My point isn't about Grandmasters. It is about the fact that if a Brown belt has all of the basics than they could open their own school..however, they don't....
Hi Rick, I think i need to be more clear about what i am talking aobut. :^) Especailly since I know of at least three brown belts who have extremely...
When I am talking about Brown belts not teaching, I am only talking about the tradtioanl styles. I have seen in some of the tradtioanl systmes the best...
Hi chick, Verbal, and actaul is not the same. You point is? A person who sees a technique someone else does, and decides to go home and try it, is not trained...
... <taesujutsu@...> wrote: I'm sorry Chick, I forget taht the new folks don't know my dry sense of humor yet...the statement "you point is?" was meant as a...
sorry that i havent been able to join in group for a while. internet problems. hey tae, the schools i went to just called you by your first name.until you...
i have temorly up dated the home pic.as soon as i get a cammera ill upload a shot of my own for the perminet home pic. but until then im using one of the...
Nothing wrong with that, but the schools I went to didn't do that. Remember thugh that was years ago :^)....things have changed, not all for the better. What...
Isometric Exercises to Increase Striking Power in Martial Arts by J. Richard Kirkham Isometrics is an old often forgotten method of increasing muscular...
Kalaripayattu, one of the oldest martial art is a unique system of self defense originated from Kerala,India.The fighters master the art through a systematic...
What creates a better fighter? A "complete" style or cross training? Assuming that said complete style is actually good, I could see it having the advantage of...
Would not a "complete" style have all the facets required so cross training would not be necessary? Rick This signature file is a legal part of this message...
you are correct a complete style would have everything. but its hard to find a complete style taught as such.too much sport is taught. so you have to cross...
I believe that they Should cross train. Look at any good athlete do they have the same coach all their life. How did the get so good. Because they work with...
Hi JW, When talking aobuty "compelte systems" we are not talking aobut how a person teaches. we are talking about, one that contains actaully two different...
TYhe only reason people cross train these days is because it is a sport more than the self defense sytems they use to be..so with that in mind they yeah to get...
Hi JW, Yous said: "you are correct a complete style would have everything. but its hard to find a complete style taught as such." LOL, no it isn't...come...
we do nto control you flow of e-mail...you do. Go to the very top of you page where it says "edit membership" When you get to the page that explains your...
Appears to be another tangent for the discussion What do you consider a complete martial art to be? Rick This signature file is a legal part of this message...
this is yahoo.and they are always going to goof something up.we cant controll how many times yahoo sends the same post. all we can do is delete them from the...
... everything. ... teach ... hey tae yes there are still good teachers out there like you and rick and others but when you look at martial arts as a whole.the...
Hi JW, absolutely, and there in lies the problem. To many teachers have gone the way of sport, and now what they offer in self defense no longer works, because...