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I'm a 52 yr old male that has had sleep problems the last 10yrs. My doctor prescibed Buspar but no benzos. I have no history of drug abuse. Do I need to change my GP doctor or what?

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Ed Parker studied martial arts 43 yrs total till his death. Larry Tatum (I think his greatest student) has been studying now 44 yrs. by now,might be better. I know there's no definitive answer, just wanted some opinions. Thanks folks :)

I would imagine that martial arts studios are folding by the droves w this economy. I've seen that a lot of them are using Birthday parties for kid students as well as the biggest money maker of all "The weekend seminar" for 500.00 dollars per person. Belt tests, buying dvd's, technique manuel's, shirts, patches, I'm glad a lot of them are going out of business, they were rip offs to begin with!

I’ve often heard Parkers Kenpo referred to as an overkill art (I know there’s such thing as underkill)

You’re the one getting killed. Why?

Because of all the follow ups and extensions of techniques, I really believe

that after about 5 or 10 yrs. you should be able to come up with your own extensions. Kenpo people also get caught up in the speed thing, maybe being

faster than required, I practice Kenpo and these are some of my observations.

I will say that I've seen a lot of them and besides Bruce Lee. I would say Ed Parker(American Kenpo) and Taika Seiyu Oyata (Okinawan Ryu Te) are the one's that impressed me the most. Why? because of their incredible skill at nerve technique and deep understanding of the arts that they practice. Thanks for your answers :)

I've boiled it down to one of 2 arts that I will study American Kenpo or Okinawan Kempo. American Kenpo it seems to me can work sooner for you than Okinawan Kempo, but sometimes just seems like flashy overkill w/ their extensions (which I view as fantasy karate) Okinawan seems very slow and choppy, maybe 1 to 3 moves. I know their is deep knowledge in their applications but I think you talking about 8 yrs before you can put some things together. Weapons study? How many lifetimes do we have? Empty hand would be more than enough to learn. Both seem odd to me at times

It seems to me after looking at Okinawan karate’s self defense

techniques and looking at American Kenpo techniques, it looks like it would take

much longer to use the Okinawan systems techniques, much longer to make them flow

I think this is where Ed Parker was able to simplify Kenpo to use sooner. In the back of my mind though

I would still like to study Okinawan because of the hidden Grappling techniques called Tuite.

It takes much longer to perfect that part of an art than just flashy striking patterns. Just looking for

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I know I've suffered from untreated depression for many years, will citalopram help me with sleep? Thank you for your replies.

I'm a 50 yr old male w/ no heart disease or family history of it. Normal blood pressure. I've lost weight going from 246 to 220. I had my lipids checked this wk and found out my HDL was 33, LDL 139, Triglycerides were good at 90, but last yrs reading at 246lbs was HDL 36 LDL 127 Triglycerides were higher at 129.I exercise everyday, eat no junk food whatsoever, no egg's or red meat.. Doctor told me to continue life style change and check back after losing another 20 lbs or so. No meds prescribed for now. Thanks for any answers:)

I believe that the system Ed Parker taught was very different from what Mitose taught. I think that when you are studying American Kenpo you are really studying the parts that Mr. Parker liked and what he thought worked best. Not only for him but the average person. Just a great system, very fancy too w/ a lot of flow, I think thats what first attracted me to it. What do you folks think ? Thank you for your answers :)

Need to choose which one, anybody who's studied both please express your opinion, Thank you

I took kenpo years ago, I just refuse to take lessons anymore from big commercial schools, that make you buy their manuels , go to their tournaments, take their seminars, all this is very costly, just want private one on one lessons. I would be very greatful, thanks folks

Thinking about starting my own karate school, don't want to use the usual names like Red Dragon, or like I've figured out my own version of Kenpo, something simple and straight forward, Thanks folks :)

As I sit watching the world go by as a guard, I look at people doing jobs like drivers for FedEx & UPS and think my God, I could never do that job!. I tried cleaning carpets when I was 28yrs old and that was plenty rough, now at almost 50 I wonder after seeing these people work, how long they can do that can of labor before their back's go out. I would say their through by the time their 40. Maybe they can get a easy job doing nothing like me. I tip my hat to them, hope you agree :) by the way they do make about 5 bucks more an hour than guards, still underpaid, in my opinion!

After working in the Contract Security field for 11yrs. , I feel so depressed I can't even tell you. With only a high school level education being 49 yrs. old and not being good in school when I was young, I find there's no way out. People making insulting comments, Examples; Don't sleep too much, don't work too hard, employee's laughing and saying arrest that guy , don't let him in, like your gonna respond like someone who thinks their a cop. The most thankless job I could think of. Let me tell you the effect is so bad that I don't want to even meet new people and never bring up what I do(Which is impossible in a social setting) Never proud of the small paycheck I make. I wonder how many of you people working security have ever felt this way. I'm sure there's quite a few. All I can say is that I show up to work cleanshavin, very neat and do a great job, but the stigma of what others working security through the yrs. has long ruined the image, one that will never change.

Being a guard myself, I thought after 9-11 that the security industry would upgrade training and pay, very little has changed in contract security, it's still run like it's 1970, it sucks!

no wonder there's so much turnover!

I believe that Jerry Quarry in 68" beats the Sonny Liston of the same yr? What do you folks think?

Something about 2 grown men rolling around w/ each other in swim like wear on the mat that just doesn't appeal to me, Anybody agree?