Tobias_Reece

true true,

Chances are it is true.

Most of the American settlers were surviving members of the Knights Templar anyway - at least thats my belief

Didn't realise there was such a massive link between the Freemasons and the USA

Bo - Sakugawa-no-kon, Cho-un-no-kon (not all versions), Tsuken-no-kon Iyeki - Tsuken Aka Cho no Eiku Sai - san cho zai, Higaonna no zai, kyan no sai, matsu higa no sai, tsukenshitaaku no sai, nakamura no sai, odo no sai, tawada no sai thats a list of some - hope it helps

What???????

They might do it in the WWE

Kilogramms?

DokterVet Kaisho means open hand, whilst Haiwan Uke is a high level block. Its hard to describe, but look for the opening moves in Kanku-dai, and you shall see.

On the contrary, in my experience if I went to a Wado-Ryu school and asked for a Shuto-uke, I would see a technique I would call Kaisho Haiwan Uke - as seen in the kata Kanku-dai (Oh, and Kensai, you are confusing Shuto with Soto. No biggie)

Kensai you have done your homework. Well done.

Ah yes, Sakugawa. Damn good staff kata

Kensai is my favourite poster (in all seriousness.) I also used to like Taesujutsudrw, but she had an arguement with Patrick and left........even though she was probably the best person out there. :S

Kensai is so ugly that he scares people away with his face.

Your 'article' says nothing new. Thats my opinion and I didn't get mad.

Well said KickChick.

You've never disagreed with me, but I've disagreed with you many a time LOL Maybe this is the start of a beautiful friendship.

Be careful my friend, if you use English for that length of time you will find it very difficult to change. I advise Japanese from the beginning

The farmer was found guilty of manslaughter and jailed. I think he is still appealing (the media kinda stops covering stories when they get old) But in terms of what she said, I have to say that I agree 100% with MonkeyGirl. (an unholy alliance )

AHAH, I follow you now - I see the underlines now. I back you up on this one. Why, do you want to learn Kobudo?

WOAH WOAH WOAH, hold on......is KickChick actually agreeing with me? I understand your 'anger'. I get the same when it happens to me ("I do sai kata one" GGGGRR)

Very good Hongkongfooi, but what has the technique description got to do with the discussion? LOL

Ok, so this topic has probably come up hundreds of times, but I think after recent disagreements on "A-Z of Martial Arts", it needs discussing again. So, everyone, are you for Japanese/Korean/etc. terminology, or are you a "double handed picture frame block" person?

I was simply answering your question. You were not discussing parries, but traditional blocks, in which I gave a very valid response. But, if we are to dicuss that.........traditional blocks are a foundation. For example, you may not use a full motioned soto ude uke for block an attack, but practising it will make your parries even better.

To be truthful he shouldn't have been a sensei if he didn't understand the blocks/strikes etc. But in answer to your question - every block is an attack in principle. Think about it - when an arm doing an age uke (rising block) makes contact with a punching arm, it does exactly that. Its not like a feather coming in contact with a fly. Does this answer your question?