Martial Arts in The Karate Kid & Cobra Kai Infographic

Did a simple infographic about the martial arts used in the series. It’s hard to summarise with just a few words. Hope you like it! 🤓

You can read more of martial arts trivia in the show at Den of Geek.

Karate Saturday Part 2

Two weeks ago I was working night shifts, so only got a single Karate session in. This passed week didn't get any training done, but can't complain, lovely time in Italy. So, today, off to Garswood Goju Ryu for the morning session and then up to Blackrod for the afternoon session.

Here's a couple of clips from Kata practice.

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Miyagi-Do Karate - Created by CoD Designs

Design is available for sale at the artist’s TeePublic shop.

Friendship Tournament:

weapons: 2nd place 🥈

kata: 3rd place 🥉

sparring: 3rd place 🥉

Karate History

A History Of Goju Ryu Karate-Do In the run-up to our 'Goju Gathering' next weekend, I share a few YouTube videos to explain things.

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https://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=xLRBXgvdhJ4

Sometimes I feel very hesitant to give myself any praise, and even more hesitant to share my accomplishments. I'm sure I'm not alone when it comes to this.

6 years ago, I received my orange belt in Goju-Ryu. Shortly after that, I suffered a partially dislocated shoulder sparring in a tournament, though I didn't realize that's what the injury was until more recently. Despite being in agony, I continued to fight (because I'm stupid), winning that match and going on to take home silver in my division, but probably messing up my shoulder and arm worse than I needed to. That and a subsequent lower back injury related to a slip & fall on black ice sidelined me, and I gave up karate. My shoulder was never quite the same, and I constantly dealt with pain and reduced function in my left arm.

In July of 2021, with my back healed, and my shoulder feeling somewhat better, I returned to the dojo to continue training.

This coincided with the lifting of covid lockdown, and although we could work out and train, there was no contact, no sparring. Everyone was in rough shape after lockdown lethargy. Once sparring was allowed again, I enthusiastically donned my gear, and in my very first practice match, in exactly the same way as I'd injured myself the first time (my jab being stiffly deflected with an upper block), my shoulder was instantly popped out of the socket - full dislocation. I didn't know such pain was even possible.

Sensei put a makeshift sling on it before my spouse rushed me to the hospital. I'm extremely fortunate that the ER wasn't busy. I was seen within 30 minutes, put under within 90 minutes, and the doctor slid it back in with minimal damage to the capsule. I'm incredibly thankful for their skillful and efficient work, and for Canadian healthcare. I walked out less than 2 hours after being admitted, though I had a long road to recovery ahead of me.

This time, despite the injury being technically worse, I refused to let it stop me from going to the dojo, though my ability to train was obviously hampered and somewhat limited.

It took physio and a lot of hard work, and while I still have to be careful with it, my shoulder and arm are much better now. Ironically, because of the clean dislocation and skillful procedure to place it back in, I actually don't feel the constant sharp pain running down my arm that I did for years after the partial dislocation, which I never sought treatment for. (Again, because I'm stupid.)

Today I was graded for (and earned) my green belt. Yes, my head absolutely looks like a ripe tomato after that workout.

I know I'm not the most stalwart student at the dojo. Goju-Ryu is a constant battle with one's self. I struggle to retain Japanese terms and commands. I struggle to remember my kata. Sometimes, I struggle to simply motivate myself to show up.

But in the end, I guess that's what it's all about. As one of our dojo's Senseis put it, regardless of rank, we train each time like we're brand-spanking new white belts, because we never stop learning and finding ways to improve our practice. We push through the mental frustration, and the physical exhaustion, and never fail to come away a little wiser.

先週土曜日は空手のトーナメント🥋🏆💯

先週土曜日は、長女の空手のトーナメントがありました。今回は3人の中で1人しか参加出来なかったため、ずっと試合に出たいと言っていた長女だけが試合に出ました。型(形や演武といった言葉も有り)と試合があって、結果は型が3位、試合が1位でした。 今回初めて加工無しで、長女の顏を少し紹介。↓ 今回の対戦相手は、長女より少し体が大きい男の子。長女は同世代の女の子達と比べると、身長が約150センチ、体重が約40キロと大きい方です。私の身長が約156センチなので、それほど変わりません。あ、体重は私の方が重いですが…。(笑) 対戦相手が分かった時、私は彼女に2回聞きました。「対戦相手が男の子だけど、大丈夫？」って。でも、「うん、大丈夫。ママ、心配してるの？」と言ってきたので、私は「Good luck (頑張りなさい)!…

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The History Of Ron Van Clief ( The Black Dragon) REACTION

Watch "Kime and Speed equals Power #shorts #kata #karate" on YouTube

Karate A montage from last weekends grading - enjoy. #martialarts #karate #karatedo #traditionalkarate #gojuryu #gojuryukaratedo

If you're still giving your thoughts on fighting game characters, I'd like to hear what you think about makoto sf3

one of the best designed characters in street fighter history, in my Fucking opinion! watching this sprite over and over again just s creams goju ryu. i think she emphasizes a very particular style of karate that characters like Ryu/Ken//Other traditional shotos don't. (Lidia does a similar version to it -- at the very least, 'in feeling,' even though hers is sport oriented)

i am not very good at 3s, though with the next iteration of my controller i hope to be a lot better at it. makoto is on my short list of characters to Really Try learning and see if i vibe with. she is very...

how you say... Snappy.

my entire life i have wished i was more like her

Fun Fax: OLM Chapter 12

THIS HURT SO MUCH TO WRITE SHDKFJ LEMME TELL YOU. but also, so very fun! writing panic, spiraling thought patterns, and the snappy, warring ideas and emotions is something i enjoy immensely, and this is one of the first times i really get to do it in this fic

in ways, this chapter was one of the easiest to write in a long time, probably because i knew almost exactly how it would go. however, it was edited a TON and i trimmed about 400 words off before publishing

one of the sections trimmed was Jin briefly asking Kaz's favorite color to fill the silence (purple, btw), but it was cut because of the crazy word count, and to make room for the bit where they talk abt Lee! another cut bit was Jin doing a kata with Kaz, again cut for word count

for the record, i originally had Kaz and Lee younger when they met, but after the first draft the wiki got updated with a source saying Lee was 12 when he was adopted. as the source was an old japanese manual that i couldn’t read, i couldnt dispute it, and begrudgedly aged them appropriately. i’m still mad dhjs

Kazuya’s “hands only” line and training sentiment was based on how Heihachi trains Jin in Bloodline! im figuring they were trained similarly enough, or at the very least it was something Heihachi used on Kazuya growing up as well, so i wanted that to carry over

the kata i have Kazuya start with is based very much on Sanchin Kata, a Goju-Ryu style one that i have mentioned in Fun Fax before - in reference to Heihachi. this doesnt mean anything in particular, but i do find it interesting that this unfortunate sequence starts with Kazuya copying his father

the whole slow build up to Kazuya snapping and telling Jin the most traumatic event of his entire life out of spite is a concept i had VERY early for this fic - the first version of that scene was written back in february 2023! that version was a lot less, uh, mean, and more unfortunate than anything else. he didnt make jin really upset (on purpose) in that one 😬 art for that draft version HERE

the “If I wanted you to know me, I would have stuck around, wouldn’t I?” line had me screaming into my hands and my jaw dropped when i first thought of it. HES SO MEAN HES SO MEAN WHY IS HE SO MEAN

i have SO MUCH FUN writing juvenile Jin, oh my gosh. his petulance and inner monologue (”that jerk,” “whatever,”), his teenagerness is so fun to work with, and im gonna miss it when it eventually has to go with his maturity 😭 but not his moodiness! thats here to stay, or its not Jin sdjf

me writing “a gun to his head” in reference to jin

extra, one of my betas literally got a bag of popcorn to read because the drama in this chapter was so good to her hdksjd. the other was lamenting and saying "i hate this man" aloud, and even commented "DIE YOU BASTARD" on the doc itself sdhfjk

ALSO. just wanna say. this chapter was fully written ages before the release of 8, and i nailed a few lines without even knowing hdskbd. kaz being impressed with jins resilience, “little shit,” tiny things but things nonetheless lol

yeah i genuinely think martial arts are good for you. at the same time i do also recognise that some of the more traditional ones or the ones that have strong military roots sometimes (often) have 100% crazy coaches which is not good unless you are me in which case it's great but it's still a bad thing that they're like this. but gays have to get back into sports and when i say gays i mean transgender too the point is. do sports and construct not very intricate rituals to become familiar with the body and the connections it forms . and also especially combat sports because it is good and fun to fight and also then if you need to fight a wrestling trainer at a protest you're not all the way fucked. but martial arts are good like they're just fun and can sometimes but not often be useful. also sorry to do this over anon. goju ryu is cool i really like it it has really gool grappling too which i personally love

yeah i mean realistically ur not really gonna be in a situation where you need to properly fight someone except if your friends have a very confrtonational nature and keep getting into figjts in bars but thats just my personal experience. what was i talking about. yeah do some combat sports its good for you