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A forum covering all things martial for all martial artists. Regardless of your chosen style, or whether you’re a practitioner of a modern or classical system, in this forum we can all swap ideas and knowledge and help each other along our chosen paths.

Mark Morschhäuser's picture

Question about the origins of Wado-ryu and their "Shotokan" katas

Hello, I know that Shotokan and Wado-ryu share a couple of katas. As their moves are a bit different, I like to know if Wado-ryu is preserving the katas as they were in Shotokan when Otsuka left Funakoshi about 1928, or if he developed the katas further, or maybe both, or if he even took older (Shotokan) versions or versions from Mabuni (so maybe they are not Shotokan based katas after all).

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Kiwikarateka's picture

1925 German book Comparing HEMA to Japanese Ju-jitsu

Came across this on my travels and thought it would be of interest to some here.    

https://www.facebook.com/100026822811131/posts/1151743072396442/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v  

The images come from a 1925 book called Vogt Raufkunst

https://archive.org/details/vogt-raufkunst-1925/page/41/mode/1up  

Does anyone know of similar texts?

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Mikael Holstebro's picture

Building an application based syllabus

Having spent most of 2022 developing and fine tuning our take on a application based syllabus.

I recorded a Vlog on our thoughts on how we as a Taekwondo Club decided to develop and integrate applications in our syllabus.

I hope you'll find it interesting.

https://youtu.be/fiJQpcguEng

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Wayne's picture

Point fighters getting punched in the face?

After watching footage of numerous point karate tournaments(mainly WKF, but some JKA), I noticed a lot of the competitors(even the top ones), seem to get hit very cleanly in the face quite a bit as if they are completely wide open, either seemingly running into a counter or not defending it at all.

  Why is that and what to do to avoid it when competing? 
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Roman Ostien's picture

The subtle art of blunt force

The summary of a dagger training I gave last saturday. With english subtitles.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yL_OWWqOIo

 

The the concept was that engaging the opponent's brain to shift his focus is an easy way to deal with someone who simply uses strength to resist a grappling technique.

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Jeb Chiles's picture

Angles of entry, Kuzushi and control from Pinans mainly

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Wayne's picture

Kime and power generation

I thought I had power generation and kime sorted out fairly well, but I came across this article https://boxingscience.co.uk/increase-the-snap-in-your-punch/ and now I'm not so sure. What's referenced sure sounds a lot like what a lot of my Shotokan instructors called Kime, so I'm hoping to gain some clarity and hope you guys can help. Thanks! 

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Brent Yamamoto's picture

Elbow Defense

Just one option for defense against an elbow.

 

https://youtu.be/LIrIbf_klCs

 

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Adam M.'s picture

Frequency of throws in old karate sources

 Hi all,

I was recently looking at throws contained in old karate texts and decided to tally them up to get an idea of the frequency of these techniques across various sources. These were the results:

 

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Nimrod Nir's picture

Opening Salutations?

I have just watched this video by Jesse Enkamp:

 

Is this information based on any known source?

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