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You are correct with my fingertips I can still to this day leave my fingers indented and corrugated metal fences and I can crush a WD-40 can and I have rheumatoid arthritis when people have sparred with me they say it's like hitting against a bone and yes in Goju Ryu we harden our bodies I was fortunate enough to study under John Roseberry . He started teaching me and became my shihan in 1971.

The same is true of Uechi-Ryu which like Goju emphasizes Sanchin and circularity. Uechi-Ryu came from Pangai Noon which doesn't seem to have survived in China though there is "Incense Shop Gung Fu" that may be it under another name. Incredibly similar to Pangai Noon!

You actually had someone grab your ribs?? Tell us about it.

@@Noone-rt6pw there's not much to tell. Harrill Sensei was talking about Sanchin and Sunsu, and demonstrated grabbing a rib by pushing his fingers into my gut and reaching under my lower ribs. Just his hooking his fingers under my ribs set me up on my tip toes.

SHOREIKAN GOJU-RYU USA HOMBU - TATSUKAN DOJO 龍館道場 - Ours is Miyagi’s post-WWII Sanchin, as you alluded to. Additionally, Uechi Sensei is teaching them the movements only with no real attention being paid to the breathing or tension.

Unfortunately the MMA propaganda machine of the last 20 years has done a real number to traditional schools. The whole "wouldn't work in the cage" mentality. Hopefully that changes in the future and people realize that not everyone gets into martial arts to be a prize fighter. Perhaps schools need to start focusing on bunkai and conditioning and less time on "self defense."

​@@batboy9997 I don't think that the self defense mentality is the problem. I think that the real problem is making martial arts into sports for spectacle and business. The UFC and the like being the head of the monster.

@@asamiyashin444 I guess my point about self defense is that it doesn't highlight the beauty and tradition of an art. SD is not bad, but my problem is when TMA schools start doing things like gun defense just because they feel obligated, even if the instructor has no real experience

@@batboy9997 Of course, I was talking about real self defense situations, not superhuman stuff like fighting unarmed against a fire weapon. For example, learning to control an aggressive person trying to push or punch you.

I want to know also. That song makes my mind calm down so much.

Did you manage to find out what it was ?

Isshinryu already basically is an American fighting system, just as Shotokan is Japanese both started as Okinawan. I don't think it will ever be big in Okinawa, it is registered in Okinawa as a Shorinryu system.

Mark Hatfield - what is your lineage. It’s identical to the one I learned.

Primary instructor was 'Norm' Donnely, in Michigan in the late 60s and 70s. In later years even he mentioned how when Shimabukus son-in-law visited and demonstrated, the forms were very different from what was being taught here. Don't remember names but there was only one instructor between Norm and the first guy who brought Isshinryu here from Okinawa. Heard later that several times Marines studied with Shimabuku for a year or even six months then had to rotate out (leave), they might be given a certificate of sixth Dan and told 'I know you are training hard, put this in a drawer and take it out ten years from now', These guys were really only on a brown or even green belt level but were the ones first teaching Isshinryu in the U.S. and what was passed down to me. Then also there was politics. I read an interview with Shimabukus son-in law. He wasn't interested in karate, when he finally started he was given a fifth Dan in two years, it really was 'political'. Shimabukus own son wasn't interested in learning or training only running it as a business. He was later given fifth Dan, again in less than two years training. When Shimabuku died there was argument between his son and the head instructor over who should be in charge, they split up. Instructor had been concerned about consistency of training and son about business and income. The son gave automatic promotions to the blackbelts who stayed with him, usually bumping them up two ranks. Years later I realized the training I received was poor quality. I wish KZfaq would allow me to separate this into paragraphs but it does not.

@Mark Hatfield Do you know why Simabukuro is somehow known as Shimabuku?

@@markhatfield5621 You can see even from this video that Isshin Ryu has a bad a reputation, very few students even in Okinawa, it's the least looked for everywhere. Your story kinda explains that, it's a shame in my opinion.

Also I might be remembering wrong but you can do paragraphs by pressing enter twice. test

Japanese people really love the US, I believe.

Porque en ese capitulo del documental, el sensei de Isshin-ryu explica que residió muchos años en USA, que de hecho fue uno de los responsables de llevar su estilo a ese país (recordemos que Okinawa estuvo ocupada por USA varios años luego de la guerra, de ahí nace la interacción cultural entre ambos países y en definitiva así viajó el Karate a occidente).

Not necessarily, they might not be "joining" the school and they're not claiming to be anything but a black belt in their own style. If you worked hard to earn your black belt and you've been invited to spend some time in another dojo, there's a certain level of respect between them. I don't think he expected the other two to wear white belts.

You don't need to wear a white belt unless you are actually enrolling in the dojo. If all you are doing is visiting a black belt is acceptable.

Good question

Probably a souvenier.

perhaps, he enjoys geography.

isshinryu was taught to marines, and that's how it was brought over to the states. they were definitely not the enemy, as okinawans are not japanese.

Isshin-ryu is nearly extinct in Okinawa. It is the United States that keeps the style alive and flourishing.

For visitors from the US to show where they live.

@@eds4169 there is not much of Isshinryu in Okinawa, and most likely never will be.

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