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Okinawa Karate-Do Michael Norvell is the instructor. He is located here 5619 Pershing Ave St. Louis, MO. If you go there tell him Jeremy Talbott from Sharkeys recommended him. He is a great traditional karate-ka and budo-ka practitioner.

Under the Black Umbrella by Hilda Kang Anything from JayHyun Kim Haboush I have several of the books that you have mentioned. I really like the Under the Black Umbrella. And the writings from Kim, JayHyun are excellent. Good luck.

There are a lot of factors that go into this, not just the style. First and foremost, market demand will drive pricing. More times than not if you have a demographic of younger (example: 4-12 year olds) and you live in a middle - upper middle class area, you will have more demand for schools...

They are not revolutionary but I personally like them. If you friend has a lot of experience in stick fighting I do not believe he will get a lot out of them. If he is a beginner, then he would enjoy them.

But you have not seen their style of fighting. All you have seen is their style of demo. It is a safe bet that they know better than to try and throw a 540 jack knife kick in a an actual combat situation. But ask yourself this, if they can produce enough speed and power to throw some of these...

How? They are practicing inside their own school? Are you saying that if they were doing traditional poomsae, then this video would be ok or if they were just kicking paddles with regular round kicks or spin kicks then they are practicing quiet humility? I really don't understand how humility...

This is not entirely correct. First off the two schools that faltered from joining, but latere rejoined was the Jidokwan and Moodukkwan, the other schools went in willingly. To say that they would lose their heritage is sort of a stretch since the vast majority were all from shotokan schools...

As easy as it is for everyone to ask you to just solicit another school for your services, many schools do not just hire off the street. Plus you run the risk of the other school calling your current employer asking why you are knocking on their door. What are you going to tell the other...

You will not see any mention of it in the MYDBTJ. That book dealt with weapons that were used for military combat. So outside of the kwonbup, and I believe staff, it dealt with bladed weapons of different sorts. I would think most "Korean" origins would be through hapkido and its Aiki-jitsu...

I have the stick fighting book by Echanis. While he was at one point a student of GM Lee's I do not believe these techniques were directly from the HRD system. I believe the heart of this was Echanis's special forces training with the weapons and not directly related to the HRD system. There...

Well there you go. You have your style. As you can see by my list of forms, we have have a mixture as well. We have both Okinawa karate and KKW taekwondo. If I needed to I can teach them as separate arts entirely. Am I a TKD school? No. Am I a karate school? No. I am a martial art school. :)

Sounds a lot like you just do Shotokan. We do the following: Taikyoko 1-3 Taeguk 1-8 Taichi Gedan Wansu Gyakusei Anaku Empisho Basadai Seionchin Sanchin Taichi Neko Dahnan Sho Go Pei Sho Kankusho Weapons forms: Tsuisho (bo), Shushi No Kon sho (bo), Bo/Sai/Kama/Nunchaku/Tonfa theory...

I do not feel, for the most part that exams are a scam. You have to look at it from a different perspective. If the instructor makes their livelihood teaching, his/her major source of income come from three different areas, tuition, equipment sales, testing fees. Some places will charge a...

We can't help it Steve...You are just too damn huggable.

[/COLOR] I wanted to add just a little something here so that that there are no misunderstandings. When the term "non-standard instructor" is being used, it is in no mean dismissing the instructor as fake, no good, or misleading. It is simply means that the instructor has not adapted the news...

It had nothing to do with you, just the topic. I really would not have cared who started it, but it was no longer relevant to the topic it was originally posted under, so do not feel too special, unless you mean back of the short bus special, then by all means (<-There's your mean thing to...

Are you serious about this statement? Where have your learned your TKD?

Have the admins split this off into a different thread. The conversation is starting to drift waaaaaaaay far away from the actual topic of this thread.

Even the most conditioned athlete can suffer from sprains, tears and dislocations. That is just the risk. I would not jump to the conclusion that Jason is not well conditioned because he hurt himself in a sparring match or could not do a proper tornado kick right away. Neither one are roots...

Actually I am sure Gnarlie would ask it that way. What if all you knew was incorrect? For a long time many people were brought up to believe that TKD was 2000 years old and was adamant in holding on to that history, however through discussion and proof they found they were wrong. You know...

Actually no. When writing Korean words in English there is a distinct set of rules in translating. Kwae and Gwae are not the same thing. Not to be the Korean/English spelling nazi here...well yeah...I guess I am....it is kwanjangnim (there is no 'g' in 'kwan').

Are you saying that the WTF was developed so that they could separate ITF from KKW TKD? If so, then you have been misinformed. Then perhaps you can explain actual TKD history without the corruption. So are you saying you are not really concerned with the representation of the forms and that...

Successful cross pollination is always a good thing. :)

I see. Yes, the Palgwe forms still had strong ties to the Shotokan forms.

That would be because the Pyung-ahns were based off of Heinans. If I remember correctly GM Hwang Ki interpreted them from a book and the worked with GM Lee Won-kuk as well, prior to the formation of TKD so the forms would have been Shotokan forms.

Agreed

To say it is just Shotokan karate actually leaves out other influences. You have Chuan'fa, Shudokan (which are verified), and taekkyon (not verified) influences as well. Also, I should add to my point that the TKD that I refer to is KKW TKD, and not ITF TKD. KKW TKD as an art has become its...

I think I see where you are coming from but let me try to say it in another way and let me know if I am correct in my interpretation. What TKD is today, has become an indigenous Korean art. While its beginnings may have stemmed from other countries, it has since evolved into it something...

Korea, unlike China was a bit more consistent in its geography which is mostly mountainous. Plus, again, there was very little in the ways of a systematic style of unarmed combat that was utilized (exceptions being mentioned before of taekkyon, ssirum). The differences would lie in actual...

True, it may have just been his own fighting concepts. Again, for the record, I am not dismissing that family training did not happen in Korea. I am just saying that it would not be as wide spread as some would have you believe.