Body types certainly does play a role in everything karate. Yahara is 100% correct. As you know, there are very few people who can move the way Yehara Sensei does, and forcing it beyond one's capability can lead to long term damage... because... many of us are simply not built like him. BUT we can take the principals of what he is doing, integrate it across what we know and have learned and then make it right for us. That is not to make it easy, quite he contrary, rather do what they ask, (not just mentally but physically), then interpret it through your lens (and especially for advanced practitioners, we should know what we can and can't do) and then do as we adapt. You are totally right! With this question, I am answering at a basic level the question why are different instructors teaching two different things in two ways. Part will be dogma, part will be body type, good instructors will be teaching on principle, and better instructors will teach to the person they have in front of them taking into account all of the above but overlaying taht to what the student needs and where they are at.

@@karatescience What's your karate style and dan?

@@R34L1T7 I have been training for about 45 years and am a sixth dan in the ISKF (Shotokan).

@@jds24psu I'm talking to the KZfaqr not you. But it's fine, nice information though.

@@R34L1T7I am the one who created the video :-). (Karatescience2.0) this is my other non karate KZfaq account. Sorry. I thought you were asking me.