Both soft and hard. Sensei Obata's training was through Yoshinkan. After establishing his own research and training
Well, what I mean by boxing, is the type of attack that we are likely to encounter in a western culture. The shomen uchi and yokomen uchi (offense and defense) are taught in the beginning stages and then from there he moves to dealing with jabs, crosses, and step throughs. As I mentioned he has incorporated Shorinji Kempo blocks (a system that he studied in Japan for a while) plus special tai sabaki to counter these type of attacks. We also use multiple atemi including kicks such as Mae geri and mawashi geri. Blocks include, crane, grasping, Low-high (what we call universal in Kenpo) Parries. The manipulation teks are mostly direct and don't depend so much on uke's cooporation.
