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I read somewhere an idea that Sanchin may have been developed initially in a coastal port of southern China (like Fuzhou) at least in part to help train for fighting on a boat, where an 'anchored' foundation can be quite beneficial and piracy was an ever-present risk. The reasoning was that the foun...

Hi Seizan, always a pleasure to converse with you. I have a copy of your Volume 1 (first release, before it became Volume 1) and Volume 2, but must admit I have not had a chance to read Volume 2 yet. And I still need to order Volume 3. At any rate, I would not want to repeat back to you your own wor...

Robert Garone's English translation of The Untold Story of Kanbun Uechi by Keisuke Fujimoto provides very little information about Kanbun's time in Okinawa between arriving back from China in 1909 and leaving for Wakayama in 1925. It does say that the 1977 Uechi Kyohan (referred to as " Compreh...

According to Robert Garone's English translation of The Untold Story of Kanbun Uechi by Keisuke Fujimoto, "After 13 years abroad, Kanbun Uechi...set foot in his hometown after returning to Naha harbor in 1909" (p.52). The source cited for this information is the 1977 Uechi Kyohan (referred...

According to Robert Garone's English translation of The Untold Story of Kanbun Uechi by Keisuke Fujimoto, "(Kanbun) had only one sibling, his younger brother Kanso, who was something of a troublemaker and liked to provoke and play tricks on the more reserved Kanbun." (p. 8) It then goes in...

I have never heard 'sense of unity' as a reason for the development of the gi before, and I think what they trained in before adopting the gi would have accomplished that as well! :D http://www.southkungfu.com/images/kaneiuechi1940s.jpg My understanding is that Kano simply applied a heavier material...

If you want newer books on Okinawan Martial Traditions, this three volume set sold in Amazon may be what you want. I haven't read them so I can't give any reviews of their quality: Okinawan Martial Traditions: te, tode, karate, karatedo, kobudo by Jon Bluming, Michael DeMarco, Mary Bolz, Richard Fo...

Hi George! I definitely have not given up on these forums. However regarding magazines, have you heard the Bugeisha magazine founder and executive editor Angel Lemus died this week? I interacted with him occasionally on the Cyberdojo Yahoo Group back in the 1990s/2000s but I imagine you knew him bet...

Some may recall that over a decade ago I posted in this forum a list of print magazine articles that were either 1) about some aspect of Uechi Ryu, 2) written by Uechi Ryu stylists, or 3) interviews with Uechi Ryu stylists, and I updated it at least once but it has not been further updated for aroun...

I just came across this Okinawa news item from two years agao, I am surprised it never came up on here before now. http://okic.okinawa/en/archives/newstopics/p1513 The opening ceremony of the statue of Kanbun Uechi who is the founder of Uechi-ryu Karatedo at the sakura-no-mori park in Motobu-cho on ...

Bullcrap. . . Just that you guys are getting too old to fight with Glasheen. I see him on F.B., where I see him going head to head with younger and tougher opponents, all the while, projecting to millions of his fans, how smart he is. According to the pundits, you guys just weren't in his league! O...

As far as I know yes. Van still moderates and posts to his Self Defense Realities forum on this site. Sadly other forms of social media such as Facebook have usurped these older forums. Bill for example stepped away from this forum in 2017 to focus solely on his Facebook page and this forum has larg...

We have been training for this:
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Hi! "Frequent" is a bit of a stretch, but I do check it periodically.