Monday, July 5th, 2010 at
7:26 pm
Right after watching The Karate Kid the very first time, I came to be sure of the fact that I was an expert in Karate. I knew how to paint a gate, mop the floor, put wax on and take it off. I felt ready to fight all the 5th grade. I figured I had become the newest karate master, and Mr. Miyagi was my hero. I still recall the look on my mother’s face once I showed her my best jumping forward kick and made a hole through the wall! A lot of the tactics truly worked well, right until I came across someone who saw the movie lots more than I saw it. Learning Karate through a video tutorial might help like that too, only far better.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010 at
2:49 pm
Bassai Dai
Bassai Dai translates as "To storm a fortress" and is practiced in many styles of karate. There are many variations of the original Passai, which was the original name for Bassai.
It is believed that there were two versions of Passai practiced on Okinawa.
Karate master, Sokon Matsumrua brought one Passai kata to Okinawa, from China and the other was taught to Okan Oyadomari on Okinawa, by a Chinese martial artist, who resided there.
The one we are referring to here, is the shotokan Bassai Dai, which many believe came from the Okan Oyadomari lineage.
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Saturday, December 5th, 2009 at
7:41 pm
It is commonly held that Gichin Funakoshi brought karate to the modern world. Well, he could be considered to have done so, except that something happened a century ago, that presents a different version of karate history. We’ve got to give Funakoshi credit for what he did, but was his karate the true art?
I know what I write here is not going to be what a lot of people want to hear, there will be a few people who are going to argue and oppose me. However, the history that I am about to relay did occur, it is the real story. That said, please know that I do respect Gichin Funakoshi, one cannot underestimate his importance.
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Friday, December 4th, 2009 at
1:35 pm
One of the neatest things in cinema was when David Carradine in the old Kung Fu TV series walked on the rice paper. Rice paper is extremely thin, and the moisture on the sole of the foot, along with the weight of the body, was enough to tear the stuff. The legend, of course, was there is this thing called Light Kung Fu, where one could actually make the body lighter, maybe even levitate it.
Now, me and my friends would watch David Carradine, Kwai Chang Caine, and wish we had a kung fu master to teach us how to walk on rice paper. Why, we could do all sorts of things if we could only know Light Kung Fu! Bad guys would be nothing if we had that awesome ability!
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at
12:25 pm
Whap, bam and ka-zowie! We watch the silver screen, and we see kung fu flips in the Matrix movies and sword standing and eye gouging in Kill Bill and we know we have seen the real masters! Wake up, dude, that’s a a bunch of actors, and what the real masters have done would put those cinema heroes to shame.
Gichin Funakoshi is considered a pivotal karate master. He brought karate to Japan, and thence to the world. If that isn’t considered feat enough, why don’t you go stand on a rooftop during a hurricane and hold a sheet of plywood?
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