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How is happykicks with david herbet? I saw them using traditional okinawan weapons in their hapkido... which I found odd. Can anyone shine some light on this? Also, he says he got his cert in something called the World Pro Hapkido Federation. I cant find any information on that besides an...

I HAVE never said that, i said enough times in ever post that i dont support the bill. I have said in my post I support better training, and focusing and learning from those situations where there was no mistakes done where in others there were.

Wait... what? You took a whole post I said about me not wanting them jailed but them instead losing their jobs at the very least because even the courts agreed it was a mistake as a conspiracy? I just finished posting something about a mistake where someone did a bonehead mistake about tazering...

Okinawa praised their chinese influence in their karate. Originally, Karate to them meant "china-hand", it was Funakoshi that changed it for japan. How eactly am I confusing japanese and okinawan martial arts? Chinese martial arts have chambered punches, and there is more writings and...

I know they thought it was a gun, just like the thought they were the criminals they were looking for, just like their information of them yelling to get their gun was wrong. If I am wrong at my job I get fired, if I use misinformation and destroy something in the process, I get fired and owe...

Wow...

Huh? That is absolutely completely different from all cases and discussions that are going on. In other cases, the guy would have been shot as soon as he went into his pocket, or walked out the car toward the policeman. The cop let him get in his car for some reason, especially after some words...

I posted enough articles and videos to show they do go noticed, I mean we are discussing a bill to change those matters now, arent we? Either way that wasnt where I was getting at, cops dont pay for their mistakes, actually le tme rephrase that, law enforcement as a whole for the city doesnt pay...

To the OP, what are you learning now?

I am looking into schools that train everyday, so I probably wont be able to train alone. But, sometimes i'd imagine id want to go into machine mode, if I managed to absorb a style, or train in a style that is similar to my experience, I'd want to double everything (more repetitions, more of...

Mostly interested in the hapkido weapons. Where do they come from? Were they brought over from japan? I am looking into a few styles since i might be changing styles soon, and I have been interested in hapkido for a while now, but i always wondered where the hapkido weapons came from.

NYC contract is going to end soon. I bet you they lower the pay scale so they can hire more cops, so the years of them cancelling recruitment classes under the 40k starting salary using the economy as an excuse, balances out to the same, except they will hire more cops at around 30k (which they...

Well, just to make it clear, I dont really support the bill, I support the attention. Because really, thats the only thing that can be done. Proposing bills and trying to regulate things to protect our freedoms is the truest protection that we have. Also, just because a cop doesnt go to jail...

If you really want to find out why the chamber, you might need to check out the chinese martial arts, since it is one of the mixes of karate, and its one of the oldest martial arts. Not sure if the indian martial arts chamber also, but that would also be a good research subject as well, since...

Thats not up to me, thats up to government if they choose to intervene. I can say a huge list of things that arent possible, like controling gun use and how guns get on the street. Better tactics to scout out a situation, where a teenager in his home wouldnt have to have been shot when the...

And even this many cops make really bad guesses... heres a video (graphic since it involves a death) of NYPD using a tazer on someone who is one floor up.... the dumbest decision ever. They taze him and he falls to his death. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdSXri6yaCU&feature=related

You are using wikepedia as a source, if its not generated by someone, then it came from the newspapers anyway. Theres many sides to both stories, but getting into witnesses and how their reports were dismissed and events of that day will just derail the point and walk along another arguement...

Huh? Who is arguing that? I completely agree, but dont see how that fits into my post. There have been situations where people should have wounded (actually, never shot at all... even a wound in these situations are uncalled for). So as nice as this line is, it doesnt happen as simple as that...

In a situation I can see a rule being enforced to where shooting should be to wound, and I see a situation where it doesnt matter where the bullet hits but that it hits to save the officers lives. I am not an expert at laws, but I imagine the shoot to wound is a word of mouth agreement among...

I remember reading one of Funakoshis books about the chambered punch being a training principle. From what I took from this: I reasoned that when training for sprints, you just dont sprint. You strap weights on you, or you sprint with wider strides, or with jumps, or any other action that makes...

I had my fair share of fights, in my neighborhood you lose face if you let someone walk all over you (keep in mind schools can be a few blocks from your home, students can be people who will see for many years in your life) now as an adult i can who its really not worth it, because it solves...

Are there any other karate movies out there? And I mean real karate, as in karate plays a part, and hes not a guy that dresses like a trucker who has to fight for money and who messes up his lines like, "hes too strong to be jail".

They do have a jujitsu part, but I only read about karate. The whole book he wrote is based on him breaking misconceptions about martial arts, and he does this by digging into japanese history and culture. It said, as early as 1926, Higaonna and Itosu argued that te should be revised as a...

I am not sure, I borrowed it from the Library and was only interested in reading the Karate part. The book is titled Modern Bujutsu and Budo. His opinion is before Judo was ever created. If I remember, he said that Karate was for the peasants, because only they would need it. The warrior class...

A book am I reading says unarmed is not martial arts. And unarmed was considered barbaric and lowly in japan. And that it started to evolve into training to be a better person.

In nyc- 50 and below is rare, it might be part of a program if you do find one, like beacon karate center for example, or they train like two times a week for one hour. 75 bucks a month is average, and is considered affordable and cheap priced in nyc, which means they dont have their own space...

I dont think my instructor was bs'ing when he said this guy wasnt touching him and he was forced to the wall. He has no affiliation to that guy, and he paid the same amount as everyone else in the seminar. All the knockdown karate guys are going again this year to see him. I dont train with...

Last time Kenji Ushiro was in the NYC my kyokushin instructor, his friends from other full contact knockdown karate styles, and ashihara karate black belts, went. My sensei was pushed and pulled with ki. Mind you he didnt seem like the one to believe in ki, and his style of karate didnt use ki...

Ahhh, then I am sorry bruno. I figured since it said "I was on this again", it had to be linked to something I posted twice about, which it was, but i didnt expect it to be someone who decided to drop a negative post and not reply. I can see now how you would have taken a drop in negative...

Maybe its because you sent me a negative rep, since you said something about, "on this again", since you replied to both to this one, and the last question I asked, and you obviously knew it was me. How are you going to say a cowardly move if you did the same and initiated it? I didnt even...