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[teacheratlarge]

Hmm, this on a site where we still have a few people who don't like being reminded of what they said before...

Yes, some people state the truth, and some just want to hide from it.😁

[rxk22]

[Shimokitazawa]

Glenski is what I call an "Advice Giver."

It's a one-way street with Glenski. He doesn't really interact with people on the forums on a one-to-one or personal level.

Instead, he likes to tell them how stupid they are. His manner is atrocious.

At any rate, I'm just glad he's no longer here.

[lcanupp1964]

After about four months of having the school kids at the middle grade school I taught at serve all the teachers' lunch in the teacher's office, I was brought into the principle's office and told I had a bad attitude regarding lunch. I was shocked. I asked him why he thought that way and he told me that the only reason was that I failed to eat every single grain of rice in my bowl and therefore was unthankful (even though they took a lunch fee out of my money salary). It was a brushed stainless metal bowl and I only had metal chopsticks to pick out the sticky rice. There must have been an average of 10 grains of rice each day I turned in my dishes. I told him two things: One, that if anybody told me on the first day about this, I would have "thankfully" spent the extra time picking out every single grain of rice and two, I asked him why did he wait four months to tell me this.

[mitsui]

Because they are passive-aggressive people that spy on others.
Tohoku people are notorious for this.
They assume you would just know the "right" way to do things.

My first boss was from Fukushima. What a #"%$head.

[rxk22]

Martial arts. The country birthed quite a few major styles, Judo, Karate, BJJ via Judo, and even kickboxing. Yet Japan doesn't have that many gyms/dojos when compared to the US. Even with college and HS/JHS clubs taken into account, I feel that far fewer people here do Martial Arts than in the US. To me it is ironic, as well as disappointing.

[water rat]

[ZennoSaji]

[lcanupp1964]

The teachers were never "expected" to eat every grain of rice; there was no rule/policy in a teacher handbook about rice. I was simply being judged for not caring enough to eat all the rice eagerly on my own and I was called on it by one of my bosses for displaying bad form.

Seven whole, entire months in Japan, huh? Well, I think you are going to be experiencing some more baffling things.

[steki47]

[marley'sghost]

[rxk22]

[steki47]

[rxk22]

Wow, lucky you! I wonder if it is because you have less salarymen ie people with actual free time? None of the guys at my gym are salarymen. Well not none. Mostly factory workers, personal trainers, and even have an undertaker.



Depends on the Karate. In mainland Japan, it is mostly Shotokan and kyokushin. Shotokan seems more robotic and not based in realistic sparring.
They tend to fight out of a modified front stance, and like deep exaggerated positions.
While Koshin is about full contact sparring and getting your body conditioned to getting hit.


There are tons of other styles, but WAY too many to get into detail about

I did Shorin-ryu, which was all about out fighting and hitting hard, and breaking contact.
I also did Uechi-ryu, which was mostly about body conditioning(iron body), and the san-chin kata.


I got into BJJ and MT in 2004 or so. Been doing them off an on for 10 years now. Did you lose interest in BJJ? I find that it is always on my mind, and eve when I have taken breaks, I still want to do it. As you can quickly find out where you are skill wise, and I get competative/hate being left behind.



Good point on Japanese liking western things, much like westerners like Japanese things. Works both ways.

[steki47]