ZakariRu

I have heard alot of things from alot of people regarding this "sissy kata" My personal favorite is that since chinte and chinto(gankanku) are more feminie kata, most of the strikes in chinte requre technique way more than strength. That it is a girls' kata. At the end the woman is begging forgiveness from her husband or whatever. as much * as the rest of them. You hop backwards in Chinte to start where you finished, so the judges are happy. Fin.

Yeh, hook kick slow... whatever. No other kick has the flexability in range, speed or power like a hook kick. I can hit people with mine hip to hip or from 2 yards away front foot to fron foot. Internationally the only kick you seen thrown jodan (head level) are ura-mawashi-geri (hook kick, reverse round if you like) and the very very rare round kick. I score a hook kick just about everytime i fight, most of the speed comes from the foot work. (throw it off the lead leg.) Dont ever use the heel. The ball of the foot gives you an extra 4 inches of range,and & forces your sciatic nerve to relax. that helps with speed. The biggest thing for a hook kick is to practice with round kicks and side thrust kicks. You can throw it by swinging your leg up to the side of your target and bending it at the knee. Or you can throw it like a side-thrust kick a foot or so to the side of your target and snap back. The thrust kick variation requires much more flexability. Is a little bit faster. This is how some of the pheonimal WKF Europeans throw it. C. Pinna throws this one. The swing version comes up below the sight line ,so its easier to sneak in sometimes. D. Benitello of italy Throws it this way. JKD's hook kick is not a round kick. JKD's hook kick is a tae kwon do hook kick where you snap all the way through the target.

all JKA clubs do full contact body for men (advanced+) light contact face. less traditional Shotokan clubs (AAU, NKF, ETC) do light contact with pads. MOST jka style dojos never do jiyu-kumite, they just do semi free drills. the view that do do it as mentioned above. my two main dojos are both shotokan, one we do the light contact, the other we wear boxing gloves and just go through engagements and stop after a clinch or a good clean hit. (both are sport oriented) Eh Point sparring worthless eh? I guess youve never seen a bare knuckle ippon. (AJKA/WSKA/KUGB guys try to kill eachother)

WTH? no way to block a jab? If someone knows how to throw a good lead hand technique you wont have time to block or move. Blocking is always faster then moving out of range. If you have your hands in a good position they will have to go around it and maybe give you enough time to do a soft block. wado ryu jodan-uke=shotokan age-uke? If you mean a hook punch just duck. if you really want to block it put your hands on your face and bite down on the mouth guard.. slowest punch going.

thats an intresting combo, ive scored about 3 million ippons with it. Where did you see it done? (Im a Karate compeitior but my sparring coach started out as a tang soo doo stylist, so thats where i stole all my jump back kicks and axe kicks from =) In karate you cant throw any technique that follows through. It has to follow the same path out it came in with. (unless you are moving the guard) so the only time you really see the kick in aau/wkf (which you dont) is the way i mentioned. I ve been axe kicked on the forhead more then once (crazy korean stylist) to the head its a very easy kick to roll with and id never actually throw it to the body. Maybe the clavicle, but you can just kinda step forward and knock them on their @$$. Back to the point. I use a lead leg axe kick then before it hits the ground i use my back leg to spring into the reverse punch (usually to the face) I did hte reverse punch to the body when i was under 18

im not nocking g95 but if you plan on doing karate more than 10 years dont do squats, espically with weights. I know about 15 over 35 instructors who have had kneesurgery or simply blown out their knee and been unable to train for a year or more.. Shotokan stance espciially are very very hard on the knees. with the added squats?/??? CRACK JKA instructors used to make people walk in circles around gyms while doing duck walks, that is nasty. i throw about 200 power kicks a day and stretch my hips 3 times a day when im training for a competiton. thats the only work out i give myself in the hip department (i throw 800 other kicks but those are for speed drills not power)

Do lots and lots of reverse punch drills =) Against a person if you do them in the air or on non moving bag your just practicing technique. Ive found the best way for me to develope my kumite speed is to work on my timing at the same time. The way i have under belts and kids (i should get my instructor to let hte adult bb do this too) Is to have them step in and move there hands back (like a butter fly) and hte other side attack at that moment. after awhile of obvious triggers for the reverese punch go to harder ones to spot like stepping in a certain distance or a backfist. (if i had more people around id do this at my level 250 times aday......) How i train most of my counter attacks. 95% of the speed of the top WKF compeitiors is timing Biamonti, Kotaka, Benetello are fast. But they look a hundred times faster because they always know what to throw and when to throw it.

it depends on what you want to do really. for kumite i would say it probobly wouldnt be a problem, you just have to learn to apply things better than the other guy. As far as kata. in shotokan or wado it might be a problem that takes alot of work. but in shito or goju ryu youd be fine. There is a young man(18)who has about 18 cm legs and 14 cm arms in the aau circuit who is a finalist every year. (Dwarfs rock) So if a midget can rock at karate so can you =) P.S. Who told you being tall is a disadvantage? The best fighters in the world are very tall and very lean.

Muchos better. A littel pricey though. I think i paid 50 or 40 for my shureido black belt (great belt but expensibe for a cotton belt)

https://www.24fightingchickens.com

who makes that 20? the heaviest ive ever seen is 16, i want one

thats the SKA they have kinda cruddy technique i trained with a SKA dojo on my off days for awhile. (mon wed frid and sat were jka days, tue and thur were ska days) They have short stances and they tend to do kata differently (not opening hands in heian shodan for example)

Sorry I have been mia But as far as i can remember Asai sensei lost that court battle And both sides of the org after nakayamas death were using the name JKA

nonono not who is you Your entire response was in 3rd person, and I was merely trying to figure out who you are Im speaking on behalf of myself. when i was in tokyo i was treated as a JKA member (ie i just paid to train, not membership dues etc.)

Who the heck is you? The JKA most certainley does exist outside japan. When in tokyo ISKF members are considered JKA by osaka sensei and everyone else at HQ. The standards are identical and the ISKF is listed as subsid of the JKA...

Ahh but just training is political nishiyama karate is different from everyone elses.

never in jiyu kumite

How can you like tokaido hobbitbob? The GIs have not been updated or redesigned since the old man died! Plus they are too expensive!!! Ive also seen them wear rather quickly. In Karate uniforms are constantly being Designed and redesigned. Adidas is putting out a new line every year supposedly *its about time* Most ISKF/JKA guys still wear tokaidos, but personally i cant stand them A quote from one of Zak's favorite kata coaches "Only posers wear tokaido." (not sure if agree with it but its funny when you hear a 40 year old refer to people as posers)

lets see how many goju ryu competitors have i beaten? i cant count that high. but how many of them fought out of front stance? ALLLLLLL OF them!??? yes thats right folks every goju guy or gal i ever fought fights out of a low stance. Shotokan/wado/goju/shi to all look the exact same when they fight go figure. Did i mention they all have the same stances? who knew. Goju Shika-dachi is usually done lower then shotokan kiba dachi too. go figure.

Bruce was not a drug user. We have had this thread before.

the measure it by weight per yard (or meter) 15 oz is not really a heavy weight gi, its heavier than the super heavy weight gis 7-9 oz is considered medium i have a gi that is 10 and another that is 11 for the most part they are considered heavy =) lightweight any thing thats partially cotton partialy poly (3 oz i think usually) my kumite gi i can fold into a fanny pack if i want. medium weight is 7-9 and 10-12 is heavy. anything heavier than 12 is super heavy and rather uncomfortable to train in (heavy gi make you faster )

american karate Gi are messaured in random numbers (1,2,3,4,5,6) and half sizes. all companies have size charts (usually slightly different) Most gi in europe are messarued by height of wear. (im 1.8 meters tall so theoritcally id wear a 180 or 185 gi. I wear a 200. they shrink. i like to buy a size or two bigger so i can put it in the dryer. heheheh =) https://www.seka-sports.com https://www.kicktech.net (adidas! W00t) https://www.kamikaze.com (kamikaze canada, also carries adidas) https://www.kamikazeusa.com (figure it out) https://www.kwon.com (good uniforms, not too expensive.) https://www.centruyma.com (expensive for heavy weight but american ma standard) It is also worth a try to call the company and say that you would like wholesale for your club. (or your instructor) mark up on Karate uniforms is anywhere from 75% to 250% (kwon 45 dollar gis retail for 100-120) Adidas isnt so much (very high quality gi) The zak is hopefully opening his own dojo soon and will also be opening a MA store as soon as he has his buisness license =) I will hook all my karate forums people up =P

Bruce can be compared to musashi. the were both unbeatable because they trained outside the norm of traditional schools. Bruce could throw punches that a room full of karateka could not block even knowing ahead of time where they would go. Bruce opened up doors. Footwork was never important in traditional arts, now footwork is the key sign of a skilled fighter more so than any other attribute. "I can beat any punch or kick with footwork." Bruce would have beet the snot out of Musashi He beat that jujitsu man with a katana in Chinese connection And back to Musashi A fine example of Kensei "sword saint" "The house issued yet another challenge with Hanshichiro, the young son of Seijiro, as champion. Hanshichiro was a mere boy, not yet in his teens. The contest was to be held on by a pine tree adjacent to ricefields. Musashi arrived at the meeting place well before the appointed time and waited in hiding for his enemy to come. The child arrived dressed formally in war gear, with a party of well armed retainers, determenied to do away with musashi. Musashi waited concealed in the shados, and just as they were thinking he had the thought better of it and decided to leave Kyoto, he suddenly appeared in the midst of them, and he cut the boy down." Pure genius!! Lets have a fully grown adult ambush a preteen child. Genius and martial valor at its finest.!

the wrist throws in hapkido, shorinji kempo, and aikido throw people not so much because of a physical power but more so out of pain when someone starts a painful throw like that if you resist you post yourself into the ground alot more, then when you do realese your energy is adding to the throw. Its like making a decision between breaking your arm, and jumping (going with) the throw. the harder you fight back the harder the throw eventually is

What is up with all the european compeitiors fighting southpaw? i just dont get it everyone in france, yugoslavia, bosnia, kosovo, italy etc... cant be left handed can they? Not so much UK guys =)