[Rick]

It can just like all Uechi can.

Having said that it is all off a common base.

Many schools do not do the soft checking though.

[Edited on 10-12-2006 by Rick Wilson]

[Rick]

That Silva knock out kick from the guard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csq3fIlf … ed&search=

:ninja:

[Rick]

Can you do your Uechi on the ground?

The only way to know is to have gone their and tried with someone who knows how to grapple.

Don’t “think” you can and wait to see when it really counts.

[Rick]

Let’s remember that the first thing you have to do to move your game on the ground is learn to grapple – I recommended BJJ and I mean it.

I do think you can strike on the ground a lot more than we see and a lot more effectively than we have seen.

HOWEVER, if you have not rolled then you are going to get caught and the only thought you will have is what the “blink” just happened. And if it is on the street you have better hope they just broke your arm and not put you out with a choke because nothing says they will stop.

Fight in a MacDonald’s drive through in Florida ended with a rear naked choke and the guy was dead.

So pick up some good ground DVDs BJJ or the Bas Man himself. I like the Pedro Carvalho’s tapes.

I believe that only after you have some understanding of the ground grappling game can you evolve into the ground fighting. At least that is what I believe.

[Rick]

“I basically think if you havent got ground game your going to probably loose against someone that does , but isnt that obvious ?”

Now there is a TRUTH that needs repeating — lots of repeating.

I believe that you have to ground grapple to be able to ground fight.

I also think that once you start you will find it addictive.

Because it is so much fun. 🙄

[Rick]

Ha Ha

I just watched a fight where Anderson Silva was on his back in the guard and kick the guy in the head knocking him out.

But because the other fighter’s was kneeling and you cannot kick a kneeling person he was disqualified.

How stupid the rule was in place to stop people field goal kicking a person on their knees.

NHB – LOL.

But it shows that there is more striking on the ground than most believe.

[Rick]

😆 You got a great sense of humour.

[Rick]

Hi Kevin welcome and you are always welcome to drop by the dojo when in town.

[Rick]

Welcome Ray.

Hi Steve.

[Rick]

Great comments folks. :bounce:

Everyone’s opinion is valid for them but more so when they have reasons for it.

Regardless of agreement or disagreement the goal, for me, is that people are thinking about what they are doing and why.

If they do that they will find the right path for them and I cannot tell anyone what the right path for them is. All I can do is talk about what is working for me and perhaps ask some questions.

James your school does sound balanced. Full contact blows the fantasy out in a hurry.

Mat I’ll keep my eyes on look out for those Bull Elk.<img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/" alt="” title=”Wink” />

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The web site is here:

http://depasqualejujitsu.com/
Yoshitsune Waza
The System Of Junji Saito Sensei
Written by Billy Ristuccia, Sensei

Yoshitsune Waza was the original curriculum, which was created by Mike DePasquale Sr.’s teacher Junji Saito Sensei (Shihan Menkyo Kaiden Sandaikichu) of the Hakko Ryu system. Saito Sensei put together a school of Jujutsu where he could share his life’s work in the study and pursuit of true Jujutsu. His original curriculum consisted of Hakko Ryu, Sekiguchi Ryu, Sosuishitsu Ryu, Kito Ryu, Jigen Ryu, Kodokan Judo, Nihon Goshindo Kenpo, plus his own family’s style of Hepi Ryu Bojutsu. It is in honor of Junji Saito Sensei and my teacher that I have decided to introduce these pages on Jujutsu. It is my deep sincere wish that through your own hard training you can come to appreciate and respect the true forms and correct spirit of traditional Jujutsu Ryu.

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Soke Mike DePasquale Sr. was Junji Saito of Japans student and successor. Saito Sensei was always described to me as being very small in stature, 5 feet tall and very slender with a full head of white hair. Saito Sensei was not very strong looking, was very soft spoken and wore wire framed glasses. This all added to his appearance and the impression one got when meeting him for the first time. Mr. DePasquale Sr. told me that Saito Sensei had in his opinion, an ability far superior to anyone he had ever met, and that ability was to teach! He had a way about him to make people listen attentively and understand as he passed on his gems of martial arts techniques.

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[Edited on 6-12-2006 by Rick Wilson]

[Rick]

Hi Brian:

First – A hard Dan Kumite with a good partner (and I have had lots) can feel awesome and pump you right up.

My question to you would be to walk me through Dan Kumite and explain at each step the principles being taught. Those are “MY” issues.

I really don’t want to do the K-Bash thing, as I said at the start everyone can take whatever path they want and if it is working for them or they just enjoy it great.

However, my issues are that the Kumite do not transmit what I feel are good principles nor do they transmit how I see Uechi being applied. If they meet yours then you rightfully should have no issues with them.

I have no doubt doing Dan Kumite with a guy of Clayton’s reputation as a good practitioner would be exhilarating but walk me through the steps and the principles and do those principles fit the fighting principles you are learning from Jim?

Again if someone enjoys the pump from a good hard Dan Kumite and they do it because of that or for that then my questions do not apply.

Matahatchi and James:

First of all please do not take any of this as a negative comment. As Laird said there is no disagree or wrong in choosing what you want to train in YOUR Karate.

I love Kata too and if you love the rest of the drills – super. Enjoy every minute of them that is why Karate is a personal journey.

Let me ask you, although your primary reason for doing martial arts is not self protection, do you feel you are learning and gaining the ability to protect yourself from the training you do?

If so then it should teach you that.

If not then, it doesn’t matter if it does or doesn’t (And it well may).

Brian: Why I do the Kata I do.

First of all it is a matter of time in that I find the material in the five is going to take me the rest of my life to work through.

I think I have a thread on this somewhere but the short version is I do the big three of course, I do Kanshiwa because it is a bridge to Seisan. I did a little experiment going straight from Sanchin to Seisan and it did not work at all as well as when I had Kanshiwa as a bridge. I teach Seichin for two reasons: First it is a great bridge from Seisan to Sanseirui and second because it has uniqueness to it I really enjoy. This is why I went back to what some have said was the original order — with Seichin being taught after Seisan.

I do not teach Kanshu because I don’t see the value added. I see Seiryu and Konchin as the same thing. Good Kata all three and certainly no harm done in practicing them but I felt I needed to focus on a narrower field. I still run through them so if ever asked I can show them to my students.

I also do not see the reason we need to drag the handing over of the entire system out. If they have Sanchin and Seisan and have earned the Black Belt then why not expose them to the rest of the system – Sanseirui.

[Rick]

Hey Brian.

It is always wise to constantly question what you do and why and if it works.

Good stuff.

[Rick]

Yes anything that takes the lies out of training is a good thing.

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Loved it.

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