I've been searching for dojo's near me to start training again. I believe I have the right mindset for it now. However, all I can find around me are these kid-friendly "American Karate" strip mall dojo's. I wish I had Goju-Ryu near me. Videos like this might be my only hope of learning anything legitimate. Best of luck to you.

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It was two years since you posted that you were going to start training Goju Karate again. Did you? I'm really curious.. Thank you

@@kungfuman82 bro you don't need dojo for practice you can do it Watching videos on also if a person really have will to learn 😊

Did you have full contact sparring?

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Moodymongul - 😂😂😂 Higaonna’s hands are fucked!

@@PaulGappyNorris yeah he went 'a little' far in his training but just think what his hands would be like without warmups+cooldowns like I mentioned. Plus, things like the jar lifting helps preserve the hands :) Considering what he has done to them, he can still use his hands well ..just won't make the best piano player! These days Morio has added medicine too (' Dit Da Jow' from Chinese medicine) and other things. imho - you don't need to scare your hands or lose flexibility when you condition (though your hands will become bigger). The 'art' of forging the hands and arms is exactly that. An art, one you need a very specific teacher for. Just hitting things without understanding generally won't end well. :) There have also been reasonably large scientific studies of 'Karate masters' in Japan. Specifically looking at their hands in old age. The lack of arthritis in these practitioners was surprising to the study. And flew against the public opinion of how much hand damage actually occurs. Its all down to how safely the individual decides to train really. Peace.

we did that in soviet boxing also which for sure took some elements from traditional karate,... in and out style etc.

I agree totally except with the sport part, making this a sport turned a leathal art into something cute & maketable.

+Jeremy Siv no muay thai is more brutal specially the underground fighting the shit you see on tv is nothing compared to the underground

+Jeremy Siv Karate Is a complete Art...more dangerous than Muay Thai...in my opinion...also because it's not a sport...It's an art

I don't believe we should compare karate with other methods. Karate and Muay Thai are two different things. Karate has become a sport (sad) but doesn't work in that regard. I love Higaonna but imo even he has become too commercial as well as dramatic. I've said a lot about this here: outercirclekarate.blogspot.com

Most karate has become a sport as you say. There are still styles which practice the old ways though, namely Uechi-Ryu and some schools of Goju-Ryu. Although Higaonna has produced a lot of videos and books I don't think he has become commercial. He still practices and teaches real goju-ryu. I'm glad for the DVDs he has made as it has enabled anyone to get higher level knowledge. I have this video as well as the other ones he made with this company and it is definitely not sport karate.

Where do you feel it? In your tenderloins?

@@healthyandrew5294 I don't know if it's authenticity but I'm feeling SOMETHING in my tenderloins

Absolutely. I search for them real gem

I trained in kyokushin for five years it’s tough training

I must say excellent to watch this master train

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He didnt

@@matttheamerican3766 He does seem to smile a lot when hurting that poor Uke

Where do you go to?

Im a extremely into conditioning too i condition my knuckles three times a week my iron palm training same amount forearm three feet conditioning three and shin conditioning three i do condition muscle groups like quads after a workout

I guess the Indians will be proud of Shaolin as well

Ju Do=Soft Way. Ju Juitsu=Soft Technique. Go Ju=Hard Soft. Not only in the name, but I see it in the techniques too. I think you're right.

BluePittbull666 do it at home with a partner

This master’s son Eric Higaonna is a mma fighter!

Tournaments (shiai kumite) isn't Karate Do it's only a play, a sport

@@pascualesposito2893 Tournaments can be a good exercise, especially with contact. At least this way i used it for years (Kyokushin) and participated last with 38 years on world tournament in south africa, but i stll allways followed the okinawan arts, now i found my home in Meibukan Goju Ryu. "Its a good exercise" because you have to deal with pain, getting damage, face the reality, where things moving all the time and apply anyway your technics while have to defend yourself effectivly, dont quit to your fear, be aware and concentrated all the time, no matter what fighter you have to face. In Dojo this situation is not easy to simulate. Tournaments provide a lot of sparringpartners meaning it verry seriously: they want to win ;) Its a play, right, this is also right for MMA at last. But its anyway a serious Game - and so it can help to prepare for real self defence should it ever be necessary (hopefully not), a situation with nor rules, no referees, possibility of verry serious damage and a lot of aggresive energy also. But anyway you are fully right: This is only a little little part of real Karate, there is so much more to study, understand and experience. In my opinion real Karate sooner or later makes the student verry aware: He ist not only a Body and a brainconstructed mind. We are energy. Spiritenergy, flowing and locking into the material world of the body and brainstructures. To realize this - which is the first step to become something like a "master" in its real meaning somewhere in future maybe - we must follow a good and over hundreds of years developed Way of at last spiritual meant exerciseprogramm. Traditional okinawan Karate is such a way - thats my opinion about it. Of course, we could also choose an other way, an original indian Yoga for example, and there are others. How to choose the right one for oneself? In my opinion with love. People that love Yoga, maybe its the right choice for them. But persons, who love Okinawa, its culture, people and its Karate -> you know, what i mean: maybe they are right there. Sportkarate can be a good start. But who wants to follow a real way of spiritual meant live, they have to go over and beyond this. They have to go to Okinawaspirit.

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Get back into it. I would just look at the katas before jumping back in. Look at your green belt katas. Then be ready for war.

Mine too buddy, mine too.

Remember if you can lift your body weight you are strong, double your body weight is very strong and do Isometric exercises for strength and power.

Just some old school strength training tools. Back in the olden days of Okinawa, tools were more “unorthodox”.

Warming up is not a secret.

@@folksurvival I was talking abt his movements and breathing techniques

People shouldn't critic the things they know nothing about ,paper tigers don't believe in conditioning

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Between 12 to 20 depending on the association. Some have several versions of the same kata. Some have kata unique to their association. Also when the lineage branched off. The core of the art was sanchin, tensho, naihanchi then it became tensho, sanchin, seisan, sanseiru. Then more kata were created and added upon these. The core of the art consists of movements derived from Kung Fu styles that existed in Fujian, Shanghai, and Taiwan such as whooping crane, half hillock half crane, tiger crane combination boxing, dog boxing, southern monk fist, and boxing. There is a Wikipedia page on the style. Also there is a blog page that cover this topic on how many kata and breaks it down according to lineage.

I'm not gonna watch this whole video but yeah that would be silly to have your chin up and no defense when fighting. Still be respectful and do as Bruce Lee advocated and that's use what's useful and discard what's not.