Wow. This completely misrepresents my view. I am very much in favour of sparring and have spent most of my martial career using different levels...
I invite you to read my latest article: Link removed. Very sorry, but we don't allow links back to personal sites. Please post the...
My answer is: he who can dominate the melee range. Sometimes its a grappler. Sometimes its a striker. Ultimately it's whoever knows how to...
I understand. The point I am making is that examining the potential of uke to avoid entanglement in that range is, to me, greatly preferable to...
I'm making no such assumptions. Kinaesthesia and proprioception allow you to predict where a body will be in the next moment of time. Arts like...
That's precisely my point. Your bunkai are aimed at doing things from a clinch/grapple range. Whether you like it or not, if you're in a clinch...
John, you seem to put a lot of stock in your stand up grappling techniques as being the true reason for the large number of "uke" in karate. I...
Eh? I use the forearm to establish kinaesthetic awareness. This is well established by the time I've slid down to the hand/palm. From there you...
In my experience, the standard uke forms teach angles and planes of interception and deflection (among other things). When applied as...
I mention "toe-to-toe" only to indicate the range where a punch is able to land with maximum force. I'm glad to hear that you can use palm...
In dojo style "kumite" where people bounce around at a distance looking for openings - no, I don't have a problem. This is what most people do....
Fish, I agree with everything you say in general terms. But as to "palm blocks" I have a slightly different view (at least in terms of the...
I have a different view about "blocks". The first thing to note is that I, like Fish and others, use it lazily to refer to "parry, deflection,...
No, there really is no "bigger point" other than the one you mention. As I've explained elsewhere, my thesis isn't that "karate works in MMA"....
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