Isshin - Concentration the Art

Japan and Karate are not often popular with Okinawan stylists. Today many decry the different ways those arts differed.   But ther...

  I don’t see any difference between older and newer kata. When you analyze any movement for it’s potential it is always large,   ...

      Shimabukuru Zempo   Not having been to Okinawa myself I tend to listen to those with that experience.   Once duri...

Ice Breaking is often seen as a side show for martial exhibitions.  N ow an ice break can be real, or the ice can be prepared cuttin...

Howard Jackson vs. Charles Murray 1974     Bob Nenow and Charles fighting in 1978 at Dillman's tournament at the time I w...

Karate was never created for sport fighting.    Only rarely did adepts challenge each other, never enough for a clear record of which in...