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I do karate. I use the generic because what I do is a mix of several styles. I'm training under someone who actually got to the soft part that we always hear about but rarely see anybody in karate do.

Thanks C. The comparing of styles some military guys get is great.

Going to get it next paycheck Vash.

I've been eye balling that vid too Vash, if you say it's good I'm going to go get me a copy.

cerebus, this guy is ex-military too. Was there a certain dojo that you went to that they taught at? I...

7*, could you post that link again?

Vash, I do some mishmash style that mixes Goju and Shorin. The guy who started it couldn't remember the beginner kata so he made up some drills to take their...

Just one sensei that I'm training with Vash, there are many others. What should I expect from someone who punches funny. I had asked his opinion about the state of Shotokan and to him it was no big...

Not a group Vash, just one sensei.



Not a bad point really. I asked why you don't see these in many Shotokan schools and asked half jokingly if they were "secret" techniques. I was told to...

Well my love affair with karate continues. Besides the Okinawan style I'm learning I've also taken a few private lessons from a Shotokan sensei who was an inner circle student of a high ranked...

video of kata from Shotokai branch of Shotokan

Forms without the fighting applications is a waste of training time. Don't forget Hapkido and Jujitsu don't use forms either.

That's horrible, bad training.

That sounds reasonable to me.

One thing I didn't like about the Goju I've seen is that it was hard (where was the soft?) and the techniques needed heavy conditioning of the tools, but there seems...

How do you define speedy and reasonable? It's better to not look for a quick fix in most classical arts as they'll disappoint you.

Any how much of self defense has nothing to do with martial arts...

Surfer Dude, just make sure you don't tell him about the secret deadly technique at the end of chinte!

How dare you speak such unholy things!:mad: ;)

Did the hard sparring karate/TKD thing, I finally got tired of spending so much time injured and not being able to train so I quit. Finally went back...

I believe Enshin is a hardcore style.

Cool RF, also the Kempo I was talking about was the American kind, I'd just read an article in Black Belt by a Kempo person so it was a fresh example.

I'd go with training, but it was just a point about the differences between a higher more detailed arts like WC or Kempo and karate which sometimes is a strange mix of the vague and direct.

No problem to me, just a differen approach. Don't forget I'm in the Karate/TKD camp.

SD,
At the risk of getting flamed an example is the difference between Wing Chun and karate. Wing Chun practitioners know their concepts, have great drills and can talk a blue street about exactly...

"what's basic usually works best. But I find the more a teacher or style breaks things down, more people think it is advanced. "

Interesting idea. My TKD master will correct your technique but he...

I like it. Karate always get's the bum rap about being to stiff and linear. While at a good school it may start out that way to get the basics down, it should start to flow at the mid-ranks.