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Typical misconception of "ni sente nashi". Just because you don't initiate the first attack (whatever action that might be), it doesn't mean you shouldn't or cannot strike first.

As it happens I went to my first bikram class one week ago, and I would definitely recommend it to everyone. It was horrible, in a good way

Typical western thinking. Nothing is "hidden" in kata. It's all there in plain sight. It is the lack of knowledge that has made people think that the contents of kata are hidden or seceret or whatever. If you don't do this you are not doing karate.

Good Style. Not Karate. McCarthy's own interpretation of .... well something.

Start dancing... Any kind will do but some faster ones like Jive, rock n roll and such will definitely improve all areas (of your karate).

No offense but even 1 or 2 kata should be enough! not to mention 10 or 20 or 30 or whatever. Of course there are requirements and such but speaking from a self defense point of view.... This hoarding of kata is just ridiculous.

Probably some shito ryu in there... because of Fumio Demura.

hi, found these on a finnish karate clubs's site (some versions i guess, text is in finnish but there are some photos of the techniques) chudan megeri uke 1 through 6 etc..: http://www.budokwai.fi/karate/tek_maegeriuke6.html

What in the world is Beikoku Bushido ???

Unfortunately yes ...

In our dojo all Wado fighting is full contact - It's just controlled full contact. We call it Jiyu Kumite. Chitsu Could you elaborate on this, I mean, what does controlled full contact mean? Do you consider Kyokushin to be uncontrolled full contact?

Exactly. Kyokushin also has elements of Goju Ryu in it, which favor shorter stances than the long deep stances you see in Shotokan. Since Kyokushin's foundation is in both Goju and Shotokan I don't think you can say either is responsible for stance depth/length. And back in the days before point sparring, Shotokan (before Yoshitaka Funakoshis influence I guess) had very narrow stances compared to modern Shotokan.

This one stands out first for me, Jay, because during the time I was studying JKD, my instructor made a point of how it cuts out any time lag. Lee wasn't into the classical approach to MA when he was designing Jeet Kune Do, and the classical is pretty much, as I see it, block then strike. If you keep practicing it that way, training hours that way, you'll do it that way with the time lag built in. During that time, you're a target. With the simultaneous approach, which is not hard to learn, it just shouts out "common sense." I remember working with a partner who had two focus mitts, one for the parry and the other for the simultaneous attack (punch), and then we'd switch. It surprised me how quickly it can be caught on to. Really nothing revolutionary here actually. In my opinion this stems from Bruce's background in Wing Chun and such. Basic stuff and hardly a thing that JKD is alone in advocating.