This 1 Karate Mistake Could Destroy Your Health Forever. Sensei Jeff is only 4. Tomorrow, hes scheduled for his second knee surgery. October 2006 In the Q A period after a recent talk, someone asked what made startups fail. After standing there gaping for a few seconds I realized this was kind of. OuchBut it used to be different. When I was younger, injuries were never a problem. I was in the dojo almost every day training hard. These days, my knees are killing me It seems Karate is unhealthy. Jeff isnt alone. I regularly meet Karate instructors, coaches, grandmasters, ex champions and athletes with knee problems. Its like a dark secret in the Karate worldand nobody knows why. Of course they dont. Just like a fish in the sea doesnt notice the water around it, Karate practitioners dont notice the reason for their knee problems because theyve been doing it for so long. However, Karate by itself will not give you knee problems. 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And if youve been doing bad Karate for a long time, you wont notice it. Until its too late. Its like Yukimitsu Hasegawa said in our interview If you practice incorrectly for many years, youll become very good at performing bad Karate. Many people cant see the difference. You can achieve a very high level by practicing badlySo, let me ask you somethingHow much do you practice your stances You see, the 1 reason for knee injuries in Karate is due to incorrect stances. Trust me.  Just look at these pics Incorrect zenkutsu dachi, shiko dachi, kiba dachi  neko ashi dachi. Can you see that This is what I call The Collapsing Knee Syndrome. It accounts for 9. Karate. Now compare to this Correct zenkutsu dachi, shiko dachi, kiba dachi  neko ashi dachi. See the differenceThis is super duper ultra hyper important. Allow me to explainThe Collapsing Knee Syndrome Explained. Ill keep it simple. Your knee is a hinge type synovial joint and works in two ways The right way frontbackand the wrong way rightleft. Get itI told you it was simpleSo, what happens when you do an incorrect stance Your knee is forced to bend the wrong way. It collapses. The reason your knee collapses is generally due to a biomechanical compromise i. It can also be because youre too stiff and lack quad length or hamstring sufficiency. Your knee basically buckles in to unload your weight and buy slack. Its a survival mechanism from your body. Although this might not seem like a big problem today one day it will. Because, even if youre young and strong, a few years of training with a collapsed knee will eventually lead to an accumulation of micro tear in your knee joint, untilPop There goes your knee. And we dont want that, do weLets fix it How To Fix The Collapsing Knee Syndrome. When people experience pain, they usually visit a physiotherapist. In 9 times out of 1. Thats cool. But we need to fix the root of the problem not just the symptoms. We need to fix your stances Comparison of incorrectcorrect zenkutsu dachi, shiko dachi, kiba dachi  neko ashi dachi. How By making sure your knee tracks over your foot. Thats the easiest method for an anatomically stable, powerful and safe stance. A good verbal cue for instructors to use is Track your foot with your knee. If your knee always collapses inside your foot, youre in danger. While were on the subject, you should strive to align all your joints not just the knee and foot. This gives you the ability to create mechanical torsion throughout your body, which helps you perform techniques with high power while minimizing risk of injury. Thats it You just saved yourself years of pain, struggle  expensive surgery. At the end of the day, its about training smarter. Not just harder. Karate should ALWAYS be GOOD for you It should make you happy, strong  healthy. Thats when you can do it forever. Karate is a lifetime study. Mabuni Kenwa 1. Makes sense Happy trainingJessePS. Did you see my new videoWorld History Connected Vol. No. 3     We often teach early civilizations without taking time to. The California. History Social Science Framework does not ask us directly to analyze or define. Mesopotamia, Egypt and Kush. Standard 6. The National Standards in World. History are more explicit they specify that students should understand the. Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Indus Valley. Era 2, 1 They further specify. Skate And Destroy Font. Neolithic agricultural societies. A. For. grades 56 they suggest Create a list of the defining characteristics of a. Whether motivated by professional standards or by the. This topic is highly. In this short article I hope to use the. Just exactly why do we seek a value free definition of. The word civilization apparently first appeared in a French. LAmi des hommes 1. Victor de. Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau, the father of the French revolutionary. Since then, it has had close associations with the Wests sense of. In order to see the past clearly, we must try to avoid. By examining the past in as neutral and. Definition of Civilization     Popular usage defines civilization along these lines an. This definition is problematic for. Yet we know that some aspects of civilization seem in our. One renowned. contemporary scholar, Jared Diamond, has even called agriculture leading to civilization. Serious students of archaeology, anthropology, and history. Civilizations, in this technical sense, are a specific type of. Culture is everything. What are the characteristics of civilization carefully. The most influential theorist of civilization in the Western world. V. Gordon Childe 1. Edinburgh University. London University 1. Childes checklist for what. Large urban centers. Full time specialist occupations. Primary producers of food paying surpluses to deity. Monumental architecture. Ruling class exempt from manual labor. System for recording information. Development of exact, practical sciences. Monumental art. Regular importation of raw materials. Interdependence of classes peasants, craftspeople. State religionideology. Persistent state structures. This list seems, on the face of it, much too. Childe still used. By the 1. 96. 0s anthropologists had dropped the concept of human progress and. In 1. 96. 2 a U. S. Elman Service, proposed a. He used the following. Bands small groups of 2. Tribes settled farmers or pastoralist herders, from a few hundred. Chiefdoms may number over 1. To have an up to date taxonomy of different types of human. I would use Services first three categories, replace. Band, Tribes. Chiefdoms, then Agrarian. Industrial. nations highly complex societies with. Modern global. society world wide human society. Internet, e mail     Any such evolutionary scheme must, of course, be used. We must remind ourselves to think of these as examples of human. How can we ever arrive at a value free description of the. One approach is to distinguish between. Directionality is change over time, the forward. For human. history, and for cosmological history, this change has not consisted of random. Progress, on the. Another approach to value free historical descriptions is. The Process of Urbanization     The startling fact revealed by big history about states and. The first citystate probably emerged in Mesopotamia about 3. Egypt and Nubia constituted states by 3. Indus Valley and China. Mesoamerica and Peru having. Smaller centers of independent agriculture. Amazon, Southeastern Asia. Ethiopia, and eastern North America. How did these cities evolve out of villages and towns Why. How did elite rulers acquire enough power to coerce the masses of. Why did people allow this to happenThese are questions that can help. Cities cannot survive without a surplus of food being. Over time surplus food became available as the climate changed and as. The last Ice Age peaked at about 2. BP before the. present, with the present defined as 1. After that, the climate warmed. As the. climate warmed after the last ice age, agriculture became possible and. At the same time, human ingenuity produced cumulative. As people and animals domesticated each other, humans. Plows, irrigation, pottery for storage, and metallurgy helped. Recent evidence has shown that as the climate warmed, it. This. may be the main reason that most early civilizations developed in river. Of course, they also turned out to be phenomenally fertile from the. Ripe grain must be harvested and stored. When there is a. surplus, it must be collected, centrally stored, and re distributed. Archeologists believe that possibly priests were initially responsible for. Surplus grain allowed. Yet priests could not manage the process for long. As. density increased, the surplus grain had to be protected against internal. Land use had to be allocated people needed. In one possible scenario. These early kings acquired enough power to maintain standing. As private property. Rulers worked closely with priests, often from. Rulers also demanded tribute to pay for all this, from landowners as. The collected. tribute increased the rulers power and enabled him to defend his city andor. Unlike chiefs, who had supporters but no armies, kings had. Kings were also responsible for. The only. civilization without the usual kind of writing was the Inca in Peru they used. Some scholars are convinced that these knots recorded. Kings were busy people in addition to the activities. Naturally a single ruler could not. How did this happen Why did people permit others to take. Make them slaves if they couldnt pay Did elite leaders. Or did the community give power to elite leaders in its need for specialized. The balanced answer to this question seems to most big and. Power. was given from below and taken from above more or less simultaneously, in a. A. hierarchical structure, with extreme power at the top, possibly was the only. People at the dawn of. Rebooting the Checklist     Now we can return to making a list of the characteristics. Teachers might want to do this with their students at the. As big historians, we are seeking a list that. Here is my stab at a descriptive, balanced list surplus fooddensity of populationspecialized occupationssocial classes topped by small elitessubordination of womencoerced tribute, collected by force if necessarystate religionsmonumental public buildingsstanding armiesfrequent warfarenotable modification of the natural environmentlavish tombs and burial goods for rulers and elitessystem of writing and numbersregular foreign traderepresentative artcalendars, math, other sciencesome slaveryepidemics of disease     This is my short list                          surplus fooddensity of populationstratified social rankscoerced tributestate systemsaccumulated learning     By now it seems clear that any given civilization need not. It is also clear that, while there is a core of common. Making such a checklist seems a worthwhile. They may have their own interpretations and. Most big historians have chosen to use the word. Why do all these. Big. historians are still wondering about this profound question. Analogy with Ants     Several scholars thinking on the largest scale of history. Ants have evolved over a hundred million years from a. Ants have achieved a success that rivals that of. The animal biomass is only about two percent of plant. Ant societies have several features in common with human. They have a rigid, hierarchical caste system.