Brandon Fisher

can you pull it back in pony tail?

White & on a rare occasion black.

His past experience really has a lot to do with it. Simple fact is if someone comes back after ebing gone for awhile I do not make them start over. The belt is nothing compared to the knowledge.

I wear Tokaido & Shureido gis tokaido is my favorite though by far. I did just order a Meijin Gi so we will see how that one is in comparison.

Yeah maybe. I did send you a PM. I won't realease his name on a public forum as I do not want to trash him in anyway shape or form. The anger makes me feel like it but I am not that kind of person.

Thank you I appreciate the comments. Maybe someday I will be able to talk but now after comments that he has made I am so angry I can't stand the thought of him. I do know that he has done this to other people in the past but it is a case that he always reminded everyone that he was the "Soke". He accused me of having an out of control ego but I even have issues being called master. Sensei is more than enough for me. I think that I will probably never know but I will run into him at a tournament someday his reaction should be interesting. I will remain professional at all times. The documents in question where student evaluation sheets and class schedules. Keep in mind that the schedules did not reflect all ranks in the alotted class time only beginners so the advanced ranks would be stuck teaching or only doing kihon all the time. If it did switch the beginners would end up doing advanced techniques. I pray this ends soon, the hurt is unbelievable. Thank you to all who read this and have given me a chance to vent it helps a little to do this on a forum.

You are welcome for the video.

I really like my SOG Knives I would take a serious look at them. I got mine at https://www.absoluteknives.com

Your not the first that I have heard that from. I to had probably still have asthmea but I have strengthened my body where it is rare to really have a problem with it.

I need advice from black belts that have been around a long time, preferrably 4th Dans and up. No offense to those that haven’t but its just the situation at hand. 2 months ago I was told to leave the organization that I had been with just over 21 years. The head guy a 10th dan Soke who I had always looked up to kicked me to the curb without an explanation. Now that night we kind of got into it because I could not see some documents he expected me to fill out. Now I am visually impaired considered legally blind and have been all my life. He printed these documents in 8pt font and I had asked him to increase the size of the text just a week before this incident. He didn’t want to do it because “it would take up more paper”. This is a man that always told me and my family he loved me like a son but given the situation that has proved incorrect. He told me to have my wife fill out the forms of which she couldn’t hardly see either to which I responded with “it isn’t her responsibility”. He would not offer a solution except he would do it but it didn’t answer my question of what did he want me to do. Well my Mom and Dad had left to out of town that day and after this incident I called them to make sure they made it safely. When I hung up I returned to the class put my phone away and went to use the restroom. When I returned he took me out in the hallway and told me to go home and when I thought I could come back to call him. I tried to ask why and he just responded with I know what you are doing and told me I could not issue a challenge to our students if I was acting like a child myself. Now I am not stupid I know that the problem was over these documents. He even told me that it wasn’t a matter of that I couldn’t see them but that I didn’t want to see them. Well he called my mom the next week saying they needed to talk because we had a problem but that never happened. The excuses when he decided he wanted all the equipment back and the bank account information was he couldn’t talk then he had to choose his words carefully. Then later it was well look into your own family and you will see the problem. He kicked me and my family out of the organization after more then 21 years with no explanation what so ever. To this day there is none. Now he has placed a list of black belts on his website and my name is not there. But ones that stole files and destroyed files from his office, ones who had him kicked out of 1 recreation dept. and YMCA within a week of each other and ones who are or were drug addicts are listed. Before 1995 the system did not have any kata whatsoever and it was called Karate Do supposedly based on Shotokan. In 1995 I began incorporating kata training to the system. I created and co-wrote a very extensive training manual of which he had never had in the 40+ Years of teaching and now it is like he is pretending I never existed. I even renamed the organization and created the logo. I still do not know exactly why this all came about but we have gotten word back from others that yes indeed it was over those documents even though he stated to my mom that they had nothing to do with it. There are a lot of stories that have come back that are conflicting to what he says from reliable sources. He is taking credit for a system that I created but never documented the complete master text in writing because it was not complete and I was working on building and bettering his system. So what would you do? Would any of your treat any of your long-term students like this? Wouldn’t you think there is an explanation to be made? There were a couple of us that worked out some escapes from abduction. These techniques included being tied up in various ways and simulated as close as possible to the real thing given none of us have a sick mind. The only problem was we did the research and he distanced himself from it even though it was by his request. This is one of the things that he had us do and then backed off. The trouble we could have gotten into I can’t even imagine. Someone bought a 5th Dan ranking from one of his favorite organizations and he wanted that individual pulled off the website because he does not teach has never had any students never promoted any black belts and never had a home base for more then 5 years in one system and all of a sudden there is the 5th Dan. So I did as was requested of me but I paid the price because we would not back me when the head of the organization called me and told me I was nothing and I would never be anything along with I was egotistical loser and I wouldn’t dictate to him what martial arts is and what it isn’t. Now I have renamed the system that I founded to incorporate my karate background also and I am working hard and getting it out there. I think that in time things will ultimately be ok but now I feel very betrayed. Now after all this I learned a huge lesson don’t ever cover for someone else and do their dirty work. It always comes back to bite you. I appreciate any and all feedback.

Thats true it is very hard to strike smaller vital points in a real situation.

I very much appreciate it the comments. I have done the same thing over the past 10 years I added kata to the ciriculum with my first instructor and many other things to his system. I built it to what it is today and then he gave me the boot with no explanation. Well thats ok because all that work and time is now going into my own system that I think 30 years from now will be very solid more than it is today and it is solid now.

Man oh man I wonder what I would be like if I had used shin guards when I started. Probably wouldn't have all the dents in my shin bones. Lookin forward to the report.

Yes my system incorporates some of the Shotokan kata. Is it totally traditional technically no because the original kata Pinan, Passai, Kusanku are older. So it is how you look at it. Traditional to me anyway and in todays world is not having back flips and throwing weapons in the air and wearing a traditional dogi. However Shotokan in modern form is really more sport with its lower and longer stances, however my wife who is about to become one of my black belts asked me recently about my stances and the difference in actual shotokan. My stances are higher when I practice kata, more like Okinawan karate. One day I may start teaching the Pinan kata vs. the Heian and Passai vs. Bassai but for now it is what it is. But I truly believe that one should know where the kata originated and how the names were changed. I hope this answers your question.

I thought this might be of some interest: This is Kyoshi Nabil Noujaim, Shorin Ryu - Shorinkan training with a makiwara. http://www.karateofindy.com/images/NoujMaki.mpg http://www.karateofindy.com/images/NoujMaki2.mpg

I found this searching around the net not long ago. This is Sensei Buntoku Ifuku, 8th Dan Shorin Ryu - Shorinkan performing an Eaku kata. https://www.eastcoastkarate.net/Videos/ifuku.wmv This was found on https://www.eastcoastkarate.net just so that they get proper credit.

Bassai Dai, Kanku Dai, Jion have been the top placement katas but Heian Godan and Heian Yondan have been very good also for the kyu ranks. I personally have not competed in kata for several years though.

I teach traditional kata and my students compete and do well with traditional kata. In self defense divisions we actually use speed and accuracy to show the creative side.

Shotokan is more linear in movement and goju ryu does have more of a circular movement to it. Goju-ryu is based on Sanchin and shotokan is not. I think they both are great systems I would love the opportunity to train in Goju-ryu but there are not any dojos around here that I know of.

Going by your posts seems you really like to fight. I would suggest taking it slow at first and learning. All the gear in the world doesn't prevent you from getting hurt.

I personally don't always really very rare. My vision is rescrited enough without it let alone with it.

Thanks I appreciate the feedback. I have been using kama for 13 years and just decided to try this. Still a little unsure on it though but looking forward to trying it.

I ahd a belt that was handed down now one of my black belts has it. It is 32 years old now I think.

Congrats on the first place.

Seems to me that the rope allows more control over the nunchaku.