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if you go digging... karate was a mixture of different extant arts. Some were rooted firmly in CMA like fukian white crane and pan gai noon, but...
Here is a photo from within the Daidokan Dojo that Mutobu eventually built. This was after he moved from Osaka to Tokyo. Notice the packed...
i have way too much Choki Mutobu and Chosei Mutobu stuff. And I consider him a great inspiration. He got in a bit of trouble for his street...
Have to agree..... not many lawyers filling lawsuits back then, and male social norms leaned way more John Wayne. My Master's Teacher gave him...
The way i train with my students. first learn the movements in isolation under direct supervision. solo drill. low speed. about 200x repeat at...
This is why I love 1 minute bunkai. They always stress authenticity of the attack. Proper penetration and not throwing short or off line in the...
Wow... thanks for posting this. its amazing how much overlap from this video JowGa shares with old karate. this was a real treat.
i would say that the teenage years tend to bring forth the dormant inner turd-it-tude. puberty is a time of madness. there is a correlation, but...
i wouldn't call it American logic. its really just western civilization, going all the way to Greco-Roman philosophy. The colonists considered...
Thus the gulf between Okinawan karate, and Japanese karate vs TKD widens.
in fact, a lot of it was hands on (literally) knowledge. the teacher took the students limbs or torso and said here.. not there. putting them...
Choki Motobu kept to the old tuidi/tode high chamber. He didn't chamber at the hip, unlike most of his contemporaries who brought karate to...
I have buddy, who when he was a teenager really upset his mother. His mother ran a hair salon. She had been a hair stylist for a while. At some...
yeah.. but without the bot pulling guns on ya. etc.
This is a repost of something JowGaWolf said on another thread, but i am putting it here to draw his attention. @JowGaWolf I think theres a lot...
hahhahhahahah. awesome. bleeping awesome.
While the future hasn't arrived yet, but it is advancing quickly towards us. While my dream of utilizing AI and deep learning to harvest unknown...
And the functional break in knowledge happens when the forms are changed. For example HikiTe and why people chamber at the hip. When distance was...
And this failure of representation in the solo forms is because people (in most trditions) were not taught the two man drills that comprise the...
oh noes... just found this one.... its over the top. [MEDIA]
Quite a few Shotokan stylists know seipei. Its just not "official". Here is a Shotokan's expertise on practical bunkai discussing seipei. [MEDIA]
Axe kick found in Seipei and Seisan kata. Although, a number of Shotokan places teach mae Geri in the locations that the axe kick was located with...
We understand. Legal notice: the use of the word "We" in this statement, is to NOT mean any reference to MT users other than TSDTEXAN. Tsdtexan...
[MEDIA] and of course my boy wins.
While I see a lot of wingchun in this at the beginning, towards the end, I see a lot of fujian white crane /bahe quan methods. Was wondering if...
kata the bedrock. it gives rise to the other two. kihon and kumite are derived from kata. but all three together form the core of karate. and i...
I must wholeheartedly agree. This isn't a hobby. The better term is "lifestyle". It is a way of living life. A hobby is done for fun and...
TKD is Karate's redheaded stepchild. We cannot be sure which happened first, 1. Karate disowned it, or 2.TKD filled for emancipation, and told...
ahh... the dirty secret of karate. The old masters railed on about not changing the forms, while they in fact did change the forms, as did future...
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