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I knew that,


so is the subject of this thread.

This thread is now "Zombie Approved".:new_astha

yeah, forms practice sucks. my advice is to get a sensie who is willing to concentrate his instruction on practical drills and combat sparring. Sure, i never got promoted to black belt coz i didnt study he forms, but i could sure kick the asses of those with higher belt colors.

What the hell is combat sparring?

What the hell is a sensie?

Sensie be da 'erb, bloodclot!

Sensie be da 'erb, bloodclot!

Seems like you're having a brain attack.

A direct result of his good wife clobbering him over the head for offering his nuts to women on the internet.

Kata can be good.

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Mi kung fo mosse murda dem seen!

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT5LbulQ-Vg

was i the only one in here whos MA school made us do like 300 situps a class and take stomach punches like once or twice a month. or did they just like picking on the lower ranked belts?
and we never did forms... just alot of punching and sparring... and stomach punches.

Jumping rope is similarly unmanly and not directly related to fighting, but is also good practice for a fighter.

Except that boxing schools don't pretend that you can learn how to fight by jumping rope, and TMAs do.

And before you go...

But martial art schools don't claim that kata is a replacement for sparblahblahblah,
Yes they do. Go to a TMA school, they will tell you the purpose of forms is to teach you techniques and (and this is important) HOW TO APPLY THEM. Without ever actually applying them.

Big difference between jump rope and kata.

Go to a TMA school, they will tell you the purpose of forms is to teach you techniques and (and this is important) HOW TO APPLY THEM. Without ever actually applying them.

Big difference between jump rope and kata.

First you learn how to apply them. Then you apply them. There are many TMA schools that practice applying the techniques that are taught in forms. Unfortunately, there are many that don't.

Jumpimg rope is a good excercise. But it is also mindless. You could argue that shadowboxing is better than jumping rope.

****, Phrost posts that picture of the guy in the wheel chair doing Tensho kata. Fucking wonderful, make fun of a cripple doing, IMHO, one of the best kata. The same kata that I saw done by an old fart at the infamous "blood bath" Wado tournie at half time, doing the kata with an oxygen tank on a cart next to him, and he having the tube up his nose and propped up on crutches - the last demo by an old lion.

When I first posted on this site there was some drama bs internet challenge crapola going on tween TKDsometing or other and some other person and the drama dragged a woman TKD instructor into this site for one post where she expressed dismay at the immaturity and cock stroking ego bullshit and she said that this site represented much that she was against; that she thought martial arts were good for all people, young, old, healthy, disabled, women, children, young studs and old farts. Funny, that's the same attitude that Sosai Masutatsu Oyama had. But what the **** does that old jap **** head know compared to cool dudes like phrost.

http://i.biblio.com/b/919m/140312919-0-m.jpg

****, Phrost posts that picture of the guy in the wheel chair doing Tensho kata. Fucking wonderful, make fun of a cripple doing, IMHO, one of the best kata. The same kata that I saw done by an old fart at the infamous "blood bath" Wado tournie at half time, doing the kata with an oxygen tank on a cart next to him, and he having the tube up his nose and propped up on crutches - the last demo by an old lion.

When I first posted on this site there was some drama bs internet challenge crapola going on tween TKDsometing or other and some other person and the drama dragged a woman TKD instructor into this site for one post where she expressed dismay at the immaturity and cock stroking ego bullshit and she said that this site represented much that she was against; that she thought martial arts were good for all people, young, old, healthy, disabled, women, children, young studs and old farts. Funny, that's the same attitude that Sosai Masutatsu Oyama had. But what the **** does that old jap **** head know compared to cool dudes like phrost.

http://i.biblio.com/b/919m/140312919-0-m.jpg

Of course Mas Oyama had that attitude. Children, women, disabled, etc. is where the MONEY is at! Just like Bruce Lee figured out that the great money comes from teaching white people, Oyama (and countless others) know that teaching women, children, cripples and the like is where the money is. It's a BRILLIANT business strategy.

Meltdown time.

P.S. - I said 'kata can be good'

****, Phrost posts that picture of the guy in the wheel chair doing Tensho kata. Fucking wonderful, make fun of a cripple doing, IMHO, one of the best kata. The same kata that I saw done by an old fart at the infamous "blood bath" Wado tournie at half time, doing the kata with an oxygen tank on a cart next to him, and he having the tube up his nose and propped up on crutches - the last demo by an old lion.

When I first posted on this site there was some drama bs internet challenge crapola going on tween TKDsometing or other and some other person and the drama dragged a woman TKD instructor into this site for one post where she expressed dismay at the immaturity and cock stroking ego bullshit and she said that this site represented much that she was against; that she thought martial arts were good for all people, young, old, healthy, disabled, women, children, young studs and old farts. Funny, that's the same attitude that Sosai Masutatsu Oyama had. But what the **** does that old jap **** head know compared to cool dudes like phrost.

http://i.biblio.com/b/919m/140312919-0-m.jpg
I know this cuts deep Pat, but fighting is a physical activity. If you're disabled, you aren't capable of athleticism, you're not going to be very good at it. Period.

Then again, you're a hippy who thinks life is fair and should be full of cuddles and wet puppy noses. Why you do Martial Arts is beyond me.

Life's not fucking fair.

I strongly considered just laughing off your self-righteous "get off my lawn" post and replying with something snarky, but **** that. I obviously don't have a problem with handicapped people living their lives to the best of their abilities.

But face fucking reality; if you're in a wheelchair your participation in Karate is about the same as masturbation is participation in reproduction. Your anecdote about some old fart embarassing himself while a bunch of suck-ups watched on out of a sense of obligation means exactly **** to me. Why is it something magical to see a husk of a human being futilely waving his arms around? If Muhammad Ali stepped back into the boxing ring, mumbling and drooling while trying to shadowbox for the crowd, would anyone think it was something to admire?

**** no, they'd be disgusted and ashamed. And someone would brain Don King with a brick outside the venue for having thought it was a good idea.

Dignity is not something created by group collusion. It comes from knowing your limits and having enough character to not shamefully impose upon others the burden of pretending everything is just wonderful when you are no longer what you once were, if you ever were at all.

By the way, Mas Oyama was Korean.

Sensie be da 'erb, bloodclot!

Bossman, if yuh ago cuss, cuss right. Is blood clawt. A bloodclot is wah yuh have inna yuh heart. Blood clawt is wah yuh seh when yuh ready fi **** up smaddy raas clawt. Yeah.