List Your Martial Arts Background

[kuri]

Originally Posted by jvernacchio

When you love something its really hard to let it go. I miss the training and the competitions. It's hard realizing that you can't do something anymore but when a injury keeps rearing its ugly head time after time you know its time to let things go.

Yep, we all can't be Randy Coutures... I'd love to grapple again but just can't convince my knees & back that all will be fine. Stupid knees.

[iamfire]

Morning,

I did jujitsu in college but lost my nerve after awhile. 6 months ago, I enrolled my kids and myself in a Goju-ryu karate center and haven't looked back since.

My favorite activities are kendo and sparring.

Enjoy,

[bacardio]

While my journey in the MA world has been pretty short compared to alot of you, I will give it a short.

1990: National Karate (Taekwondo), Apple Valley, MN

1993-1995: Gross's Academy of Taekwondo, Grand Forks, ND

2005-present: At 35, picked up the MA bug after enrolling my daughter into the National Karate (Taekwondo) school in Ramsey, MN. Should receive my black belt next summer/fall. Then the journey really starts.


Chris Correia, question for you sir, since you aren't that far from where I live (OK, a couple hundred miles, but you still might be able to answer this )

Do you know of any good Judo/Aikido schools in the NE metro here in the twin cities. While, I won't be giving up on my TKD, I have had many instructors tell me that my body build is much more developed for a grappling art . Thanks

[Chris Correia]

Originally Posted by bacardio

Chris Correia, question for you sir, since you aren't that far from where I live (OK, a couple hundred miles, but you still might be able to answer this )

Do you know of any good Judo/Aikido schools in the NE metro here in the twin cities. While, I won't be giving up on my TKD, I have had many instructors tell me that my body build is much more developed for a grappling art . Thanks

Sorry, I do not.

That body type assessment is overrated. If you like it, do it. Keep practicing, and you will make progress. Often our most significant accomplishments and satisfaction come from the things that challenge us the most, or run counter to our nature.

As more of a traditionalist, I'd strongly encourage you to make your choice and stick with it at least through black belt. I say that out of the matter of focusing and learning, as well as that of loyalty to one's instructor and art.

In our tradition of schools, one generally wouldn't even consider starting to explore anything outside of our system until master instructor level, and not even really then. Even at color belt, we get more than just straight taekwondo, but moreso after black belt. We have quite a bit available to us within our system/family. At black belt level, we have some additional aspects to training, as well as an expanded array of arts, that are presented to us. But, to me, 10 years in an art is just a beginning.

Best wishes to you for your training. Feel free to keep us posted or to ask any more questions. Oh yeah: I'll be seeing some taekwondo masters from the twin cities area in early January at our local tournament here. I'll try to keep your question in mind, and see if anyone has any leads.

[bacardio]

Originally Posted by Chris Correia

Sorry, I do not.

That body type assessment is overrated. If you like it, do it. Keep practicing, and you will make progress. Often our most significant accomplishments and satisfaction come from the things that challenge us the most, or run counter to our nature.

As more of a traditionalist, I'd strongly encourage you to make your choice and stick with it at least through black belt. I say that out of the matter of focusing and learning, as well as that of loyalty to one's instructor and art.

In our tradition of schools, one generally wouldn't even consider starting to explore anything outside of our system until master instructor level, and not even really then. Even at color belt, we get more than just straight taekwondo, but moreso after black belt. We have quite a bit available to us within our system/family. At black belt level, we have some additional aspects to training, as well as an expanded array of arts, that are presented to us. But, to me, 10 years in an art is just a beginning.

Best wishes to you for your training. Feel free to keep us posted or to ask any more questions. Oh yeah: I'll be seeing some taekwondo masters from the twin cities area in early January at our local tournament here. I'll try to keep your question in mind, and see if anyone has any leads.

Thanks Chris, I don't plan on working on any other discipline until I have achieved my black belt ( I hope have that in the next 8-10 months, *crossing fingers and saying quick prayer*) and even then I won't stop with my TKD, but adding an extra facet of training that I know I won't get in my current school. I hope that make sense??

Do you every get down to the cities for the Diamond Nationals or any of the other tournaments?