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Yeah, unfortunately over the internet it's rhetoric.
You'd go with convention. Hopefully that would benefit. Rolles Gracie failed to make it minute or so through Round 1. Hello corner man-- from unconscious land.
Perhaps your main problem is that you were too young to understand when you started Shotokan and later you did not want to understand, as is the still the case.
So what prevented you from cross training? Why would you expect a Shotokan school to start teaching other arts? Most people go to a Shotokan school to learn Shotokan karate. Did it ever occur to you that it was you, not the Shotokan karate, that was lacking?
Again you are demonstrating you total ignorance of kata. There is no changing of the kata, there is no creating new moves in a kata, but of course you know that and in another post you admitted to understanding, but here you are peddling more rubbish that is patently untrue because what you say suits your agenda. The kata is the kata. If you don't want to do learn kata, that's fine, just stop making up nonsense to try to paint kata in a poor light.
Did it ever occur to you that people study kata because they want to learn kata? Who has the knowledge to remake the kata? You? I wouldn't be able to and I have worked on kata and it's application intensively, for many years. But the bunkai of kata is based on actual fighting and anyone is free to develop the bunkai to suit their individual style of fighting. I would suggest you are in no position to address the differences between MMA and TMAs because you have no understanding of TMAs and have no interest in developing an understanding of TMAs.
I care because you equated all karate with Shotokan. I care because a lot of good people train Shotokan and Shotokan is not the problem. You are the problem. I suspect you probably had a good instructor, but with your attitude it is no wonder you learned very little in the short time you trained it.
And you listened to your instructor? Cool, that must have been a first. FWIW, I have never heard of a decent instructor discouraging cross training, unless of course the student was struggling with the base style. Yep, that makes sense.
No. You weren't being shortchanged at all. You never learned what was available. The fact that you weren't suited to Shotokan is one thing. Dissing on Shotokan because you didn't understand it reflects on you. Everything is someone else's fault.
Um, no! If my understanding is correct, both these styles derived from Kyokushin. Nothing to do with Goju or Shotokan.
I did. You were wrong.
I am not only offended by your viewpoint. I am constantly offended by your attitude. You have no respect for the practitioners of other styles and you are happy to misrepresent the facts to back your position. Nothing to do with thin skin.
Both of them are the same blasted thing. Boxers have known about, and used, the strike to the vagus nerve since before Sir Thomas Parkyns wrote about it in 1713. This knowledge survived well into the 20th Century in boxing circles. I came across a "boxing for self defense" newpaper article from the '30s which described it.
I lament the lack of basic history of Judo. Tani and Uyenishi mixed it up with CaCC Wrestlers all the time.
So you are admitting either it wasn't being taught to its full potential or you didn't understand it. If you were honest you might say that Shotokan didn't suit what you wanted to do. Why bag the style?
In that case I would suggest that that would indicate an instructor who was insecure in his own knowledge or ability. I would encourage my students to cross train. That way they can understand that what they are learning is a great system and they can tweak it to make it better for them. If they have a specific interest in ground fighting, I would have no problem with them cross training BJJ.
Your welcome.
Obviously very few, if any of them, are here on MT.
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