Regarding the 'inner components' of Uechi-ryu, I suspect the original practitioners, Kanbun Uechi and his oldest son, Kanei, sought to incorporate what the Chinese stylists call 'fa-jin' or 'fajing'. When I see someone practicing I look for that. Wu style has less of an emphasis on that, and the top ...

Hi Bill,

I also knew some of those people back in the day, including Rad Smith. He and I sparred lightly a few times, and he was in the TJ (Wu style) class with us, lead by Margaret Chang.

I'm glad to see you have remained active in martial arts. I'm not sure I knew David. I was only with the U-R ...