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GouRonin
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...and them's good eatin'! So shoot the d@mn thing!
...and them's good eatin'! So shoot the d@mn thing!
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GouRonin
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A better question to ask you Nate is this...does it matter right now? Are you enjoying what you are doing? That is what matters.
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GouRonin
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Oh Gross, maybe you and Kirk can get the room together. I'm outa here. Ah ha ha ha!
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Kirk
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ROFL! You sick farfegnugen!
Lemme guess Gou .. "them's good eatin" ???
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Lemme guess Gou .. "them's good eatin" ???
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GouRonin
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You'd be surprised at what you can eat.
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Nate_Hoopes
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You guys act younger than me. ROTFLMAO :rofl:
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GouRonin
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They can make me get older but they can't make me grow up.
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Nate_Hoopes
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It says your a mental health therapist in your profile, what exactly do you specialize in, Psychiatrymm psychology, Pycho-therapy, or just being a plain old psycho.
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GouRonin
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Mental Health Specialist.
I work with people with long term mental illnesses of a severe nature such as schizophrenia. I'm on the crisis management team. It's my job to work with people and keep them out of the institutional settings and in the community. That involves everything from financial supports, to issues with psychotropic medications and everything in-between.
Before that I worked in the correctional system.
Between the two, I think I have a grasp on abnormal behavior.
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I work with people with long term mental illnesses of a severe nature such as schizophrenia. I'm on the crisis management team. It's my job to work with people and keep them out of the institutional settings and in the community. That involves everything from financial supports, to issues with psychotropic medications and everything in-between.
Before that I worked in the correctional system.
Between the two, I think I have a grasp on abnormal behavior.
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Nate_Hoopes
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So did you leanr martial arts based on interest or get attacked by one too many convicts/crazy people, and then decided you need to learn how to correct yourself.
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GouRonin
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I started learning martial arts before I was in either field. I started in boxing and it sorta evolved from there.
While I do sometimes get involved in incidents, I do not work IN the institutional setting. My job is to try and avoid having my clients go there or try and get them out earlier.
I do get attacked once in a while but often that is minimized by the fact that I try to keep aware of my surroundings and avoid being in dangerous situations.
More often than not it is my clients who are a danger more to themselves than to others.
Trying to explain to a client for example why it's a bad thing to set himself on fire after splashing himself with gasoline is not unusual. But not rare. Since I do not work under a legal authority like police and fire nor do I work under legal auspices such as those provided by mental health institution a lot of my work involves convincing my clients.
It's not boring.
While I do sometimes get involved in incidents, I do not work IN the institutional setting. My job is to try and avoid having my clients go there or try and get them out earlier.
I do get attacked once in a while but often that is minimized by the fact that I try to keep aware of my surroundings and avoid being in dangerous situations.
More often than not it is my clients who are a danger more to themselves than to others.
Trying to explain to a client for example why it's a bad thing to set himself on fire after splashing himself with gasoline is not unusual. But not rare. Since I do not work under a legal authority like police and fire nor do I work under legal auspices such as those provided by mental health institution a lot of my work involves convincing my clients.
It's not boring.
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Rob_Broad
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It seems amusing that Al Tracy is now linking his lineage to someone like Mitose. Al has been in some shady deals as well. But what I find most amusing is that Al Tracy's supposed lineage is to someone that cannot refute the claim, and that Al's own brother thinks that it is full of crap.
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Nate_Hoopes
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Dont take this the wrong way rob, but every chance you get you seem to take a shot at the tracys bottom line is that when it comes to years of experience there arent many people out there that can claim to have that amount of time invested in learning the arts as they can, there as legitimate of martial artists as we both are.
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No offense taken Nate, but having been in the martial arts for almost 21 yrs, I have seen the changes in peoples ways of doing things. Jim and Al were inovators in the way they mass marketed their their tapes. Al is a business genius, I have the complete business manual package. But I find his morals to be a little lacking. He says straight out in the business manulas, "Never date a student", that is great advice but where do you think he met Pat. I spent the first dozen or so yrs in the Tracy system, and it has always seemed to be about the money. That is fine that is what he is in it for, all the power to him. I admit he has more yrs in than I do, has attained higher rank that I ever will, that to is fine. There wa a lot of animosity between Ed Parker and Al right up SGM Parker's death, then Al pretended like they were the best of friends.
Ask those in the higher ranks of American Kenpo what the real truth is about Parker and Tracy. I respect your opinion, as long as you respect mine. That doesn't mean we have to like the opinion of the other guy. I have done the Tracy system, and the Parker system, I personally prefer the Parker method. Others prefer the Tracy idea of more is better, that is fine. And as I said in another thread a few months ago Tacy Kenpo is better than no kenpo at all.
Ask those in the higher ranks of American Kenpo what the real truth is about Parker and Tracy. I respect your opinion, as long as you respect mine. That doesn't mean we have to like the opinion of the other guy. I have done the Tracy system, and the Parker system, I personally prefer the Parker method. Others prefer the Tracy idea of more is better, that is fine. And as I said in another thread a few months ago Tacy Kenpo is better than no kenpo at all.
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Hi Rob,
Still hurt over your problems in the business end of Kenpo? Sure Al and Parker feuded over Kenpo for years but they were not enemies.
You stated," talk to American Kenpo Seniors." Well I know a few and the answer is not simple. The old Seniors have a better handle on this than the newer generations. But when it comes right down to it. It's just doesn't matter. We are Kenpo practitioners with the same "roots".
Peace,
Dave Simmons
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Still hurt over your problems in the business end of Kenpo? Sure Al and Parker feuded over Kenpo for years but they were not enemies.
You stated," talk to American Kenpo Seniors." Well I know a few and the answer is not simple. The old Seniors have a better handle on this than the newer generations. But when it comes right down to it. It's just doesn't matter. We are Kenpo practitioners with the same "roots".
Peace,
Dave Simmons
Twin Dragon Karate
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WilliamTLear
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How the hell did you get in here? (just kidding)
I think that "The Truth" which is posted all over the Tracy site speaks for itself. I haven't seen an Ed Parker related web site that peers up Mr. Tracy's behind with a telescope, and airs all of his dirty laundry. Why is that?
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Billy Lear
I think that "The Truth" which is posted all over the Tracy site speaks for itself. I haven't seen an Ed Parker related web site that peers up Mr. Tracy's behind with a telescope, and airs all of his dirty laundry. Why is that?
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Dave Simmons
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What laundry? Does it really bother you that much? If so I am sorry that I upset you.
As far as American Kenpo website not peering up Al's behind that' just plain gross!
Dave Simmons
As far as American Kenpo website not peering up Al's behind that' just plain gross!
Dave Simmons
Klondike93
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Why did they feud? What caused such a problem between Parker and the Tracy's? Maybe someone could hit just the "meat" of the problem.
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WilliamTLear
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Peering up Mr. Tracy's butt would definatley be wrong!!!
(See... we can agree on something.)
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Billy Lear
(See... we can agree on something.)
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Billy Lear
Can someone identify for me the "main" Ed Parker's Kenpo and Tracy Kenpo web sites that are being discussed here?
