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I just remembered a thing. In Naihanchi when we are supposed to stay in the same place during the leg lifting, they say the same in Okinawan karate. I remembered that in Chosei Motobu's video, he says that it is a hidden kick. Whatever the application or explaination, when it comes to body dynamics,...

Hi, I guess the spiral model cannot be compared directly with a model that explains something in the language of mechanics. The only reason why I put the picture was to point out that there is a point in pulling. I have personally tried to figure out what the physical quantities are that describe a ...

Neither do the classical karate katas have it. And it can't be seen that frequently in martial arts systems before a competition oriented scene. Of course people have always (assuming) adjusted their maegeri-like kicks to the situation and this has probably led to the kind of mawashigeri that wadoka...

Hi, Over analysing? :) What else could we do in writing except analyse? And of course there is a lot to analyse in kicking too. I don't completely share Gary's opinion about kicking in the direction of the toes in the grounded foot. And it seems MT-fighters are stressing the opening of the hip quite...

Hi Gusei, In soccer (as far as I have seen American football) the kick is basically the same as the one by which in the NFL they score the extra point, or whatever it is called. The difference is that in soccer when you shoot, you typically run through, so that the ball doesn't fly out of the stadiu...

Perhaps this is the best thread for this. "The Lost Book of Kushanku: The Old Testament of Karate" https://classicalmartialarts.wordpress.com/2015/09/09/the-lost-book-of-kushanku-the-old-testament-of-karate/ This is a funny text and a good warning for people who are interested in karate hi...

Merry Christmas! We call Christmas "joulu" in Finnish and it's "jul" in Swedish. Wikipedia tells that the word comes here from Sweden and that our word for party, "juhla" comes from the same root. Here's about this "Yule": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule ...

Hi Ove, What katas can a competitor choose from and what kind of a standard regarding stances etc has the competitor got to follow? What is the role of the shiteigata nowadays? None? I personally don't mind if karate becomes an olympic sport. Quite the opposite. Some people worry that the traditiona...

In the topic about bunkai and kaisetsu... http://www.allwado.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=534 ...the daini shiteigata videos came up. In case someone wants to continue about the shitei part of that discussion, perhaps this is a better thread. Sorry for the double post. These are the shitei kata video...

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That is the link to the topic about WKF dropping Shiteigata. Will copy the last two messages from this topic there to help the situation.