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Getting through life takes just a LITTLE bit of insanity!*g*

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39 years old
Newport, Kentucky
United States
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TKD ORGANIZATION: ATA
BELT: 1st Dan Black
YEARS IN TRAINING: 20 years +
HEIGHT: 5'6"
RELIGION: Christian - other
TKD STATUS: Student
FAVORITE KICK: Round House Kick
MEMBER SINCE: 04/17/2008
STAR SIGN: Virgo
LAST LOGIN: 05/15/2008 20:38:44
MY RATING: 0.00

Mood: Happy Happy

Martial arts, computer building and repair, reading, boxing, and collecting music. I'm an avid Cincinnati Reds baseball fan, and one very happy cat owner.

For me, really just four major accomplishments. Starting TKD, earning my black belt, getting back IN to TKD in adulthood, and spending time at the front of the class, finding out what a BALL it is to help other students learn TKD.

Roxette, Celine Dion, ANY country music, instrumentals to include soundtracks, and basically anything from the 80's on back.

Basically, anything TKD or martial arts related. I also like autobiographies, with one of my all time favorites, being General Schwarzkopf's best seller "It doesn't take a hero"


Fighters








I began training in April of 1981, under Mr. Jack Hauswirth, earning my first degree black belt in 1983.

We used the Chang Hon system back then... in the form of the original 20 forms. I remained active in training until 1985, where my focus turned to the fire service and girls. (The teen years were great!*lol*)



In 2005, I got off my duff and got back into training, and spent a year of intensive training, getting up to speed on the Songahm curriculum. I retested for my first degree black belt voluntarily, and achieved it at the end of that year.

Since then, I've spent time in front of classes, as well as putting in a lot of my own practice time. I have augmented my TKD training with boxing training over the past year, under the same trainer that taught Jerry "Golden Boy" Trimble, how to box.

I am 39 years old, single... I think overall a pretty decent fellow. I enjoy discussing the martial arts, and am a certified weather junkie.

For the immediate moment, my back yard.

I practice both Songahm and Chang Hon styles of TKD... (and by that, I mean I practice the Chang Hon style as it was taught in the ATA back in the 70's and 80's)



I also train as a boxing student in Shamrock Boxing Gym, in Covington KY.

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Displaying 10 out of 13 comments
05/06/2008 11:19:38
60 more lets push for the bigg THOUSAND !!


05/06/2008 11:15:03
60 more lets push for the bigg THOUSAND !!


05/06/2008 11:10:11
60 more lets push for the bigg THOUSAND !!


05/02/2008 08:37:51

Top o' the mornin' and happy Friday!!  Have a fantastic weekend!!  And my thanks for the add!



05/01/2008 13:12:07
Hello Ranger, you're posts are excellent and informative!  Glad you're here!


04/29/2008 12:17:04

You've made some very good & informative posts in the forum!

Just what is needed here for a change!



04/25/2008 19:02:40
You seem to spend as much time on this site as I do


04/23/2008 11:40:29


ranger1100ky wrote:
That's great to hear, and understandable about the students concentrating on their tests.

Hapkido is a great art that I wouldn't mind exploring if the opportunity arose. That and escrima. Probably the top two on my list aside from TKD and boxing, which I'm already involved in.

As for the sadness, that's only natural. The upside is... perhaps there are things you can do to stay in touch with your friends, since the internet has certainly done its part in making this world just a little smaller. I recently reestablished contact with my original instructor, some 24 years after I'd last seen him, thanks to the internet, and met you and the other great folks here at TKDSpace and a bunch of people on the ATA's unofficial forum.

I watched your sparring video... that was some nice ring work and good aggressiveness.

Yeah, I really enjoy learning Hap Ki Do, I find it very practical in terms of self defense, but I would also like to try Kumdo and boxing.

I hope to stay in contact with my Korean friends, probably through Facebook.

Thank you for the compliment on my sparring!  I'm also welcome to criticism, always looking to improve.  I hope to train more during the summer and compete in the fall.  I have to choose my tournaments carefully though, they get expensive!  There is one that I like to go to because the tournament has a special competition for black belts called "Instructors forms" where you draw a number and do that form.  It doesn't cost extra, so I like to do that tournament to get more for my money.

Have a great day! 



04/22/2008 23:41:21


ranger1100ky wrote:
Thank you kindly ma'am! How are things going with your efforts to instructor your friends that are teaching you Korean?

The instructing is going OK, the students are busy with tests in their class as we are fast approaching finals week, so most of them haven't been able to come.  One student is teaching me Hap Ki Do, which I enjoy very much.  I'm a little sad that they will all be leaving after finals.



04/21/2008 23:55:30

Hey, just wanted to let you know that I really enjoy reading all your posts in the forum.