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    looking for a school in Phoenix

    Can you travel to Glendale. Then you might try Jiro Shiroma. http://www.azmartialartsacademy.com/about/ He grew up in Okinawa, is a great...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Jan 17, 2013 in forum: General Martial Arts Discussion
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    help dealing with instructor

    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...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Jan 17, 2013 in forum: General Martial Arts Discussion
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    Suzuki "Unsu" Jump

    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...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Jan 4, 2013 in forum: Karate
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    Suzuki "Unsu" Jump

    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...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Jan 4, 2013 in forum: Karate
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    Suzuki "Unsu" Jump

    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...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Jan 3, 2013 in forum: Karate
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    Itosu's kata shenanigans: Life and Times of Bassai Dai

    Oops, this was meant to be posted to the "Passai sho/bassai kata" thread, which linked to this thread....
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Nov 9, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Okinawa fighting styles

    GaryWado writes: The term "well-documented" can mean different things to different people. You are saying that everything you do, every cut of...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 16, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Okinawa fighting styles

    jwt wrote: The question here is how Okinawan kata evolved from Chinese arts that Okinawans learned in both Okinawa, from Chinese men in...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 16, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Okinawa fighting styles

    GaryWado stated: According to Draeger, there were many hundreds of koryu systems in medieval Japan. In addition, he has written that Japanese...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 16, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Okinawa fighting styles

    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...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 16, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Okinawa fighting styles

    Bassai wrote: I am curious why you might challenge the writings of Miyagi, Funakoshi, Nagamine, and Miyazato, as well as several references in...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 16, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Okinawa fighting styles

    Question: Regarding the concept of native Okinawan systems, there may be some who believe that this information exists, but I am reasonably...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 16, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Oldest known versions of Kata

    We have essentially no detailed information on the origins of kata. Funakoshi and Nagamine in their texts write of Chinese origins. Nagamine...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 12, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Oldest known versions of Kata

    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...
    Post by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 12, 2012 in forum: Karate
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    Oldest known versions of Kata

    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...
    Thread by: Cayuga Karate, Oct 11, 2012, 12 replies, in forum: Karate