Lots of people in training have not had bloody encounters for real and this includes high ranking martial artists ,not their fault by the way ,and maybe they would do well in confrontations ,I truly hope so . My point is; a much better view of how a move/moves may work under real violent exposure . ...

The voice over reminds me Jim Jones. :lol: Less the British accent? I knew it sounded familiar.. I had to wince every time he said 'kata' however he said that.. :lol: The one thing addressed that I can relate to is the idea of two handed actions.. Something that I see as the hallmark of many latter...

"......... what folks need is a clear path with clearly defined goals to follow that path........." Wouldn't that be nice !!! :lol: ".....very few teachers will have you doing sanchin stepping for months on end in similar fashion to say "Kanryo Higagonna ". Americans have a...

Ray , " The only problem with that approach is the quality of your teacher or teachers". Any and all approach's will have problems with teacher's quality regardless of method . In our style/system ,Kanbun brought back one set of functions for one specific kata now we all roughly are aware ...

Ray ,just clarifying . I fully accept your points. But again not to confuse readers on form then function in the methodology I say used to be Uechi-ryu there is a clear cut time devoted to form ,then there is a clear cut starting point for function in other words they are mixed together much later T...

The Shu stage. Learn the form first ,that used to be the uechi-ryu way ,such as you devote all your training time to the form ,not for a day ,or a week ,or months .No not any of that ,more like years on end . When classifying things within certain methodologies ,I tend to see that things can be misl...

In my own study ,over the years on forms . I was told ,each form was attempting to communicate fighting principles ,we rushed from one form to another never really digesting much ,our sparring did not in the slightest resemble the style or the form .Then we received some better instruction from with...

Bill ,please correct me if I have this wrong ,but Gem sensei stated during a dynamic tension topic ,that uechi-ryu did use dynamic tension .

A few goals . Animalistic motions . A way of life . Animal like motions stand more chance of working in a real fight ,and those type of motions are more attainable if I train regular on those forms . I had this conversation 30 years ago with a martial artist who thought he was using his kata moves ,...

The difficulty is in making the invisible aspect of the form visible .

As we see here my friend could not see the fight in the form ,actually he said " The form/forms looked daft ,until you got on the receiving end ".

Then I said "The forms also have a spiritual form of training too ,that is much more difficult to apprehend ".

Form . A couple of years ago,I visited a boxers gym ,[actually we are friends] ,who switched to mixed martial arts,I demonstrated [Ikyroko] method on the form of things ,he could not see the fight within these forms ,but with a bit a sparring some function emerged that gave fight credibility to the ...

As you see I am pointing out how clear cut Kanbun's foundation is ,but were we part company is ;its not just a foundation like the brickwork foundation built these last few days ,okay say our sanchin foundation is complete ,it doe's not mean we would be a superman ,or some type of superior being ,yo...

The idea of a foundation ,well as a matter of fact we have been doing a foundation for a house today ,by the weekend it should be complete ,ready to build the superstructure from by monday morning . Anyway we will not be going back to the foundation it will be complete ,and never to be touched again...

Van. Yes I have seen them ,and those high ranking sensei are ,like everyone after long years in the ryu to sound out their view on Sanchin . Personally I have spent lots of time with folk on the foundation element ,plus my own input ,but what I would need to know; is their idea of foundation the one...