Straight up weak sauce!
Is that how you practice your Karate? Playing semantics and rolling with assumptions?
Who's stating what Funakoshi's teaching were? Me? Bunkai is Bunkai... a waza is...
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Straight up weak sauce!
Is that how you practice your Karate? Playing semantics and rolling with assumptions?
Who's stating what Funakoshi's teaching were? Me? Bunkai is Bunkai... a waza is...
Brain, I probably have it wrong... I don't use the term. The print media I went to clearly had the spelling "juyi"
I'm still trying to figure out why "if" or 'if not" did Funakoshi O-Sensei use...
Respectfully.....
I do believe the term your trying to admonish me on is "Juyi Kumite" that's the correct term he used. right? By all account he didn't approve of the free fighting i.e. "juyi...
To highlight further... "What's happened to Shotokan?" IMO...this is what happened....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXKqjhsooQ
IMHO: Bad bunkai from the jump!
Who in thier right mind...
What you wrote could be true.... but not sure what your point is....? (I do know he used the term "kumite" and it was clear from his writing that "Kumite" meant sparring... which he didn't support. ...
Bunkai in Shotokan is all over the place as far as quality and substance goes. Some one mentioned they never recieved bad bunkai in the dojo. I'm going to second that. I've never recieved bad bunkai...
For me, Doing Kata & Bunkai is Karate
Funakoshi Sensei taught the kata was a huge part of the sole of Karate. For starters practicing kata alone on a regular basis benefits your health and keeps...