I fail to see what is innovative about that take down, its a well taught and well used one

Two hours of intensive and hard training everyday, in time, will have a dramatic effect.

I have been doing this and more, for 20 plus years.

Have faith in yourself

They say have a good love relationship will help extend your life

When I was young I used to visit the new schools as they popped up. The whole reason I went was to make sure that the school I was in was not surpassed in its standards.

I believe in equality woman train for similar reasons we do.

If she into training treat her the same. To do less assumes she is less than a man.

When I was a 1st Kyu way back when. We had a 3rd Dan by the name of Helen Wong and she was brilliant.

A great Karate-Ka and I think it would have been ...

I love my style which is basically Shotokan. My biggest objections is the manner in which they train. Yes they train and extremely hard.

No complaints about that. I just feel it needs to be modernised along with the research that has been in the last 25 years. So rather than crumble I build my ...

A woman like that doesnt deserve my time of day really.

What would I do? Find another sensible woman

I started at 17 back in the mid 1970's and most people starting then were ages 10 - 25, I dont see any changes really

I am not sure what stance you mean but I feel that entering a stance is best done by the toes and if your toe slips your heal will stop you losing balance. I find if you go heal first and if it slips theres nothing left to hold you standing up unless you grab something.

Walking down a steep ...

Why people do that baffles me. Wooing a woman is no different than how non-pressure professional sales people close a sales.

People need to learn how to communicate to get others involved in things

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Cecil:
"Many people seem surprised when I tell them that by training in karate they become violent people. They usually claim that they are studying karate to perfect their characters, exercise, meet people, or ...

I think its very important. Imagine training people over many years who become quite skilled and dextrous and they have learnt arrogance, lawlesness and maybe even evil from arrogant lawless teachers?

It would bring shame of the art and no doubt some innocent people could be hurt or maybe even ...

As some of you know I have been training for 28 years (no mean feat) and as I look back I have met some wonder and kind people in the martial arts.

I also think the manner in which people conduct themselves on this forum is something that must be noticed and commented on. I find the people here ...

Just another way for Chuck to make a Buck.

I saw it on TV and video taped it

[This message has been edited by raulf7 (edited February 18, 2002).]

I was just going by Funakoshi's autobiography "Karate-Do - My Way Of Life"