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this is what i understood 1- you are not planning to become a Mechanical Engineer, but you have the potential to become a good medical doctor. 2- you are very much intrested in Potential Energy 3- you believe that hip does all the work and "Hips Don't Lie" but the hip, you mentioned does have a effect, the velosity of punch has the hip speed inside it ( V(punch)=V(Hip)+V(punch/hip) you can ognore this formula since it is not really that easy to express it )

Tensho represents the Ju side of Goju ryu , the breathing is lighter than sanchin and movments should express the flow of techniques, although many people do it same as sanchin,

i only know ryuei ryu version, for shino jinen ryu version contact Sensei Howard High at http://www.jinmukan.com/ for shito ryu version contact sensei Scott Mertz at https://www.katamasters.com (he also has a clip of Anan in video section)

if you chamber and very slowly throw a punch there is a point that you will start to feel a tension and it will increase till you get to the end of range of motion, the point just before the tension in muscles start, is the point you looking for, think of all the limb and muscles as a system of springs, when you pull back you are at (-x) and velosity is zero as well as kinetic energy, the kinetic enrgey will be max at x=0 which is the relax point and after that it decreases again till it becomes zero at the end, i found the point around 2 inch before end of my punch. the only way of finiding the exact spot is the very high speed photography.

since you got a situation and need a direct answer i get to the point for you quickly 1- thai boxing 2- Boxing within 2 years you can take care of yourself effectively. i look at it as art and there is no end to it, i'll have my whole life to perfect my art and i am in no rush, when you look at it inthis way then the teacher becomes very important and you gotta find the right one. my current teacher is my 5th one in Okinawan karate and i finally found the right one.

i guess you're reffering to Sanchin for hard ibuki, i think soft ibuki is more close to breathing method of Tensho

it counts big time, and you gotta tell us how you managed to kick yourself there,

as a higher rank you need to develop your ki, that's the only way you can show the power in your techniques, i looked at you stat. in another thread it seems pretty good, work on putting ki into your hand techniques. and what do you think yourself, do you think you are lacking physical strenght? or you can't pop the techniques?

We can go back and check some resources but to my best knowledge people of Okinawa had been familiar with Japanise jujutsu and they had their own system of Te, Chinese merchents and families brougth in striking arts of chinese boxing and Chin-na (the seizing and controling part), these all mixed together created different styles of Okinawan karate(or just Okinawan te), when karate transfered to japan some japanies jujutsu masters added more of their techniques into karate systems like shindo jenin ryu or wado ryu. but Japanise jujutsu have been influenced by Chinese grappling arts to begin with, ?! very well possible.

No, it's not. yes, it will. no, they don't - not very well, anyway. fights happen too fast to have time for a lot of blocking. evasion will serve you better. In all the encounters I've had as a bouncer, I've never once blocked -I evade. The guys I work with who have no formal training don't block either - they evade. yes, there is - unless you only do point sparring. 1- there is a scienc we call it Statistics, accordingly the chance for a well trained martial artist to get in fight with a well trained person is pretty slim 2-yes it helps but not that much, in partcular if you do point sparring. 3-evading and blocking and hitting should happens almost together , if you limit your understanding of a block to a middle block which does not work ,then yes it's true. evading, a drunk guy who sees two heads on your shoulder and can't make his mind to hit which one first, is pretty enough. 4-comitment has nothing to do with point sparring, i do full contact and it still needs determination,tactics and fake moves which you wouldn't see in street fight, just look at the street fights video clips, 99.9% ends up to a rain of creazy heymakers ,there is comitment in all the moves,there is no fake move, here is the time that a hard block works, or a soft art like Aikido has a chance.

you don't need stance for that. the term "sitting down on a punch" is used in boxing all the time, and they don't project their mass in a given direction -they stay centered. she simply says that useing your body mass and assuming a correct body position (stance) helps your technique and you don't have to arm wrestle a guy over a take down, it had nothing to do with boxing and judo, one more thing , karate doesn't use judo base throws since it predates modern Judo, all throws in karate are simple jujitsu or chin-na techniques. and notice I never said it doesn't help. But the way it was stated was that that stance is a necessity, and it's not, as I pointed out. As for judo based throws, shotokan does NOT predate judo, and its founder trained with jigoro kano. AngelaG trains shotokan. In addition, since judo stemmed from jujutsu, it's techniques technically ARE jujutsu techniques, though the purposes behind the two arts may differ. well if according to you assuming a correct stance for performing each particular technique is not a necessity and it just helps, then next time you practice your judo based throws , just stay in upright natural stance and use your hands and center of gravity, and do the throws and let us know how it works out. if your hands are in seoinage and you throw from pulling in forward stance then it's not a seoinage anymore it is consider as a taiotoshi throw, the stance makes a difference that you are throwing from hip or hand/leg as for judo and jujutsu, when you talk about karate then throws are jujutsu based anyway doesn't matter what kind of karate. maybe there are some sports that use judo techniques but karate in general is not one of them.

what do you mean by permanently , 2-3 weeks permanently or Michael Jackson permanently .

kicking dosen't cause knee injuries(unless you kick a post), wrong landing does, in particular landing without balance on one leg, and you can't control it most of the times, it just happens. slow and long distance cycling is one of the best things you can do to heal knee injuries,

you don't need stance for that. the term "sitting down on a punch" is used in boxing all the time, and they don't project their mass in a given direction -they stay centered. she simply says that useing your body mass and assuming a correct body position (stance) helps your technique and you don't have to arm wrestle a guy over a take down, it had nothing to do with boxing and judo, one more thing , karate doesn't use judo base throws since it predates modern Judo, all throws in karate are simple jujitsu or chin-na techniques.

very nice , thanks for sharing with us. i noticed some crane movie in your form , hitting eyes with open fingers and block ,punch in same time. also toward the end of form there were two kicks that you pulled your leg back and throw the low kicks , those are also crane kick from close distance, i was wondering what you call this kick, (by the way ,when you did the second kick ,you didn't turn enough and put you supporting knee in a awkward position). the from seems to be compeletly symmetric which i very good for training both sides of body. if you got a chance list your forms , how many more like this you got ? what was the speedy hand set you posted before compare to this ? do you have any form close to this clip or anything you call three battles (sanchin)? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtLgfru5PjM

matsumura passai passai dai passai sho bassai dai bassai sho tomari passai i can't think of anything else, actually i am looking at this list ,i can only see 2 main kata Matsumura version and Tomari, i am sure TKD guys have their own version of Bassai too, what do they call it? I know some TKD schools use bassai dai as one of their forms, but I have never seen it or learned it.

what is your take on hard&soft in karate?

matsumura passai passai dai passai sho bassai dai bassai sho tomari passai i can't think of anything else, actually i am looking at this list ,i can only see 2 main kata Matsumura version and Tomari, i am sure TKD guys have their own version of Bassai too,

Brandon, thanks again for good pictures, 3rd picture is tekki and I can see that he was using a high shiko dachi (i am pretty much sure it's just because of age that kiba dachi turns to natural shiko dachi) , the 4th picture is a classic Naihanchi dachi in Naihanchi shodan. Angela, what i'd like to say is that a high kiba dachi may be used to initiate a throw but i really think droping into low kiba dachi from a high move may cause severe damage to knee legaments, or pulling and droping into kiba dachi is even more dangerous when the body naturally tends to use shiko dachi. you also mentioned " A change in heigt in kata gives up movements" ,this is a good topic ,we can open a new thread about this, one more thing, we know how Funakoshi and mutobo hated each other and Mutoto was keep saying Funakoshi doesn't know karate, and that Naihanchi dachi was mutobo's favorit fighting stance, and he loved Naihanchi kata, may be kiba dachi was Funakoshi's final revenge to destroy Mutobo's legacy( i know it's creazy)

wow, look at them, they are all like 7 dan and up, and i think they are doing Passai dai. thanks for the picture.

who was Ed parker teacher?

do you know who came up with the idea of kiba dachi?, was there a kiba dachi before tekki kata?

Yes, as I said before Kiba Dachi drops the body weight. All stances are transitional - the work is done in getting into the stance. I am disagree here, although kiba dachi is not a traditional stance in okinawan karate, still shows the characteristics of Naihanchi dachi, all the stances in this family of stances like different versions of Sanchin dachi or Naihanchi dachi (even in Hangetsu) should be used in a upward movment because of foot inward angle , a good example is Matsumura Hakutsuru , at the end of the kata there are two upward attack in Naihanchi starting from low and one downward attack in Shiko dachi starting from high, to check this out, we can try this , assume a high kiba dachi , now try to drop the weight, and from a deep kiba dachi try to hit high, it's more comfortable when you hit high, if you do the same thing in shiko dachi then you can see it's easier to drop low because of outward foot angle , so although kiba dachi is a deep stance but it is actually designed to move up and hit.

here i found some Matsumura seito katas Rohai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCPj4YLwgJI chinto kusanku

yes , we do almost exact move, but like most of our techniques, back hand does the soft block and left hand come from under and blocks/hits the elbow and grabs ,then we continue like what you said. here is another oyo for the same move, you can apply this in full contact againt a jab, when the left punch comes, step out and parry with right back hand at the same time stick the rigth hand(from underneath of left hand) straight to the chest with a vertical one knucke punch right under nipple , this is not a jab ,you throw in with penetration, then your middle block hits the elbow while your sliding back just a little , after grabing the elbow you you step in for hitting the floating ribs.