Months ago Gary Romel and I outlined the idea of big get together over Memorial Day weekend. Oklahoma City is as centrally located as possible for martial artists in the US. Since its getting closer...
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Months ago Gary Romel and I outlined the idea of big get together over Memorial Day weekend. Oklahoma City is as centrally located as possible for martial artists in the US. Since its getting closer...
Months ago Gary Romel and I outlined the idea of big get together over Memorial Day weekend. Oklahoma City is as centrally located as possible for martial artists in the US. Since its getting closer...
Gene,
RE: "well, what's left are the noobs and you - or are you about to move on too?". I used to be one of your most informative posters a few years back....take a look. It's not surprising you...
Bai He gives more content over at Empty Flower forum than 90% of the posters here are even capable of. The laughably inconsistent policy toward trolls is why KFM's forum is only a hollow shell of...
The average reality level of martial arts training being practiced just went down dramatically with Mr. Nelson's passing. Let's hope some of us can pick up where he left off and reclaim some of the...
It sounds as if you are going to be internally conflicted with the training methods you have now. It would seem that either you will have to reject your prior training in favor of not harming the...
Tai Ji Monkey,
RE: "Are you truly honest to yourself about your MA skills, or are you still deceived by your ego & pride?". I try to be, but yes...the deception is an ongoing daily challenge...
looking up,
Yes, it does mean all three. It also means dealing with your own move not "doing" what it was supposed to do. Basically, I've found that any time anyone gets in a fight for real,...
Monkey Slap,
That was one of the most intellectually honest posts I've ever seen on KFM. It doesn't reactively take sides with either camp. I wish I had more guys like you around to train with.
Merryprankster,
RE: "At its core, fighting is a relationship. It's not necessarily a positive one, but it IS a relationship between two people about WHO BEATS WHO. It IS comparative. It's not...
His name was Grundy or Gandy or something like that. It was in north Dallas area, maybe Richardson area. That's about all I remember about it. The place was in a strip mall on the east side of the...
That simply hasn't been my experience, so no biggie. While I have known bungholes in the TMA who let their egos flap in the open like they'd forgotten to zip their fly, I've met far more,...
I like a lot of the sentiments which have been posted so far. I think it might even reflect a maturity that's happening to the combined MMA/TMA world overall. When NHB style competition first...
Black Jack,
Tim Cartmell is a well-known practitioner of Gao Baguazhang under Luo De-xiu. The throws in his book are heavily influenced by that training. As a fellow practitioner, I've often had...
Doing fine here, rogue. We've each been busy doing different things. Lately, I've been busy (besides work) with organizing my methods for a possible project. I hadn't been posting anywhere till...
We did our neijia demonstration at the tournament today and things went well. Our demo time was excruciatingly short, but sweet. All we had time to do is for Gary to announce to the emcee that we...
We did our neijia demonstration at the tournament today and things went well. Our demo time was excruciatingly short, but sweet. All we had time to do is for Gary to announce to the emcee that we...
TaiChiBob,
Sounds like you've got a gem of a training environment. I teach/train in a similar environment. I teach Baguazhang at Pat Burris's USA Stars Foundation Judo Training Center. In...
Thanks.
Just to avoid giving the wrong impression, I don't intend to go down there and start cleaning house on a bunch of poor defenseless Karateka. The demonstration itself will showcase only those...
hunyuan13,
I noticed your location as Bentonville, AR. I make visits to Rogers on a semi-regular basis and was curious if there might be other martial artists in the area. What style(s) do you...
Most Karate tournaments ANYWHERE are a joke, it's simply the law of averages. As far as our reception by the Karateka, I'm not really concerned. First, I've been doing my thing long enough not to...
The tournament is part of an outdoor exhibition at Frontier City Amusement Park at 9 a.m. It's being hosted by Jim Butin's National Karate and Troy Cheatwood's Karate.
No, my primary neijia instructor was Li Xian. I only met Marcus this year. I and a student attended one of his Hou Tien classes last Spring and then I, Gary Romel and another student met with him...
Sleep deprivation is not the best way to explore altered states because it's kinda like taking the guided tour instead of going where you want to go. In TCM terms, sleep deprivation first leads to...