From: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com To: the_dojang-digest@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Subject: The_Dojang-Digest V7 #56 Reply-To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Errors-To: the_dojang-owner@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com Precedence: The_Dojang-Digest Wed, 26 Jan 2000 Vol 07 : Num 056 In this issue: the_dojang: Alain's Video the_dojang: Re: Alain's Video;here, here ! the_dojang: Master Bong Soo han the_dojang: Introduce Yourself the_dojang: pushups... the_dojang: Question???? the_dojang: Strength Training Books the_dojang: To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ========================================================================= The_Dojang, serving the Internet since June 1994. ~755 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! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: "J. R. West" Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:12:00 -0600 Subject: the_dojang: Alain's Video I was honored to receive a copy of Alain's HapKiDo video today, and after watching it during my wife's kids class, I was impressed. I found the items covered to be in a logical order, demonstrated well, and discussed in terms that would make sense to anyone. The camera work was excellent and the techniques were never done in a position that that made them invisible to the camera. Explanations were never made that took for granted the practitioner watching had any prior experience in HapKiDo or any other martial art. I noticed also that Alain always had the utmost respect for his demo partner (dummy), so the tape never took on the look of a controlled beating or abuse. Alain..keep up the good work.....J. R. West ------------------------------ From: Ken McDonough Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 16:21:38 -0800 (PST) Subject: the_dojang: Re: Alain's Video;here, here ! I would have to concur with Master West's comments below (partially edited). I ordered from Paladin several weeks ago. Great orientation to Hapkido, great segmentation, and good fast to slow motion sequences. I plan to provide a more thorough review and privately send it to Master Burrese at a future date. I know that Master Burrese is planning to have additional and subsequent tapes made. I respectfully suggest that he possibly seque into having Hapkido applied in a real street scenario, re: going to the ATM, wiseguy sizing you up, bar room "etiquette", shopping to car confrontations, getting into an elevator, going down a flight of stairs, a joker pulling on your hair, a joker trying to tackle you, possibly knife defenses, a sucker punch defense. Keep up the good work. If you want a real honest to goodness conversation with me or have any questions about this objective tape, give me a shout at maganda44@yahoo.com Just an average joe. Ken McD... --- "J. R. West" wrote: > I was honored to receive a copy of Alain's HapKiDo video today, and after > watching it during my wife's kids class, I was impressed. I found the > items > covered to be in a logical order, demonstrated well, and discussed in > terms > that would make sense to anyone. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com ------------------------------ From: "J. R. West" Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:32:32 -0600 Subject: the_dojang: Master Bong Soo han Master Han taught TKD just like everyone else in the M-21 group in Vietnam, but I'm sure he worked on his HapKiDo every time that he had a chance, just like my instructors did....J. R. West ------------------------------ From: WEE Shin Hoe Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 21:20:53 +0800 Subject: the_dojang: Introduce Yourself Hi Ray, Sorry I have to resend this again, as the e-mail that gets through was not the one that i intended to send. I have been a silent participant on your list for quite a while. Guess its about time for me to introduce myself. You can call me Wee and I am from Sarawak, Malaysia. If you guy would like to know where the hell is this place. It is located on the Malaysian part of Borneo Island. Used to be ruled by a British rajah back by his army of buccaneers, headhunters and Chinese Kung Fu fighters. Forced into Kung Fu by my grandfather when I was young, hate it and always try to run away from it. Never really pick up anything. The irony of it is after finishing high school, I started to be interested in martial art, after my grandpa passed away. The only thing I have from him is an old scroll in ancient Chinese (No, no secret Chinese Kung Fu techniques in it), just some herbal cures and revival techniques for various types of injuries and description of symtons for injuries to various vital points with delay action and how to cure it. Learned WTF Taekwon-Do and got a fist dan blackbelt. Now studying Hapkido and Ho Shin Sul under Korea Martial Arts Association - South East Asia-Pacific chapter headed by Dr. Julian Lim. Our teacher is Master Jong (6th dan in Taekwon-do, Hapkido and Ho Shin Sul). By the way, this is a great place to be if you are interested in Silat. The original, brutal and unsanitized types. WEE ------------------------------ From: Donnla Nic Gearailt Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 01:29:04 +0000 Subject: the_dojang: pushups... Hi all, I'm just a 9th gup, and I have a few questions about pushups... I've been told that women should do pushups on their knees, not full push-up position, because otherwise it injures the womb. Others have said this is rubbish, that it's just easier to do them properly on your knees and women don't have the same upper body strength as men. Plus, how many reps should you do to increase strength in the arm and chest? Again I've heard differing opinions on this. Donnla. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Donnla Nic Gearailt Computer Laboratory, New Museums Site, Graduate Student Pembroke St., Cambridge CB2 3QG, U.K. tel: +44-1223-334619 http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~dbn20/ ------------------------------ From: "hkdhal" Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 22:00:19 -0800 Subject: the_dojang: Question???? The Dojang where I currently teach and train at is at the South Shore Y.M.C.A in Quincy Ma the Dojang is in the same building where I began my study of judo under the direction of Bob Palazi the Instructor we did in deed change the mats in 1971 but they are the same ones since the change they have been resurfaced twice, Jesse, and some others on this list can give you some insight on our mat it has a lot of History and if it could only talk.the Dojang is about 75X40 of matted surface which is great for falling but it has broken many a toe because of the surface. When I first joined the World Hapkido Federation it was a nonprofit organization and it took changes that I did not agree with and I chose to go through Korea instead for many reasons,And to this day I still think the world of Master Myung he is a great guy and has sacrificed a lot for Hapkido.In the early days of the WHF Ji,Han Jae was the chairman,Chang Gedo was Secretary General,Jung,Son Won was the Treasurer everyone that was someone belonged almost every Korean Master was part of it back then there was a shakeup and Ji,Han Jae had left and so did the others I left a short time after. So as not to avoid your Question Master Myung spoke of Master Ji,Often and while I stayed with Master Myung and his family I was shown many pictures of the early days of Hapkido and of the demonstration period of Hapkido in Vietnam contrary to popular belief they were sent to entertain the Korean Troops nor instruct soldiers I saw pictures of a young Han,Bong Soo with a very pretty girl on his lap you get the picture these were personal things of the trip. Hal ------------------------------ From: ABurrese@aol.com Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 00:02:26 EST Subject: the_dojang: Strength Training Books I posted this elsewhere, but thought people here might find it of interest also: When reading Ned's book on wrestling for self-defense, he recommended "Dinosaur Training" and in personal e-mail he recommended "Rock Iron Steel" Charles Staley also said Dinosaur Training was good, and he had heard good things about Rock Iron Steel, so I decided those would be the books for this month. (I try and budget so that I can add to my library monthly) "Rock Iron Steel" is by Steve Justa and I read the first couple of chapters this morning. (had to force myself to put it down and read my law assignments) So far I like what he is saying. He trains for strength that is usable and for endurance strength. He does a lot of different kinds of lifting, not just your regular routines you see in the fitness magazines. Heavy deadlifts, walking with heavy weights, Shovel lifts, barrel lifting, pulling cars and trucks, etc. I don't plan on training just like him, but I think some of his ideas are valuable and I intend to put more power training into my workouts. Example, today my entire workout consisted of cleans and presses. That's when you take the weight and lift it from the floor to your shoulders and then press it up over your head. I started with 135 pounds and worked up to 185 pounds. After a set of these, you feel it, after 20-30 minutes of doing sets of these, you know you have done something. Considering 185 is more than I weigh, I felt decent with todays lift. But I want to get back to where I'm doing it with 250 lbs or more like I used to. If you are putting more than your body weight over your head, you are stronger than most people walking around. The other book "Dinosaur Training" by Brooks Kubik (who I was surprised to learn is a lawyer) also looks good. I just quickly read through the table of contents and forward. It's longer than Justa's (over 200 pages without any photos) and it too has a focus of real world strength training. Training like the old time strongmen who could do amazing feats, and were actually as powerful as they looked. I especially like that he has chapters on grip strength. (a strong powerful grip can be benifical in a self-defense situation and for many other reasons) Speaking of grip strength, ironmind also has a book or two about grip strength and they sell "Captains of Crush" grippers. ( 5 hand grips that go from 95 pounds to the hardest at 365 pounds) Both Charles and Ned told me they are a good product, and Kubik recommends them in his book too. They say only one person had been able to close number 4, and not many can close numer 3. I hope to purchase one sometime soon. Both of these books sell for 14.95 plus postage and you can see them at ironmind.com Ironmind will send you a free catelog if you request one from their site, and they don't take credit card orders. They send faster if you send a money order, and that's what I did a week ago and got the books yesterday. One thing both of these books advocate is HARD WORK. This isn't the go to the gym and do a couple sets and look in the mirror type training. They both also talk about will power and having the mental strength to lift the heavy poundages and become stronger. While a martial artist won't train the same as the strongman who enters the strongman contests, the training methods of the strongman contestant can be more beneficial to the martial artist than bodybuilding training methods. Not to mention having the strength to carry that couch up the stairs into the new apartment, or throwing that truck tire into the back of the pickup and many other things that take strength. Interesting note, Kubik in "Dinosaur Training" gives a lot of credit to Professor Bradley J. Steiner. (I have not met Steiner yet, but have read his articles and books) He also teaches to train for strength and he is a martial arts instructor out in WA. I plan to incorporate some of the methods from these two books into my periodization schedule, and think they were worth getting to add to my training library. Not only do I expect to learn something to help my personal training, but they are good resources for the book I am working on. Speaking of books, I read several over Xmas break that people on the list might be interested in and will post something about them soon, including my friend Marc's newest "Taking it to the Street: Making Your Martial Art Street Effective" Yours in Training, Alain Burrese ------------------------------ From: Ray Terry Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 06:40:58 -0800 (PST) Subject: the_dojang: To: the_dojang@hpwsrt.cup.hp.com ------------------------------ End of The_Dojang-Digest V7 #56 ******************************* It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. 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