Can you travel to Glendale. Then you might try Jiro Shiroma. http://www.azmartialartsacademy.com/about/ He grew up in Okinawa, is a great...
Bren40 wrote: It appears that after 3 months of training in a school, you saw fit to state that someone there who had trained longer than you...
Fish of Doom wrote: I would argue that jump found in Funakoshi's Unsu has often been as high as one could jump. I thought Nakayama gets some...
Fish of Doom wrote: Do you have any evidence to support this statement. There are, to my knowledge, two versions of this Unsu that have...
Puma wrote: Has anyone seen a useful application for the jumps in Unsu and Kanku Sho? Like many sequences in kata, I just don't see how...
Oops, this was meant to be posted to the "Passai sho/bassai kata" thread, which linked to this thread....
GaryWado writes: The term "well-documented" can mean different things to different people. You are saying that everything you do, every cut of...
jwt wrote: The question here is how Okinawan kata evolved from Chinese arts that Okinawans learned in both Okinawa, from Chinese men in...
GaryWado stated: According to Draeger, there were many hundreds of koryu systems in medieval Japan. In addition, he has written that Japanese...
jwt wrote: I believe this statement is a bit speculative. Would you be stating here that there is some old "Chinese Bubishi" that is the...
Bassai wrote: I am curious why you might challenge the writings of Miyagi, Funakoshi, Nagamine, and Miyazato, as well as several references in...
Question: Regarding the concept of native Okinawan systems, there may be some who believe that this information exists, but I am reasonably...
We have essentially no detailed information on the origins of kata. Funakoshi and Nagamine in their texts write of Chinese origins. Nagamine...
Heath Stay wrote: Is there any chance you could provide any kind of example. How about the common kata called Bassai Dai in Shotokan. There are...
Heath Stray wrote: Kanku Dai and Kanku Sho come from Kushanku. Shotokan does not mantain the ancient, or "original" form of the Katas. Let's see...
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