Aikido Yoshinkan Saudi Arabia

It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.

One human hair can support 3 kg (6.6lb).

Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.

Your body uses 300 muscles to balance itself when you are standing still.

If it takes 300 muscles to stand still, wonder how many it uses to do kamae, let alone to stay balanced when doing kihon dosa or waza?

Your job Detective Sherlock Mel is to find out.

Hello sensei, please let me try...

Other than the 300 muscles other body senses also play an important role in keeping us balanced.  Though recent experiments revealed that the eyes and ears are supposed to aid in balance, it is not likely so.

What I found out on the experiment conducted by medical experts was that the results are akin to the teachings of Yoshinkan Aikido, KAMAE specifically.  Yoshinkan Aikido utilizes the GROSS motor skills, they are the big muscle groups.  Yes it is these big muscles that bleeds to work to keep us standing still, and it is the same muscle groups that we are trying to train repeatedly.

In addition to these big muscles, the center of gravity also play an important role. No matter how narrow or wide our strides are in performing the kihon and wazas, our center of gravity should always fall in the center.  In kamae, if you draw a straight from our nose down, that line should fall just about the area near the heel of the lead leg.  Another point to consider is the big toe, by that it means that the foot should always be planted on the ground all the time.  The 60:40 ratio in kamae does not necessarily literally means 60/40, the center of gravity should always be in the center.

To answer, the muscle groups utilized in doing kamae are calf, thigh. and dorsal muscle.  I did not include the bicep/tricep as these guys should actually be relaxed in kamae.  When moving into kihon it would still be the same muscle groups, and keeping the center of gravity and firm support from the feet by keeping it planted.

PS do you know Detective Colombo?

Now SYA has its own knowledge center, nice Sensei...

Did you know that late night eating or late-night snackers are more likely to gain weight...that is despite exercising and eating as much as others...

There are 6,000 species of reptiles, 73,000 kinds of spiders, and 3,000 types of lice.

For each person there is about 200 million insects.

Green tea contains naturally occuring catechins - compounds that have especially good antioxidant benefits. Several studies have also shown these plant chemicals have the ability to create apotosis (cellular death) in a number of cancer cell lines, including breast cancer. The therapeutic dose for green tea is 3-4 cups a day (American size, over in Japan - 8-10 cups is the equivalent--their cup size is so much smaller!).

So take a cup of green tea dudes and dudettes...

Thanks for sharing Ron, now I know those late night crawlers -)

huhuhu!....I hate you guys!.........coz' I need to shift to tea from a coffee.......I am also a midnight snackers........huhuhu...really hate you!...coz I have to stop it...and shift to early morning!.............

Average of 43 muscles for a frown and we use an average of 17 muscles

for a smile, and Every two thousand frowns creates one wrinkle......

*”The sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s sick” is said to be the toughest tongue

twister in the English language. ???

The sixth sheep.... really hard -)

SHIHAN's:

Can't live without them ...

Can't throw them ...

:-)

"On average women speak 7000 words per day, where as men speak just over 2000"....

hehehe i think i know the reason why...

The world’s longest name is:

Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermasn Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft,Sr.

"The distinctive feature of kokyu power is that it is not affected by age. No matter how hard one trains, muscular power will naturally deteriorate with age but this does not happen with kokyu power. As long as one continues to do the proper training, kokyu power can be used regardless of one’s age." –- Gozo Shioda

yup that's aikido.  but make no mistake, kokyu ryoku should incorporate heavy understanding and practice of your centerline, focused power inlcuding of course proper timing and distance.

At the end of the day, just simply enjoy aikido. Shioda is a wizard! Yoshinkan rocks, Shuryukan rules! -)

"Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy." --  Ueshiba Sensei

Why is it called a hamburger although it contains no ham?

During a trip to Asia in the early 1800s, a German merchant - it is said - noticed that the nomadic Tartars softened their meat by keeping it under their saddles. The motion of the horse pounded the meat to bits. The Tartars would then scrape it together and season it for eating. The idea of pounded beef found its way back to the merchant's home town of Hamburg where cooks broiled the meat and referred to it as Hamburg meat.

German immigrants introduced the recipe to the US. The term "hamburger" is believed to have appeared in 1834 on the menu from Delmonico's restaurant in New York but there is no surviving recipe for the meal. The first mention in print of "Hamburg steak" was made in 1884 in the Boston Evening Journal.

The honor of producing the first proper hamburger goes to Charlie Nagreen of Seymour, Wisconsin, USA. In 1885 Nagreen introduced the American hamburger at the Outgamie County Fair in Seymour. (Seymour is recognised as the hamburger capital of the world.)

However, there is another claim to that throne. There is an account of Frank and Charles Menches who, also in 1885, went to the Hamburg, New York county fair to prepare their famous pork sausage sandwiches. But since the local meat market was out of pork sausage, they used ground beef instead. Alas, another hamburger.

The first account of serving ground meat patties on buns - taking on the look of the hamburger as we know it today - took place in 1904 at the St. Louis World Fair. But it was many years later, in 1921, that an enterprising cook from Wichita, Kansas, Walt Anderson, introduced the concept of the hamburger restaurant. He convinced financier Billy Ingram to invest $700 to create The White Castle hamburger chain. It was an instant success. The rest of the history, we might say, belongs to McDonald's.

And, no, a hamburger does not have any ham in it. Well, it's not supposed to. Hamburger meat usually is made of 70-80% beef and fat and spices.

Before we became pinoy...

The term "Filipinos" apply only to Philippine-born Spaniards, not to the natives whom they pejoratively call Indios, and to the mountain people Igorots. It was only when the Americans came that the term applied to all Philippine- born people.

In a colonized and stratified society like the 19th century Philippines, Indio is definitely a pejorative term. It was used with a lot of scorn and discrimination. Even the crime and punishment are different for Peninsulare, Insulare, and Indio. The Indios are subjected to "polo" or forced labor, and more severe punishment for a crime that only applies to him, like for example, not bowing in front of a Spanish official, o rkissing the hand of the parish priest when met in the street. As such,the term indio was used as a badge of courage when the Filipino reformist in Spain adopted the term "Indios Bravos" to describe themselves, tough most of them are mixed breed or "mestizos.

Legend:

Peninsulares ( Spaniards born in the Iberian Peninsula)

Insulares (Spaniards born in The Philippines or Filipinos)

Mestizo Espanoles (born of Spanish fathers)

Mestizo Sangleyes ( born of Chinese fathers)

Indios (natives, Tagalog, Visaya, Ilocano, etc)

Indios infieles ( like those they call as the Igorots)

The dot that appears over the letter “i”

is called a tittle........