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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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 Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:13 pm Post subject: Summer heat |
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You know it is getting to that time of year when sticking an air freshener in your gi just doesn't cut it anymore. As heat hits the US (and Japan), how does your gym keep cool? Do you use air conditioning? Or do you use the heat as part of training? 
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CTOWNP
White Belt
Joined: 13 May 2008
Posts: 16
Location: Southern Cali
Styles: Goju Ryu
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: |
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Where Im at in southern california it will get up to 110 and stay there for like a week strait so air conditioning is important. my old school didnt have it so I guess I am kind of lucky now.  --> me burning up at my old school.
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bushido_man96
KF Sensei
Joined: 31 Mar 2006
Posts: 13977
Location: Hays, KS
Styles: Taekwondo, Combat Hapkido, Aikido, and I research Medieval Combat
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| Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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We have air conditioning at my school. I still get plenty of sweat going during workouts, though.
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DWx
KF Sensei
Joined: 17 Jan 2007
Posts: 1323
Location: UK
Styles: Tae Kwon Do & Yang family Tai Chi
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:43 am Post subject: |
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Being in wet and windy England the temp doesn't go up much. There isn't any air-con at the venues we train at (either that or nobody's mentioned it) so usually we make do with having the doors and windows open. We are allowed to wear t-shirts to spar instead of full doboks too.
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NewEnglands_KyoSa
Pre-Black Belt
Joined: 14 Jan 2008
Posts: 907
Location: New England
Styles: Moo Duk Kwan Tang Soo Do , Chinese Kempo
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Funny you should ask. All my facilites have airconditioning, their usage depends on where and how hot. Using heat in your training is always an option and a helpful one too. Students who wish are also allowed to wear the school tshirt tucked in their uniforms instead as well.
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tori
Orange Belt
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 173
Styles: shotokan
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:06 am Post subject: |
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We have air conditioning in this school. In the old one, we didn't. I loved it that way. I love working up a great sweat. Your muscles work better and you feel at the end of class that you really worked hard. I also wish there wasnt air conditioning because I am ALWAYS cold. Right now it is 78 outside and I have 2 blankets on.  Sick isnt it?
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Shotokan-kez
Black Belt
Joined: 13 May 2006
Posts: 1957
Location: Manchester uk
Styles: shotokan karate
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: |
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Even tho we are in the uk tori it has been hot recently. I think we sometimes get it more stuffy and humid rather than sunshine with a light breeze. We dont have t-shirts so we just tend to suffer lol  We dont have air conditioning either so we just have to open windows and doors!
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tori
Orange Belt
Joined: 27 Jan 2008
Posts: 173
Styles: shotokan
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 10:25 am Post subject: |
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Kez, when you have the doors and windows open, you get that great outside fresh air smell. That's great! I miss that, I really do. However, last week I tested for my SanDan rank and the upstairs airconditioning was off. I went up there for a minute and it was at least 100 degrees. I did appreciate having that cool airconditioning on the first floor that night.
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KarateEd
KF Sempai
Joined: 07 Feb 2007
Posts: 608
Location: Alabama
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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One place I train has no A/C just a large fan that we place in an open doorway. I work up quite a sweat with the weather we have in the Southeast. Another of our dojangs/dojos has A/C (I think) but it is usually turned way up so it doesn't come on.
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IcemanSK
Purple Belt
Joined: 12 Oct 2005
Posts: 522
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Styles: Tae Kwon Do Chung Do Kwan
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| Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:40 pm Post subject: |
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In my current location, we have air conditioning. In my valley of So. Cal. it can get up to 114 in the summer.
A few blocks away, there is a boxing gym that intentionally built their new facility without A/C! They LOVE the unbareable heat their brick room produces! To each his own.
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