Live-in training or "apprenticeship" (Uchi-Deshi)

[bushido_man96]

If you could do a one-year live-in or apprenticeship type of training with any living Martial Artist right now, who would it be with and why? (I know that there is a Japanese term for this kind of idea, but it slips my mind).

For me, my first choice would be with Iain Abernethy, because I would love to learn more about his "Applied Karate" training, and get the first hand experience. My second choice would be Stuart Paul Anslow, who does something very similar, and with the TKD forms that I study.

Edited July 8, 2008 by bushido_man96

[Zanshin]

If you could do a one-year live-in or apprenticeship type of training with any living Martial Artist right now, who would it be with and why? (I know that there is a Japanese term for this kind of idea, but it slips my mind).

For me, my first choice would be with Iain Abernethy, because I would love to learn more about his "Applied Karate" training, and get the first hand experience. My second choice would be Stuart Paul Anslow, who does something very similar, and with the TKD forms that I study.

Alternatively, if it is traditional karate you are after, you could go to the source of the stream.

As luck would have it, I know just the thing you are looking for.

These guys run an internship in Japan for a year.. You get to train with the likes of Takamasa Arakawa sensei for a year... for free.

http://japankarateintern.blogspot.com

Obviously you have to be accepted first.

Gees how I wish i was still in my twenties.

Z.

PS Bushi, the expression you are looking for is "Uchi- deshi"

[ninjanurse]

As luck would have it, I know just the thing you are looking for.

These guys run an internship in Japan for a year.. You get to train with the likes of Takamasa Arakawa sensei for a year... for free.

http://japankarateintern.blogspot.com

Obviously you have to be accepted first.

Gees how I wish i was still in my twenties.

Me too, me too!!!!

[Bushido-Ruach]

Ahhhhh, there's a question!

I would absolutely love to hook up with my best friend's father who studies ninjitsu and teaches his own style of combat Aikido for a year....he travels back and forth from Japan to the Philipines all the time.

Then, for another year (if I could handle it after the first year) I would like to take a year with Russel Stutely (spelling?) and learn what appears to be a vast knowledge of pressure point and vital point techniques.

Great question!

[The BB of C]

I would definately do that.

My ideal instructor would be Steven Segal or Panom Yeerum.

[tallgeese]

I'd like to survive just a training camp with George St. Pierre. I think that hands down he's probibly the best pound for pound mma'er out there right now. Well versed in all ranges of unarmed combat, exciting to watch, and always in great fighitng shape...yeah, I'd like to get that kind of experience.

[ps1]

Rickson Gracie...I could be Krohn's practice dummy:)

[bushido_man96]

Bushi, the expression you are looking for is "Uchi- deshi"

Thanks, Zanshin. I just couldn't think of the term. I added it to the title of the thread.

So, who would it be for you, Zanshin? Would it be the name you listed?

[Zanshin]

Bushi, the expression you are looking for is "Uchi- deshi"

Thanks, Zanshin. I just couldn't think of the term. I added it to the title of the thread.

So, who would it be for you, Zanshin? Would it be the name you listed?

In Wado Karate:

Takagi Hideho / Arakawa (Toru or Takamasa) / Hakoishi Katsumi to name but a few.

In Koryu:

Toby Threadgill - Shindo Yoshin Ryu (he is American btw)

Shogen Okobayashi - Daito Ryu Aiki-jujutsu

But alas, I do not have 6 lifetimes to spare.

Z

[tori]

I would just love to go to okinawa and train there in a traditional shotokan dojo. That would be great.