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No, these are family styles of okinawan white crane karate jutsu, mostly from Matsumura family,Kinjo Family, Matayoshi family and GokenKi students. this is Mr. Lindsey, i practice his way. shorin ryu is a base style, white crane is a soft style you can benefit the most if you know a basic style like shorin ryu or goju ryu. shorin ryu or goju ryu is like infantry soldier , white crane is like a sniper, I need to be a good infantry soldier first if I wanna be a special force soldier.

i was doing some crane kata(s), sorry for background sounds. short version of Shorinji Sanchin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5ZZieam_c short version of Tsuru Sanchin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKMCnZpYfKE

i use toe and shin.

you pull back he pulls you in, you lose balance and step on his front foot , you try to keep your balance and by mistake your tumb hits his eye , from the corner of the nose, it slides inside the eye. what a terrible accident it could be. here you can see the same clumsy hand posture by GoKenKi ,the tumb stays out like a fish hook while the whole hand is flat with 45' angle in respect to forearm. http://freeweb.lombardiacom.it/usri/Storia/Le%20origini%20dello%20Shito-ryu/The%20History%20of%20Shito-Ryu%20Karate-Do.htm

Although not your typical "well rehearsed" demonstration video...if you know what you're looking at anyway, that video shows some very fine basic blocking technique (note a couple of good examples of body shifting) of Okinawan karate! Got any more links like that? well you are right, these clips of #1,#2 and #3 shows the general structure of shorinkan yakusokus, but this is not the way the Okinawan kyushis want you to perform it, they like to see some standard block/punch karate, i posted this for some friends who know the form but may be a little bit rusty remembering it. we put our white crane techniques into it, so you could see the back hand block first some times or hands are open, you also may notice there were lots of distraction involve using finger poking,pinching ,pulling and grabing the gi, which is a NO NO in shorinkan. we stoped taping after two runs since after that the whole thing gets ugly ,we just throw the punches in the context of each yakusoku and it ends up to a ground fighting some times, my sensei found this more usefull for street applications.

Shimabukuro Zenpo is a reference in shuri-te. this version of Seasan is very old, the hand movements are not important don't even look at them very basic, the transitional foot movements are the key to this kata, i heard from one of his father's students( Zenpo's father who only trained with Kyan) in okinawa (60's) that this was the first kata he learned from shimabukuru as a basic kata for foot work. here is a interview and another video clip of him http://www.dragon-tsunami.org/Dtimes/Pages/article27.htm

i used to play soccer, almost my whole life from 7 years old till i broke a bone 4 years ago and retired, it's a great sport just watch your knees. and never forget your warmup routin.

it could be a cracked rib, i had one and took more than a year to heal.

here is one of the fights from this year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB1BPW5sO60 men's 1-South Korea 2-Iran 3-Spain 4-Chinese Taipei 5-Thailand Women's 1-Korea 2-China 3-Canada 4-Spain 5-Chinese Taipei

I may or may not disagree with you there depending on your meaning. If by commitment you mean the person is committed to stomping you into the ground then I agree. If you mean they aren't committed in general I disagree. To do well in sparring you have to be committed to your attacks, you can't just do them half-heartedly. That might work against some people, but someone who's good is just going to pick you apart. i was in a seminar with kyoshi Perry/Estes last week, like they say , there is no perfect fight, you will get hit anyway but the outcome is important, if I get to a point that i have to fight somebody i fight with my fingers because this is how i train, in sparing ,we put the gloves and other safty gears on, yet i wouldn't hit to disable the sparing partner. in sparing we use lots of jabs and strategy evolves around it, in a real fight it is most likely a reverse punch comming at you from the begining. in a sparing you may turn toward the strong hand but in a fight you don't wanna try that. there are many things different bewteen sparring and fighting and the okinawans didn't make their system for sport, it used to be a budo.

you need to pass through block-punch karate, the first step to do this is changing your mind set, try to block/parry with your back hand then block/strik with your front hand the next step is to block/parry with back hand and strik directely from under or over the block. if you block with front hand then you should strik right after block with the same hand. sparring is different from a fight, there is no comitment in sparring,

We are leaving for Indianapolice today, hope to meet some of you.

from what i could see you won the fight.

Spain and Iran will try to steal the championship from Korean for the first time but Koreans are just too good,we'll see. http://www.wtf.org/site/wtf/notice.htm?realnum=138&mode=view

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Yakosuku #2 and #3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRp1Z18Xxd8

Yakusoku #1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGecC0Qfrkk

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it's nice to be at some level of almightiness.

I use a Toyota Tacoma at work,to home and to practice, got 270K , I did a major maintence work after 250K which cost around $1200, I am planing to keep it for another 40K before i buy another Tacoma. great pickups. I had a Celica for weekends, in 2 years i only drove it 10K then i sold it and got a Scion TC, last week i got a recall notice about a faulty sensor from Toyota corp.

I am going to tape some of them tomorrow,

i had on of those made in Pakistan , it was a perfect 14 oz gi,

did you try karatedepot.com. i am every happy with their service.

next time remind them that a DVD would not cost them more than $3 that's why they want you to pay for the shipping back.a call tag by UPS would cost them more.