Bill, Its good to converse with you ,on practices over the years. I came at uechi from a certain angle, you from another angle ,from my viewpoint i thank you for your input ,such as it makes me inspect what I do . Anyway I value working both sides . "Kanbun never taught or demonstrated a kata i...

In the big three from yesteryear you would not be doing a kata one side only ,you would be doing them both sides Ikyryoko fashion .

Max.

Bill I always was of the understanding ,uechi-ryu had its own dynamic tension element, I have questioned George on this .
His reply was uechi did have this element .

Max.

Bill, There are a couple of stories on the actual attack upon Kanbun, one is were the attacker is at the other side of a hedge ,which needs to be jumped to get to grips with the attacker . The other is in bushes ,with no mention of jumping .Kanbun pulled the attacker via ,as if climbing a rope ,to ...

Bill, There are a couple of stories on the actual attack upon Kanbun, one is were the attacker is at the other side of a hedge ,which needs to be jumped to get to grips with the attacker . The other is in bushes ,with no mention of jumping .Kanbun pulled the attacker via ,as if climbing a rope ,to g...

Mike I'm challenging conventional wisdom. It's what I do. (I don't have to be right... ;)) I do like many of the individual techniques. Some are almost superhuman. However I don't like some of his pauses, hesitations, and interruptions. That's a bit more subtle. It reminds me of waxing my car. One ...

I tend to think repetition needs to be experimented with in conjunction with ones attention span firstly ,quite simply if you don't have a attention span you will not be doing very many reps of anything ,other than in a type of robot mode . Our goal is; an aware set of reps ,my own experience strugg...

Glenn.

I have seen all the U.K ones ,and lent them out to various folk never to be returned to me ,I have my own articles some were, most likely in the loft ,I will look .

I sure hope lots of folks chip in Max. I'm always interested in how people teach core material. Max, you've used Archetype before, but what exactly is it modeling and how does it get distorted? Mike ,I used the Archetype quite simply, it fits with why there is a Sanchin test ,each instructor is wor...

I still don't see why. So an open question to all who want to take a whack at it. Think of me as a karate outsider, so in simple concrete terms that I could understand, describe... What are the goals of Sanchin? How are the goals reached? How does someone know they achieved a goal? Mike , It should...

But we are discussing people of advanced rank needing correction, and who are passing along these glitches to others. The idea that Sanchin is hard to transmit is interesting, but I don't see why it should be if it is universal, unless, the people transmitting it don't fully understand the goals, t...

Just wondering if individual instructors always do a Sanchin test with each student at every workout . Excellent point. - Bill Bill , As you know from my perspective ,all the work out can be devoted to Sanchin,and say with a new person I don't do the test for well over the year . One point is for m...

Just wondering if individual instructors always do a Sanchin test with each student at every workout .

Lots of us got saddled with the title of instructor ,in your case what attributes did you pick up along the way ? or would you say maybe it was all premature . Max I can honestly say that my early rise to running a martial arts program was one of the more formative experiences of my life. For what ...

Bill, Lots of us got saddled with the title of instructor ,in your case what attributes did you pick up along the way ? or would you say maybe it was all premature . What happened over here was we were light years ahead of the Japs or the Okinawans for breaking away :lol: every thing was so fast , a...