August 20th, 2011
Cherry's Karate will be hosting a form and self-defense seminar open to all ATF school students. The seminar will be taught in two sessions, both on that Saturday, August 20, 2011, with a break for food or drink which you may choose to pack and bring for yourself.
Grandmaster Chon will not only be present but will be the primary instructor of the seminar.
Please see your instructor for more details.
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Friday, May 6, 2011
Upcoming Calendar Events
Friday, May 6th
5 and 6 pm classes as normal.
7pm class is canceled due to the Federation Black Belt Ceremony in Uniontown, PA
Thursday, May 12 - Wed. May 18
All Classes are canceled for this week due to Master Christopher's wedding. Classes will resume, as normal at 5pm on Thursday, May 19th.
Saturday, June 4th
10 AM - All Students Color Belt and Black Belt Pre-Test
Thank you, to all my students for your dedication and hardwork!
Train Hard.
Tang Soo!
- Sabunim Christopher
5 and 6 pm classes as normal.
7pm class is canceled due to the Federation Black Belt Ceremony in Uniontown, PA
Thursday, May 12 - Wed. May 18
All Classes are canceled for this week due to Master Christopher's wedding. Classes will resume, as normal at 5pm on Thursday, May 19th.
Saturday, June 4th
10 AM - All Students Color Belt and Black Belt Pre-Test
Thank you, to all my students for your dedication and hardwork!
Train Hard.
Tang Soo!
- Sabunim Christopher
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Benefits of Training
In the Modern Age we can often give self-defense a second... third.... last.... glance on the list of things that are important to us. Until it is too late and we need the skills that we didn't have.
Beyond the psychic (mental and emotional benefits) that martial arts offer, there are very real, pragmatic tools that freqeunt training imparts. Months of training can be necessary, at an intense rate. This isn't to say that there are not tools that can be learned in the course of a single seminar, or "tricks" of self-defense that cannot be learned in a moment. But fundamentlal tools take more, and only to basic proficiency in a short time. Sports coaches recognize this. This is true of all things. Otherwise continuous traiing would not be part of sports programs and most places employment would not demand continuing training and education.
2,3, or 5 years might seem like a long time to achieve a "Black Belt Status" in a school. In perspective it can also take 4 years to gain a starting Varsity position in most High School, or College programs. There are always execptional prodigies, but just like in high school sprot programs the advice is this: learning and drilling the fundamentals will never go away. And if you want to teach others, you have to work for perfection, where there is never an end. Even as a Master Instructor I think about how to refine my low blocks, center punchs, and hook kicks.
There are two reasons we pass over things: fear and pride. Don't let the timing scare you. And don't think yourself so perfect that you don't need training. Too often is it said "I don't want anything to do with fighting or dangerous situations so it doesn't apply to me" and "I think I can handle myself so I don't need training" until a fight descends upon you then it does apply to you and you do need the training.
Beyond the psychic (mental and emotional benefits) that martial arts offer, there are very real, pragmatic tools that freqeunt training imparts. Months of training can be necessary, at an intense rate. This isn't to say that there are not tools that can be learned in the course of a single seminar, or "tricks" of self-defense that cannot be learned in a moment. But fundamentlal tools take more, and only to basic proficiency in a short time. Sports coaches recognize this. This is true of all things. Otherwise continuous traiing would not be part of sports programs and most places employment would not demand continuing training and education.
2,3, or 5 years might seem like a long time to achieve a "Black Belt Status" in a school. In perspective it can also take 4 years to gain a starting Varsity position in most High School, or College programs. There are always execptional prodigies, but just like in high school sprot programs the advice is this: learning and drilling the fundamentals will never go away. And if you want to teach others, you have to work for perfection, where there is never an end. Even as a Master Instructor I think about how to refine my low blocks, center punchs, and hook kicks.
There are two reasons we pass over things: fear and pride. Don't let the timing scare you. And don't think yourself so perfect that you don't need training. Too often is it said "I don't want anything to do with fighting or dangerous situations so it doesn't apply to me" and "I think I can handle myself so I don't need training" until a fight descends upon you then it does apply to you and you do need the training.
Monday, May 2, 2011
New Classes
5:05 - Class : Childrean - T and Th All - MWF
6:05 - Class : All Students
7:05 - Class : Adults - T and Th All - MWF
Private Classes are available by appointment.
At-Home Lessons available by appointment. Please see our (service marks:) My Mobile Dojo and My Mobile Dojang page, and inquire by email or phone.
manderinomartialarts@gmail.com
724 - 610 - 5029
6:05 - Class : All Students
7:05 - Class : Adults - T and Th All - MWF
Private Classes are available by appointment.
At-Home Lessons available by appointment. Please see our (service marks:) My Mobile Dojo and My Mobile Dojang page, and inquire by email or phone.
manderinomartialarts@gmail.com
724 - 610 - 5029
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Evolution: Karate and Ground Game
I think it is a huge mistake to limit karate to being a "stand-up" art. I also think it is a shame of what American Karate looks like and what passes at excellence.
That being said. We mostly don't know any better- as a whole. To the majority of people, karate is like a mystified version of kickboxing- which we understanding " 'cuz it's like boxing with kicks in there, so it's better."
There is so much more to karate than this. There is the individualistic, systematic, and focused study of distance, position and balance. Footwork comes later to the game. Grants, we want to study these and grow through them evenly, all at once, but it doesn't mean that we only pick one to be really good at. If my footwork is GREAT, but my balance is mediocre, I will be a mediocre fighter.
Karate has a certain ground game of its own. How often have you seen "grapplers" in the UFC kick while on their side or back to an opponent trying to get in. This isn't just "some trick, it's karate. Sometimes you see a scissors leg take down. The initial response is, yeah, but that's pure BJJ. No, it's not. For just as long as judo banned these kinds of techniques in tournament, karate encouraged them (along with the standing leg take-down, front, back, and double leg sweep, and the knee-mount). Flying Arm-bar: It's the step-over, kick, armbar upside down.
Despite all of this, there is one thing I want to be clear on: Karate does not do movement of body on body on the ground. Now, this isn't to say that it cannot, it simply doesn't. In the future it is my hope to take an analysis of grappling from a tangsudo-ist's standpoint, but for now I will let this suffice. Karate doesn't because it presumes to not want it. Right or wrong, the art has a built in presumption that if something goes to the ground, it better not be you, and if it is, you better be on top, in control and finishing it.
Train right. Train hard.
That being said. We mostly don't know any better- as a whole. To the majority of people, karate is like a mystified version of kickboxing- which we understanding " 'cuz it's like boxing with kicks in there, so it's better."
There is so much more to karate than this. There is the individualistic, systematic, and focused study of distance, position and balance. Footwork comes later to the game. Grants, we want to study these and grow through them evenly, all at once, but it doesn't mean that we only pick one to be really good at. If my footwork is GREAT, but my balance is mediocre, I will be a mediocre fighter.
Karate has a certain ground game of its own. How often have you seen "grapplers" in the UFC kick while on their side or back to an opponent trying to get in. This isn't just "some trick, it's karate. Sometimes you see a scissors leg take down. The initial response is, yeah, but that's pure BJJ. No, it's not. For just as long as judo banned these kinds of techniques in tournament, karate encouraged them (along with the standing leg take-down, front, back, and double leg sweep, and the knee-mount). Flying Arm-bar: It's the step-over, kick, armbar upside down.
Despite all of this, there is one thing I want to be clear on: Karate does not do movement of body on body on the ground. Now, this isn't to say that it cannot, it simply doesn't. In the future it is my hope to take an analysis of grappling from a tangsudo-ist's standpoint, but for now I will let this suffice. Karate doesn't because it presumes to not want it. Right or wrong, the art has a built in presumption that if something goes to the ground, it better not be you, and if it is, you better be on top, in control and finishing it.
Train right. Train hard.
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