User talk:Dmolino21

Hello! I am a user of Wikipedia looking for more information on Shorinji Kempo Karate. I am a student of Shorinji Kempo Karate and have over two years of lessons behind me. My Sensei was Bill Waggoner then Mike, his son. Mike was for a very short time as he made us practice the exercises before and after class too hard and I was too sore to go to work the next day (He learned in Japan, too). I am interested in books and tapes and DVDs on the subject. Bill had a book on Kata that I would like to buy a copy of. Martial arts are a wonderful way to get and keep your weight down and put everything in it's proper place. They are also good for self defense, if needed. Bill learned his karate in Japan when his parents were over there as part of the American Embassy Staff. He is a 5th degree black belt. He owned the three sectioned staff and when the Kung Fu group from Lake Tahoe came over to shi-i (one school visits another school and they lecture then practice with each other in the round machine [where we formed an inner and outer circle and fought each other with the new knowledge given with the lecture]) with us (he loaned it to one of their students to do a kata with). He managed to shatter the light bulb overhead. It is said it will break the head like a ripe watermelon. The staff is longer then the nun-chucks sections in each section and can generate over 400lbs of power on the end. The Sai were also demonstrated in kata, as were the sword, double knives, Kendo, Sticks and princesses sickle. We went to demonstrations, and tournaments up at Lake Tahoe. I am an artist and I did a Dragon on the wall, t-shirts and jackets with the school symbol, and the inside signs for the Airway Express Discos. I am the daughter of an ex Air Force Captain and a mother who is a CPA with a law degree. So, I grew up in a middle class neighborhood in our own home, which we built. I have been married four times; three since karate class. I was using Lindsey as my last name when I took karate. I was working for a newspaper and had to walk a long ways late at night and so I signed up. He started me out with a pulled punch to the nose. I knew what he could do as I had seen the pictures from various classes he had on the wall. He could have broken my nose if he had not pulled the punch. I was not prone to dodging flying fists. I had also worked with a man named Jerry who was the son of kung fu instructors and he and his brother had opened up a Dojo. He used the hammer hand variety. His hand was deformed into a hammer of sorts. It looked crippled and he had difficulty holding a pen. He told me to find a certain kind of tree and chop it with the outside of my hand. Hard! Bill told me I did not have to do this to break. I could use the Shorinji Kempo Karate to break two boards cross grained, two inches thick each.

Shorinji Kempo Karate Dojo life.
Hi! I am new at this so please bare with me. I actively participated in the Dojo life for over two years and I enjoyed it. My figure got better and I got a better balance, which I could use for yoga exercises. My sensei (Bill Waggoner) learned Shorinji-Kempo Karate (which includes Aikido Judo, the deadly form,) in Japan as a child, his parents were members of the United States American Embassy in Japan. He was an American and 6'4" tall. At the time he was a lieutenant in the Sheriffs department in Carson City, Nevada where the Dojo was. I was there with my Dad. We were taught Kata (fake fights) and standing Kumite (practice of what he taught us), weapons (bo, sai, kenpo, Samurai Sword, nun-chucks, Princesses sickle, Three sectioned staff and the spear each one according to the students abilities), including the Princesses sickle, which I saw Alice demonstrate (I saw the actual sickle; it had two ends to a long stick which were ended by razor sharp blades in a quarter moon shape, one on each end). Sensei had a Kung-Fu three sectioned staff which he loaned to a Kung-Fu student from up at Lake Tahoe when they came to us to Shi-i. The staff was similar to a Nun-Chuck in it's connections, the swiveled chains connected the three long sections. He did a kata and shattered the light bulb on the ceiling of our Dojo. The staffs' sections were about four feet each hooked together with a swivel chain. The end was said to reach over four hundred pounds of pressure when in kata and could break the head like a ripe watermelon. I would like to edit the Wikipedia part that says there is no such thing as a princesses sickle, I saw it myself. Dmolino21 (talk) 23:55, 28 December 2012 (UTC)dmolino21