Master Yoshi

I failed at a ni dan test because i couldn't do a chikodachi during a kata. Besides belts means nothing. The use of belts in karate was imposed by teh Japanese when they tried to organize the karate system from Okinawa. The uniform used in karate is actually the judo uniform. The grandmaster and head of the organization of teh system that I study said that if you don't train the only use that the belt has is to hang yourself with it on a tree. I told him that it also was very useful to keep your pants from falling but he replied that a pice of rope works also.

Ichi dan GOJu Ryu. And belts does not mean anything, they are just there to keep your pants from falling. It is in you to give meaning to the belt, not in your teachers.

The truth is that no move is 100% effective. There's always a countermove for everything. And if you cannot find a countermove then always improvise. Bruce Lee is the best example of this ideal. He always taught to his students that when being choked and you are in a position where there's no where to go because you end up hurting yourself, what you have left is to bite, since is the natural instinct. If you are grabbed there's always a way to get free from it. Do not tell me that a grappler have a higher chance of winning than a striker because if a striker throws a punch to your throat or pokes your eyes or grab your private parts and squeeze on them, tell me how effective a grab or take down would be? Also if you have a perfect standing position, no matter how great a grappler your opponent is he should have a hard time trying to take you down, meaning that the guy with the black belt that got beaten by the white belt grappler doesn't have great legs, learned a defense class that only trains for tournament purposes and is not a real martial art or they gave him the black belt and doesn;t train much.

THe reason why Master Kow Loon Ong promotes Chi I Do and not Goju Ryu is because of what Hammer said. He teaches Chi Gung, Kingay Ryu, Goju Ryu and Kobudo. So since he teaches all these forms he cannot claim that he only teaches GoJu Ryu. That's why he created Chi I Do, an organization that teaches all these forms.