Bill, I enjoyed your post and it reminded me of many moments where I felt inspired to see Uechi in other fighting styles and vice versa. For me, other techniques and/or deeper understanding become apparent when I take a step back from the literal view of a Uechi movement and pay more attention to th...

Tony, no problem and glad I could offer some encouragement. Your hard work is an inspiration to others and we should all encourage each other to explore and develop. It's unfortunate that some people find it threatening when a Uechika dares to study something else or heaven forbid develop an alterna...

Alot of Uechi people out there don't understand this because they aren't "pushing the envelope". True, a couple round of boxing sounds pretty easy You're right as a lot of Karate and other martial artists don't spar, don't spar hard or have never been challenged enough by people who know ...

Just a few thoughts based on my experience with the "traditional" uechi breathing, using Van's description in which there is no internal or external breath during exertion. Well, I guess it depends on who you trained with and what you've picked up. Outside of kata, and usually it's Sanchin...

Very interesting thread and appreciate everyone's comments. Unfotunately, I can't response to all. Expecting the federal government to bail us all out of problems is demanding a recipe for financial disaster. I don't expect the federal government to bail us all out and I certainly didn't make any st...

Well, according to this "Rap Star", Bush doesn't like blacks so he's just taking his time. I don't think it's that simple and I don't agree that W is taking his time, which he did, simply because Louisana has a large poor Black population, though I understand why many black Americans feel...

I'm sickened at the willful neglect and abication of responsibility by the US goverment. This was well known to be one of three most likely catastrophic events to occur and W slashes funding to programs that would have helped Louisana be better protected and prepared for this disaster. It's clear th...

Bill said, The incremental increase in risk of heart attack for taking a COX II inhibitor is minimal compared to the overall risk of the same. The threshold of guilt in even a civil case here is not met. You may be right. There is much here that I'm a bit out of my league concerning US jurisprudence...

Bill, you said the heart attack causing death that was referred to in this litigation had nothing to do with Viox. Yet, a top company scientist, Alise Reicin, wrote that "the possibility of increased CV [cardiovascular] events is of great concern." Clearly, this scientist who WORKED FOR th...

The kata, depending on who is teaching and interpreting, can be misleading if it is taught too literally. I understand the shoken to the foot but given everybody wears shoes it's completely inaccessible as a target. I don't fully understand why the two arm movements, the downward block and scoop, ar...

But at least when Greek mythology is taught it's taught as mythology not fact. A lot of people interested in intelligent design, or creationism, want their beliefs accepted as fact without proof.

And Mike, aren't you mis-understimating W just a bit

Mark

Akil do you think these statements will make these people and places targets for terror as well? It is possible. A lot of Muslim against Muslim terrorism has already taken place for a variety of reasons, usually because of perceived allegiance with infidels, supporting US aggression and percieved v...

This article raises a big problem for the middle east and the US, that Iraq and Iran are forging closer ties in spite of the US's efforts to plant a democracy in Iraq. Interested in how others view this development. I find it alarming and frightening. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071905L.shtml ...

Hi Bill, busy at the keyboard I see. In this last post, you used the word "torture" (or some derivative of it) twenty-seven (27) times. Wow... Your debating technique (see your post) is to describe something a party or parties are doing, and then use the word torture afterwards. The listen...

Bill, I attached here the main findings by a major researcher in the field, Sackeim et al, and in fact Sackeim is connected to a major company in the ECT field, Mecta, so his bias would be towards supporting ECT. However, he found that relapse rates were very high unless the patient continued on a r...