straightblast

If you are in JKD and not learning anything about grappling then your stuck in the same dogma Bruce lee was against. He even knew the importance of all ranges. remember "Be like water".

In the FMA world weapons are the primary in the art and empty hand secondary. Very beginner students swing sticks from day one with no issues. within 6 months to a year the tip of your rattan stick will be traveling way faster that a fist or kick and the awareness, footwork and reaction time trickles down to your empty hand to where is almost like slowmotion.

I know a guy who did a high roundhouse in a street fight, he broke every finger in the other guys hand because he tried to catch it or block it.

Like most of the world I think of MMA as UFC style of sport combat. However, the system I do has always been called a multi style system, Knife, stick, sword, empty hand, grappling and so on.

The Term Karate is a big umbrella and most styles have Kata but some don’t, I think it is unfair for a certain style of Karate to determine what Karate is and is not if it lies outside of its own style. If you are in a style of Karate that has Kata then the kata is the core to your system. If you’re in a style that does not have kata, then your technique and training method is your core. Kata has value to those who do it so as martial artist we need to stop looking over the fence and critiquing other styles because they may do things different.

Yes, he had a base in WC and boxing but he self trained himself in JKD.

It is a common misconception that JKD is assorted techniques from various arts, it’s not. JKD is primary WC,boxing,fencing. The 26 some odd arts that Bruce was looking into were only to observe their strengths, weakness and how he could use his JKD to inter/intercept. Can you teach yourself martial arts? For the most part, what I read from those close to him, Bruce was primarily self-taught.

Belcher from tonights UFC knows how effective Bispings eye poke was as Belcher droped to the ground with blood leaking from his eye.

Do groin shots and eye poking work? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3-RfOTlaQw If we use the MMA as the testing ground, it's pretty effective.

If I was 13, I would be doing cartwheels also. Like others have said, you dont know his situation or any conditions there might be, it's a private matter and maybe only reserved for the instructor. Calling a book by the cover is the wrong way to approach life.

Karate is not a Japanese art. The Japanese would not except an Okinawan art called china hand. China had a big influence on Okinawan karate. There is a reason why Funakoshi was chosen to take karate to Japan and it wasn't because he was the best karateka.

Again I agree with Bushido_man. Itoso modernized older Kata, simplified it out of necessity for school children to learn and bring karate to the masses.

Choki Motobu had very practical Karate.

KARATE is pretty much a brand itself, everyone knows what the word Karate relates to but it's simply empty hand, chinese hand or tang hand. Shotokan karate is nothing more than Funakoshi's empty hand.

I think some of us worry too much about what others are doing. If you are into traditional arts that is fine, it means something to you but it’s not very budo like to critique others who are not traditional and try to tell them what their art is or isn’t.