It's official, this thread is now...

Regarding the "problem" police have controlling an unruly crowd: Check out Vidmag 13. . . Jim Maloney's excellent pressure point course. . . demonstrates that there are lots of ways to quietly and without fanfare, convince someone to move, lie down or whatever. If you are a police officer...

Douglas Schoen, a veteran Democratic Party pollster who has also worked for Mayor Michael Bloomberg, sent a researcher from his polling firm down to Zuccotti Park last week to conduct what appears to be the very first professional survey of the protesters in New York. {snip} Schoen finds reason to ...

Health insurance is one aspect I forgot about, but one that should be considered.

And the founders of MACP were BJJ guys. Heck, you can even watch MACP guys fight in the ring on the Pentagon Channel.
But that's another topic than the one about the economy and karate.

The term "traditional" vs. "modern" bugs me, Mike. Bothers me too Bill, maybe long term versus contemporary methods that move a student along faster? but it isn't the place where our troops or LEOs go to learn their trade. Well for better or worse it is one of the places that th...

Hope it all works out for you Victor. 3) People/students want to see a clear path to their ROI -- consequently the schools which provide an obvious product or service or a clear path to "martial arts success" seem to be doing alright. I'm willing to speculate this is why the BB factories o...

Hi Bill, hope you're doing well! It seems that the two types of groups/schools that are surviving are the long timers like Dong (been in a location forever) and the long timers who have moved more times than most can count (they just seem used to change and carry on). I agree that nonprofit clubs wi...

Recently I was catching up with some old karate buddies and the conversation dropped over to whose schools were surviving, which have closed, were close to closing or have moved into the local rec center. We talked some about how the changes in schools hit us and what we were trying for a given situ...

Cultural references can be hard to get across. Plyo should be easier for a Westerner to understand, and see on youtube, than mochi.
Can't wait to hear more Bill!

I'm following you both, really I am. And I'm loving the discussion. But I'm still not making myself clear. I guess the simplest way of stating it is this......when I watch people practice typical "Uechi" kata slowly, they don't look like this. I'll bring it up with Rick sensei Monday nigh...

And those numbers don't really have any bearing on the discussion. A lot more people play baseball and softball so those numbers would naturally be high. Same with everything else on that list. I'm going to take a crazy wild ass guess and thing that kids who shoot or carry handguns as an activity w...

Agreed.
I'm not a fan of "facts" being quoted that don't show where they were copied from, and I especially find them suspect when they aren't sourced to actual studies.

I think that may be more of a deterrent than a well concealed weapon. After all I think most of us who can carry concealed do so in order not to draw the attention of the average person.

And those numbers don't really have any bearing on the discussion. A lot more people play baseball and softball so those numbers would naturally be high. Same with everything else on that list. I'm going to take a crazy wild ass guess and thing that kids who shoot or carry handguns as an activity wo...