I never got past the blue belt in Karate. I learned enough to realize that most of the blocks worked against bullies because karate blocks can hurt the attacker. Your use of the "inside out" block modified for haymakers makes perfect sense to me. In my youth, I played alot of tennis and won many tournaments. Having no formal training, I attribute most of my success to this : hitting against the brick chimney outside my house with the ball bouncing on my very bumpy lawn. It required me to adjust in microseconds while still maintaining enough "form" to hit the ball over an imaginary net. I see a similar rational in Karate and I think you do a good job questioning just how useful the techniques are. Keep up the good work 👍
You make some good points about form and practice, but I disagree with dropping the basic blocks. First, and a lot of people get confused by this, the basics are exercises. they are meant to train the body, not only strength and endurance but to train not to let your hands wander farther than they need to. In a real fight we will always overshoot, but by training to keep in a good solid posture it is less likely we will let our limbs wander too far. I disagree most about the idea that we can drop anything from a system we personally don’t use or understand. We can’t predict what will happen in a fight and if we only train a few moves our understanding and the depth of our capacity to respond will be incredibly shallow. But, and the same time, our personal karate will go through a stream lining. there are a lot of variations and it is unproductive to try to train them all, all of the time.
Sooooo if Itosu and Funakoshi changed techniques to mean blocks who do we learn that array of techniques interpretations from?!!!! Cause if we are to guess what those "blocks" actually meant we are reinventing karate but still not sure what old masters taught. Kata real applications were already lost to an extent before Funakoshi, Mabuni, Miyagi era. Them and most okinawan teachers from that time agree to that in their respective writings.
Anybody telling you can block and straight or hook punch with this "Block" is either lying, repeating a lie or delusional. it's Tuite, or Kyusho Jutsu, i.e. it's used a component of joint attacking in clinch range. As much of an ass as he's become in his later years the guy who began teaching the truth about these things was Dillman, transmitting info he got from Hohon Soken et al. In other words generations of modern Karateka have spent thousands of dollars individually and decades of their life earnestly practicing what they were blocks in a manner that makes them worse than useless, it was suicidal, an insult and a deception. There are no blocks in Kata, never were.
Jesse enkamp said a similar thing, and I understand the application for age uke, but not for the other blocks. I have no idea how inside or outside block are useful, even in clinch range.
No, disagree here with let's change it because it's not good for sparring, remember sparring is more sport like, it's not something you would do in a defence situation. If you look at the Okinawan versions of Uchi or Soto as it's known their it's done in a different way again. Some of those guys make it work, so anyone watching this, please learn as much as you can before thinking of changing kata just because you may not have the answer. That's common sense karate!
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I never got past the blue belt in Karate. I learned enough to realize that most of the blocks worked against bullies because karate blocks can hurt the attacker. Your use of the "inside out" block modified for haymakers makes perfect sense to me. In my youth, I played alot of tennis and won many tournaments. Having no formal training, I attribute most of my success to this : hitting against the brick chimney outside my house with the ball bouncing on my very bumpy lawn. It required me to adjust in microseconds while still maintaining enough "form" to hit the ball over an imaginary net. I see a similar rational in Karate and I think you do a good job questioning just how useful the techniques are. Keep up the good work 👍
Could you follow up with a video demonstrating the alternate valid uses of uchi that you suggest may exist?
You make some good points about form and practice, but I disagree with dropping the basic blocks. First, and a lot of people get confused by this, the basics are exercises. they are meant to train the body, not only strength and endurance but to train not to let your hands wander farther than they need to. In a real fight we will always overshoot, but by training to keep in a good solid posture it is less likely we will let our limbs wander too far. I disagree most about the idea that we can drop anything from a system we personally don’t use or understand. We can’t predict what will happen in a fight and if we only train a few moves our understanding and the depth of our capacity to respond will be incredibly shallow. But, and the same time, our personal karate will go through a stream lining. there are a lot of variations and it is unproductive to try to train them all, all of the time.
Sooooo if Itosu and Funakoshi changed techniques to mean blocks who do we learn that array of techniques interpretations from?!!!! Cause if we are to guess what those "blocks" actually meant we are reinventing karate but still not sure what old masters taught. Kata real applications were already lost to an extent before Funakoshi, Mabuni, Miyagi era. Them and most okinawan teachers from that time agree to that in their respective writings.
Anybody telling you can block and straight or hook punch with this "Block" is either lying, repeating a lie or delusional. it's Tuite, or Kyusho Jutsu, i.e. it's used a component of joint attacking in clinch range. As much of an ass as he's become in his later years the guy who began teaching the truth about these things was Dillman, transmitting info he got from Hohon Soken et al. In other words generations of modern Karateka have spent thousands of dollars individually and decades of their life earnestly practicing what they were blocks in a manner that makes them worse than useless, it was suicidal, an insult and a deception. There are no blocks in Kata, never were.
Jesse enkamp said a similar thing, and I understand the application for age uke, but not for the other blocks. I have no idea how inside or outside block are useful, even in clinch range.
No, disagree here with let's change it because it's not good for sparring, remember sparring is more sport like, it's not something you would do in a defence situation. If you look at the Okinawan versions of Uchi or Soto as it's known their it's done in a different way again. Some of those guys make it work, so anyone watching this, please learn as much as you can before thinking of changing kata just because you may not have the answer. That's common sense karate!