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Menlo and Shorin Ryu are both largely based upon Chinese Boxing styles. Therefore they will have very similar concepts i into how a fight should be ended. What I suggest is going on YouTube and watching bunkai videos on as many different Okinawan styles as you can find, not Japanese systems because they don't teach anything but simple bunkai. I would suggest a grappling or throwing art instead of another striking one. This seems to be where you said you are having the trouble. You just have to learn to inner weave the two and create your own way of fighting.

Has anyone made this transition and what were some of the troubles you had in adapting to the Uechi style?

Naihanchi is not based on tae kwan do. Tkd is based on karate and the naihanchi kata come Fukien White Crane Kung fu

i took me just under 4 years to make my black belt, that is training 3 times a week in class and countless hours solo or with my training partner

once youve been doing your kata for a long time you will start to truly understand the technique and bunkai behind them. a great thing to do is to take the kata you know and break them all down and see what you can come up with for a realistic application. then you write them down, as you continue to do this you will notice you changing and tweaking your technique over time. this is one of the best ways to understand the kata. and its because of this you have so many styles of martial arts, yes i may learn my martial art from my instructor but over time my technique has become much different than that of his own. the same thing will happen to you.

one thing i think everyone isnt realizing is yes he may be smaller and therefore faster, but in Kyokushin karate you stand right in front of your opponent basically all the time. i dont think 5 9 is really too small but i just wanted to point out that speed getting in and out is not a huge factor in this style of fighting

i would think Judo is probably your best bet since isshin ryu is a fairly close range striking art. i would flow right into your natural fighting principles

neshamat elohim yad reyqa(God breathed Karate) 6 years next month 1st degree black belt

my system i train in is basically shorin ryu matsumura seito with some other things added lik some kenpo, tkd. muay thai, and bjj. as far as how it stacks against others it is at the top of the food chain. in our school at brown belt you should be able to pick to pieces a sho or nidan from another. we love hard body contact and train our bodies to be prepared for war, typical shorin training.

we have a lifetime to perfect our art< just because something doesnt work well now does not mean that in 30 years when you are slower and have more experience under you that it wont.

we all have different body types so just because something does not work for you the way you were taught it, then why dont you try and figure out what it is about the specific technique that doesnt work well for you and try to make little adjustments to see if you can make it work for you? just my opinion

its two different things completlt, lifting the heel is more often used in an offensive attack, where as keeping your heel down would lend better purpose to a defensive counter ie they are moving in when you throw the punch, therefore when it hits it does not take away from the punch or your stability

hand rolls are something i use alot, in different ways of course. my favorite being rolling my lead hand in with their jab and clocking them straight in the face. puts a smile on my face everytime.

depends on the situation, push ups for being latae not bowing, not showing proper respect. mostly just the children. if we have a student that becomes somewhat of a bully in the ring they are taught by force, we are told to get in the ring and eliminate the ego, not that we hurt them we just let them know that there is someone that is more skilled than they are and that they need to show courtesy to the lower ranking students by nopt fighting so hard or not bullying.

i believe a shodan you are grounded in the basics of a style, and even though you may go on to be ranked in another style i dont believe you would ever be able to teach it. your instincts are that of another style therefore you could not really call what you are teaching that style. i believe once you learn different styles all you will be able to do is take the things that are useful to the way you already think about defending yourself. dont get me wrong i believe you should learn all you can but i believe that everyone has their own system of fighting. you can ask ten people from the same school how to defend themselves from a jab and i guarantee the answers are different. sorry i got on a tangent but just giving my thoughts

Lotan, it is a crane kata that my teacher has made using the various different crane techniques in our system. lots of one leg stances and lots of kicks and double blocks.

my worst one was that i broke bones in the top of my foot two days before my shodan test. i was sparring a guy for his first test and threw a round house and caught elbow. then i was told that my teacher would not tell the test board that i had a broken foot until after the test was over. but it was also my greatest compliment when one of the judges would have never guessed that i had anything wrong with my foot and could find nothing incorrect in my kata.

we bring our knee up and elbow down, trapping and if done right damaging the leg. after that you dont have to worry about that leg anymore. and depending if the tournament allows groin shots as some do just add a front kick and i bet the guy will not throw the same kick twice. and to make this really work you will have to take the impact of the kick so if you dont have the conditioning i probably wouldnt do it against some that will throw a really hard kick

well fusei kise started out teaching shorinji ryu and then became a student of soken. so the style he taught to many of the servicemen was a blend of both. however when soken handed over the style to kise he realized that he would not be able to retain students with the kind of training he and soken typically used. so alot of the kata were changed and in my opinion made easier. before they were divided into matsumura and shorinji kata and each had its own style of blocks and punches. the shorinji kata were made to look more like the matsumura. and also alot of the hardcore training was taken out and replaced with methods that are more friendly to the average person. to give you insight there is three instructors i know of that teach the old ways and none of them have more than a handful of blackbelts. and most dont wanna stick around until green belt(rokkyu).

the bunkai is just a interpratation, bunkai is whatever you make it. that is the art in all of this. if you practice only what your teacher shows you, you will become stagnent and not ever truly understand anything until you explore the technique. go through your forms and try to invision different ways to use the techniques and you will have a much deeper richer knowledge of them

in my own opinion aikido is very hard to use on the streets, karate is alot easier to translate in a fight

clinch, fight to bring your foot back to the mat, and if they take you down pull guard and reverse or submit

well it definintly isn't how well you do kata, many people have lost the true essence behind training in kata and it saddens me

i believe that a black belt means you have a good knowledge of the basics and kata as well as a good understanding of fighting concepts. i truly believe that you really learn after blackbelt, that is where you are fine tuned and work on the mastery of these things. in styles like bjj there is no curricullum after blackbelt it is all mat time and contribution to your art. and i really like that

kyoshi ader is a very good instructor, im not very fond of the kenshin kan system. i prefer the original style as taught by soken. but kenshin kan is a descent style if you train hard