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stl_karateka
Brown Belt
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
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Location: O'fallon IL
Styles: Shorin Ryu & Isshin Ryu
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 Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 8:53 pm Post subject: Ripleys Believe or Not - IsshinRyu / Head Board breaking |
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Anyone else see (saw) this? They say they are Isshin Ryu practictioners.
There are boards on a conveyor belt and they have to see who can break the most on their head in 30 seconds.
This type of behavior is what people link with karate 
Sure --- we did board breaking in I-Ryu --- but NEVER with our head!!!
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krunchyfrogg
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Location: Morris Plains, NJ
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The Renshi of my style used to break sheets of ice with his head at Shiai's!
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AndrewGreen
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Joined: 20 Aug 2002
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Location: Winnipeg, Canada
Styles: Crazy Penguin Ninjitsu
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Ripley's and Guiness Prime time always have a martial arts idiot doing something stupid to make martial arts look silly.....
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granmasterchen
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Location: japan
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in my school (old school style) we are required to break a concrete slab with our heads for our black belt test. My instructor does demos and competitions every now and then, he does 9 concrete slabs with his head. We train to break objects with every hard part of our bodies. I see nothing wrong with it. As long as you are prepared for that level. I wouldnt ask a newbe to do it! lol
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AndrewGreen
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Keeps the IQ of the students down so that they are easy to control 
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crash
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Joined: 21 Jan 2003
Posts: 143
Styles: karate,
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 9:21 am Post subject: |
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| Keeps the IQ of the students down so that they are easy to control |
shhh.....no ones cought on yet that after "headbreaking class" the announcement is made that monthly dues are being raised.  |
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stl_karateka
Brown Belt
Joined: 18 Sep 2003
Posts: 645
Location: O'fallon IL
Styles: Shorin Ryu & Isshin Ryu
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| Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:51 am Post subject: |
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| granmasterchen wrote: |
| in my school (old school style) we are required to break a concrete slab with our heads for our black belt test. My instructor does demos and competitions every now and then, he does 9 concrete slabs with his head. We train to break objects with every hard part of our bodies. I see nothing wrong with it. As long as you are prepared for that level. I wouldnt ask a newbe to do it! lol |
Personally I'm not down with the head breaking...but to each his own!
My problem is there was no
DONT TRY THIS AT HOME (well, there was the standard small disclaimer)
But I'm sure people are going to try this stunt that are unprepared
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DarkAngel_Azrel
Yellow Belt
Joined: 08 Jan 2004
Posts: 63
Location: Scotland
Styles: wado ryu
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i see no point in the breaking of boards with your head or any other part of your body. it has no real purpose rather than to cause injurie if u mess up. if u wish to show u can put mind over matter then do fire walking rather than attcking pavment slabs with your heads. just my opion thoe interested to here others.
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Shorinryu Sensei
Black Belt
Joined: 13 Jun 2002
Posts: 2045
Location: Kalispell, Montana
Styles: Shorinryu Matsumura Kenpo (Seito/Orthodox) Karate and Kobudo
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Personally, I think anybody that breaks boards or bricks with their heads, needs to have their heads examined anyway!  |
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Drunken Monkey
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Location: bar italia
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while we're on the subject of breaking things over your head, why don't we ever see the 'old masters' from the shaolin temple break things?
why is it always the fit, young, strong, healthy...
oh just answered my own question...
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