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Originally posted by fullcircle I'm assuming the $20 included your Aikido belt? If not, you got ripped off!
Of course, wouldn't have spent $20 on just a TKD belt....lol...that's funny. See I figure what I can do now since I have the TKD and Aikido BBs I can make my Aikido look really sloppy and throw in a few punches and kicks from TKD and teach Hapkido.
1. Any power that can be abused will be abused
2. Abuse always expands to fill the limits of resistance to it.
3. If people don't resist the abuses of others, they will have no one to resist the abuses of themselves, and tyranny will prevail.
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Originally posted by freefaller21 Ok I just started taking BJJ and my instructor is a brown belt. I thuoght you had to be a black belt to teach martial arts. Why does it take so long to get a black belt?
Actually in many Karate styles you can open your own school with a brown belt. A friend of mine and my shotokan instructor just started a karate program here and he is a brown belt.
He had to have permission from his sensei and from the JKA. He had to complete his time in rank and has to test for his BB within one year of opening the school. Also there had to no black belts in the area that were willing to teach. He also has a 5th dan come in every now and then to inspect the classes. He is also working with him to get his BB.
My friend met all this criteria. There are shotokan BB in the area but none of them wanted to run the program so my friend did. He has studied shotokan for 9 years He moved around with his job so much and has transferred through several shotokan dojos that it interfered with his belt promotions. I have known him know for three years and he has been my sparring, and fishing partner for two years. He has also trained in shito, uechi, Muai Thai, and arnis. He has a total of about 12 years in martial arts. I have trained with him often and he has my respect as a martial artist and is a very good instructor.
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Originally posted by Tom Yum
Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Originally posted by Tom Yum
Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*
Falcon made the comment (which was pretty damn funny), I REPLIED, do you know the difference? Have your boyfriend donkey punch you, pull out and read it for you. S..l..o..w..l..y.
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Originally posted by Tom Yum
Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Originally posted by Tom Yum
Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*
Ghost, are you also falcon??? Couldn't help but notice the sequence of responses....
Anyhow, about HKD it depends on what core style was your schools influence.
1. Daito Ryu Aikijutsu - If this was your schools influence, then you're reference to TKD kicks with aikido locks is accurate. This style is probably not the best for self-defense, but if you live in a town with only this kind of school its better than nothing.
2. Huarang Do - IMHO huarang do is more reliable. The techniques are less about control and more about finishing the fight. In the dojang you work submissions from stand up and as you advance, you work them from the ground. In the street the submision becomes a snap, break or choke induced loss of consciousness. Techniques are more or less like Japanese Jiujitsu and TKD plus A LOT of dirty tactics.
3. Other Korean MAs - each has their own influence and are as different as night and day. Ex. Taekyon is like TKD with sweeps and leg to leg takedowns, ship pal gi is a Korean version of Northern Chinese gong fu and uses nerve strikes.
Hapkido is different at every dojang. Its good for self-defense and still has traditional MA aspects which is why its a good MA. Is it better than BJJ on the ground or MT in stand-up - No, but it can be used on the street.
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Originally posted by Tom Yum
Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*
I never said I still do it, it was the first style I studied, when I started 18 years ago, it was the rage, like BJJ, grappling etc. is now. I have nothing to hide, obviously by the way you always attack people and have never really said anything remotely intelligent about MA, you are hiding. I couldn't care less what you think of TKD, me or anything else for that matter, it's easy for you to squawk when you don't have to back it up.
“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”
Originally posted by Tom Yum
Ghost, you are like rogue from x-men but with a willy.
*drools*
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