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typo, i met to write They vary very much...

Dojo's very very much. You can get very good ones with excellent trainning methods and crappy mcdojos. Just look at this school: https://www.budokaratehouse.com

my dojo's lineag is through yamaguchi-urban and yamamoto-merrimen then a couple other people. It seems that the yamaguchi strain and most others focus more on doing katas without doing the bunkai and also a lot of point sparring. I think that shorei kan and schools like that are by far the best, they teach it like miyagi did. Excessive sparring can be detrimental. This dojo in victoric BC seems awesome, too bad I live a few thousand miles away: http://www.members.shaw.ca/shoreikan/curriculum.htm They have grappling in their curriculum.

Does shorei kan do free sparring?

Use peripheral vision, witht the eyes pointed in the direction of the eyes, or maybe their chest.

Hi, I've been trainning in goju ryu for almost three years. I've read toguchis' books and have been reading several shorei kan dojo websites. I'm curious, does anybody here train in shorei kan? From what I read it seems they do a lot of two man sets and bunkai, which seems really good, because that is what karate is. The dojo I'm in doesn't do much bunkai. The shorei kan lineage also seems like a good one, Toguchi studying under Higa and Miyagai for years. Thx