Thankfully, the bill is a first step and not a final product. However, the bill does establish a framework for future adjustments to access and payment for health care which is a conversation that had been held up for far too long. Even if nobody like the ingredients list, at least everyone is now i...

My automatic dark thought: how could someone with martial arts training (really thinking about the emotional training that comes with martial arts...self-respect, confidence, etc) put up with an abusive relationship, choose an abusing partner, be so casual in stating, "I experienced domestic v...

Get counseling. If you have the means out of pocket great, if you don't go through existing health care coverage, a local clinic, or non-profit groups such as faith-based organizations. Keep in community. Many women find that they lose contact with all their friends, because the friends were shared,...

I've spent a few hours paging through the book and I look forward to reading it in depth. I feel very lucky to be able to read about so much of the history that was made and the founding of Uechi in America and how Uechi has evolved. I think our art is lucky that George captured our history in this ...

I don't have a problem with the intensity of the checking and testing. Nobody was hurting her. I'm not sure I would trust them "checking" me. Why would you claim that she wasn't at risk for being hurt by her checkers and in the same breath say that you don't trust the checkers? That compl...

This thread has nothing to do with "style" or "system" or whatnot. The principles of sanchin are (or at least should be) universal. While it may not have been clear in my original post, my intention never was to critique the woman testing for her shodan or this variation of the c...

The girl in the video doesn't train seriously...

I disagree. I think the woman in the video is quite serious about her training. I think nearly every student that spends enough time training to attempt a test for dan rank is serious about their training. Her effort should not be diminished.

I'll try capture video of my performing a sanchin check on a student next Tuesday night (if I can find a willing volunteer) and post it up for comment and critique. ---- I don't know what branch that is and it kind of doesn't matter. Sanchin is trained and checked similarly in multiple styles, Goju-...

So here is a video for comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TrBhCMAriQ#t=2m21s

Notice how the instructor is paying close attention to the student at each step in the checks and how the student is given opportunities for resetting and therefore improving over the course of the checking.

Yes, the instructors have knowledge of what they're doing looking for. Where I think things become very difficult (impossible) for the student is when the multiple instructors are sending multiple force vectors into the student with lots of energy. The skill to manage multiple loads in different dir...

I agree that any jacka$$ can kick down a door and it takes a carpenter to build one. What I see in this video is a cautionary tale to all that the training partner or teacher doing the testing must keep in mind at all times how the checking is enhancing the student's awareness of their own body, the...

Sanchin is so hard to transmit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYxcIFqGWvw

Can we talk about what not to do?

Kakushiken is a fingertip strike or "crane's beak." The boshiken/bushiken is indeed hitting with some part of the thumb while it is supported, or not, by the palm. Some folks have the ability to hit with the first thumb knuckle, unsupported by anything else. Tis amazing to me. Other people...

Try the approach I mentioned above. Go very slowly, try to initiate the movement in your core before you let your hands move, and hold a weight in each hand. The retreating hand is the "yin" to the punching hand "yang" but that doesn't mean it is weaker. It simply means that it i...