Any one Heard Of Uechi Ryu?

[Uechi Ryu]

Is it a good style to know when in a fight?

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Yeah, it's a style of Karate. I read up a little bit on it while searching the net. If you need any info here is a nice place to start
http://www.lyon-karate.com/ma_uechi_ryu.php

[47Ronin]

hey finally someone talks about my style.
Uechi is very traditional but also full contact fighting so its perfect.
traditional and great for street fighting a perfect style. perfect as in perfectly ballanced with traditonal and street.

[ns_oni]

I did uechi ryu for a long time, and from MY OWN experience, i dont think it is a very good fighting art, alot of the time you would learn a technique and then the sensei would say "Ofcourse, you would not use that in a real fight". Also the main stance looks abit goofy. After he started saying things like his style could defeat ninja and samurai without weapons i left. ive also been doing ninjutsu alot longer and was training in that aswell, so it might have affected my judgement

This is all my own opinion, in the end its up to you.
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[Adam]

That just sounds like your sensei sucked, not neccesarily the style. I heard the style was quite alright, though I have no experience with it myself.

[ns_oni]

yeah i guess he did kinda suck but i couldn't really imagine me fighting in that stance, its kind of like standing pigeon toed but with your legs a foot apart from each other. its supposedly the most balanced way you can stand. it does have some good points though, you spend alot of time stengthening your legs and arms ( standing in shaolin kiba, practicing on dummies etc..) plus it has alot of kung fu elements in it. id say take ronin's word over mine though, he sounds like he knows alot more about the art than me

[47Ronin]

You don't fight in Sanchin... Sounds like the head teacher did suck. Almost every traditional strike in Uechi Is pretty darn easy to use in a fight. What happens to be his name and where was the Do-jo located?

Why would he want to fight a Ninja or Samurai in the first place, and where the hell would he find them?

[HayabusaZero]

*peeks head in*

Sanchin is mostly for meditation...

*peeks head back out*

[ns_oni]

yes, i agree with you Ronin. I'm not going to give out his address etc, but it is in Australia. In his backyard. He said alot of other things to try and elevate his style but they're not worth putting on here.

[47Ronin]

Originally posted by EndlessKarateka
*peeks head in*

Sanchin is mostly for meditation...

*peeks head back out*

5 purposes of Uechi Ryu's Sanchin

To build a strong physique; cosolidate the basic stance; to master proper breathing method; to develop penetrating eyes/ acute insight; to foster spiritual concentration.

You are learning EK

[HayabusaZero]

Isn't Sanchin "The Three Conflicts"?

Mind, Body, and Spirit?

[redbull]

Originally posted by ns_oni
I did uechi ryu for a long time, and from MY OWN experience, i dont think it is a very good fighting art, alot of the time you would learn a technique and then the sensei would say "Ofcourse, you would not use that in a real fight". Also the main stance looks abit goofy. After he started saying things like his style could defeat ninja and samurai without weapons i left. ive also been doing ninjutsu alot longer and was training in that aswell, so it might have affected my judgement

This is all my own opinion, in the end its up to you.
First post

I dont currently do uechi and i havent for a long time, i practice another MA now, but i can tell u of two occasions where uechi ryu has saved my life in a street fight.


First in uechi u do something called kotekitai(sorry if mispelled) whiich is body toughening exercises where you and a partner hit yourselfs in your legs, arms, back, stomach, and neck in order to toughen yourself up and be able to take a punch. Well after about 3 years in uechi i got jumped by about 11 people (i know it was 11 because my supposed friends just stood there and watched, they say they were too afraid to get in it) and they hit me like there was no tomorrow, i was able to fight back and defend myself, i even knocked out a couple of them but by no means did i win. the point im trying to make is that thanks to the kotekitai, and the body conditioning that i has at the time i, walked out of there with a cut above my eye but thats it, for the kind of beating i took i should have been dead! the next day i had no pains or bruises in my body. this goes to show u the kind of conditioning that your body will receive as a uechi practitioner.


Second i got into a fight with a wrestler who was about 80 pounds bgger than me and about 5 inches taller, and he got me in a front choke and had me lifted of the ground,ch i was about to pass out from choke, then by instinct(because i was so out that i was not rationally thinking) i dropped into sanchin did a classical round block(crane) and did a reverse punch to the face (with a chamber and everything) and the guy let go of my neck, he just stopped, did not make another move, i was so beat that i didn't complain, anyways when we went to court, the guy brought medical bills, pics, and other stuff, showing that i literally cracked his skull.


So in my opinion is uechi effective? u better believe it, it is not a flashi style, it does not have high kicks, it is kind of boring as well, and if you go tho a tournament and expect to fight uechi style you will loose, but when it comes down to in close which by the way is where most of the fight takes place, uechi is KING. At the time i was doing uechi i did not think it was effective because it was not u'r run of the mill karate with point fighting and high kicks, plus you look funny when u fight, it was not untill i unlucky enough to have to use it that i realised how brutally effective it really is. I would definately cross train uechi with another art like kickboxing for long range and kicks, and judo for grappling to make my self a complete fighter.


I think im going now to do a couple of sanchin's and seisan,s maybe a sanseiru be back in 15 minutes.

[redbull]

Originally posted by ns_oni
but i couldn't really imagine me fighting in that stance, its kind of like standing pigeon toed but with your legs a foot apart from each other. its supposedly the most balanced way you can stand. it does have some good points though, you spend alot of time stengthening your legs and arms:

What u have to remember that sanchin is not a good long range stance it is used for in close fighting and grappling range. what makes it a good in close stance is that it is very hard for someone to throw from sanchin, also u can generate a lot of power with u'r punches from sanchin.

[ns_oni]

yes the body condition exercises were good, but i still do that even though im not with uechi ryu anymore All styles have something good about them, but my teacher just wasn't someone i could look up to.

How did you manage to get in a fight with a wrestler?

[Bard]

I practiced a few different styles on and off over the years, including Arjuken, Kaigan-kan, Kyokushin, a bit of Taekwondo and dribs and drabs of other styles.

A Uechi-ryu dojo opened in my local area and I attended and worked through it for a couple of years before a serious injury stopped me.

Uechi-ryu focuses on a small amount of moves coupled with excellent body conditioning. I would go and train with my friends for an evening at their styles and due to our forearm conditioning i was able to convince the guys i was training with that getting their shins near my arms HURT.

I too would attribute uechi-ryu to saving my life - I had a fight with 4 drunken thugs, and the fight STARTED with me being jumped and jumpered (ie, shirt pulled over my head).

The body blows I took would have knocked me on my butt if the attack had come a few years earlier, but I was able to ignore them, get my jumper down, and using the close in fighting techniques managed to disable all of the guys and get out of dodge. The SCARY bit is that one of the guys i hit received substantial damage to his head (broken cheek, ruptured eardrum, bleeding and concussion) from a single jab - I'm not a big guy but the long training in limited number of techniques tends to ensure you get those techniques down pat - the damage inflicted scared the crap out of me.

Uechi-ryu is not fancy, the body conditioning can turn a lot of people off the style - but if I was caught in a streetfight with multiple people i would like to be able to take the hits i get and be able to dish it out.

It's not for everyone, I wouldn't say it's the best, but i know it works.