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this is a very authentic version ,performed by shimabukuru sensei

We have a Itosu no passai which we call it Passai sho starts with right step, should be same as Bassai Dai. We also have Matsumura no passai which we call it Passai Dai and starts with left step.

this is almost identical to a version i learned in Shindo jenin ryu just the side kicks are front kick in karate.

I only use FOREX , but i am thinking of moveing toward stock market net year. i like day trading ,i am not made for long term investments.

that's true and sometimes it has a funny meaning in Japanies or Chinese.

does anyone one know the history of this kata? where it come from?

with your size and the fact that you know how to kick already, i would go to learn some boxing and then Aikido as my base style.

i see the trace of Shotokan in their black belt katas,web site says Matsumura shorin ryu but the katas seem to be from kyan and tomari lineage. it would be interesting if they let you practice their white crane katas.ask them where they got the crane katas?

i like very heavy gi like 14 or 16. i am gonna skip the brand name, just get 100% cotten and 10-12OZ , make sure it's not 'V' neck (TKD) gi.

in okinawan white crane you mostly hit to the soft tissues, for nerves we use other parts, like shuto for the elbow nerve, or one knuckle punch for liver, 4 knuckles for solar plexus, here is a crane kata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXEPSGkiRfc from matsumura family from Gokenki if you like crane then look for a Uechi ryu dojo.

in general health insurance is sucks here, due to unbelievable adminestration costs. the good thing is , if something happens you will get the best treatment possible when you hit the emergency room, the killing bill will come later, if you are young then you can go bankrupt and not pay but for people like me it is out of the question, i have to pay to the last dollar to keep my credit. last time i broke my fibula, it cost me around $4000, that i paid 2000 out of pocket and rest was paid by insurance, my monthly payment is $125.

another white crane kata, i am not sure if the name on the clip(Hakutsuru Mei) is correct or not, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXEPSGkiRfc I have never been impressed by Chuck Chandler, don't know why.

this is a off shoot from Shorinryu Shorinkan, has 14 shuri-te kata and 3 new katas, at the end of the clip you can see the first kata called SEIRU, pretty good kata done by the creator himself (65 years old, senei Matsuda),at the beginning part you can see the Kusanku dai(sorinkan version) done in slow pace. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDNrJ9RSnf4

recently i got some uninvited guest in my attic, God knows what ! and what ever it is, it's big. i guess they sleep all day because they start jumping around like 2AM,they have made my bedroom roof their play ground and i was so angry that I put the string back on my bow and got 2 live bladed arrows ready at the middle of the night. i realy gonna shoot them through the ceiling this weekend.i hope they move out by then.

i understand that you are very concern and don't wanna hear kinda Dr. Phil advice, so i get to the point first. 2 months is long enough, you gotta start running make a goal of running 3 miles under 24 min. as for fighting , you need somebody to teach you some practical boxing and knife defense. remember wind can break a strong tree but it can't break a tiny stem of a wild grass , it bends and it stands up again.

We are in shape, our shape is ROUND.

your style is a shuri te version, if you wanna practice karate pick up a pure Naha-te style like Goju-ryu or Uechi ryu. right now i practice shorin ryu with 3 sensei and i am not happy, i have 3 sets of each kata each of them are slightly diffrent.

finally ,somebody upload this kata, it is a good version of famous Matsumura Hakutsuru kata, i am gonna try to upload our version too.

what i do in combinations is to exhale partially, if you look at Sanchin kata they practice it too. but i don't kiai anymore ,i am done with it. what i can't find in "killer" explanation is a solid link between the contraction of diaphragm and speed of punch,i think i can punch with the same speed if i don't breath in or out . i feel awkward when i punch during inhale though. here is a link to Sanchin, at the very end they exhale partially.

what is it about?

if there is a will then there is a way, i am up 6 AM and i work till 6 PM and i go directly to practice, i get back home from practice 9:30 PM , and i practice 3 days plus Sundays at noon for 2 hours, and i have some friends calling me and telling me that they have been in a party the night before and can't make it to practice by Sunday noon( I do the same some times we are in a same party, how come i can make it?), well who give a d... for this kind of leazy people. they will remain in a same level forever? just don't give up in your training, allways find some time just for yourself to do some thing you like, otherwise ,today is your work, tomarrow is the wife then the kids then ..... there is no end to it , you just have to learn how to spare some time for yourself.

pretty good 1- you may wanna change the name to "Bassai dai" so more people would find it 2- check on your side trust kick, again it looks good.

it seems to me your partner runs a commercial dojo which is fine , to protect his business he obviously doesn't want to and can't stand up for you in a direct way. although this is his fault in a sense but i wouldn't blame him. i think you should put him put of this for now and try to resolve the situation yourself. first of all you need to have better book keeping, you wrote that one of the mothers took the receipts and left without paying, well this is your fault ,you should design a system in a way that resolve this kind of incidents. most of the dojos charge a constant fee per month , if i miss a class then too bad for me, it is not the sensei fault. if you have a per class charge system then try to make in flawless, as for the social behavior problem you got there, i do the same, you are not their teacher to teach them that, you just interact with them twice a week, if somebody rude to me verbally i give it back to them twice hard ,no don't need to get physical but at least talk their talk(although i pay twice tip to bad waiters and i let them know why), if they become nice i become twice nice. i would follow a carrot and stick policy.

i would go with Cotton then satin, and i wouldn't get 2" belt it's too wide, 1.5 or 1.75 is better.

have your friends/friend done sometihng for you so impressive/nice that you never forget.? i'll never forget this one. in a rockclimbing trip i fell form a piece of rock around 30ft vertical, i lost all my nails on the way down trying to grab something, i landed on a hard rock and rolled around 50 yards down the slop, my friends caried me on their back to the road where they took me to a hospital, some days later one of them came to visit me and brough back my watch that i lost that day, he knew that the watch was a gift that i loved so he had climbed that rock alone and found my watch on the middle of the vertical wall , first i got mad when told me he did that alone but i can never forget what he did. he is still one of my best friends from 1984.