From: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: the_dojang-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #3 Reply-To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: The_Dojang-Digest Mon, 3 Jan 2000 Vol 07 : Num 003 In this issue: the_dojang: the advocate's question the_dojang: Re: Hapkido Hoshinsul? the_dojang: "something missing in what is offered?" Re: the_dojang: the advocate's question the_dojang: Re: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #2 the_dojang: Re: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #2 [none] the_dojang: Re: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #2 the_dojang: Goodbye Emily :'( the_dojang: . ========================================================================= The_Dojang, serving the Internet since June 1994. ~745 members strong! Copyright 1994-2000: Ray Terry, CA Taekwondo, and Martial Arts Resource Replying to this message will NOT unsubscribe you. To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe the_dojang-digest" (no quotes) in the body (top line, left justified) of a plain text e-mail addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. To send e-mail to this list use the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and online search the last four years worth of digest issues at http://www.MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! Ray Terry, PO Box 110841, Campbell, CA 95011 KMA@MartialArtsResource.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Kim Jones Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 09:58:40 -0800 (PST) Subject: the_dojang: the advocate's question I hope everyone had a safe and joyous New Year. Who all here is ready for the entrance of the Dragon? Yes, the lunar calendar flips to the year 4333. (I asked my mother - who was taught this during her grade school years here in Korea waaaaay back in the days - about this.) Of course, I'm patientlty waiting for the year 2004 - 4337 as the Dog comes scampering back. February 5th this year, I believe, marks the entrance of the Dragon and the retreat of the Rabbit. Cecil - I think they're looking in terms of seeing that they're at the peak of their "career" in the martial arts. The black belt is the end of the first learning phase and the start of another. Just because you mastered basic skills doesn't mean you mastered everything. YOu just set up a foundation to work on. It's like math, if you will. You can't really master the times tables until you work on your addition and subtraction. You cannot do Calculus without knowing the concepts of algebra and geometry, along with trignometry. People who stop after getting their black belt only know their basics well. The black belt is a turning point to which they can branch off and learn whatever else pleases them. Sometimes physical setbacks lessen the dream. No excuse. Learn to work with what you have left. Unless the desire to learn dies out, there shouldn't be a reason to stop progress in a particular art. In reality, you didn't reach the top of the mountain...you passed the safety course to go climb the mountain when you get your black belt. My 200 won. To others, I oculd be wrong, but you never really stop learning until you're incapacitated beyond belief or are dead. Kim Jones *ladytimberland@yahoo.com* ICQ: 52828008 __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: ABurrese@aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 13:39:06 EST Subject: the_dojang: Re: Hapkido Hoshinsul? >>Alain, can you tell us again how to order your hoshinsul video? There are a couple ways to order: 1. Order an autographed copy from me. I sell them for the same price as Paladin 39.95 plus 3.00 for priority postage. Total: $42.95 Check or money order to: Alain Burrese 107 Helena Court Missoula, MT 59801 I can't take credit card orders, so if you want to order with a credit card: 2. Order from Paladin Press: Toll Free: 1-800-466-6868 or 1-800-392-2400 Web site: www.paladin-press.com 3. Order from Amazon.com or other on-line book/video sales sites that carry Paladin books and videos. Anyone who does view the video, I appreciate hearing from you, good or bad, so I can make my future projects even better. I'm glad people are likeing it and learning from it. My goal was to make a video that people can actually learn from, and learn some of Hapkido that can help in a self-defense situation. Yours in Training, Alain Burrese ------------------------------ From: TkdBPerry@aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 16:22:39 EST Subject: the_dojang: "something missing in what is offered?" In a message dated 1/2/00 12:24:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, creativebrother@yahoo.com writes: > I'm going to play Devil's advocate for the sake of > argument. Could it be that people do not continue on > after black belt because they no longer feel that > training is worth it, not because of their own > laziness, but because there could be something missing > in what is offered to them after that point? Having continued more than two decades is proof that for some individuals the interest is still there. Even after black belt the opportunities are legion. I do feel that there is a turning point that generally requires adjustments. Generally the longer you continue the more it becomes a larger share of your life. If a student opts to supplement their classes by working on forms while at work and/or cross trains he may not be attending more than twice a week. This can be a large adjustment or a small one depending on how realistic you are in goal setting. If you are a new black belt the first thing you discover is that other black belts are moving on to new challenges. Beyond just maintenance of your 1st dan black belt skills you may opt to; 1) Prepare for the next promotion, 2) attend black belt classes at your school, 3) conduct classes or help your school in competition, 4) as an athlete, coach, trainer, writer, photographer, sports medicine, manager, or officiate. In #4) are opportunities in leadership roles. To keep your interest high, we need to set our goals higher. In a world full of followers, dare to be a leader. Becoming a black belt is a huge challenge and a great beginning. Bob ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Sun, 2 Jan 100 19:25:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: the_dojang: the advocate's question > > Kim Jones > *ladytimberland@yahoo.com* > ICQ: 52828008 > Kim, tell us about your experiences living in Korea. Are you going to school or ???? Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ------------------------------ From: TKDSCRIBE@aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:45:56 EST Subject: the_dojang: Re: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #2 In a message dated 1/2/00 10:23:34 AM Mountain Standard Time, the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com writes: << 3) A letter of reference from an Attorney >> Well that is quite an assurance of one's character, uh huh! SESilz ------------------------------ From: TKDSCRIBE@aol.com Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2000 22:53:02 EST Subject: the_dojang: Re: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #2 In a message dated 1/2/00 10:23:34 AM Mountain Standard Time, the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com writes: << Master Silz, Can you tell us how your history project is coming along? Ray Terry raymail@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com >> Dear Ray and Fellow Readers: From one end - mine - it seems that the project is on-track. I have a full outline and a good amount of the text already written. I am truly having a difficult time getting the photos, stories, and anecdotes I have requested from the people who's history I am endeavoring to cover. Perhaps they are famous enough and don't want their mug shots in the book. I'm not too worried, though, I have lots of pictures of me around that I'll have a good excuse to use : ) Sincerely, SESilz ------------------------------ From: "Pohl, Axel" Date: Wed, 22 Dec 1999 12:00:03 MET-1MEST Subject: [none] Does anyone have any experience how TKD-training may damage any of the knuckles/wrists? ------------------------------ From: jsegovia@mindspring.com Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 08:43:08 -0500 Subject: the_dojang: Re: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #2 'Don't know if anyone's answered, but you can order Alain's 'Hapkido Hoshinsul' video from the Amazon web site (www.amazon.com) or you can get it directly from Alain himself, autographed (as I did). Just send him a private email. Jesse the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com wrote: > Alain, can you tell us again how to order your hoshinsul video? ------------------------------ From: dbuehrer@carl.org Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 08:40:20 -0700 Subject: the_dojang: Goodbye Emily :'( A fellow Hapkido student passed away last night after being brutally attacked late Friday night/early Saturday morning. She was unable to recover from massive head injuries and was declared brain dead on Sunday. Her family elected to disconnect her body from the life support machines that was keeping it alive. Her family, close friends, three HKD instructors, and a few fellow HDK students, had the opportunity to say goodbye to her before she died. I am more than willing to pass on any thoughts, prayers, or condolences. I would also appreciate any words of wisdom that anyone may have to offer. - ---- Attacked teacher "caring, genuine" By Peggy Lowe Denver Post Staff Writer Jan. 3 - Emily Johnson's northwest Denver house has lace curtains in every window, a flagstone patio with a waterfall out back, a bed of hibiscus along the backyard fence. It's the Skinner Middle School teacher's first home, a brick duplex she bought and remodeled herself. Friends and neighbors said she loves her home and lives there with her beloved Great Pyrenees dog, Cassius. Johnson, 29, was found in a pool of blood lying near that house on her backyard patio at 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning. She suffered major head injuries sometime Friday night or Saturday morning, and appeared to have been dragged from her home to the backyard. Her attacker left his bloody footprints at her backyard gate, going north on the sidewalk and across a street. Police were mum on Sunday, except to say the "stabbing" was being investigated. An unidentified male was questioned about the attack, but there were no suspects or arrests, Detective Virginia Lopez said. As she lay breathing on a respirator at Denver Heath Medical Center on Sunday, Johnson's friends and colleagues talked about how the woman gives "100 percent" to everyone she met. "She is caring, charismatic, genuine," said a friend and fellow staffer at Skinner Middle School. "She loves her kids. She would go beyond and above what any of these kids needed," the friend said. "If they needed any little thing, if they needed a shirt to school supplies, she's all about giving." Johnson has taught at Skinner for the past three years, about the same amount of time she has lived in the house in the 3000 block of West Denver Place, near West 38th Avenue and Federal Boulevard. She also works as a waitress at Buca di Beppo, a newly opened Italian restaurant in LoDo. Johnson worked New Year's Eve, Friday night, at Buca di Beppo and left about 10:30 p.m., manager Ted Sexton said. She changed her clothes and planned to go out to celebrate the new year, he said. She's popular with the Buca di Beppo workers, many of whom spent Sunday at the hospital, Sexton said. "She's very high-energy, real outgoing, a lot of fun to be around," he said. "My staff is taking it very hard." Johnson's parents, who are from Oakland, Calif., flew to Denver on Saturday to be at her bedside. Her father is a toxicologist and her mother a physical therapist. Johnson's parents visited Denver the past two summers to help her build her backyard patio and flower beds. At 5-foot-8, blond, with bluegreen eyes, Johnson "easily could have been a model," the friend from Skinner said. But she felt special education was her calling, and she obtained a master's degree in education, she said. Johnson loves to be active, biking in Colorado's mountains and riding WaveRunners at Cherry Creek Reservoir. But she also dedicated a lot of time to her home, building the waterfall in her backyard and remodeling her kitchen, the friend said. "Whatever Emily put her mind to, it was done with her whole heart," she said. "Whether it was her job, her house, her dog. She was a total person. If you needed anything, she gave you 100 percent." Neighbors described Johnson as a friendly woman who worked constantly in her yard. She would attend neighborhood barbecues and help neighbor Nat Stark when his rottweiler, Buddy, would get out of his yard. "She would call me so the dog wouldn't go to doggie jail," Stark said. - ---- To Life, - -David Buehrer 6th Gup, Hapkido http://www.users.uswest.net/~abaker3 - -- "The light is reached not by turning back from the darkness, but by going through it." ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 08:02:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: the_dojang: . ------------------------------ End of The_Dojang-Digest V7 #3 ****************************** It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. US Taekwondo Union, 1 Olympic Plaza, Ste 405, Colorado Spgs, CO 80909 719-578-4632 FAX 719-578-4642 ustutkd1@aol.com http://www.ustu.com ===================================================================== To unsubscribe from this digest, the_dojang-digest, send the command: unsubscribe the_dojang-digest -or- unsubscribe the_dojang-digest your.old@address in the BODY of an email (top line, left justified) addressed to majordomo@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com. 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