>From: the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >Subject: The_Dojang digest, Vol 13 #481 - 6 msgs >Date: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 02:59:10 -0800 > >Send The_Dojang mailing list submissions to > the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > >To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://martialartsresource.net/mailman/listinfo/the_dojang >or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > the_dojang-request@martialartsresource.net > >You can reach the person managing the list at > the_dojang-admin@martialartsresource.net > >When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >than "Re: Contents of The_Dojang digest..." > > ><<------------------ The_Dojang mailing list ------------------>> > >Serving the Internet since June 1994. >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. Re: Hurling 101 (tkdsid@aol.com) > 2. stretching and life challenges (Jerry) > 3. Re: stretching and life challenges (Ray) > 4. FWIW, ABC Diane Sawyer inside North Korea (Ray) > 5. MDK Grandmaster (The_Dojang) > 6. RE: Experiencing Korean art of self-defence (Rick Clark) > >--__--__-- > >Message: 1 >To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:03:46 -0500 >From: tkdsid@aol.com >Subject: [The_Dojang] Re: Hurling 101 >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > > Joe Cheavens said it better than I ever could. I elect to hurl if I hear >this nonsense about the ancient art of taekwondo. It is more aptly, the >modern art of competetive sports competition in a martial arts mode. > > >Sid > > >________________________________________________________________________ >Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security >tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, >free AOL Mail and more. > >--__--__-- > >Message: 2 >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 08:20:12 -0500 >To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >From: Jerry >Subject: [The_Dojang] stretching and life challenges >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > >Hi all, >I've been on the mailing list for longer than I care to remember >(LOL, guess I'm getting old) but wanted to relate my own experiences >as an older practicioner (currently 52, but haven't worked out in >some time for reasons too numerous to mention here). > >It always appeared that age did play some role (again, just >observations, not scientific evidence). The "youngsters" seemed to be >able to stretch and get good results just fine fairly cold. However, >in our Dojang, we always did light callesthenics and a bit of jogging >to get the body warmed up prior to stretching. For someone older like >me that seemed to make a world of difference. Once I got my body >warmed up stretching seemed FAR more productive then trying to >stretch "cold". As an aside, I'm an asthmatic and when I first >started studying TKD I could barely make it one time around the >dojang when we jogged without coughing pretty badly (that's the >symptom for my type of asthma). Some 6 years later at my black belt >test I was so amazed to think back at how that had changed and how I >could now follow along with all the others! > >Anyway, I've been out of the arts for a number of years now (only >physically , not in spirit!) and currently suffer from Asthma, high >blood pressure, and type 2 diabetes, pin just below my left knee, >only one balance nerve (had the other removed due to a tumor, and of >course this greatly affects my overall balance) and plantar >fasciitis, the latter is what is mostly keeping me out of the dojang >these days...I truly hope to get it all together soon to return at a >school that can understand my challenges and doesn't try to make me >sign a long term contract. > >Jerry in Delaware >-- >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >"It's not the years in your life that count, but the life in your years" > >"Change is Inevitable, Growth is Optional" > >"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, > achievement and success have no meaning." - Benjamin Franklin > >++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > >--__--__-- > >Message: 3 >From: Ray >Subject: Re: [The_Dojang] stretching and life challenges >To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 09:38:38 -0800 (PST) >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > > > It always appeared that age did play some role (again, just > > observations, not scientific evidence). The "youngsters" seemed to be > > able to stretch and get good results just fine fairly cold. However, > > in our Dojang, we always did light callesthenics and a bit of jogging > > to get the body warmed up prior to stretching. For someone older like > > me that seemed to make a world of difference. Once I got my body > > warmed up stretching seemed FAR more productive then trying to > > stretch "cold". > >I used to have a Korean instructor that claimed you could make 3x the >progress in the area of stretching in the summer than in the winter. Not >sure how he came up with 3x, but clearly heat helps. > >Old story... He used to have a bunch of jump ropes hanging on several >nails >on one wall of the dojang. The early Saturday morning workouts in the >winter >could be brutal back in central Illinois. Freezing cold even in the dojang >as the lightweight furnace hadn't had the hours it needed to warm up the >large room. > >Every time someone would moan about how cold it was before class began, he >would just point to the wall with the jump ropes and say, "The heaters are >right over there." :) > >Ray Terry >rterry@idiom.com > >--__--__-- > >Message: 4 >From: Ray >To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net (The_Dojang) >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:38:16 -0800 (PST) >Subject: [The_Dojang] FWIW, ABC Diane Sawyer inside North Korea >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > >Forwarding... > >--------------------------- > >I found this interesting that Diane Sawyer has been allowed inside North >Korea. >ABC has a lot of additional footage on their website: >http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=2590191&page=1 >The program will be broadcast on Friday December 8th. at 9PM. > >Sincerely, >Tracy Stober >MA International Relations-Korea Studies >Seattle, Washington > >--__--__-- > >Message: 5 >Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 13:13:31 -0800 >From: The_Dojang >To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net >Subject: [The_Dojang] MDK Grandmaster >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > >Michael Couhie Promoted to Grandmaster >November 30, 2006 > >Michael Couhie of Weare, N.H., was promoted to 8th Degree Grandmaster >on October 21 in Tewksbury, Mass. Grand Master Jae Kyu Chon, president >of the MooDukKwan, presented Couhie with his 8th Dan during the New >England Taekwondo Championships. > >A practitioner of martial arts since 1959, Couhie and his wife, >Suzanne, own Riverside Taekwondo Hapkido in Weare. > >--__--__-- > >Message: 6 >Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:07:34 -0500 >From: "Rick Clark" >Subject: RE: [The_Dojang] Experiencing Korean art of self-defence >To: >Reply-To: the_dojang@martialartsresource.net > > > A third possibility is that Taekwondo developed from Japanese or >Okinawan Karate. > >Well after the third try they got it right . . . . . > >Rick Clark > >www.ao-denkou-kai.org > > >--__--__-- > >_______________________________________________ >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