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Its like the US Navy Seals or Army Rangers. Sure your good at SD but its prob. not a real style with a real focus on training as MA train. Most Sp Forces coruses I have looked into have a focus on some Akkido/Hapikido locks and throws, along with knife def.

You are welcome at KF.

That usually changes from school to school reguardless of style. A good rule of thumb is to go from light to dark colors

This is a question best settled in a friendly game of checkers I would think.

Torn hamstring out 6 months. Well I was at class and did a lot of hand techinqes but NO kicking, sparring, not much kata, lol. I did a lot of reading and watching O.

What do you mean by rotating?

360 excellent list

FSKA Funakosh Shotokan Karate Association Its non political and Kenneth Funakoshi has a bloodline to Gichin and IMO offers me a more direct line to our roots.

Yeah boxing is a MA. MA is a broad term. Some will try and restrict it to Japan styles only. Whlie others are more accepting to those who use their hands and feet. Some say weapons some say no weapons. If you take it to its broadest term it would include any style of combat.

Well thats the same with any sport or art you do. None of us can be Barry Bonds, Marhsall Faulk, Garrth Brooks, or Harrison Ford but we can be the best we can be.

Funakoshi tried to change several of our kata names to Japanese from Okanawna however for some reason only about half stuck here is a list from the 24fightingchickens.com site. scroll down the page. http://24fightingchickens.com/kata/05_allkata.html Marjor you are right its Seishan that is like our Hangetsu.

Just relax and react. You can't think it has to become a reflex.

Unless you have a punching bag or something eles that allows you to practice hitting with power.

What fun is that. LOL Understood

1. Be ready 2. Don't be in places you should not be 3. Don't hang out with bad people 4. Don't Drink 5. Don't Use Durgs 6. Don't insult strangers 7. Don't cheat or you girlfriend 8. Don't let your pride make you do dumb things 9. LOL at yourself 10. Be Respectful Hows that.

Speed up really fast then HIT the breaks. LOL

Keep your distance and counter fight because he wil have to come up to attack you.

• Did the JKA really practice Shotokan karate? Yes and No. I think the early JKA was set up arround Shotokan but has came to included several other forms. • Which instructors actually trained with Gichin Funakoshi? Nishyama, Okazakia, and Ohshima (sp) on all of them but those are the 3 big names I am aware of. • How were the Shotokan bunkai lost? Where they lost? I think most are still there if you look for them. • Why are there so many errors in Shotokan Kata? Whats wrong? I know well have saw about a dozen differant versions of Bassai Dai. Who's to say this one is right and that one is wrong differant styles and schools teach everything a bit differantly. Yeah there is a speed, form, idea Fuankoshi taught but he was not right or wrong. As long as each school is conistant with its kata I don't see this being a big problem. • Does modern Shotokan come from Gichin Funakoshi? Yes and No. Yeah Funakoshi was the guy who laid the ground plans for it. However WWII changed a lot of his thoughts. Early Shotokan taught a lot more throws such as in Judo. Its still got those moves in it but they are not emphisised as much as they were early on. Add to things always change with time for the good or bad. • Why does Shotokan no longer teach traditional weight training, xxbody conditioning and weapons as they once did? I don't know that it ever taught weapons. I may be wrong. As far as weight training lots of focus is put on the LOW stance and Isometric moves. So I don't think I would say we don't focus on it. • Why has so much been done to suppress the true history of xxShotokan? I don't konow that it has. IMO what has been done is a lot of McDojo type schools claim the name Shotokan but don't know much about it. • Why are there so many forms of Shotokan? Again I don't know that they are. Unless your refering to like the JKA, ISAK, FSKA, etc. All still have the same root base just some differant views on kata. • Who is praticising the karate of Gichin Funakoshi? Im some respects I think we all are. Funakoshi felt we would make the MA ours one day. Kind of like Lee and his style without style. On a more specific answer those who read and study his books espically Karate Do Kyohan. • How big is Shotokan's debt to Shorin Ryu? Most of the early kata are hard kata and have ties to Goju Ryu. However Funakoshi did train under many people and it is said that Shotokan is a mix of Goju's Hard and Shorin Soft. So 50/50 I guess. Hope that helps

I will add the step behind side kick from the horse stance is VERY powerful as well if not the strongest kick in Shotokan.

Welcome your poll brings about a huge question I have give much time to in the past. So to protect my brain from going crazy I will just say hello.

I think Sanchin is our Hangetsu. I will look it up and get back to you.

When reading the post title I thought you were talking about the Big 4 kata. 1. Bassai Dai 2. Jion 3. Kanku Dai 4. Empi

Yes

Bodidarmma (sp) brought the first MA out of India. Its still up for debate if he was influenced by the Greeks and West or if everything started in India. However from India to China then to Okinawa and Japan.

List of things I did when my old school closed and before I started teaching. 1. Kata - you can never do it enough. You will always learn something and you get good basic work in it. 2. Read - buy some books about your MA and learn as much as you can about it. You may also want to look into some books but other famous MAists or styles just for the reference. 3. Stay in Shape - Could be running, lifting weights, playing sports, doing exercise in your room at night, etc. Just don't get lazy and wish things would change. 4. Find someone - get up with a person in your clas and train with each other. Spar, teach the other kata you don't know, etc. Im sure their is someone in your old dojo who still wants to train. 5. Meet with you teacher - see him as much as you can and aske for his advice.