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Why is the Yahoo answers mascot a hamster in a karate uniform?

Don’t you think it would be a funny cartoon question mark or a book or something that relates to questions and answers?

The legend of the hamster; the real story:

The one-time leader of the Yahoo!Answers development team used to call the group to meetings by turning on an electric toy hamster he had on his desk. Because of this, taking the two letters from Y!A and combining them with hamster, the Y!AT (Yahoo Answers Team) became known as the Yamsters. They used to use an image of the actual toy hamster as their mascot, but because of possible trademark infringement, they had to draw a cartoon one. He is the one now seen on the blog.

How should I prepare myself before I take Karate lessons?

Any book, website, or videos would be nice too.
And I guess I should mention that I am not in the best of shape.
I’m serious!

Cardio and flexibility. Also, your senses. Close attention to detail especially in what the instructor is teaching you. Make your moves precise and crisp! But all in all, classes range from the no experience beginner to advanced students. You can start taking lessons just how you are and in time, your health, flexibility, etc will improve along with your skill level and technique. Good luck, I’m sure you’ll be fine. Don’t be shy, just go for it!

On the comical side, you could watch Karate Kid…….Daniel-san. If you got time, start washing cars, sanding floors, and paint the fence. Then you’ll be ready to win a tournament.

The Karate Kid Trailer 2010

“The Karate Kid, directed by Harald Zwart (The Pink Panther 2), stars Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, and Taraji P. Henson. Smith plays Dre, a skateboarding video game buff who moves to China after his single mother is forced to go there for work. Unable to speak Chinese, Dre finds it hard to settle in, and gets beat up by the local bully. Chan plays Mr. Han, a maintenance man who spots his black-eye and offers to teach him both martial arts and Chinese, so he can defend against all the kung-fu students. Sony is bringing The Karate Kid to theaters starting on June 11th, 2010 this summer.” Courtesy of Miss Natasha

“The only way to stop them is to face them, I will teach you.”

In honor of the Little Black People: The Black African Foundation of China
http://www.scribd.com/doc/16533174/The-Black-African-Foundation-of-China

“”The Negrito” (i.e., pigmy black) “type,” says the authority whom I have just quoted, and to whom I shall have to be still further indebted,* “was first placed in South Asia, which it without doubt occupied alone during an indeterminate period. It is thence that its diverse representatives have radiated, and, some going east, some west, have given rise to the black populations of Melanesia and Africa, In particular, India and Indo-China first belonged to the blacks.”

- A philological essay concerning the pygmies of the ancients(1894) By Edward Tyson

http://stewartsynopsis.com/we_are_a_nation_of_ventriloquist.htm
The original, first, native, primitive inhabitants of China were black Africans who arrived there about 100,000 years ago and dominated the region until a few thousand years ago when the Mongol advance into that region began. These Africans who fled the Mongol onslaught can still be found in South East Asia and the Pacific Islands misnomer Nigritos or “small black men.” The Agta of the Philippines is one such example. Indeed archeology, forensic and otherwise confirm that China’s first two dynasties, the Xia and the Ch’ang/Sh’ang, were largely Black African with an Australoid, called “Madras Indian” or “Chamar” in Trinidad, present in small percentages. These Africans would carry an art of fighting developed in the Horn of Africa into China which today we call martial arts: Tai Chi, Kung fu and Tae Kwon Do. Even the oracle of the I-Ching came with a later African group, the Akkadians of Babylon.

Around 500 BCE an African living in India called Gautama would establish a religion called Buddhism which would come to dominate Chinese thought. Any one who is in doubt should consult Geoffrey Higgins’s Anacalypsis, Albert Churchward’s Origin and Development of Religions, Gerald Massey’s, Egypt the Light of the World, Runoko Rashidi’s African Presence in Early Asia and J A Roger’s Sex and Race Vol. 1. Many Africans survived the Mongol invasion into the twentieth century only to be exterminated by Chairman Mao’s program of Cultural cleansing. Under this program millions of Africans and Afro-Asians were killed from 1951-1956. Contribute we still did, giving the People’s Republic of China its first Chief Minister in the name of Eugene Chen, a Trinidadian of George Street, Port-of-Spain, who was of an African mother and a Chinese father.

The facts are well recorded in African, East Indian and African-American history books. China also has a series of pyramids and groups of people “minorities” in the South such as the Moi of Vietnam and the Nakhis of Southern China.

Relatives of the Negritos (Andaman Association)
http://stewartsynopsis.com/Synopsis%206.htm
1. The Malaysian Negrito
2. The Philippine Negrito
3. The Shompen of Great Nicobar
4. The Moken of the Burma Coast
5. The Vedda of Sri Lanka
6. The Veddoid of Southern India
7. The Dravidians of India
8. The Naga of India
9. The Kubu of Sumatra and others
10. The Ayome of New Guinea and others
11. The Papuans of Papua-NewGuinea
12. The Melanesians of the Pacific
13. The Australian Aborigines
14. The Tasmanians
15. The Khoisan of South Africa
16. The Pygmies of Central Africa
17. Negritos in Japan and China
18. Negritos in the Americas and “Luzia”

http://www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive2005/january/jarwas_onges_shompens_sentinelese_great_andamanese.htm

In my research, I find that most people don’t know there were several dynasties in China that were ruled by Blacks:
1. XIA Dynasty (c.2205-1766 B.C.)the first dynasty founded by Blacks
2. Shang/Yin Dynasty (c.1700-1050 B.C.) Black/Negroid people who were referred to as Asyi and Yueh are found in Chinese records.
3. ZHOU Dynasty went to African by way of Iran
4. Shang Dynasties:
Shang-Li (ruled by the Li-Qiang (Black)
East Y (Black)

The totem, “Blackbird” was a Black ethnic group in China.

The LiMin were Blacks who were associated with Yao, a Black Chinese hero.

The Lapita is the earliest known Black/Negroid culture in Indo-China (1600-1200 B.C.)though the DNA (HLA Antigen) dates back prior to 9000 B.C.

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Why not learn basic karate at home?

I’ll agree that anything is better if taught by a professional and in the proper training environment, but if one is just starting out learning karate, why wouldn’t it be okay to learn the basics and get your body in shape first before joining a karate class?
Why do people believe it is so necessary to pay someone to have you do some stretching exercises and basic punches,blocks and kicks which can be easily be done at home for free.
If you start of being really stiff and not flexible, you are kind of wasting time in a dojo if you think you are going to do some jumping roundhouse kicks or whatever when you are still trying to get your legs flexible enough to lift waist high.
So why not learn some basics at home first while getting your body more in shape? Not everyone is so stupid that they can’t understand the basic movements they see in a karate book or video. When it comes to more advanced movements, then I understand having an instructor.
You may not earn a belt, but you’ll save alot of money by learning the simple stuff at home first.
What did many people, like people who developed any of the martial arts, do when there weren’t any actual martial arts classes or dojos? They learned at home and were self-taught.
Shihan, please don’t tell me you just compared punching and kicking to flying a plane or performing surgery.

Most of you missed the point that I was talking about the basics and not talking about learning everything so you become an expert at it.

i learn MMA at home. its awesome. i learn so much more then other teens that go to mma schools.

New Pressure Point Guide for Martial Artists DVD preview

John Burke sensei is the author of the Pressure Point Guide for Martial Artists book which has rave reviews from such luminaries as Russell Stutely (Europe’s Leading Pressure Point expert). The new DVD which accompanies the book will be available in June. We hope this taster will get you to check out www.theBunkaiGuy.com for this DVD and the other Karate Kata Bunkai books and DVDs that we have available. Free newsletter at www.bunkai.co.uk

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Karate Kid 2010 (Kung Fu Kid) Jaden Smith what story is it based on?

Is the new film starring Jaden Smith and Jackie Chan based of the novel Fledgling Jason Steed.
My teacher said it is, the book was awesome, but if that’s the case, why is it not called Fledgling Jason Steed. We have already got a Karate Kid movie?

No, Unfortunately its not. Its a remake of the original Karate Kid movies.
Jaden Smith (Will Smiths son) has the main role. Jackie Chan plays the mentor.
The plot is different, in the original Karate Kid, his mother moves to CA for work. (played by Taraji P. Henson
In Karate Kid 2010 she moves to China for work.

There is NOT yet a movie planned for Fledgling Jason Steed although a newspaper claimed it as being made by Pinewood studios.
http://wikibin.org/articles/fledgling-jason-steed.html

The Karate Kid 2010 movie will be released in the US in June 2010. The name of the film has not been chosen yet, it has be called Karate Kid 2010 and Kung Fu Kid. They may give it a new title and stick with one of those.
According to Jackie Chans website it is called Karate Kid 2010.

The only similiar connection to Fledgling Jason Steed and King Fu Kid is the Character played by Jackie Chan.

In Fledgling Jason had a mentor Wong Tong, who was very eccentric and funny. Chan is using many of the same features of the character from the Jason Steed novel.

The novel Fledgling Jason Steed was first published in 2008, the screen writing for the Kung Fu Kid film was written early 2009 after the sucess of the book. You have to make your own mind up if you think they stole the character from Fledgling Jason steed.

Martial Arts View-Martial Arts: By The Book

Preview of Episode 10, Season 4-Martial Arts-By The Book. View complete episodes, clips, previews and downloads at http://www.martialartsview.com or catch us every Saturday at 9:30 AM EST, Cablevision 68/Time Warner 35/RCN 83/Verizon Fios 43. You won’t believe what you’ll see!

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I would love to learn karate by myself…..?

I would like to learn karate is there any books, websites, videos i can watch please help!

Ok I will try and be as clear as possible. Yes its possible to learn some basic movements from watching videos or reading books. But you will get no feedback from an instructor so how will you ever know if you are getting it right. Even more importantly you will have no one to practice with. Practicing against empty air is like learning to swim on dry land – when you get in the water you are going to drown. For your safety, for any chance of getting any real skill and for getting your moneys worth please try and find an instructor in something thats available near enough to you to travel to.

Good Books on Deadly hand to hand combat?

I’m Looking for a good detailed book on deadly hand to hand combat techniques (strictly maiming or killing). Please no books on improvised weapons, Weapon Techniques. This is strictly for academic purposes. Please refraim from suggesting an entire martial art or one particular style… i want the best, most effective techniques, not the best of karate.

Since you stated it is for academic purposes I will assume you are doing research and not wanting to believe you can learn and harm others.

Jim Wagner has an entire series of DVD’s and books, as well as he writes for Black Belt Magazine, on hand to hand combatives including Close Quarter Combatives. I also suggest Richard Ryan.

I have trained with both of these gentlemen and they are great instructors. You can search them out on Yahoo. Good luck.

Martial Arts Fight Choreography Test 1

Fight Test between me and Alex Hashioka

Camera, Action Direction, and Editing by Emmanuel Manzanares

Camera: Canon HV30

Location: Chicago, Illinois USA

Lazy Brown Productions
http://www.lazybrownproductions.blogspot.com

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