Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 03:02:08 -0700 From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 9 #435 - 5 msgs X-Mailer: Mailman v2.0.13.cisto1 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Errors-To: the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net X-BeenThere: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13.cisto1 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net X-Subscribed-Address: kma@martialartsresource.com List-Id: The Internet's premier discussion forum on Korean Martial Arts. 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Ki in Daily Life (michael tomlinson) 2. Dojangs in Orlando/Maitland/Winterpark area.... (Barbara Campos) 3. knee (bill) 4. RE: Uniform Issue (FirstPe315@aol.com) 5. Korea: A Century of Change (Ray Terry) --__--__-- Message: 1 From: "michael tomlinson" To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 01:12:34 +0000 Subject: [The_Dojang] Ki in Daily Life Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Someone writes: One of the principals for breathing involves meditation while breathing. Breath is controlled at a one breath per minute rate. This is quite a challenge; I've yet to master it for longer then several breaths. A friend who is Chinese tell me that it is because of evil in my life; he is an authority on Chi.>> I am assuming you are doing water breathing which involves, inhale, retention, then exhale,, that would be 20 second intervals for each,, if you are talking about earth breathing that would be inhale and exhale only at 30 second intervals, if you are doing wind breathing that would be inhale 15 retention 15 and exhale 30 and that is rough,, No disrespect but I don't buy into the "evil" in your life concept,, I do breathing quite a bit and it is like everything else in life,, no big mystery,, you have to build up your lung capacity, concentration, and technique,, that's all,, I use a metronome and set it on one tick per second,, that way you can focus more on the internalization and not get distracted by counting,, just count the clicks from the metronome,, the only "evil" involved is not enough practice,,, one minute interval is a great one to strive for, but don't force it too soon, I personaly stay at around 12 second intervals instead of 20 second intervals, I've went beyond 20 second intervals doing Kundalini Yoga but that is a different story, when you get finished doing this you should be covered with sweat but refreshed,, no offense but don't get all hung up on the mysterious other worldly meditation levitation evil good junk. In Zen,, meditation and breathing are just meditation and breathing, nothing more or less, to attach anything else to it is missing the point.. also be careful about competing with yourself in the breathing patterns and meditation, because this fosters the wrong feeling that should be present, when you try to out do yourself from yesterday too fast then you actually build up tension instead of releasing it, just practice breathing and enjoy it, your body will automatically up the interval for you when IT is ready. Sometimes strange things happen when you do this stuff a lot,, psychic kinds of things, but if this starts to happen don't focus on it just accept it and don't attach any huge significance to it,, it is just a by product of all that oxygenation your body is getting,, kind of like running a leaner fuel in your car,, all of a sudden your car is running different and better than before.. Michael Tomlinson _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com --__--__-- Message: 2 Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 18:26:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Barbara Campos To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Dojangs in Orlando/Maitland/Winterpark area.... Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Hi, y'all! My name is Barbara Mendez, and I have been following your very interesting discussions for some time now. I have even posted a question once before, but I am a real rookie (10 months in WTF TKD) so I still don't have too many questions.... Ha, ha, ha! Anyway, I wanted to ask if anyone knows of a good Dojang in the Maintland/Winterpark (Florida) area, for I will be spending 3 weeks there during december and january, and I'd like to train if possible, for I have a promotion test when I get back, and resting for three weeks right before my promotion test doesn't seem the best way to prepare for it. I appreciate any info you can provide, and I thank you in advance for your time. :) Respectfully, Barbara Mendez __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute --__--__-- Message: 3 From: "bill" To: Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 20:59:08 -0500 Subject: [The_Dojang] knee Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net I have a student with bad knees, she is 12 years of age. She has been with me about 1 year her doctor encourages her to continue but no jumping, and modify some kicks. Is their some kind of exercises that I could have her do to strengthen her knees. She does the ones the doctor recommends but I don't see much improvement. All replies are appreciated. Bill M --__--__-- Message: 4 From: FirstPe315@aol.com Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 23:22:23 EDT To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] RE: Uniform Issue Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net In a message dated 9/9/2002 3:03:31 AM Pacific Daylight Time, the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net writes: > Since the original post, How have you resolved this? > > Best wishes, > Chaney > Thank you for the responses. It has been helpful. To clarify briefly, the $50 Hakama's I found them are the wholesale price. Several other organizations are even more so I think that's about as low as I can go. You know, they do not seem to balk at the money, but since they're new they may just not be saying anything directly (which is appropriate however). Last night they decided to sign-up their nanny and buy her a uniform (it keeps getting deeper). They are in the regular class and my feeling is that nobody will really care. Ultimately it's between me and them. I basically haven't quite resolved it yet but I did tell them about my Hakama idea and told them that ultimately I prefer we do that, especially on more formal occasions or the occasion of seminars or visiting instructors etc. and that we will take care of it later down the road. For the time being, I am ordering them their Tiger Claw Judo uniforms and told them I would hope they could get their design as close to what they have on as possible. They look VERY much like Hakama's but I would prefer the real deal ultimately as the Hakama is representive of so many other things that are important in Budo historically. Apparently, she manufacturers these for her church and know even sells them internationally. According to her husband, she has made quite the change in their congregation nationally and internationally as their females are know able play sports that they never thought possible. I was quite impressed but I also was interested in not blurring the distinctions between political correctness (which I usually never have) and tradition which I value very much. Thank you for your help and attention. Any more suggestions, please let me know. Thx. Jeff --__--__-- Message: 5 From: Ray Terry To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2002 21:05:27 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [The_Dojang] Korea: A Century of Change Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net _Korea: A Century of Change_, by Juergen Kleiner. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2001, 425 pages. ISBN 981-02-4657-9, cloth. Reviewed by Carl J. Saxer Yale University Over the last several years a number of works have been published that seek to give an overview of modern Korean history. The book here under review, _Korea: A Century of Change_ by Juergen Kleiner, a professor of international relations at Boston University, is one of them. Over twenty-three chapters the author, as he tells us, aims to give " a comprehensive account of Korean politics during the last hundred years. It is intended to enable the reader to study all important aspects of political developments on the peninsula and those surrounding the peninsula" (page viii). Chapter One thus provides a very brief overview of Korean foreign relations since the 14th century, focusing on relations with China and ending with the early western attempts at establishing contacts with the country. The significantly longer Chapter Two then deals with the opening of Chosun and the international politics of rivalry around the peninsula, concluding with the establishment of Japanese supremacy on the peninsula. Already in this chapter the choices the author makes in what he deems significant strike the reader as slightly strange. The Kapsin coup attempt, for instance, is dealt with in less than one page, while the adventures of Paul Georg von Moellendorff take up more than twice the space. Chapter Three gives an overview of Japanese colonial policies and analyses briefly Korean attempts at resistance against colonial power. The author makes the tendentious claim that it is "difficult to have a balanced discussion with Koreans about the period of Japanese rule" (p. 43), and that after the war Japan did nothing to improve relations with Korea. He argues that "Japanese government officials made remarks of regret and apologies, but what was missing was a broad-based effort at reconciliation similar to the efforts of the Federal Republic of Germany towards France; but Japan is no Christian country" (p. 43). Chapter Four deals with the liberation of the peninsula from Japanese rule and the establishment of two competing states. In Chapters Five and Six the author analyses the developments leading up to the Korean War, the war itself, and, using documents made available through the Cold War International History Project, argues that the question of who started the Korean War can now be firmly answered: Kim Il Sung was the driving force behind it, but he would not have been able to start the war without Stalin's consent and support. In Chapter Seven the author turns to the establishment of the Republic of Korea in 1948, the presidency of Rhee Syngman, his overthrow, and the founding of the Second Republic. The Park Chung Hee era is dealt with in Chapter Eight; Kleiner focuses particularly on Park's 1961 coup, the normalization with Japan, South Korean participation in the Vietnam War, and the critical 1971 presidential election. Chapter Nine examines the events leading up to the Yushin reforms, the new 1972 constitution, and the assassination of Park. The coup by Chun Doo Hwan and his cohorts in the Hanahoe military faction is examined in Chapter Ten. The author deals both with the massacre in Kwangju and the trial against Kim Dae Jung in some detail. Chun Doo Hwan's consolidation of power is analyzed in Chapter Eleven, and here again the choices that the author makes in regards to what he feels is significant seem odd. While in Chapter 10 Kwangju is covered in less than two pages, the author spends more than eight pages going into detail about the downing of flight KE 007 and four pages examining the Rangoon bombing. Nowhere does he explain to the reader on what basis these events are emphasized over others. Chapter Twelve gives a good overview over the events leading up to the transition to democracy in the late 1980s; here Kleiner introduces discussion of both endogenous and exogenous issues, but rightly argues that it was mainly domestic factors that decided the outcome. The first two years of the Roh administration are examined in Chapter Thirteen. The author argues that the 1990 three-party merger between Roh, Kim Young Sam, and Kim Jong Pil was "a step taken to overcome regionalism, which had been the greatest problem of the party system in the 6th Republic" (p.224However, Kleiner fails to mention that a reason for Kim Jong Pil joining the merger was the ruling party's wish to see the passage of a constitutional amendment that would put in place a cabinet system, for which a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly would be needed. Chapter Fourteen examines the reforms of Kim Young Sam, especially his failed attempts at ending 'money politics', before he turns to a detailed analysis of the "trial of the century" against the former presidents and their followers. The author argues that Kim Young Sam's change of heart, in which he decided to actively seek a special law to prosecute the former presidents, rather than leave the judgment to history, was due to political expediency and that Kim's inconsistency "contributed to legal confusion" (p. 244). The chapter concludes by briefly analyzing the 1997 presidential election that brought Kim Dae Jung to power and the policies he pursued after inauguration. Chapter Fifteen offers a brief overview of the development of the Korean economy with slightly less than half of the chapter focusing on the 1997 financial crisis and subsequent recovery. In contrast to Adrian Buzo's recent The Making of Modern Korea, Kleiner makes no attempt at according North Korea equally full treatment. In fact, only two chapters deal with domestic developments in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea: Chapter Sixteen analyses the rise to power of Kim Il Sung and the establishment of the DPRK, while Chapter Seventeen provides discussion of Kim Jong Il's ascendancy, a brief examination of the food crisis in North Korea, and consideration of prospects for the future. Chapters Eighteen to Twenty deal with the foreign relations of South Korea. Kleiner argues for minimal effect of foreign powers on South Korea's internal politics, stating that "even a mighty one like the US, had only limited influence" (p. 318). Chapter Twenty gives a detailed analysis of the background and implementation of the Northern Policy during the Roh administration; in fact, the book is at its best, as here, when it treats international politics. In Chapter Twenty One the foreign relations of North Korea, especially with its larger neighbors are examined. The next chapter, perhaps the strongest in the book, follows with a detailed analysis of the North Korean nuclear issue. Finally, in Chapter Twenty Three, the author looks at developments in the dialogue between the two Koreas over the last few decades. Although, as noted, the choices Kleiner makes about what to regard as significant can strike the reader as odd, the book does give a comprehensive overview of the political developments on the Korean peninsula during the last century. However, the book is seriously marred by numerous typos. Here a few examples must suffice: for instance, although the term Chosun is used through most of the book, on page 29 one encounters Choson. Yun Po Sun is Yon Po Sun on page 159; on page 212 the Korea Annual becomes the Korean Annual. On page 232 Kim Dae Jung in 1993 is leaving for Oxford; in fact he went to Cambridge. Roh Tae Woo suffers particularly badly: on page 240 he is first referred to as Tae Woo, then later on the same page as Rho, on page 242 as Roh Taw Woo, and on page 327 as Roh Too Woo. Page 285, note 12 makes a reference to a work by a Maretzki, but a full bibliographic citation is nowhere to be found. Northwestern University political scientist Tong Whan Park is referred to as Tong Wham Park on page 322. The absence of comprehensive proofreading to weed out most of these errors is unacceptable. Finally, as the book is of significant length, readers might also wish for a comprehensive conclusion, rather than the chapter that now closes the volume, which simply offers an overview of the North-South dialogue. Citation: Saxer, Carl 2002 Review of _Korea: A Century of Change_, by Juergen Kleiner. (2002) Korean Studies Review 2002, no. 12 Electronic file: http://koreaweb.ws/ks/ksr/ksr02-12.htm --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang http://the-dojang.net It's a great day for Taekwondo! Support the USTU by joining today. US Taekwondo Union, 1 Olympic Plaza, Ste 104C, Colorado Spgs, CO 80909 719-866-4632 FAX 719-866-4642 ustutkd1@aol.com http://www.ustu.org Old digest issues are available via ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com. Copyright 1994-2002: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember 9-11! End of The_Dojang Digest