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cross
Black Belt
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Location: Australia
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| You also don't have to be concerned with the formalities of someone "out-ranking" you. This helps to keep things more open-ended, and allows the practitioners to be more open-minded. |
Definetly. Its also important to have or build at least some kind of friendship with your training partners. My training partners these days are all likeminded friends of mine who are interested in learning, and teach me more than enough to keep me going at the same time. |
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 13960
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, and I research Medieval Combat
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| You also don't have to be concerned with the formalities of someone "out-ranking" you. This helps to keep things more open-ended, and allows the practitioners to be more open-minded. |
Definetly. Its also important to have or build at least some kind of friendship with your training partners. My training partners these days are all likeminded friends of mine who are interested in learning, and teach me more than enough to keep me going at the same time. |
This also helps to make the training environment more comfortable as well. Not to mention the benefits of not having to worry about the material for your next testing.
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baronbvp
Black Belt
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1132
Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:43 am Post subject: |
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True. You can also spend the time on what you need to, with no pressure to "finish up in 5 minutes" so class can proceed to the next thing. And, no one is watching you. That can be very freeing.
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baronbvp
Black Belt
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1132
Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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I have my first kickboxing class tonight. I've done it some before, but never in an actual class. I'll let you know how it goes.
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cross
Black Belt
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
Posts: 1874
Location: Australia
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| Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I have my first kickboxing class tonight. I've done it some before, but never in an actual class. I'll let you know how it goes. |
Best of luck baron, be sure to tell us how it goes. |
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NightOwl
KF Sempai
Joined: 08 Dec 2006
Posts: 988
Location: Japan
Styles: This and that, Rookie Judo
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As long as the Red Baron isn't there you'll be fine! 
Best of luck!
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baronbvp
Black Belt
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1132
Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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It was good! I am the oldest one in the class, but no worries. It's basically Muay Thai without elbows to the face. Their website is www.jungsumartialarts.com. The full-contact sparring will be rough - we saw a demo tonight - but I'm looking forward to it.
We started with conditioning, then moved to some punches, then some kicks, then some knees. My flexibility is not good in my lower body, so that will take some time to build up a bit. We ended with some actual mild kicks to each others' thighs to get the students used to being hit. Most are beginners but not all.
I like the instructor. He is nice but no-nonsense; he doesn't put up with fooling around but isn't mean. He's all about fighting and so am I.
Now, of course, all my karate gear is the vinyl-covered foam stuff (Lighting by ProForce) that won't work for MT, so I have to buy all new gear except for my groin protector. Figures.
I am looking forward to starting my training journal again. 
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baronbvp
Black Belt
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1132
Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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Thanks guys! It's great to get back into training.
"10, 20 30, 40, 50 or more..."
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 13960
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, and I research Medieval Combat
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It sounds like you have a good deal, there, Baron. I'm glad to see you are going to enjoy yourself.
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baronbvp
Black Belt
Joined: 27 Feb 2005
Posts: 1132
Location: Berlin, Germany
Styles: JKD/MMA, Muay Thai, Shorin Ryu, military combat arts, fencing, archery
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Thanks, Bushido. We'll see if I can hang with the full contact. Bare knee strikes to my chest or a missed kick that takes out my knee would be bad. The demo we saw was pretty brutal and may be more than I'm willing to endure, given what goes on in the rest of my life. I'll take it a class at a time.
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on the post.
