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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Nicoli: What little I saw, seemed incorrect on all kinds of levels. But not having watched the entire thing, not being a student of the man, I certainly might misperceive things. Holding the breath is completely dead wrong IME and a bad idea,
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Grappling/Mixed Martial Arts
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True, and on another note, last night doing some light sparring caught a huge guy with a light front snap kick in the solar plexus. Amazing how fragile the human body can be. He was out for a good 5 minutes but leads to an off topic question. Anyon
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Beginner's Area
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Hello My name is Chris I am 30 and living in Atlanta, Ga. I have studied Judo for a short period in College, but only until recently have I gotten the motivation to actually study seriously. I have been studying Zenshin Goshin Jujitsu for 2 months no
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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Ninpopo: Pulling the plug is always an option, if you must. But let me take a shot at this, which may or may not help? "Not appropriate behavior" "Unacceptable behavior." Anything more on your part makes it a public spect
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Martial Arts Talk
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At the dojo I attend the schools practiced do differ. Briefly, Iaido is a straight-on art, shoulders square with the target, feet straight forward or even slightly pigeon-toed. In Aikido the back foot is always angled to the side, the shoulders m
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Strengthening
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Strengthening
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Internet diagnosis and second guessing is seldom productive, but damn if it isnt compulsive A man that I trained some years ago admitted himself to hospital with chest pain and 'tightness'. To be honest I was particularly interested because he did
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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Enclosed below is a link my wife gave me from long ago. I have no personal connection to them in any manner. It is merely a wonderful site/magazine which discusses all things ADD/ADHD, amd no topics "off limits". (sic. the Fighting A
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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Dereck: Let me say up front, I am not trying to pick a fight with you about this. I AM attempting to discuss an issue which as a martial arts teacher, is fundamentally important to that role... in my humble opinion. I have concern, the approa
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Strengthening
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Cord, I have had all of those same tests done last year when this FIRST happened. Drives me nuts that we cannot narrow down what is going on. If not an over active thyroid then where does that leave us? I can't go around with this chest tightness.
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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Dereck You cover a host of very different issues... feel any better now you've gotten them out in the open? <gentle teasing> Like any label, you can use it as a tool, or discount it. Proverbial fences around some basic behaviors. Kara-
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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Messiah: I'm going to mirror the comments you've received so far. Theres no rush here. To figure out how to drive is really simple, right <lol>, here are the keys, go ahead. Once you've done it for a long time, its fairly simple, in som
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Martial Arts Talk
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Hello Kathryn: Finding someone with a sword, or a stick is simple, finding someone who actually knows how to use them intelligently/well are very different creatures. Myself, when I see the reflective tape, or the glitter on their toy weapons, I ge
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Martial Arts Talk
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Originally Posted By: Kathryn Think about it -- the samurai themselves had to be proficient in up to eight weapons as well as empty hands. Were they confused on the battlefield? To be fair, they never used Aikido as developed by O Sensei, so ther
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Self Defense
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Great, see a crazy guy with a gun call 9-1-1 and don't do anything stupid. Sweet, let's move on as that's abotu all this has to say abotu self defense.
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Martial Arts Talk
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I never developed the view that studying weapons more deeply would confuse any aikidoka. In fact, many sword students are former or current aikidoka, and from conversations I've had it has only deepened our understanding of the art. This view is
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Self Defense
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I am sure that readers not in the US have access to news media that covered this story. From my perspective, the real story is the successful response on the part of the employees and the police. Despite some initial confusion, the employees were e
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Strengthening
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Dereck, I know this may sound weird, but I have had similar bouts of chest tightness that turned out to be acid reflux. Sounds stupid, I know, but if the docs haven't checked for that, it may be useful to at least give it a look.
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Self Defense
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Blah blah blah. So what, he was a nut. So was Tim McVeigh, and so is the Westboro Church. What's your point, Bill? You think there wasn't enough coverage of this incident - despite it being headline material on EVERY news channel and most internet ne
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Self Defense
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What does this have to do with self defense? In any case, whether or not he did what he did after being influenced by Al Gore or whomever doesn't make a difference because no one from either side would support his actions. It was about him being a p
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Grappling/Mixed Martial Arts
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Heh, the bench press technique can be very effective.
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Martial Arts Talk
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Best ones were definitely from back in 03-04. I remember those arguments about tropical birds and poop or whatever. And the guys who trained with full knights armor by swimming ten miles, than running 10 miles, and doing 10,000 pushups or something
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General Talk
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Originally Posted By: Kimo2007Quote:69 Camero is good but the 67 Impala is better. Just throwin that out there. You did NOT just 'dis the mans ride did you? Oh, yea, you did...do you drink wine coolers too? How many Man Laws are you in the dark
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Self Defense
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So are you trying to draw some completely inappropriate association here? Or are you just saying that those who walk among us who hold themselves in such high regard as to put their personal views above the sanctity of human life come from all types,
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Self Defense
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For those readers not in the U.S. an enviro-nut, inspired by Al Gore's movie took hostages at the headquarters of the Discovery Channel. He is now dead, having been killed by the police when he aimed a gun at one of his hostages. He attacked the Di
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