karatedude

Well, there are already traditional karate associations within America. For example: Japan Karate Association, International Shotokan Karate Federation, American Amateur Karate Federation, World Shotokan Karate Federation, USA-National Karate-do Federation. and the list goes on and on and on. Objectively speaking, the real problem are people within the more sporty side of karate -- such as NASKA -- who mislabel certain performances as "traditional" when they are not traditional. Now, there's nothing wrong with NASKA karate. They are good at what they do -- flips spins twirls and kiai as if they were to find their wives sleeping with their brothers -- however that just can not be labeled as "traditional karate"

http://www.aakfgreatlakes.com/graphics/dojo/4big.html http://www.aakfgreatlakes.com/graphics/dojo/1big.html here's an example of AAKF using the JKA name. the american amateur karate federation, formerly the all american karate federation, (AAKF) broke away from the JKA 20 something years ago, yet they still use the JKA name. if u look closely in the photos, you'll see the JKA symbol w/ indiana written below it. on the symbol is the worlds "Japan Karate Association" trust me, it's there. in the mean time, im gonna look for a better pic or something. When I trained JKA, we had these booklet/passport things. When i trained one time at an aakf dojo (under the name jka indiana) with a bunch of other people, i was never asked to show my JKA booklet/passport. and what peeves me off is that these members (i have to deal with a lot of these guys...long story) keep saying that they're JKA or o wow i have just received rank in JKA or we have high standards b/c we're JKA. I'm thinking that it's very likely that the "jka indiana" dojo's survival depends on hoodwinking people into thinking that jka indiana is an actual JKA dojo. here's a video of their kumite. compare that video to anything JKA or even shotokan in general http://groups.northwestern.edu/karate/images/11032007/11032007sarah1.AVI[/i]

why do people in itkf/aakf keep thinking that they're part of JKA. im trained in JKA, but have to resort to aakf b/c i've moved out to the middle of nowhere. aakf (in training, kata, kumite, and mentality) is nothing like JKA at all what really ticks me off too is that there are many aakf dojos that still hang the JKA banner w/ the words "JKA _____(fill in blank with region/state/city) some though are honest enough to say they're JKA styled karate. btw, nakayama shows the gyaku-tsuki with the heel off the ground as a technique in his books. we do this in JKA.

there's an ISKF karate camp in pennsylvania this summer. okazaki and kanazawa will be there http://www.iskf.com/images/brochua%20for%20website.pdf