THats similar to an interpretation I learned for the opening move of a USA Goju kata called something like Gesaku Sho, if I remember correctly from 30 years ago There are myriad Gekisai bunkai out there. Gekisai is one of the "instructional" (as opposed to classical) forms of Goju Ryu, I ...

Mike This is more like it. These are the kinds of bunkai I endorse. Martial Arts Explorer - Volume 1 Program 11 ( Click on video size = large in upper portion of viewing screen. ) This video goes bad at 7:40. But the important stuff is all there in the high quality 7+ minutes. These are natural, se...

My Sensei keeps stressing the importance of ankle, knee and hip flexibility as well as an understanding of core (tan dien) and kime (focus and release and charging of focus, energy, power, tension and lack of tension, which is allrelated to the breath!!!) There is a school of thought - shared by my...

George, a most wonderful, happy, healthy, and fun Birthday. Like Jack Benny, I can announce that you are still 39 years old, and holding. :) If you need some help in blowing out the candles on your cake I shall be glad to accommodate ... but you might want to think twice, remembering when you told ...

I am very clear in my approach to teaching martial techniques. Especially when it comes to martial movements in Sanchin kata, I am not interested in calling techniques as specific applications. An arm extension is just an arm extension. A circle is just a circle. A step is just a step. A turn is ju...

Bill Glasheen wrote:
FWIW, we have an automatic defibrillator in our gym about 30 feet from the training room. All gyms should have one.

- Bill

Very cool. Did you get any of the grants that were available to pay for it, or just out of your own pocket? What did it cost?

Oh, in June my ACLS, PALS, BLS certification expires.

I can remember taking a cardiology for first responders class in 2006 when I was near graduating medical school - and they were telling us that the guidelines would go from CPR to CCR (continuous chest compressions) largely because of research from U of A. Most such emergencies are not pulmonary arr...

Does Rosenbaum still post here or did he ever post about his security work?

There isn't much more to say about it.... no blood out, no blood in; no blood in, oxygen runs out; oxygen runs out, unconscious. I wonder about subclavian steal. In this case, due to blocked subclavian artery a vertbral artery can act like a vein and drain blood away from the brain. I wonder why th...

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Great! We bought in a desirable, albiet colourful little neighbourhood. Our street is 100+ years old with both single and mutltiple family dwellings. Many are owner occupied. All in all it's been very peaceful in a pleasant, treelined-bullevard sort of way. However, suddenly I find myself surrounde...

Roy Bedard did a very graphic demonstration using a gallon of fruit punch at Winterfest this past January showing how much 'blood' would have to be lost before loc, and worse would occur - We can lose a lot and still be functionable. John Humans are very complex physiology, and the status of the cv...

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