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I saw this clip and thought its got to be taking the pi--! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw9_g6KDZ3U But then I saw this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaH4LBiqylw and I thought the robot did quite a good job after all! shep If you look on their channel they have 2 subscribers and on of them is Ka...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8Lg6aUZykw This guy says martial artists sometimes get their strength from inhaling demon spirits. I know the Norweigians come to the Winter Course with Aquavit and 29 year old rum, but that as about as demon as the spirits come. In the Zulu wars the Zulu warriors al...

Did he also follow the myth of always look at the opponent, which turns ends up in them sticking their heads out like a nodding pidgeon? The simple act of bowing and taking yoi can be done so badly at times. That's what I call the Tinkerbell bow, cos the head jutting forward causes the arse to stic...

shep wrote: I'm with you totally on that one wadoka, also the slapping of the sides of their thighs when they perform the bow. Argh!!!

Do people still do that Shep? I haven't seen that in ages.

Tim

A trait of mine seems to be to buy books at the drop of a hat and to begin reading them and then sideline them for the next impulsive buy. The top book on the small pile by the bed is currently "Moving towards stillness" by Dave Lowry, From Tuttle Publishing. It is a collection of short e...

This is just a bit of fun. No need to watch if you have no interest in WKF shiai. Aghayev versus Matsuhisa. At 3 minutes they score a kick. Not sure of it myself. An energetic match though. Matsuhisa being tall and thin has a look of old school Geoff Thompson in his movements. The techniques are a ...

Some interesting replies to a thread about Myths. I was about to cry ‘topic drift’ then after a more careful reading realised that recent postings were actually on the nail. It seemed inevitable with a theme like this that it would ramble around a bit. To Claas, Right, I think I get what you are say...

I have seen people on other forums tie themselves in knots trying to discuss the physics of a karate punching action. I can’t see the point of looking at it in that way (Shotokan guys like this way of thinking). Honestly how do people think punching is applied in Wado? There has to be intelligent al...

In Japanese training there seemed to be less reliance on verbal instruction. In the West there has been a need to have everything explained to us; this is logical as Japanese martial arts are outside of our culture, things that the Japanese take as given we find puzzling, hence the need to explain, ...

This is an interesting theme. I think that we have to realise that we may all have fallen victim to martial arts myths, some of us may have even invented a few ourselves, but as in all learning scenarios your ideas and opinions should be open to change. Instructors in particular are prone to what I ...