<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Bill Glasheen:
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On judgement day, the bad guy is going to jump out of the bushes and do something very different than what your cooperative partner was doing all those years. Will you be able to respond ...

Greetings all,
Would you not agree that if you have come up with "alternative" bunkai to the kata that we all practice,that these would be your "library of waza" should you be attacked?
I'm a Goju-Ryu practitioner of some 32 years and I know within myself that many of the traditional bunkai to kata ...

Dana,
Hi and thanx for the reply.
I have felt,at times,that feeling where everything I'm doing karate-wise has all come together for one moment.
Timing,focus,awareness and technique.
It happens rarely...but it certainly happens.
Especially during kata.
Just this morning I was demonstrating kata and ...

"Spirit,Mind and Body as one"(Shin Gi Tai Ichinyo)
Does anyone live their karate to this standard?
At what grade or stage in one's training would you expect to realise this state?
I am a Goju ryu Sandan,living and teaching in Australia,greetings from down under.
regards,
Bernie Rourke




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