Switching from shotokan to ShorinRyu ?

[Ti]

...just as an aside... if your Shotokan training movements are too stiff for you to spar with comfortably then you're possibly not training correctly in them.

 

I've never had a problem with applying my Shotokan training to fighting, whether that be point sparring, free fighting or 'street' self defence work.

 

A stance isn't something a karateka should get stuck in - it's just a position of the body. Stances are moveable not static (yes, even in Shotokan! ).

You misunderstand.

 

The "correct" way of doing the movements are stiff in themselves.

 

It has nothing to do with correct or incorrect execution.

 

Obviously the stances in shotokan are moveable, but they are not as moveable as needed.

[Shorin Ryuu]

You misunderstand.

 

The "correct" way of doing the movements are stiff in themselves.

 

It has nothing to do with correct or incorrect execution.

 

Obviously the stances in shotokan are moveable, but they are not as moveable as needed.

 

Bingo.

[krunchyfrogg]

My advice to you is to go to the dojo where you'll learn the most, and be most comfortable executing the techniques.

 

Personally, I couldn't tell you the difference between the two styles, my dojo has it's own martial art, and shotokan and shorin-ryu are both heavy influences in it. I don't know which parts of my training come from which school of teaching, however.

 

I really enjoy my dojo, but I do have a fear that when I move, and have to find a new dojo (this is the only San Ken Ryu dojo in existence), I'll be totoally lost when I do find that new dojo.

 

Oh well, I won't be the first, nor the last, karate-ka who had to start over from white again (I'm a green belt, just like you).