Karateka

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My sincerest apologies. The site is https://www.shitoryu.net I accidentally attached a hyphen. Try it now, it'll work this time.

I'm also going to add the style of Shito-Ryu Seiko-kai. Seiko Suzuki was a student of Sakagami and then split off to make his own style...https://www.shito-ryu.net

You should go to the website 24fightingchickens.com and see if he has his karate site still up. In there, he talks about how Ossu is a gutteral slang word used by jocks and that type of thing. Its very casual and not very respectful apparently. I think it was just one of those things that was just passed down and everyone was doing it so...who knows?

Kime, to me, is that point where all you are focused on is the moment you are in. While fighting or doing the technique, you are in the moment. WHen sparring or fighting, you can see everything in context and are performing the move as it should be done and everything just fits. When practicing, it is seeing that imaginary opponent in front of you and you just know that this is a real moment where the only thing you are worried about is doing the technique effectively

Most of Jet Li's hollywood movies don't particularly give him any justice to what he can actually do. His Hong Kong movies though, that is where the real skill lies.

Hayashi, I train in Point Sparring and I have done it for the last 5 years. Point Sparring only allows light contact to the head. The reason is that it has been scientifically proven that continuous knocks to the head result in serious and permanent brain damage. I can tell you that from my years at kickboxing and then point sparring, the body shots have hurt exactly the same amount. This may just be for me, but we train to go all out on the body. As for real life situations, point sparring allows you to think rationally even through an adrenaline situation. That is excellent, in my view, for real life training. The one who can remain calm in a tense situation always has the upper hand. Finally, self defence in a real situation, within the boundaries of the law, says that you should do enough to defend the attack upon your person within reason and to walk away or get away if the opportunity arises. If you wait for the guy to get back up and whack him again, its illegal. Both styles have excellent training methods, there is a reason that both have been used for so long. I know people who have done point sparring their entire life....they've beaten a lot of kickboxers and boxers along the way. It's not the martial art, its the martial artist who matters.

I have been a firm believer that it is not the martial art that makes an effective fighter, but the martial artist. I have personally found Kata to be an excellent fighting tool for me to train with. It provides great cardio vascular training for endurance that is necessary for a street fight. It is necessary not because of the length of a street fight, but learning how to fight with an accelerated heartrate. Secondly, I found that Kata allowed me to practice different basic techniques with a speed and power that can work for me. Thirdly, I learned the bunkai of the techniques in order that allowed me to learn and study the application of the techniques. Lastly, I realised that a Kata is just a set of short combinations put together. Some have seen Kata as one long attack, it isn't. It is just different opponents being faced with a different situation. Doing Kata over and over again puts different combinations of techniques into muscle memory that will come out in a real situation. Learning different bunkai that extend from that one combination that can lead to an all out assault is another crucial part of the training. I also feel that the Western ideal of getting the most out of anything in the shortest amount of time does not allow a person to see the multi-faceted aspect of "traditional" martial arts. To bring a definition to "traditional martial arts" i would have to say that traditional refers to arts which have kept similar training standards and ideology in the face of a cultural evolution rather than adapting itself too much so as to lose the core influence of it. Some western students are now looking for how to beat the heck out of someone without learning anything about what was passed on in that style from generation to generation. That is all well and good, but understand that you are learning to fight, not to become a controlled person. Traditional Martial Arts do not suck. They do teach you how to fight effectively. They just ask for a bit more of an open mind regarding culture, patience with an instructor, and imagination. Traditional Martial arts try to show you how to apply any lessons you learn from them into the different facets of your life such as a work environment, school life, or even family life. A martial art which focuses on teaching you how to fight, only wants you to learn things about fighting. These latter arts, in my opinion, are better to be called fighting arts rather than martial arts. The connotation of martial refers to military, and for the military you need a certain discipline and way of thinking in order to be an effective soldier. And being an effective soldier means more than being an effective killing machine. Fighting arts lack the "way of life" aspect to their art and are based on the notion of combat and self defence. Martial arts try to teach a discipline and a new way of looking at ones entire lifestyle. I know my "traditional" martial art taught me to look at my fellow man around me in a different light. Not as targets, but as persons on a different path than I am. It taught me a lot about myself and where I wish to go in life and how I wish to go about it. The fighting art I was in before taught me nothing of that. It taught me about what I would like to do to the other guy and embrace it. The instructor one may have also plays a crucial part in the development of an individual. Instructor's are role models and are emmulated by their students. The attitude that an instructor has towards others and how they live their lifestyle can project itself on to other students, especially younger ones, and become their own viewpoint. This can be both rewarding and damaging. It is rewarding because it can provide a positive example for people in the real world. However, it can stop someone from developing their own ideas towards things and thus not allowing someone to develop into their own sense of self. If an instructor does not teach/know the way any martial or fighting art's teaching is supposed to be done, then the student will suffer with a bag full of confidence and a lack of useful skills. To conclude, don't bash an art because it takes "too long to teach you how to fight". It may be doing that because its purpose was not to teach you how to fight...well, maybe not its primary purpose, anyway. Regards, RJ Wallia

The way I see Bassai Dai as offensive is that all blocks, in my opinion, are not to stop techniques, they are to deflect them so that you can counter attack. I think that this may be due to the style that I am in, but in all honesty, its what I feel.

I put stamina, but that is because that is the word I felt truly explained what I mean when I say "Karate Spirit" The determination and ability to go on pushing yourself past your original limit is what I consider to be an essential part of Karate.

I've never cried during training but I have gone to the point where I have thrown up after training. I figured out that I shouldn't eat before training, and i still ahven't. anyway, we were training for 8 hours straight, and I was just purely exhausted, everyone was. We had just done tons of basics, combos, oi tsuki and kata. Now we had to do Kumite, and we are a very competitive club. Anyway, so we started doing kumite and my last fight was paired with my sensei. And we went full on, we started fighting as if it was the World Championships. at some point i tripped and fell and had trouble getting up, and it took everything I had just to get back up. IN the end, it ended in a draw but as soon asi bowed and stepped off the mat and puked as hard as i could into the nearest garbage bin. That was the hardest training i have done, but it taught me a lot about myself....and what stomach acid tastes like

I have a kata like that. If you look in the WKF rulebook, it has a list of accepted kata for teh four major styles. The last one, or one of the last ones, for Shito Ryu is a kata called Chatanraya Kushanku. I soooo wanna know what it is and learn it.

Mart by the way, if we are going to attack signatures, your signature is a joke that may be offensive to some Indians. I am an Indian. That joke is offensive, that being said, you don't have to change it if you don't want to. I just don't have to read it. The point I was trying to make is that signatures may say one thing and mean another.

Regarding my signature, as I have mentioned in other posts, I am in a competitive club. The quote is that when you have taken down someone with a sweep or a takedown, rather than punching them, you can do a leg technique. It looks flashier but its just an aspect of our training. As for my latest post, I don't see any mention of religion. That was from my post before and that is just what my research and feelings show. My second post was regarding respect. If the respect is being shown another way, than I don't see a major problem with not bowing. And you are right, bowing is just a movement, any connotation comes from you. But we don't bow in class simply because we are instructed to do so. We do it because it is a way of showing respect. Im just saying that if someone came to me and was sincere about not bowing for a reason, I would try to see if they would change their mind. Otherwise, I would give it serious thought and let them know.

I have encountered racism not in my dojo itself, but in the association I am affiliated with. I made a request that I would like to take my black belt test despite the fact that I hadn't completed all the requirements. My instructors felt I was ready for a long time and I met all the testing requirements except for the fact that I hadn't gone to the 2 mandatory seminars. I only went to one. I figured that this wouldn't be a problem considering there have been many considerations for others who didn't go to these seminars, and I was considered to be better karateka then them. Anyway, my request was denied and I was blacklisted for making allegations that my association was fraudulant in its own practices. However, a Japanese Karateka from my dojo was allowed to do his Shodan test without having gone to any of the seminars. Another one from my dojo, this time a Romanian, went with only doing one. There is not a lot of Indian (India Indian) people in my association and most live in one area of town, Richmond BC. Since that time, mud has been thrown my way and as I said before, I have been blacklisted. It would have been a big deal if I actually gave a rats a**, but I just settle on being better Karateka then anything the other Sensei's put out. Oh well!