godan

Sounds like you are a member of Dusty Millers club,Trained with him a long time ago in the early 70's at the kobe osaka. really nice guy then and so was his then girlfriend and now wife carol. All the best at your club and your instructor is one of the best at Shukokai and he is doing it not for the money but for the love of Karate. Unlike certain other nameless people who had clubs in the early 70's. Regards

Just like to add my tupence worth. I have been traing in karate for over thirty years now and have seen bad katas and good katas and also some really terrible shodan grades. What is considered good in 1 club may not be considered good in an other,so how anyone can judge a person on the 1 clip is beyond me. If you are a judge at kata then you base the marks on the 1st kata that is performed,either it is worse or better and you mark accordingly. So, please show a little respect for your fellow practioners,you might be that person who goes to a club whose students are better than you and then you might be the one on the recieving end of the laughter. In my opion you are only as good as you think you are,there is always someone better waiting in the wings to take your place but hopefully they will have the respect and tact that some members in here are severly lacking. Regards

as one of you has already stated its not the style but the person behind that style. Been training in the martial arts for over 30 years and have seen about every style,some good and some really bad. But then I see other people doing what i had thought were bad styles and they were really good. So as I said do not judge a style by what you see one person doing but take out of it what you can.

Only a 5th dan in shukokai karate, but does it really matter??