Shotokan_Fighter Posted February 17, 2003 Posted February 17, 2003 i was just wondering if anyone has ever used shotokan karate in the street and what happened "When I fight, I fight with my heart,and soul. My heart, and soul is Shotokan Karate."Shotokan_fighters creed"karate has to come natural in a fight, if you have to think about using karate in a fight, you will loose the fight"3rd kyu brown belt - shotokan karate
monkeygirl Posted February 17, 2003 Posted February 17, 2003 This should be in the Karate forum, so I'm moving it 1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003No matter the tune...if you can rock it, rock it hard.
G95champ Posted February 18, 2003 Posted February 18, 2003 Myself no. However several of my students and guys I trained with have. In every case they were sucessful. Those they were attacked by had not formal training but all of them walked away with little to no damage. (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."
ramymensa Posted February 18, 2003 Posted February 18, 2003 Well ... I've said it somewhere, but I'll tell you the stories: My sensei was in a camp with his students (he's also a teacher at the University) and they were in a bar. Late, night, too much drinking ... The students from Arad were picking a fight (they were many). Those from Timisoara were few and tired ... It got to a fight. Our students (from Timisoara) beat the others because they've had our sensei (godan, 5th degree BB). Imagine !!! The students from Arad were thrown from the bar and the next day they were wonderinghow come the others, few, could beat them so bad. And they started saying those from Timisoara had a blad teacher, very tall (2 meters high) ... it would be ok, but my poor sensei is just 1.70 meters high. So he is quite short But he can kick REALLY high Another instructor in our dojo (shodan 1 degree BB) had a fight with a guy who was picking a fight with her boyfriend. Imagine she was qiote angry and the guy ended in a Coca Cola refrigerator (a kick was enough ..) One of my coleagues got in a fight with 3 "heroes". The ended with broken noses and so on. He had some bruises on the knuckles from punching them in the head. World Shotokan Karate
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