Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:59:55 -0700 From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 13 #269 - 4 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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Copyright 1994-2006: Ray Terry and Martial Arts Resource The Internet's premier discussion forum devoted to Korean Martial Arts. 2,100 members. See the Korean Martial Arts (KMA) FAQ and the online search engine for back issues of The_Dojang at http://MartialArtsResource.com Pil Seung! Today's Topics: 1. Master Dan regarding decals and tournaments (Dan Scholten) 2. Re: What Ray does! (ISA Headquarters) 3. Anyone else see the Bill O'Reilly segment on the UFC (Tom) 4. Re: Re: What Ray does! (Ray) --__--__-- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:47:47 -0800 From: Dan Scholten To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Subject: [The_Dojang] Master Dan regarding decals and tournaments Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net To the guy looking for Decals and stickers, you need to go online to Ask Jeeves and ask for Decals ands Stickers you will find pages of companies that do that. Let me know if you are successful if not I will go online and find several links for you and put them on the digest to just click on. Regarding tournaments, My main reason I want students to compete once or twice a year is to simulate stress and increase conditioning that will help in self defense by being calmer and better shape than your adversary but sport technique has nothing to do with self defense and frankly I look for other reasons for my students such as learning, exposure to other styles cultural exchange but I could care less about nationals or Olympics now, what does that benefit a kid from a village especially a cost of $thousands to go. I want people to learn about doing their best is its own reward and especially competing against someone much better than you. I just had two students because of division grouping wound up against some people with twice the experience and out weighed them by 4olbs, they didn't choke and didn't back off and only lost by two points it was good experience. Too much tournament we get to pick and choose who we fight on the street you get what you get better learn how survive at a disadvantage. Regarding injuries to knees, its amazing how many MA instructors are not qualified physical conditioning experts. Every age group must have its own designed work out and then every person coming in the door must be screened for their personal health profile so you don't make a mistake and have them doe something that their body is not ready for or never will be able to do. I just returned from my home association and watched some guy teaching a noon class and first I was enthused to see so many colored belts and white belts over 40, 50 and 60 and then I watched the instructor tortchure them for 60 minutes. Lousy warm up and stretching in fact he had no idea what he was doing except to show them what he could do. He had them jumping around doing stuff that was for 18 year olds its going to be a miracle if any of them survive to brown belt. Most will just train till they have a permanent injury and then quit. Worst of all none of them was learning a single good self defense skill up to red belts and all their kicks and blocks were bad useless. People over 40 have to be trained differently and the whole range of what they do needs to be geared towards health and what will work to be used in real self defense situations. High kicks are complete bull and every thing needs to be low impact. Hard snapping air kicks with out resistance repeatedly has so many negative health impacts to people over 40 you could write a book. I really wanted to chew this guy out but not my Do Jang and not my back yard. Work outs for older people need to have 40 minutes of stretching, breathing and lower lumbar strengthening plus all major joints and cartlidge and ligaments. Stretching needs to be done correctly and nothing that over compresses the disks in your back. I wonder if anyone out there even knows or understands that stretching in the morning is different than evening due to less water in the pads of your discs. Since your pads are thicker in the morning when you first get up hence you are actually taller mornings, shorter in the evenings, if you take you spine past neutral to negative reverse you can pinch or agitate nerves much more severely in the morning than evening. I hate to say it but the insurance companies need to start looking at not insuring any Do Jang's or instructors that have not passed or completed a national certification test in physical conditioning or therapy. Everybody runs around all afraid or trying to control injuries that result in law suites regarding somebody getting kicked or punched and the student try's to prove negligence on the part of the Do Jang and instructor, my GM included but the amount of people getting normal sports injuries due to improper training is far lager I hope the ambulance chaser's (Lawyers don't catch on) All these guys making lots of money must be doing it right or haven't been caught yet???? --__--__-- Message: 2 From: "ISA Headquarters" To: Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:03:13 -0400 Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: What Ray does! Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Our beloved Ray does what many have tried unsuccessfully to do. He moderates with a keen sense of spirit and intelligence. He has been doing this since I first joined the DD back in 1997. Respectfully, George I. Petrotta ISA Director www.sungjado.org/ isahdq@sc.rr.com -- ---------------------------------------- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for private users. It has removed 6056 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len --__--__-- Message: 3 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 16:29:31 -0400 From: Tom To: "the_dojang@martialartsresource.net" Subject: [The_Dojang] Anyone else see the Bill O'Reilly segment on the UFC Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Last night, Wednesday, on the Fox News Bill O'Reilly show there was a segment on the UFC and whether it should be banned in the US. Bill's guests were Rich Franklin and Dana White. I felt like Rich Franklin, a former school teacher, did a good job of defending the UFC whereas Dana was given very little time and could only quote the lack of serious injuries or deaths in the UFC. Dana tried to make the point that boxing is more dangerous. Rich commented that before becoming a school teacher he was an amateur boxer. Bill O'Reilly had a study out of England that stated there is a higher percentage of concussions in the UFC events than boxing and therefore based his conclusion about banning the UFC on that study. So, is the UFC safer than boxing? Should it be banned. --__--__-- Message: 4 From: Ray Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] Re: What Ray does! To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 14:59:35 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > Our beloved Ray does what many have tried unsuccessfully to do. He moderates > with a keen sense of spirit and intelligence. He has been doing this since I > first joined the DD back in 1997. Only doing it because I love y'all... :) Ray Terry rterry@idiom.com --__--__-- _______________________________________________ The_Dojang mailing list The_Dojang@martialartsresource.net http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang http://the-dojang.net Old digest issues @ ftp://ftp.martialartsresource.com/pub/the_dojang Copyright 1994-2006: Ray Terry and http://MartialArtsResource.com Standard disclaimers apply. Remember September 11. End of The_Dojang Digest