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I am in shorin ryu and I am going to start learning the kata and drills. I am going to order 2 or 3 pairs of escrima and a rattan straight bo. I was wondering about the diffrent ones and the weight and feel of the ones they have on century. I wanted a pretty heavy ones that feels nice and I want a light pair to demo with. I was thinking of getting the sprial regular and spiral deluxe and the blue maple demo ones that are around $25 Anybody had these particularly intrested in the diffrence in the regular and the deluxe? Two main questions are diffrence in regular and deluxe spiral weight and feel and how are the $25 maple pair.

Post a video of you doing the begging form in your style. I like to see diffrent karate first forms

Too rough and hot now i just practice with some high dollar sandells and it works

I mean even if I bought something around $30 and had to replace it once every six months itd be fine. Just dont known what to buy

I was looking for other people who do my style that has not been altered. It is shorin ryu kenshin kan traditional matsumura seito. We have the 25 basics and also a 13 basic extra. My style is exactly what Fusei Kise does. The tradional version not converted. Here is a little bit about it 10 kyu levels 10th White 9th Blue 8th Purple 7th Orange 6th Green 5th Green 4th Green 3rd Brown 2nd Brown 1st Brown Black 25 basics tuite Kata Fuku gata itche 9th Fuku gata Ni 8th Fuku gata Son 7th Won su 6th Pinan 1 5th Pinan 2 4th Nahanchi 1, Pinan 3 3rd Nahanchi 2, Anaku 2nd Nahanchi 3 1st Pinan 4, seisan 1st degree black My teacher is Don Foster 7th degree in the style Please post or message me if you do that style I would like to share opinions video or just have a freind in the same style.

we train barefooted and perform barefooted though and that is how I want to train. My school does it for traditional self defence not for new sport type karate.

I dont have an area where I can practice my kata. I dont have room in my house and outside I have to perfect size concrete slab to practice on but one problem is it is concrete. I am part of a traditional style and practice barfooted. I am looking for advice on what kind of material I could buy to put over the concrete. It cant absorb water and mold outside I just dont know what to buy. Trying to keep it under $40 or $50. Any help would be awsome link or pictures of what you have. Thank you and good luck on your martial art adventure.

http://www.jefit.com/routines/workout-routine-database.php?id=12952 I've been working out off and on for around a year now but about 8 months worth of that time. I made this routine and it is the one I am following it is great to build explosive muscular power for shotokan karate or any hard hitting martial art in general

Ive been using jetfit ap on my phone it tracks your workout stats and the best one ive found in the app store only thing i want to know is if you pay for the pro version for $5 if its a one time thing or monthly. When you get pro you get access to an online data base and workout records. So if anyone has it could u tell me if its a one time payment or monthly

There isnt one in my area

As some know i am self learning shotokan karate at home. I have got heian shodan down except for the final knife hand block move as far as exactly how to work your fingers position your hand and how to come forward and back with it. Any help like a video tutorial of more specific ending of the kata would be helpful thank you. I just want to get it down right.

As some know i am self learning shotokan karate at home. I have got heian shodan down except for the final knife hand block move as far as exactly how to work your fingers position your hand and how to come forward and back with it. Any help like a video tutorial of more specific ending of the kata would be helpful thank you. I just want to get it down right.

I love the simplicity and i am doing power lifts which makes my strikes powerful and shotokan is a very straightforward powerful martial art anc the closest dojos arent available they are an hour away

Thanks you guys. And i am practicing the shotokan style so i go by those standards and there is no one in my area that does it so im stuck training alone

Im a bit confused on what the diffrence is when it comes to roundhouse kick and side kick. Is the roundhouse kick just a front leg side kick or? Most people strike with the top of the foot but I want to do it on the edge. Do you just spin straighten your legs out to push the blade of your foot into the target or? A video tutorial of the diffrence would be cool. Im doing shotokan

It is very hard training at home without going to class. 10xs harder than being in a class so i hope you have good luck with sticking to your training. Do you have a youtube channel mabye we could share videos sometimes. Im doing shotokan i would love to see some of your kyokushin

I thought powerlifting just means anything around the 1-5 rep zone. And i know that creates poweful muscle fibers for exposivness which is good for karate bodybuilding is ment to gain mass and have a nice looking body. I think it is still called powerlifting if you use a 1-5 rep zone in my opinion whether it is isolated or not as long as your doing one or so per body part. Now if your working your biceps in 4 diffrent workouts or your triceps in 3 diffrent workouts I consider that bodybuilding but if your doing like 1-5 rep with heavy weight on 1 workout per bodypart I consider that power lifting at least thats what I thought it was but thanks for the advice.

I was wondering some people say powelifting is good for karate but some people say it slows you down. Curious the lifting weight of some karateka that are pretty high ranked for each body muscle and give your personal opinion if it slows you down or just increases your power. Just curious peoples strength and how it effects your speed mine is below. My weight Barbell Bicep curl 60x6 Tricep skull crushers 50x6 Bent over back barbell row 130x3 Upright row medium 90x4 Shoulder barbell press 60x6 Dumbell bench press 63x5 My speed is about half the speed slower because i was realy weak before when i started karate I doubled my weight lifting weight working out extreme for 4 or 5 months. but before i could barely hit now I feel an extreme amount of power in my karate strikes

http://karateclassesonline.com/ that is the site. Is it legit and actual rank that you recieve

Thanks i will post some video soon and as for the instructor part i dont have an instructor in my area only an hour away which i will attempt to grade from her or there is a shotokan site that i would try to get graded from. If you learn from the site and get graded is it actual official belt rank and as for the variations of the kata i thought the shotokan katas have not been modified.

I was wondering if someone would do a tutorial on the shotokan fighting stance. Ive seen diffrent ones but i dont know what the official standard stance looks like. I think its back stance with hand chambered and open hand outward but ive also seen both hands pointing together outward close together and twisting in close jabs. It would be awsome if someone posted a tutorial video. Thank you for replies

Kata, Heavybag, Forms/kata, waza, bunkai just curious.... How do you train? I quite a dojo and still training from dvd on other styles. Shotokan karate and kuk sool won and kickboxing. Its hard to train on your own. The stretches is what I hate the most because you have to take minutes doing that before training and in class its alot easier to go with it. but anyway just curious how other people train on there own. I just stretch and use my heavybag to train on two kicks at a time for around 20 mins or so or I do oi zuki alot and godan barai. Im having a hard time training on my own so anyone have any ideas or want to share anything. I wish i had a makiwara type target I could strike to practice instead of my heavybag.

I have trained in kempo shoalin ryu and gung fu for 2 years quite the dojo and started trying to learn shotokan karate on my own. I bought 3 dvds and have not started training in it that hard yet. I was wondering if there are any shotokan practiciners that would reply saying they could review my shotokan work through youtube. I have not been in class but shorin ryu is about the same concept. Anyway if anyone would review my videos on youtube when i practice something in shotokan I would be very grateful I want to do it right so if i post kata and the moves and all that a shotokan practicener can tell me if my form is right and mabye tell me whats wrong with it so I can get it down. Anyways if you were interested in reviewing some videos I make please reply and Ill send the video or just post it on here or another post. Thank you

He said he found it on his desk because the person to ship it didnt and he would personaly ship it

I ordered from marlin sims 9th degree kuk sool won practiciner and my order never came in. i ordered from unitedmartialsciencefederation.com and am worried why my package didnt go through. I hope its not fake? Its been 10 days since my order and havnt got it... Its a local business and didnt send tracking order dont know what to do track it and if its not fake and didnt get lost in mail what i can do about it