BWAHAHAHA... Ook, you my superior now. me ashamed...thereisnosaurusAugust 12 2004, 01:14:15 UTC
good going and great work on the grading, and I can understand the feeling of getting it completely- I am almost there myself, so, uh, I can kind of get the idea... but seriously... Jumping back-kick? we don't do that till second dan... Damn, that's a difficult one to pull off. We do sidekick, turning kick, front kick, forward elbow strike, reverse punch and sidestrike w/ knifehand for first dan... much easier than your lot, however we do do them in a row with no rests :x.
once again, really good going ;) this was stefan, case you needed the info...
Re: BWAHAHAHA... Ook, you my superior now. me ashamed...serpentbloodAugust 12 2004, 11:28:58 UTC
Dude....I can't be your senior. We're doing different martial arts. AND SINCE WHEN DO YOU HAVE AN LJ?! You should have told me. Am friending you now.
BTW, when are you going for blackbelt? And yeah, like D_eye said, the way our grading works is entirely random. If you ask someone when a grading starts, the answer is "When Master Rhee says so." The same is true for the how the grading is set out.
seniority by demonstrationthereisnosaurusAugust 12 2004, 13:31:35 UTC
I cannot but assume that national is indeed the best style :P, but I must also acknowledge (unlike our instructors) that there are indeed other styles and they are indeed as good as/better than ours in some respects. in any case, I'm only going for my intermediate black, so you'll still theoreticaly be my senior if I grade (intermediate is a grade for teenagers only, a prooving ground that they're good enough to try for fully qualified 1st dan. we only have to sidekick through 2 planks, turning kick throung 1, front kick through 1 and punch or knife strike through 1. not much). and I still have 4 months to go before I grade for that one. Based on all evidense, I acknowledge you as my senior untill so proved otherwise (meaning if you try and take me on I will pulverise you to prove my superiority, and probably get kicked out of the school for it
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Re: seniority by demonstrationserpentbloodAugust 12 2004, 14:03:52 UTC
Ok...you have an intermediate black? WTF is that? We have junior blackbelt for anyone under 16, and senior belt (or 1st dan) for anyone 16 or older. If you're under 16 but your instructor thinks you're qualified to go for senior belt, you can probably try out. The boards we break are also completely at random. Women aren't allowed to break boards with a punch, so we usually do knife hand strikes. Sometimes we have a 1 board turning kick, sometimes spinning heel, sometimes back kick, sometimes jumping back kick. But you always have to do 2 boards sidekick. If you're going for junior black you can only break 1 board sidekick, but you also have to do a flying side kick over 3-4 people your own size and break 1 board. Okay, I fully intend to pop onto your LJ every now and then. Have you friended me?
our intermediate is your junior, but it's more like 16-20, cause I've never heard of anyone under 16 getting a black belt in national. and yes, I have friended you
Re: pretty muchserpentbloodAugust 23 2004, 04:17:39 UTC
Well, you do get soem kids who are really good. Their breaks aren't as difficult, the grading itself is no less testing. If you go for a junior belt, most of the time you have to jump over three or four people your own height and break a board in a flying sidekick. They also do some single board breaks, and just as much sparring as the seniors, so the under sixteens who get their blackbelts were certainly deserving of them.
Re: seniority by demonstrationthereisnosaurusAugust 22 2004, 12:57:22 UTC
if you want to start dissing National, you're gonna have to take me out first ;). for me, national is the best style. they are ridiculously strict, make no compromises, train hard and have possibly one of the best philosophies I have seen in my life, not just in martial arts. we may be descended from you, but then again, we are like darth vader. 'now I am the master' we may be evil, but we can kick your arse :P. Of course, I understand that Re(sp)TKD is a valid style, but it is a different style, so the two cannot be compared really, despite my attempt above. it's like trying to get a taekwondo master to judge a juditsu contest. it doesn't work.
It's just every time I seem to mention national anyone in any other style starts bagging the crap out of it for some reason, what gives?
I'm not too sure about the history, cause it, like with most schools, is given out more like propaganda. I'm pretty sure it started out in adelaide with mr Allan Byrne, who's currently our chief instructor/examiner, then moved up to canberra about 35-40 years ago, and since then has expanded to hobart and melbourne. we've been going strong since then. that's really all the history I can get, I believe Allan's training was in korea with one of the original style masters, but Rhee thinks he was one of theirs until he founded national. I dunno, could be true
but seriously... Jumping back-kick? we don't do that till second dan... Damn, that's a difficult one to pull off. We do sidekick, turning kick, front kick, forward elbow strike, reverse punch and sidestrike w/ knifehand for first dan... much easier than your lot, however we do do them in a row with no rests :x.
once again, really good going ;)
this was stefan, case you needed the info...
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AND SINCE WHEN DO YOU HAVE AN LJ?! You should have told me. Am friending you now.
BTW, when are you going for blackbelt?
And yeah, like D_eye said, the way our grading works is entirely random. If you ask someone when a grading starts, the answer is "When Master Rhee says so." The same is true for the how the grading is set out.
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We have junior blackbelt for anyone under 16, and senior belt (or 1st dan) for anyone 16 or older. If you're under 16 but your instructor thinks you're qualified to go for senior belt, you can probably try out.
The boards we break are also completely at random. Women aren't allowed to break boards with a punch, so we usually do knife hand strikes. Sometimes we have a 1 board turning kick, sometimes spinning heel, sometimes back kick, sometimes jumping back kick. But you always have to do 2 boards sidekick.
If you're going for junior black you can only break 1 board sidekick, but you also have to do a flying side kick over 3-4 people your own size and break 1 board.
Okay, I fully intend to pop onto your LJ every now and then. Have you friended me?
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I'm not too sure about the history, cause it, like with most schools, is given out more like propaganda. I'm pretty sure it started out in adelaide with mr Allan Byrne, who's currently our chief instructor/examiner, then moved up to canberra about 35-40 years ago, and since then has expanded to hobart and melbourne. we've been going strong since then. that's really all the history I can get, I believe Allan's training was in korea with one of the original style masters, but Rhee thinks he was one of theirs until he founded national. I dunno, could be true
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