Thanks, Dave I've sent an email to the address you gave. FOR ANYONE OUT THERE WHO HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS PROGRAM-- I participated in it. I believe it works. I believe that, no matter how good you are (or think you are), Dave's system will make you better, and will give you a fresh look at things. ...

Dave, We did meet at GEM's 25th anniversary Summer Camp and I had an opportunity to train with you and sample your system. As a matter of fact, I gravitated toward your training sessions because I recognized its value. Any "disucssions" of the relative merit of "traditional" prac...

Bill, Thanks for the congrats! (I realize it's out of the scope of this thread). And I'll pass on your greetings to the rest of the unruly West Coast bunch. And BTW, (I noticed on the former thread)--Happy Birthday! Not bad for an "old guy" (age is relative here!!) Keep stirring up the con...

Thanks for the entertainment..... It's fun to watch someone throw out the bait and observe the frenzy! It seems that as soon as one's passion (a particularly favorite style, or the one practiced regularly) is attacked, a defensiveness sets in. Personally, I've practiced Uechi for many years. I know ...

I trained with Gushi sensei for quite some time so I can understand exactly what he is saying (as I'm sure others do who have trained with him). Gushi does not stand, fully tensed, when confronted. He will, however, become fully tensed at the point he is hit or at the point he gets to his opponent. ...

N.E.B. (I got it right) Uechi kata and Goju kumite? Does sound like an interesting combination... And Tensho kata is especially "recognizable" among the Goju kata, to me, as the one that most closely resembles Uechi-style of kata. I especially like the Goju practice of irikumi as taught to...

Neb, Thanks for responding. GG stands for the Garden Grove dojo of the late Ahti Kaend sensei. That was a sort of identifier--if you had been the other Neb you would have been able to recognize it. The Neb I'm thinking of was a young man who moved to California from Europe. He was very gifted and le...

Has anyone failed to notice the implications here? That Bill comes from stock that represents hopeless scofflaws? Criminals to the exteme?!?
C'mon Bill come clean....tell us about the horse thieves....

Steve

Neb-

I hae seen you post on these forums for a while. Are you the same Neb I came to know (and train with) a number of years ago at the GG dojo?

Steve Goss

GEM--

Signed by some guy I ran into in Atlanta.....
Heard he lived in Massachussetts but went south........
SG

GEM--

Happy to say that I found a first edition copy--yes, the "grass-like" cover, of the Way of Karate.

Even better, it's signed by the author!

Thanks....

Steve

Oldfist, Good points. Very much parallel to how I think. _______________________________________________________________ may seem contradictory in that the transmission of the tradition of kata and forms is always very rigid in how each stance, strike, kick, and the connecting flow must be performed...

Miriam Webster says something like: The application of knowlege, experience and skill. By definition, what we do is art. But my question remains...do we see it as art because of dictionary definitions? To all of us, the term "art" has different meanings. So the question was unfair to begin...

John, Interesting and enlightening. But then, this is reflective of Japanese attitudes. At the point the systems of Okinawa were being spread throughout the world, is this what the Okinawan intent was? Of course, I have no way of knowing......and most likely will never know. So it comes down to a pe...

"the "nasty" is in the art!" Another good one! Or is it…the art is in the nasty……….. In pondering Bill's post, one may come to the conclusion that practicing what we do "in the abstract" (my words, not Bill's) sets it apart from application, at least as far as a label i...