sensei8

How long...50 years; I've just only scratched the surface...of no particular Kata. They're all still requiring a life time of studying!!

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https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTIjBzIjECqRL0kf8klXcw Not the best in the world just something I do and sometimes my friend and I do for fun. Is that you in the screen shots at the link above?? If so, cool, good to connect a name with a face. Yep. If you look close you can see my 2 bo staffs behind me. I had no where better to put them. Awesome!!

YES!! Those type of schools, sad to say, are becoming more common than not. Label them how one must, I won't, but what they teach, more often than not, is false security to their whole student body. Rank is prevalent, while knowledge isn't!! Show up for 3 months, and you're promoted without the immediate concerns for effectiveness. Floppy and sloppy, in these type of schools, get you promoted, just as long as their current in their dues and the like. IMHO!!

Yes, very similar to Hayashi's method. However, the similarity ends there because we also combine the deflection to end in a grasp for control. Not just to deflect, but to control the arm, for example, for different transitions...our deflections aren't meant to END at the deflection but to continue to control, if only for a moment.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDTIjBzIjECqRL0kf8klXcw Not the best in the world just something I do and sometimes my friend and I do for fun. Is that you in the screen shots at the link above?? If so, cool, good to connect a name with a face.

Welcome back!! I've just moved to Houston, TX this February 2015 from Owasso, OK.

First things first...Welcome to KF; glad that you're here!! Solid post!!

Yes, I agree. The time in being a JBB to Shodan is akin to being stuck in a Twilight Zone episode. Time, for some, just stops, and this breeds staleness, and staleness breeds boredom, and boredom breeds quitting...seeing that the JBB is for children/teens.

Interesting topic/question(s)!! No. Told students each time I was approved to attend the testing cycle. Not for bragging rights, but to inform them that I wasn't going to be in-house for a specified time; communication is expected across the board. Yes. All of the time that we've been his students, he never informed us of any testing cycle he might've had with his Sensei. When the Hombu opened in 1957, he was a Godan, and the CI of the Hombu/SKKA. From time to time, Soke would call him up to the podium during our annual testing cycles at the Hombu to present him a new belt and certificate of his new rank/title. We never knew he had even tested!! When I was elected to the Counsel of Regents, now the Board of Regents, I was privy to information such as this, but I was instructed to tell no one because it's not for us to say, but our Sensei alone!! It's a personal matter, therefore, it's not for someone to judge for or against. Some are more private than others, while some want to share their journey with their students. Neither is wrong; it's, again, a personal matter. That would depend on whom one is asking. Some will find Pros and Cons in things like this, but again, imho, it's a personal decision as well as it being a personal matter; no wrong...no right...just personal choices.

Same in Shindokan... Our deflecting arm begins on the inside, and then it travels to the outside, and ends at the very last moment with a sharp snap to the target.

I use to, but I've lost interest in it over the past few years.

Welcome to KF; glad that you're here!!

They couldn't!! They only could to an employee of said dojo, but not with the CI/dojo itself. Nothing!! But it never stopped them from trying to bully the un-expecting dojo. It was tried on me several times, and each time, I simply just laughed in their faces and kicked them out of my dojo! Never to hear from them again! Circa 1960-1980 were different times, more so than they are today.

Solid tutorial, as always, Alex!! Your transitions and opportunities were great; kept Liz under control with your continued pressure. I noticed that you didn't use Liz's gi, and one of the things I love to do is use my opponents gi to any available resistance and/or temporary trap/control to aide my transition(s). Plus, we in Shindokan love to manipulate points to create a temporary "pause" and/or discomfort to aide our transitions.

I suppose to each their own!! Within Shindokan, we don't support the sine wave ideology because we believe that the excessiveness of the sine wave movement affects the apex power curve. That's our theory!

This is 2015, and not the age of yesteryear! There once was an unwritten time where things of this type was going on. And in that, no one could open up a dojo within 25 miles of an established dojo without FIRST obtaining permission from that already established dojo; this included STUDENTS of that said established dojo. I saw it happen from time to time within the San Fernando Valley. Sometimes the dominating dojo dictated these sort of things within their region; however, regions there were scaled down to 10 miles because the width and the breath of the San Fernando Valley was approximately darn near that 25 miles; that region that size would allow 2-3 regions, at the best. Thankfully, that type of control died out the more and more the different styles of the MA began opening, especially during the 1980's when the MA boom began to grow and grow like wildfire. Nowadays, that type of control ends almost as quickly as it started. How? Dojo's/CI's and the like have gotten smarter on how to combat that type of bullying, imho, it is bullying one dojo after/over another. Just say NO!! I wholeheartedly concur with CI's wanting to see their students open up their dojo's in which the students dojo becomes a branch of the CI's own dojo as it is a proponent of the style being taught. I've never had a competitive clause because, as it's already been stated, it's not worth the paper it's written on UNLESS a employee/employer relationship exists, and even there will need it written in such a way that the paper it's written on is a binding contract; get a lawyer for that. All over the Southern California, circa 1993, a company called the Young Olympians (YO) taught karate and cheerleading to school age children in a plethora of venues, and charged each students $4 per class over 3 months. All the instructors were paid $1 per student per class, plus a commission for a variety of MA equipment sold. Now, these instructors signed a binding contract for a non-competitive clause, and this meant that they couldn't open up a similar model for 1 year after their employment with the YO ended. What's one to do?!? Teach your students, and let them teach theirs!!

Well, in an interview in 2012, he said he started training with the Machados "28 years ago," which would be 31 years ago, now. That means that, at the very least, he's been training since 1984, and he would have been 44 at the time. I believe he also holds a black belt rank in Judo. Yes, he does!

Kata!!

Thanks, sensei8. Those techniques were executed perfectly in my opinion. And this is the style you've been doing for 50+ years? You must be a beast, then! Also, the way the techniques were done made me think of Aikido; Is this style based on Aikido in any way? Armanox, from all those styles, you sound like quite the journeyman. Liger, welcome to the forum! You'll have fun here. To the bold type above... Shindokan not Seido; although the Tuite's are quite similar!! No, Shindokan isn't based on Aikido. Nonetheless, the mechanics of our Tuite is what is seen.

Congrats Chuck!! Age is just a bunch of numbers!!

Welcome to KF; glad that you're here!! Welcome back to the MA!!

, Now I remember you saying your Soke founded the art you study in his 30s. Did he promote himself from his current rank to Judan. Or did he slowly go up in rank. But if he did become a judan at 30ish, why would the by-laws be ex amount of age for say a rokudan. Please, I mean no disrespect. No disrespect taken!! We're speaking about 2 separate Tenure's; rank Tenure isn't age Tenure. In Shindokan, we do not place any Tenure with age; only with rank Tenure. As to the bold type above... http://www.karateforums.com/question-for-sensei8-vt48223.html I refer you to the bottom of page #1, 2nd paragraph of said thread. Yes now I remember ! Cool! I've edited my latest post above to give a more sound answer, and not so generally general. I just saw the edit, now after Hachidan does tenure rank not matter. Espically if one becomes the Kaicho like you were/are and they say you have to be a Kudan.You're correct!! Tenure speaks ONLY to ranks up to and including Hachidan. Once my time as Kaicho ends, the newly elected Kaicho, per the By-Laws will be awarded/promoted to Kudan.

Didn't you force them to test you for your Kudan. Since you forced them, did they change the by-laws so that all future Kudan's promotions require a testing. Yes, I did force the Hombu to test me for Kudan...or shut-up...they tested me. No, the By-Laws remain un-amended in this regard of Kudan. All ranks up to and including Hachidan must be tested for. Kudan is still awarded according to the elected title of Kaicho. My Kudan test was the last, and only Kudan testing cycle. Before... *Kaicho = Kudan *Soke Type = Judan We've eliminated the Soke types! Therefore, Judan is no longer awarded as it is stated in the amended By-Laws.