Uechi-Ryu Kicking !
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Stryke
Uechi-Ryu Kicking !
i didnt explain the kick clearly have difficulty explaining them in english , to much training in japanese , id call it ushiro mawashi geri , spin right around and hook kick impacting with the heel , the oponent just stood there , the kicker must of been about 6 3 and say 110 kg and lightning kicks to go with it , the ¬winner¬ was stretchered of to hospital , really sickening .
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jorvik
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my first karate teacher was a reasonable kicker. but he used to say why kick to the head? you wouldnt punch to the foot!
he was quite correct in some ways.he used to say" i prefer to kick low because, if you go to kick me in the head, and i go to kick you in the knee at the same time, my kick will land first and you ll have a broken leg."
i used to defend against back spin kicks with a reverse crescent kick, or just by moving off, after a while you get to feel what kick is coming. to give an example. if someone goes into a low zenkutsu datchi stance, i.e. forward leaning with the front leg bent, i know all his kicks will have to come off his back leg and if i circle him to the offside of his front leg i know that to kick me he must pivot around with me, or change stance. this gives me a big advantage
( assuming he s not a great strategist) because i can predict his moves to some extent, even if he wants to throw a back spin kick he must change his stance.
so, in a situation like that i would move off, then he would pivot, and as he was doing that i d launch a really fast attack, either punching or kicking. this is a poor example against an inexperienced fighter, but similar things do work.
im very taken with some of the things said by Miyamoto Musashi in " the book of five rings" one of the things that he said was " passing on" for example if you fight/ spar with a novice in the dojo and throw a kick , he will respond with a kick, why ? i dont know!! but that is "passing on" it gives you a great advantage if you play cool, because you know what they are going to do next.it works on the street as well.
I must say though that ive enjoyed all the talk about " the good old days" i dont think that people realise now,just how good, some of the good ones like he ill cho, and bill wallace really were/are. and they are only "names" i could name a dozen really tremendous fighters that nobody outside of my city would know of, as i expect most of the older members who view this site could.i sometimes think that i lived through a "golden age" of martial arts were they came to fruition and are now preserved and cherished by a few.
he was quite correct in some ways.he used to say" i prefer to kick low because, if you go to kick me in the head, and i go to kick you in the knee at the same time, my kick will land first and you ll have a broken leg."
i used to defend against back spin kicks with a reverse crescent kick, or just by moving off, after a while you get to feel what kick is coming. to give an example. if someone goes into a low zenkutsu datchi stance, i.e. forward leaning with the front leg bent, i know all his kicks will have to come off his back leg and if i circle him to the offside of his front leg i know that to kick me he must pivot around with me, or change stance. this gives me a big advantage
( assuming he s not a great strategist) because i can predict his moves to some extent, even if he wants to throw a back spin kick he must change his stance.
so, in a situation like that i would move off, then he would pivot, and as he was doing that i d launch a really fast attack, either punching or kicking. this is a poor example against an inexperienced fighter, but similar things do work.
im very taken with some of the things said by Miyamoto Musashi in " the book of five rings" one of the things that he said was " passing on" for example if you fight/ spar with a novice in the dojo and throw a kick , he will respond with a kick, why ? i dont know!! but that is "passing on" it gives you a great advantage if you play cool, because you know what they are going to do next.it works on the street as well.
I must say though that ive enjoyed all the talk about " the good old days" i dont think that people realise now,just how good, some of the good ones like he ill cho, and bill wallace really were/are. and they are only "names" i could name a dozen really tremendous fighters that nobody outside of my city would know of, as i expect most of the older members who view this site could.i sometimes think that i lived through a "golden age" of martial arts were they came to fruition and are now preserved and cherished by a few.
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I don't have much to say right now, just finishing a third marathon weekend of writing software. I'm all thought-out, ready to crash, and can hardly keep my eyes open but I had to come here because this post's the most refreshing and enjoyable one I've read in a long time. I plan on going to bed and not getting up until Monday morning!
There you go, no one out there to replace the greats of old.i sometimes think that i lived through a "golden age" of martial arts were they came to fruition and are now preserved and cherished by a few.
I don't have much to say right now, just finishing a third marathon weekend of writing software. I'm all thought-out, ready to crash, and can hardly keep my eyes open but I had to come here because this post's the most refreshing and enjoyable one I've read in a long time. I plan on going to bed and not getting up until Monday morning!
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jorvik
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"i sometimes think that i lived through a "golden age" of martial arts were they came to fruition and are now preserved and cherished by a few. "
hi, allen
I know i posted this..and i know what it sounds like....things were so much better in my day..etc,etc
but what i meant was a lot more complex than that.
when i was a kid you either did judo or boxing, and that was it,period.
then things started to take off and the strange art of karate came to our shores, people could break boards and bricks with their bare hands by pure skill ( nobody had heard of a makiwara/atefa)
then bruce lee,then chuck norris then ninjas, jean claude van damme, stevan seagal.
martial arts quickly became established.
marketing people took over, and here we are now, with a product that is pretty much oversold, and people like you and me who cant think of anything better to do with our time.
same could be said of boxing. in my day at every weight there were somebody good, or at least watchable.sugar ray leonard,marvellous marvin hagler,the detroit hitman( name escapes me at present...somebody help me here).we d just about had Ali then, but there were some really good heavy weights larry holmes had a brilliant record, but was overshadowed by the great man.
tyson came and more or less rescued boxing from the doldrums, but now i think its gone back there, tysons past his best, has got a lousy reputation..
one thing i thought when writing this...was the way people used to try to sell some of their stuff...i can remember people saying their style was based on the "clever"monkey and the graceful crane. i mean how clever do monkeys get.. never saw one drive a car, buy bannanas, write a cutting letter, be sarcastic..
eelbeebak
"i sometimes think that i lived through a "golden age" of martial arts were they came to fruition and are now preserved and cherished by a few. "
hi, allen
I know i posted this..and i know what it sounds like....things were so much better in my day..etc,etc
but what i meant was a lot more complex than that.
when i was a kid you either did judo or boxing, and that was it,period.
then things started to take off and the strange art of karate came to our shores, people could break boards and bricks with their bare hands by pure skill ( nobody had heard of a makiwara/atefa)
then bruce lee,then chuck norris then ninjas, jean claude van damme, stevan seagal.
martial arts quickly became established.
marketing people took over, and here we are now, with a product that is pretty much oversold, and people like you and me who cant think of anything better to do with our time.
same could be said of boxing. in my day at every weight there were somebody good, or at least watchable.sugar ray leonard,marvellous marvin hagler,the detroit hitman( name escapes me at present...somebody help me here).we d just about had Ali then, but there were some really good heavy weights larry holmes had a brilliant record, but was overshadowed by the great man.
tyson came and more or less rescued boxing from the doldrums, but now i think its gone back there, tysons past his best, has got a lousy reputation..
one thing i thought when writing this...was the way people used to try to sell some of their stuff...i can remember people saying their style was based on the "clever"monkey and the graceful crane. i mean how clever do monkeys get.. never saw one drive a car, buy bannanas, write a cutting letter, be sarcastic..
eelbeebak
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ever Monkey and the Golden Age, jorvic. LOL! Please allow me to continue to work on those two resonant words while lingering on the subject a moment longer by fortifying your last riposte with a few personal thoughts registering in agreement to the complexity of monkeys. 
Mainstream martial arts today is a business for which its proliferous existence pays homage to the Almighty Dollar. A “Cash Cow” for some, financial ruin for others. There are those out there who do teach “for the art.” Some stand tall against the backdrop of vast networks of martial arts schools in the USA while others are hidden beneath the blanket of the prevailing winds. Of course 30-years ago the storefront dojo was also market-driven as well, but the percentage of those who could teach tough and those who would follow said teachings was higher. Recollection has it that when I first started contracting my career skills nationwide, I could walk into almost any dojo and was almost never disappointed in my expectations for it to be a gathering place where those who trained hard in fighting skills. In the autumn days of my 20-year travel epic, it was often a stark striking reality that a diligent search to find places with the same theme containing students of the same attitude was required.
Condensing the verboseness of the above, a higher percentage was in it for fighting rather than for socializing then, while today the opposite is most often true.
Partly my eyes have changed through the years as well. My “youthen” days keys to joining a school was tough faces and bruises accompanied by lots of sweat and exhaustion amongst the student population. After years of collecting those bruises and drag-ass experiences, my key to fighting happiness became looking for groups of “happy faces” plus visual evidence of intelligence and satisfaction amongst the student body. At the same time found the necessity to develop skills to weed-out those places primed to have Mom, Pop, Baby Joey, and Little Cousin Sue photographed in their white pajamas and brightly colored belts to be sent around to all their friends at Christmas time.
Imitate and do over and again, many times to improve. Clever monkeys are a dying breed facing fast extinction.
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Allen Moulton from Uechi-ryu Etcetera
Mainstream martial arts today is a business for which its proliferous existence pays homage to the Almighty Dollar. A “Cash Cow” for some, financial ruin for others. There are those out there who do teach “for the art.” Some stand tall against the backdrop of vast networks of martial arts schools in the USA while others are hidden beneath the blanket of the prevailing winds. Of course 30-years ago the storefront dojo was also market-driven as well, but the percentage of those who could teach tough and those who would follow said teachings was higher. Recollection has it that when I first started contracting my career skills nationwide, I could walk into almost any dojo and was almost never disappointed in my expectations for it to be a gathering place where those who trained hard in fighting skills. In the autumn days of my 20-year travel epic, it was often a stark striking reality that a diligent search to find places with the same theme containing students of the same attitude was required.
Condensing the verboseness of the above, a higher percentage was in it for fighting rather than for socializing then, while today the opposite is most often true.
Partly my eyes have changed through the years as well. My “youthen” days keys to joining a school was tough faces and bruises accompanied by lots of sweat and exhaustion amongst the student population. After years of collecting those bruises and drag-ass experiences, my key to fighting happiness became looking for groups of “happy faces” plus visual evidence of intelligence and satisfaction amongst the student body. At the same time found the necessity to develop skills to weed-out those places primed to have Mom, Pop, Baby Joey, and Little Cousin Sue photographed in their white pajamas and brightly colored belts to be sent around to all their friends at Christmas time.
Imitate and do over and again, many times to improve. Clever monkeys are a dying breed facing fast extinction.
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Allen Moulton from Uechi-ryu Etcetera
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by jorvik:
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the detroit hitman( name escapes me at present...somebody help me here).
Thomas Hearns
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the detroit hitman( name escapes me at present...somebody help me here).
Thomas Hearns
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Uechi-Ryu Kicking !
I am twelve years old and have been studying Uechi for almost three years. Now our dojo only expects us to kick the traditional way or in other words atleast to the opponents hip or a little higher if you can. But I didnt really like that rule so I decieded that I would start doing the splits and start stretching out my legs and about three or four mounths later I could kick atleast someone who is seven feet tall in the head(Im 5'3). So personally I like high kicks even though u dont use them really that much in class. Well I just thought Id put my two cents in.
Ian
Ian
