What belt rank are you?

[NuffSpeed]

Originally posted by kh_s
Anyone here in a Thai Boxing gym? How much do they charge monthly ? Or a 3 month plan or 6 months, w/e it is. I thought it was around 250 $ a month.

I pay about 50. a month for my muay thai gym membership. someones chargin you two fitty they must be teaching some type of magical ish or something.

[JaredExtreme]

Originally posted by cakegirl
And to think someone on this list told me a while ago to give up Shotokan! Why on earth would I, when it's being given to me???

Cakegirl

Two words........ HORSE STANCE !!

[Szczepankiewicz]

Shotokan teaches some bad habits. Very linear, very hard style.

From what I understand they truly believe in the 'one shot one kill' scenario.

Please enlighten me if this is not the case.

Spanky

[Nutz]

I don't use belts. As it was once said, belts are for holding up pants.

My train of thought is that if you want to judge my skill then you'll just have fight me (more or less). I've seen black belts that couln't fight their way out of a wet paper bag, but then they knew their moves, history, whatever very well when it came time to test. Does that really show one's functional skill? Hell, no. Then I must ask: why should that be what someone's "rank" be based on? That's a question most people don't bother to ask. Why? Your guess is as good as mine.

[Toudiyama[NL]]

Originally posted by Szczepankiewicz
Shotokan teaches some bad habits. Very linear, very hard style.

From what I understand they truly believe in the 'one shot one kill' scenario.

Please enlighten me if this is not the case.

Spanky

That's not the case, only that is the way you should excecute a technique, as if you have to kill someone with that one blow

If they would really think so they would not have waza ari (half point) scorings
It doesn't differ that much from Judo in the sense that in Judo you go for the ippon , but no-one thinks that one throw would finish the fight

What is more strange is the fact that Shotokan claims to stress hipmovement but that the deep stances acctually do not allow for much hipmovement
Or that forms HAVE to end where they start, even if it is not possible without smuggling a bit ( Tekki Shodan)

[Szczepankiewicz]

I apologize.

What I should have posted is:

Please, someone who is not a pinko commie dirtbag and who knows what he/she is talking about, enlighten me if this is not the case.

Sorry for the confusion.

Spanky

[Toudiyama[NL]]

are you commy or are you commy not?

Darn with a name like Szczepankiewicz
he's still calling me commy

Let's call Ben d Over to enlighten you

[Szczepankiewicz]

Ok, let's not get carried away here. We were having a nice little cold war disagreement. No need to invite the fundamentalist wackos, comrade.

[Toudiyama[NL]]

Oops let myself carry away a bit
Only way I can enlighten someone, is by using my red flashlight callend Lenin lite
Only one ( or is he 2) that considers himself ( or themself) enlightened is Benny

BTW how do you think that I feel as a commy now that the NATO has a Dutch secretary general again, de Hoop Scheffer (hoop is pronouced as hope)
Opinion here is that his face is totaly brown from crawling in G.W. behind

Oh 2nd dan Wado, green belt TKD, brown belt Iaido, yellow belt jiu jitsu, orange belt Judo, 4th Kyu Okinawa Kobujitsu, brown belt Jodo, the rest have no rank or I didn't reach a rank
Something like silver glove Savate which is the teachers grade

[cakegirl]

Hi,

Yes, shotokan is a very strong/linear style, and at the beginning, students defintely do a lot of stepping straight forward/backward in their basics, etc.

I also agree with the comment that the style claims to stress hip movement, but then employs deep stances that hinder that.

However, I don't see either of these concepts as being negatives.

Firstly, we teach beginners to move straight forward and backward in their basics in order to improve their strength and coordination. The typical shotokan stance is very deep, and it's quite difficult to move forward or backward in it, but we train to do that in basics, so that in sparring, when we relax the stance, we move with more speed and agility.

Likewise, when you train to use your hips in a deep stance, when you then spar in the higher stance, the hip movement comes very naturally, and is very pronounced.

Shotokan is not all straight lines, stepping forward and lunch punching and front kicking! We use 'tai sabaki' - sideways evasive movements, round techniques, and speed and agility just as much as any other stand-up style.

And I for one don't believe in 'one shot one kill'! If I did, why would I even bother praciticing combinations??? I'm certainly not that arrogant about my skill! I execute every technique completely, but I make no assumptions about what will or will not happen.

Cakegirl

[Red Rooster]

I'm purple under Marcelo Alonso, a Carlson Gracie Black Belt.

[JaredExtreme]

Hey Rooster, are you Travis?

This is Jared, you might not remember me, I did bjj at Marcelo's a few years ago (orginally when were in the basement of University Heights). Anyway I am doing judo now at the UW. How is Marcelo doing?

[MuayThaiFighter]

I am a 2nd dan in Goju Ryu and Meibu-Kan Karate but gave up karate for something more realistic for self-defense.

I now do Pankration.

[Red Rooster]

Hey Jared,
I think I remember you, did you where a blue gi? Marcelo is doing good, stuck back in Brazil but good. I've been running things since he's been gone. Your more than welcome to come by anytime and train.
Rooster

[Mr. Heel Hook]

Originally posted by Szczepankiewicz
I apologize.

What I should have posted is:

Please, someone who is not a pinko commie dirtbag and who knows what he/she is talking about, enlighten me if this is not the case.

Sorry for the confusion.

Spanky

I cannot believe how funny I thought that was. Maybe it's the cold eating at my sinuses...