Rault7,

There articles references the possiblity that a woman may be drugged at a party against their will but seem drunk.

Would you react the same way with a friend vs a stanger? In both cases would you leave them to their consequences?

Dana

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote The reason we hit with the index and middle knuckles has to do with the anatomy of the hand. Uechij - what I'm suggesting is that perhaps the anatomy is what is different. I tried for 5 years to punch with the fist you descri...

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote ...you have to learn to seperate the mat from the mattress. Just remember which one is more important to your overall quality of life. If the mat affects the mattress too much, then stop working out with each other on the mat...

Hello turbotort2000, Thanks for posting. I have some thoughts - but first I have a couple of questions. Do you now train in the same school -- i.e. are you her instructor? Or if you train in different schools is it the same style? Since some styles train differently this may be a place to figure out...

Hey Bill, Thanks for the invite. However we are two years overdue on a visit to Bruce H. in Atlanta -- and I promsied him I'd get down there this spring. I don't think the budget would support two karate travels in one season....if I had a million dollars.... But I'm not saying no entirely. Let me k...

http://geocities.com/dmsdc/weaponsfists.html



I drew some lines to represent the line a weapon would extend from the fists.

Thanks Tony!!!!

Dana

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uglyelk said: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote Elbows down on sanchin thrusts, what about,shoken fist, hiraken strikes,seiken strikes doesn't work here. Uglyelk - I'm not quite sure what you mean by the above. Elbow down works for every strike. Every strike ...

Allen, I don't think I understand how the shoulders can keep an elbow from popping if that elbow is turned all the way out. I just tried what you're talking about. Nakamatsu's methods are not far from what you train with Van. And no matter how hard I pull down on my lats, obliques, and abs & tra...

Also - lots of Uechika are puching with their elbows at a 90 degree angle to the ground instead of having their elbows pointing at the ground. The peoeple I met at camp who said they had shoulder or elbow pain were the ones that did their thrusts with their elbows perpendicular to the ground. If you...

http://members.tripod.com/alandnay/eye_of_the_phoenix.htm

I think this might be a drawing to match 2green's description.

Dana

Tony-san, please post picts of your fists. Maybe many peopel will. I think it would interesting to see the range of how ppl make fists. Maybe we could get several pple to do several fists: seiken, shoken, hirken, bushken (I think there's several interpretations of that one) sokusen, shuto, nukite, e...

2 green - I tried what you explained - and it doesn't work for me. No matter where I put my fingers, when I really crank down on my little and ring finger, they curl down more into the angle of the picture. I can put my fingers above the fleshy pad on my palm, or in the middle. When I put my fingers...

Hey Rory -- yes. The book is amazing. And, it's no joke -- at least not for me. http://www.xpres.net/~gmattson/ubbs/smile.gif I've had more than one teacher "correct" my wrist angle without looking at what my knuckles are doing in relation to my arm. Then I go to hit something hard with my...

http://www.geocities.com/dmsdc/hgfist.html This is the fist of a guy in the office who has never done any martial arts, squeezing as hard as he can. The reason I did it with each of us making as tight a fist as possible is so that our bodies would try to optimize the position to recruit as many mus...

http://www.geocities.com/dmsdc/dsfist.html

a picture of my fist - squeezing as hard as I can.

Dana

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