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This VS That, Style-wise. This discussion just never seems to go to the wayside for some strange reason(s), and more than likely, it'll never do so. Opinions vary, yet, there seems to be no concrete answer to the very question at hand. There's an unfathomable amount of discussions within the world of the MA that pins to the wall the This VS That, Style-wise, that is. This to me is quite unjust for all concerned. Why?? Blaming the style is like blaming the alarm clock for not waking you up. The alarm clock was invented/founded to sound loud enough at any chosen prescribed time. If the alarm clock didn't do what it's designed to do, then I suggest that the individual, and not the alarm clock, are at fault. Someone has to properly set, and turn the alarm clock feature on. Turning to the style vs style argument is akin to the alarm clock example. When said style was founded, it was determined that said style was indeed effective throughout its history via its proven trails and tribulations. If said style isn't effective, then I strongly suggest that the individual/practitioner, and not any said style, is ineffective. After all, said individual/practitioner must be able to effectively execute what it's designed to do. When a individual/practitioner can't be effectively with what it's designed to do, MA-wise, then the individual/practitioner lacks the necessary maturity to be effective, and not any said MA style. Effective knowledge and experience births maturity in any given technique. The founder of said MA style has already laid the foundation, and not on sand, but on solid ground. Others can do it, so why can't the next person?? The lack of maturity in any given technique. Receiving a technique takes a lot of maturity to be effective consistently; it takes more than one might imagine. Karate VS Aikido, for an example. Each will have their sound arguments and the like to support each others styles pros and cons of the other. However, the responsibility to ensure that either style is more effective solely lies with the individual/practitioner, and NOT the style. Albeit, the style is just a thing, and for anything to be effective it must be properly used, yet still, without the proper knowledge and experience through maturity, that thing is just that...a thing. In my example of Karate VS Aikido, I do believe that both are effective, yet without the individual/practitioner making it effective, then all that remains are labels. Put the blame to the individual/practitioner who turned said style into question, and not the style. I'm speaking towards MA styles that are proven and solid within their effectiveness, and not styles that can't hold water to save their souls. Many practitioners aren't mature yet enough to effectively execute said said proven style; it takes an untold amount of time. So, if one doesn't properly set, and turn on, the alarm clock, then don't blame the alarm clock; blame oneself instead. Perhaps, said style is only as effective as your last encounter. Imho!!

Actually without resistance it would not work.. I can feel all his force going into my body he's not just holding my wrist.. the pressure is going my core and am attaching my core to his and throwing him away because he's not grounded..maybe what you mean you what to see a struggle then I do it.. What I saw in your video was that your student was just letting go of your wrists, which is fine when in the teaching phase, then resistance afterwards.

I see its effectiveness, however, I'd still like to see it with resistance, that's just me. Either way, the thumbs are so useless whenever it comes to holding anything on an opponents body; thumbs are great for picking up inanimate objects. Thank you for the video, stonecrusher69.

Oh! Don't you all just love auto-correct!?!

What am trying to do is to control my opponent centerl;ine by talking him off and not letting him get back..I call this centerpoint theory...since wingchunners "talking him off"?? Please explain this? Thank you.

UPDATE: Saw my Oncologist, Dr. Oscar Goodman this morning. My PSA is DOWN from 0.4 to 0.12!! This is once again, some great news. Getting so close to remission. I'll get my next shot in 7 weeks.

Is that an option that's on the table? If so, I'd say you should do it.It's an option, but it would be an insurance nightmare one way or another. I'll know more whenever open enrollment comes around next month.

I'd say that you're not unique. Many search, research, and follow/create similar journeys, with varying successes. I'd strongly suggest that you continue to train under a CI that has the nearest or exact style that you're teaching on a consistent basis; always a student and never just only a teacher. Videos and the like are fine, but compared to having a live in-person CI, the video learning path pales drastically. Feedback is vitally important to you and to your students; videos are one dimensional, thus limited in context/content Remain the student for your CI, so that your students can gain solid knowledge and experience from you. Joining organizations are fine, but they're not always where the sun sets, in which they'll create a stale progression within you, which will trickledown to you students in a negative tone. Knowledge and experience over rank!! I think that your journey has value and is promising across the board. Just keep your head screwed on right, and not wondering out somewhere in left field; you're students deserve that...and so do you!! Truthfully, tournaments are a dime a dozen. By that I mean, tournaments are easy to locate in differing size of cities. However, COVID-19 Pandemic has made them quite scares to find, however, keeping your nose of the grindstone will be fruitful enough to locate a many of a tournaments that'll meet your needs. The internet is a strange tool, but nowadays, finding a tournament is as easy as one, two, three. Also, contact local MA schools to locate tournaments. Imho!! Train hard and train well!!

Welcome the KF, Dboxobi; glad that you're here!!

Perhaps it might be of some value, that seeking the advice from Physical Therapists and/or an Occupational Therapist and the like might allow the decline of any plateau in any recovering. Doctors mean well, but if this area isn't their specialty, then by all means, the doctor needs to referrals to the appropriate specialists. I pray that your recovery is a sure and safe one, april.

That's it....right there! The opening and closing of the centerline is due to that this and that, whatever they are at any given time, is not static, but moving towards any unknown target.

Well, someone has to GET TO the centerline first. Transitioning and jamming can make that quite difficult by not remaining static longer than necessary. Both opponents have to guard their centerline!!

The opposite of external, and how MAists work and train how one move the energy within your body, how to heal, and how to find your center. Is it effective? I just don't know at all. The opposite of internal, MAists focus on the body, being able to execute techniques that serve for self-defense, combat and fighting. Is it effective? I just don't know about this either. I don't think that they can; they're connected not by choice, like a finger can't be separate from the hand, of which the finger had no choice but to be part of the hand, and the finger not becoming somewhere else on the body. Varies person to person. In some ways. I mean, forces beyond my comprehension are at work somehow and someway, that I'm sure I can't deny. Why does the MA consider anything?! The diction of methodology and ideology serves the core of what's believed and what's not believed.

Keep training hard and well, Wayofaswede!! I believe that the floor is always smiling at your consistent efforts!!

Here's my two-cents, for what it's worth... I don't ever entertain any notion of gender in any of my students. Why? To me, my students are first and foremost, MAists. Secondly, one can't choose their attacker. Therefore, I've not the time nor the inclination to make my students comfortable while they're training. Train hard and train well...no matter whom ones partner is at any given time. My students don't dictate my floor, ever!! While she might be special needs of some type, I'll always take said limitation(s) in consideration, and if she doesn't want to do something, I'm cool with that...for a moment or two...after that, effort goes a long way, and effective effort goes even further. Going to the CI is always a good thing, even though it's not always what the student expected one way or another. Don't whine, approach your CI with a lucid, intelligent, well thought out concern, thereafter, whatever the CI decides is it. While I've equal sympathy for all concerned in this matter, the bottom line is that my students are on my floor to train to the BEST OF THEIR ABILITIES, regardless of what they feel "comfortable" with. In closing, the Testing Cycle always takes care of itself, on way or another, whether one likes it or not. I'm pretty sure that your CI knows what he's doing across the board, especially when the Testing Cycle is concerned. I always tell my students that they need to worry about themselves, and stop worrying about everyone else because there's only one CI, and they aren't it!! We're not on the floor to make friends, although it can be a perk to training. Better yet... “You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”.” ― John Lydgate I hope the best for you and all concerned in the matter. Train hard and train well.

Welcome to KF, karatepastor, glad that you're here!!

To add to the bold type above.... Belts/rank no longer become important. As Mr. Han from Enter The Dragon spoke so candidly... "We are unique, in that we create ourselves. Through long years of rigorous training, sacrifice, denial, pain, we forge our bodies, in the fire of our will." Rank/belts don't survive in the fire of our will.

Thank you so very much, Danielle; means everything to me. Still trying to figure out my Co-Pay. I could go back to Houston, then apply for Molina Insurance again, and then Molina can pay for my Radiation Therapy 100% like they were when I lived in Houston. I really messed up by leaving Houston prematurely.

Great news, Danielle that everything in your recovery is solid. The floor will be there when you're fully healed...so will your car. Be safe!!

May Evelyn grow strong, healthy and wise. Congrats on the new addition to your family!! Congrats on being new grandparents, Vicky and you!! Congrats on being new nephews, Kenneth and Kendall!!

Excellent post by Wado Heretic!! My two-cents... I'd say that it's because Kiko is more of on a personal level, and not of a codified system for the masses. However, that personal Kiko of the CI can become codified within that dojo, starting with Tanden Breathing...then followed by Shoshyuten Kiko, Nuun Breathing, Daishyuten Kiko, Rooting Training, Bu no Chikara, and Dako. Kiko training can be an invaluable asset to students of Okinawan MA.

Thank you so very much, ramymensa; it really means everything to me. I've not the exacting figures as of yet, as there are a minimum of 20 Radiation Therapy sessions. Hopefully I'll know more as more information comes to me.

Congrats, Rusty; well deserved!!

UPDATE: How can one tell when a doctor is being truthful or not? When one knows for sure, please let me know because this overwhelming roller coaster is uncalled for. My latest post was so promising, and now, this post seems to have taken a sour turn away from promising. Today, I visited my Radiation Oncologist, Dr. Becker, and what Dr. Becker told me this morning are contradictive from what every PCP, Urologist, and Oncologists have expressed to me during these past 15 months...I'll die but not from Prostate Cancer. According to Dr. Becker, once I expressed what I've been assured in the past, is NOT true due to a new study. Men who are diagnosed with Stage 4 Prostate Cancer...WILL DIE FROM IT!!!!! My Prostate Cancer is NOT curable!! Dr. Becker says I'm in remission, however, Dr. Goodman says that that's months away...whom do I believe and trust!? This new information sends me into a bawling session right in the exam room!! 3 years and 8 months is what I might have left to live, per the statistics...5 year survival rate. Yeah, that's way off base from what I've been/being told by various doctors. If I can't trust a doctor, then who can I?!? The rotten cheery on the top is that Dr. Becker informs me that if I couldn't afford the CT Scan co-pays, then there's no way I can pay for Radiation Therapy whatsoever; it's very expensive. For example, Radiation Therapy can last 2-9 weeks, 5 days a week, can cost me $100.00 per day or $500.00 per week...payments are due at the time of service...NO PAYMENT PLANS!! Once again, money before patient care!! 20/20 hindsight has given me one gut shot after another ever since I moved to Las Vegas. Had I stayed in Houston, not one procedure/treatment/etc. would've been denied, and more affordable. My co-pay at the LBJ Hospital in Houston was $100 once every 3 months. When I had Molina Insurance in Texas, my Radiation Therapy was approved to have it paid in full 100% by Molina!! But not with HPN in Nevada!! Btw, the boil I had on my left forearm shows it was cancerous, but they got it all out...I hope so!! Dr. Becker praised our kitten for discovering my Skin Cancer, had the kitten hadn't scratched me in that particular spot on my left forearm. Funny thing is that my Dermatologist stated to me that it would be about 2 weeks for biopsy results, and that his office would call me with the results. Yet, no one called me from his office. Yet, Dr. Becker had the results. Strange.

Yes the visit with Dr. Goodman was uplifting. Thank you for your continued prayers, Brian!!