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I was walking somebody came and kicked my a** , he was all by himself and I was alone with my friends. happy Festives.

did I tell you once I was doing saifa rigiht at front of the cat himself and the whole dojo collapsed after my 2nd kiai. Miyaguchi said " thanks God that you and Steve morris never got a chance to performe this kata together"

I am disagree , you gotta make them fight your fight ,you gotta create the time and space for your techniques, you can't be spontanouse unless you have some combinations soaked in your body&mind ready to use, this only comes by mastering the combinations. other thing, attackting joints can make permanent damegs to the opponent, like hitting the knee from front and side. after all if you go to the court you need to show that you didn't use excessive force .

I forgot to tell you 1- put military boot on, really helps if you use it. 2- in weather let you ,wear jacket ,zip all the way up and turn the collar back on your neck. 3- get a groin cup.

I hope you understand that this kind of fights can end up to death and jail , so you as a martial artist gotta control the damage. In your situation a weak winning or losing is better than win by knock out, you don’t wanna get shot the next week after your big KO. 1- never hit the neck hard ,specially back of the neck, in your case only hit the neck if he grabs you, you cam minimum the damage by using your palm instead of fist. 2- never hit the mouth you may damage your hand and his teeth. 3- never use a roundhouse kick in a fight unless your opponent is really tired 4- never forget the value of a low front snap kick 5- if you go down ,and he is on the top ,don’t be shy go ahead a use your teeth there is no rule on the street. 6- even if you know jujitsu don’t go into guard position in street fight somebody else may start kicking you. 7- if you survive the first 30 sec against a heavy guy with no training , you will win eventually. Although 6’2” and 90Kg is not fat. The key for you is keeping distance at the start you will gain confidence and he will gets tired and most of the times fights finish here and you can start cursing each other and claim victory. 8- never go back directly more than 2 steps ,you gotta move left or right same side of his oyi-zuki or his front leg. 9- Breath 10- even if you win don’t humiliate your opponent

http://www.shotokankarate.ca/katakiaipoints.htm

Dear doubletwist, according to you I am full of *****. happy Festives.

Have you ever tried to do a block or punch without using the reaction hand? It is not gonna be very effective unless you concentrate on speed, start from soft and reach to hard at the point of contact, and most important using your abdomen muscles . if by experience you incorporate all of these to execute a technique I call it ki, it looks good and it’s powerful. For example from ready stance go to front stance ,high block, outside inside block, down block, you have the reaction hand for high block but not for outside inside block( I call this uchi-uke since it’s inward, you may call it soto-uke since it start from outside) and down block, if you do this quiet speedy and powerful then you have the ki for this combination. As far as storing ki today and using it tomorrow , pleeeeez . I think Naihanchi shodan, Passai sho and dai is very useful for developing ki.

I liked the guy doing Naihanchi Sandan with shime testing.

Very disturbing web site, but being a 14th Dan Ninja is something , see good thing about Ninjer is they can do anything they want. you guys know that $379 is include shipping or not?I hate to pay for shipping. Oh, I saw a blue sword in master's hand in a deadly Kamae is it my eye or it's my monitor? thanx

I suggest these 2 katas Gekisai dai ichi and gekisai dai Ni (they are also called Fukyugata Ichi and Ni )these two katas were composed(around 1940) by sensei Miyagi(Naha-te) and sensei Nagamine(shuri-te), you can get some sense of karate forms. I’ll try to find a clip.

Do you remember that lawyer in LA(or maybe someplace else about 3 months ago) who was chased and shot by his client , he was jumping left and right and finally escaped all 6 bullets by putting a tree between himself and the shooter, it was a unique and rear video.

kill Bill 1,2,3,.. I don't know why people think Tarantino is a good director, just wait for his next one "hero".

I am gonna give you a practical answer,In your case I am disagree with previouse writers , you end up choosing between two completely opposite styles ,in shotokan you spar with full control, in Kyukoshin you spar full contact ( No punch in the face, No hit on the joints), So style comes before sensei. I don’t do full contact regularly since I am self employed and need to work, a broken wrist or shin is not gonna help me at all.In Kyukoshin as soon as you kick they sweep your other leg with full power so there is more chance for getting injured. I think you should start with Shotokan unless you really love full contact. as far as fitness if you really practice karate 3 days per week you‘ll get fit very soon.

yamesu, this a direct link to the Suparinpe kata, performed by sensei Higaonna, but it's not a full version. https://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/007/002/001.html

XxpengwynxX this is the direct address to sienchin kata(winodws media player file) mms://media.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/b_010e.wmv this the web site: https://www.wonder-okinawa.jp/023/eng/007/002/001.html they have 20 nice clips form b_001e.wmv to b_020.wmv you can down load directly on your hard disk by "net transport" it 's a shareware.

I think I got them on my computer ,he is not that good ,and quality is poor too, if you realy need them i can send you a copy by mail since i don't know any safe way, on the net to send it over. my don't you get a copy of "Essence of Okinawan Karate-DO" by sensei Nagamineh, it has all the katas by pictures.there is also one tape out there by sensei "OTa" which has all the 18 katas. sensei Nagamine the son also has a tape showing 10 first katas and bunkai.

Hammer ,do you practice chi-i-do ? if so please explain your sanchin is it same as sensei miyagi sanchin or another version.

I read it all, very nice "techniques" pages, but for some reason that I didn't try to find out there are some error messages on most of the pages,I got it on two different computers. Good luck ,I am gonna wait for the "Techniques without Gi"

in our dojo the two lowest rank clean the wood floor after practice till the next white belt comes in.

it's great to practice in this kind of dojos. they hard to find.

sensei Darrel Craig in Houston Budokan (290 west) he teaches Kendo,Taho jujitsu,Karate his style is shori-te , low level katas he use Jap. styles with low stances, higher level katas are tomari-te.he is a great man. good thing is there are some seriouse black belt in the class and they never miss a class so classes are all serious bad thing is ,he doesn't emphesis on sparring ,you may sparr one 2 times per year ,it's mostly waza and bunkai.they practice 7:30 to 9:30PM Sensei Keller (59 south) has a martial art school but he deosn't teach anymore but his wife deborah is there shi is Godan. I have not met her but actually I am gonna go there again, first time I was not impressed by her black belts hopefully i was wrong, I practiced with them one time. they practice 7:30 to 8:30PM sensei Yokoyama teches kenshin-kai if you can find him , I don't know he instructs any more or not, it's a shorin ryu style with first 12 katas, let me know what style you have wored on before for more information.

I think luckyboxer and jussi gave you straight forward and honest answers, simply you should not have make up or any extras in dojo. last month after jujitsu class i saw some trace of make up on my gi very minimum but it was there anyway. I didn't like it but i didn't say anything to her or sensei as well , the girl is a very nice one and i have no problem with her now and later. I just gonna have to tolerate it .

Beginner, although I don't practice Go-Ju ryu but still pretty much familliar with all the katas, Sensei Higaona has a technical series in Go-Ju one of them is just about Sanchin, since Sanchin is a core to your style you gonna love it since he explaines a lot about right and wrong in doing Sanchin, also try this website https://www.wonder-okinawa.jp it has a section about karate and has lots of nice katas from different styles of traditional karate to download ,some very old footage of "pinan nidan kata" is nice to see. I downloaded them all and put them on a VCD.

McDojo is a place where: 1- they say " oh that was beautiful Mr. X,just as I want it" 2- they test every month 3- kids are hanging to the sensei gi and he is smiling at you. 4- Sensei is allways preparing for a seminar or is in japan or sitting in his office talking to new clients. 5- it's a karate school but you see lots of kids spin kick over each others head. 6- they charge you late fee after the 3rd, and they sell water for $2 per bottle. 7- they have small ninjas sleep over. ,,,