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26 Feb 2008, 8:09 am

Kumdo to me has slowly started to become a life style for me due the teachings from my Sabumnim Young J. Park and higher belts like GMU Kumdo Club President 1st Dan Andy Jung.

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01 Mar 2008, 5:12 pm

JerryHatake wrote:

Hey I was just wondering if their are any other aspies out on WP who do a martial art.

I have done Kumdo for a year as of the 29 of this month.

I've been into karate my whole life, pretty much. Everyone with AS should think about doing a martial art, both for self protection and to help develop motor skills.

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01 Mar 2008, 6:58 pm

I practiced a Korean form called Pa Sa Ryu for about two years. My sensei was actually the one who founded the style, a man by the name of Kang Rhee. (He trained Elvis Presley back in the day, so it was kind of cool.) The belt hiearchy was thus.. White, Yellow, Blue, Green, Purple, Brown, Red, and then Black. I got up to blue belt, but then I stopped because my family moved, and I haven't been back since. I still enjoy martial arts, however.

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02 Mar 2008, 2:35 am

Roxas_XIII wrote:

Wait wouldn't be yellow, green, purple, blue, brown, red then the nine levels of black.

Sabumnim would also be the Korean word for Master.

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02 Mar 2008, 2:26 pm

Ah, thank you. And no, the both of us are wrong (i just realized this) its White, Yellow, GREEN, BLUE, Purple, Brown, Red, and the 10 degrees of Black

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02 Mar 2008, 9:40 pm

Roxas_XIII wrote:

Ah, thank you. And no, the both of us are wrong (i just realized this) its White, Yellow, GREEN, BLUE, Purple, Brown, Red, and the 10 degrees of Black

In Kumdo its white, yellow, green, purple, blue, brown, red, red one, red two, then 1st Dan to 9th Dan for the black belts.

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03 Mar 2008, 12:56 pm

Anyone know who Denis Kang is? He is an MMA fighter who fought in Pride FC and K-1 Hero's. I got to train with him on Saturday (he did a seminar at my gym), then he went out with us and we saw UFC 82 together... it was great!

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03 Mar 2008, 5:06 pm

I was at my happiest/calmest when I did Muay Thai. I had to give it up to go to uni, and have since developed problems with my hip joints which prevents me from going back
I hope to get some reassurance next week from the orthapedic specialist that I can start going again. Fingers crossed.

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03 Mar 2008, 5:29 pm

googlewhack wrote:

I was at my happiest/calmest when I did Muay Thai. I had to give it up to go to uni, and have since developed problems with my hip joints which prevents me from going back

I hope to get some reassurance next week from the orthapedic specialist that I can start going again. Fingers crossed.

I actually saw the Human Weapons episode dealing with Muay Thai and I found it pretty interesting.

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04 Mar 2008, 6:02 am

that episode was... *hurm*
not that much informative, to say the least.

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04 Mar 2008, 7:56 am

gekitsu wrote:

that episode was... *hurm*
not that much informative, to say the least.

Well true do it was an hour and they only train for five days.
It might just brought more attention toward the art I think.

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04 Mar 2008, 8:16 am

yeah, thats probably true... but it didnt lessen the disappointment that everyone involved with mt expected from it.

i mean, its quite clear that you cant encompass the simplistic beauty of it all, its cultural value, what role it plays socially in thailand etcetera... in a one-hour-episode or a five-day stay. but then, it was utterly ridicolous to have a host whos sold as someone versed in the whole martial arts thing comment that he hadnt thought of turning the hip over when kicking in all the years of his training... like, DUH!

so, ultimately, its the question whether any publicity is better than no publicity at all or rather have no publicity than crappy publicity.

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04 Mar 2008, 8:31 am

gekitsu wrote:

I know what you mean when the Mason Kumdo Club went to 2007 William and Mary Kendo Tournament everyone thought we were easy-picking and instead we took the no rank division, third in the 1st/2nd Dan division and second in team. Afterwards somebody went and complain about us for training too hard and mean things about us. Now thats crappy publicity but we were put on the map because of William and Mary.

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04 Mar 2008, 6:08 pm

gekitsu wrote:

so, ultimately, its the question whether any publicity is better than no publicity at all or rather have no publicity than crappy publicity.

Given the current very low level of public knowledge of Muay Thai I'd say it's certainly better than no publicity. Most people I speak to think it is just like Kick-boxing or even worse like their Tae Bo class

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That's awesome Space! Dennis Kang is a legend. That's pretty cool that you got to watch UFC 82 with him. Do you know if he has any plans to fight in the UFC? I've heard he's a nice guy, he certainly comes across that way in the interviews I've seen him in.

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04 Mar 2008, 8:06 pm

Black belt in Tai Kwon Do, some Tai Chi Chuan, and currently taking Aikido.

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11 Mar 2008, 12:09 am

I did karate in my 20's. I got to 1st Dan. It gets a bit harder when you get old and creaky, but it was fun.

P.S. Also good for meeting guys...

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