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I'm doing some gi shopping, and I'm considering polycotton. I've only worn cotton up to this point. The two that are up for consideration are the Shureido New Wave 2 and the Arawaza Kata Deluxe Evo. A couple of questions: - On the advertisements for polycotton gis, the claim is that they dry faster that pure cotton. Right now, I have a two-gi rotation. Do they dry fast enough t...


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I recently purchased a GI on line . It has no tags indicating model or material. The manufacturer make both cotton and polycotton GI's. Is there some way to tell if it is cotton or a poly cotton? thanks.


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Does anyone know of a St. Louis based wing chun practitioner named Terence W. Niehoff? Spartan


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After studying JKD for a number of years, I have returned to my roots and started studying karate again...Im rediscovering the heian katas and looking at different Shotokan Masters and their interpretations and discovering so many finer details I missed the first time around. One of the major problems we have in Australia is people starting to teach at Shodan when they havent sp...


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I can not read Japanese, so I do not know the meaning of the embroidery on Karate belts. The names of some styles in Kanji I recognize. I assume that the name of the style, Dojo and name of the person in Katana would be common. Are there any traditions, rules, expectations, do's and don'ts for embroidery? Do these vary by style, governing body, dojo or senior black belt at dojo?


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