelming desire to yell at this kid, or take a jar of peanut butter and shovel feed him so he can stop talking and hopefully, stop creating hurricanes with his flying monkey style.

How do I get through to this type of kid?

What can I say or do to help this kid understand that I mean business about training, without hurting his feelings, without outcasting him, and in a way that he can remember what I said the next week?

Is it any good?

mcgowana — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:31:26 GMT

I saw an article about Krav Maga in my local newspaper in the UK. Is this style any good and is it worth going along?

Andy

Very Interesting Interview with Ryan Hall

stevebjj — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:06:47 GMT

http://www.lockflow.com/article_view.php?id=4992

Among other things, he talks about efficacy of technique, the future of the guard, shrimping and his own personal goals in jiu jitsu.

While I'm not sure I agree with everything he says, and some of it I'm not competent to comment on, I like his ideas about paring grappling down to its essential components.

Definitely worth a read.

Which martial art shall I choose?

mcgowana — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:51:08 GMT

Hi,

I am 32 and want to take up a martial art for fitness, self defence etc. but don't know which one to choose. I would like one thats good for fitness and well being, one that I would be able to defend myself if attacked by a chav and one which I can monitor my progress with belt and maybe some local competitions.

I have looked around my area and, wanting to train 2-3 times a week the 3 martial arts for me to choose from are King Fu, Kickboxing and Tae Kwon Do.

Which one shall I choose and what are your reasons?

Thanks,
Andy

FMAT: carine

Clark Kent — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:20:09 GMT

carine
By snake - 11-19-2009 04:31 PM
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is there anywhere on the net were i can see video off retarada antin carines style.may have spelt retarada wrong

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FMAT: Col. Lewis L. Millett of the Bayonet Hill Charge Passes Away at 88.

Clark Kent — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:20:09 GMT

Col. Lewis L. Millett of the Bayonet Hill Charge Passes Away at 88.
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Col. Lewis Millett, Who Led �Bayonet Hill� Charge, Dies at 88

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Col. Lewis L. Millett, an Army veteran of three wars who received the Medal of Honor for leading a rare bayonet charge up a hill in Korea, died Saturday in Loma Linda, Calif. He was 88.
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On Feb. 7, 1951, he employed a tactic of bygone wars with a fury that overwhelmed the enemy.

During the fighting near Osan, South Korea, Captain Millett�s unit encountered Communist troops atop a spot called Hill 180.

It would be remembered as Bayonet Hill for what the military historian Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall would call �the most complete bayonet charge by American troops since Cold Harbor,� a reference to the carnage at an 1864 Civil War battle in Virginia.

After ordering his men to fix bayonets, Captain Millett charged up the hill in front of them in the face of heavy fire, blasting away with his carbine, throwing grenades and, most spectacularly, wielding his bayonet when he encountered three enemy soldiers in a V-shaped gun position.

�I assaulted an antitank rifle crew,� he told Military History magazine in 2002. �The man at the point was the gunner. I bayoneted him. The next man reached for something, I think it was a machine pistol, but I bayoneted him � got him in the throat.�

The third soldier had a submachine gun.

�I guess the sight of me, red-faced and screaming, made him freeze,� he recalled. �Otherwise he would have killed me. I lunged forward and the bayonet went into his forehead. With the adrenaline flowing you�re strong as a bull. It was like going into a watermelon.�

Captain Millett was wounded by grenade fragments, but his men took the hill. President Harry S. Truman presented him with the Medal of Honor in July 1951. As the citation put it, �His dauntless leadership and personal courage so inspired his men that they stormed into the hostile position and used their bayonets with such lethal effect that the enemy fled in wild disorder.�

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UFC 106 predictions

DragonHorse — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:58:31 GMT

Lets hear them...

Im thinking the winners will be Ortiz, Johnson, Lil Nog, Karo, Amir http://www.msg.com/fightclub/ufc-106-breakdown.html