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...
Thank you so much. I have searched for hours in Japanese translators. I did not know that the character for te had an alternate pronunciation.
In Goju systems, there is a concept of "kaishu" kata. Many goju websites translate Kaishu to mean open hand. Is there anyone on this forum that...
White Panda wrote: I'll have to look up the reference that the mongol bow had greater range, but I believe the superiority of the mongol bow...
I believe many will concur that if martial arts are military arts, then they are the systems of fighting that precede the use of firearms. The...
It might be worth noting that the mongol composite bow gave greater distance and accuracy. They could outgun enemy armies. A mounted mongol...
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