Well if you want to work down to a split, this may or may not be of help. I am 19 and have been able to do a right front split for a couple years and a left front split for about half a year. Not quite to a side split yet. I tell you this so you know that I am still young and for people who are olde...

Here in the college environment it is easier: I practice with other advanced students in the Intramural room, a huge gym that is half carpeted and half uncarpeted gym floor. I teach my classes in the Racquetball courts. I practice bagwork in my neighbors room, where by body opponent bag is set up. T...

Bill, By the way, I have been working on those Uechi pushups ever since you showed them to me. I started on mats and grass and within about a month have gotten so I can do thirtyish of them on such surfaces. I've experimented with gym floor surfaces and... well they aren't impossible, but I can't do...

Pushups? Traditional ones... very rarely do I work them. They develop slow-twitch, endurance based muscle fibers and I try to do exercises that will work the fast-twitch fibers, giving mostly strength, power, and speed. To work the same muscles, I may do benching, or plyometric pushups, or sometimes...

I'm looking to get some Thai pads for me and my guys to work some combinations on. I'm looking for something durable, but economical. Thoughts?

There is a video on this site of Uechi conditioning drills, including arm rubbing. You can find it on our video page, under Uechi Training and Techniques. The video is titled Kotikitae.

I sent you another message, too, Bill.

Hey, the thread is back!

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Starting a new thread to keep the answer from clogging up any other threads. There has been lots of discussion on whether or not prearranged kumite has any merit, and there seems to be a general consensus that it is a useful but limited tool if done correctly. However, there is general dissatisfacti...

Kerry, You are absolutely correct in saying that my statements come from an assumption of the authority of the Bible (which had its canon finalized by a church council, using a logical and easy-to-follow procedure for determining canonicity, by the way). My attempt was is not to prove anything to an...

Regkray, My responses are in bold. “I like a lot of the Tennets of Buddhism which the People who started Christianity appropriated. Like doing good for others, not stealing, not kiling etc. These are what the Buddha taught 500 years b4 the story of Christ supposedly started. “ Christ does not draw t...

I'm sure Bill will go into more detail with this but I'll add my two cents for the sake of immediacy. I'll use the bench press for an example. Your pectoral muscles are the ones that are contracting, doing the work. Do they do work only when you push up? I hope not, otherwise you are just letting th...

You can actually find Sanchin on the video clips on this page. It isn't under the kata section, but if you go to "Uechi Techniques" and look at the 1993 All-Okinawan clip, Sanchin is a part of it.

Now there have been lots of discussions on these forums about whether a sensei needs to have been in a real defense situation to be qualified to teach martial arts. Now, if Superman learned karate and decided to open his own school, we would all say that he has "been there" more times than...