Isshin - Concentration the Art

So often people bash Japanese karate, really not knowing what they are talking about. Of course it began with Funakoshi, Ginchin. And h...

  I was taught Karate in the era where tournament karate was a big deal. And as it turned out many of the competitors I had t...

  There is a great amount of focus on developing the most powerful technique to end an attack. Of course there is logic to that. At t...

    Conditioning the Spear Hand is not something I have heard come up before.   I do remember Charles Murray describing a...

  There are times I wonder if I am cursed to remember almost everything I have seen and read. About 1976 I purchased a copy of a bo...

Kata Annaku   and as I just spelled it as I heard it (also Ananku, Ananko)   Ananku Kata is not part of Isshinryu.   In 1992 ...