Hi all,

Several of us on the west coast have been planning a one-day Fall Camp for Saturday, September 23, 2000. It will be held on the California coast on Monterey Bay. The weather is usually spectacular in September, and we are looking forward to a great day for an even greater workout.

For ...

Adam,

I just had someone contact me this weekend regarding Uechi-Ryu dojos in LA. If you email me (click on my name below), I'll make sure you get his email address and vica versa.

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Duane

Great topic, and lots of good responses. Others have posted most of what I would have contributed, so I'll keep it brief. Here's my $0.02

I like the bridging kata. I believe they have tremendous value to those who wish to look deep into the katas. I really started to appreciate them when I started ...

Len,

Thanks for the compliment on my website.

Regarding whether I favor 3 or 8 kata, I might not have been very clear in my first post. Personally, I like to focus the majority of my own training on the three main kata. However, I prefer to teach all eight because I am continually revisiting all ...

Duane C,

Interesting how you post on a Topic that has degraded to mere name calling and mud slinging.

How odd that you do not post on the two other "serious" topics that I started.

So far you have only exhibited childish behaviour. I do not wish to play your games. I grew up a long time ago ...

Mule wrote
...I want to see my son progress through junior rank levels but I want who ever the instructor is to stress that my son's belt is a junior grade and I may even go as far as requesting that my son wear a white belt and simply acquire colored stripes or where a colored belt with a white ...

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As long as I can annoy you my good Doctor I'll stay. You can cut and paste my posts, critique them to pieces if you like.

You really are being childish.

You are so knowledgable and your "cup" is so full that ...

ATTEN:EVERYONE.
I will no longer be posting at this Forum due to the fact that censorship is held in higher regard than freedom of speech.

Sounds like a lot of crying to me....
I, for one, am glad to see you go. Most people who post here act like Ladies and Gentlemen. You, sir, act like a ...

...By the way, someone once mentioned that it is improper to call anyone Sensei except your own teacher...

I spent a little time trying to learn the Japanese language. I found it interesting that the term "sensei" is used for a) teachers, b) college professors, and c) policemen (or for the PC ...

Bummer!

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Duane

MHO,

...the emotional damage that occurs when a person (especially a man) avoids a physical fight by walking away from it or talks his way out of it...

True, but only if you believe that you have lost your battle by so doing. It is just as possible to believe you have won your battle by walking ...

Or how about...
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Sir Ernest Rutherford, President of the Royal Academy, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, related the following story:

Some time ago I received a call from a colleague. He was about to give a student a ...