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Yes, it was his favorite 'demo' back at the Mattson Academy when overzealous students would show off 'big knuckles' from Makiwara training.Tomoyose had a particularly nasty boshiken. He was known to show it off by poking it in-between the knuckles of folks who had done too much hard seiken fist training. Talk about nasty...
This reminds me a bit of stories about the childhood of Pistol Pete Maravich - the original "showtime" basketball player.Dana Sheets wrote:
When I was in Okinawa Master Tomoyose gave a lecture on Uechi. He said that he and others would constantly tap their hands in various fists on the tatami mats while they where sitting and talking, eating, reading the newspaper, etc.
So he may not have hit a makiwara he was constantly tapping.
Inside many great athlete is an obsessed kid who wanted it bad enough and decided to dedicate a life to the trade. It's eating, breathing, and sleeping the sport or the art.His father, Press, who also coached Maravich at LSU, pushed a young Pete to become the best. Some credited Press for it, others derided him.
The story, and there are hundreds, goes that Press once had his son dribble a basketball out of the side of the car, saying, "let's see if you really can control that thing."
Pete Maravich would later admit that he was "dedicated, possessed, and obsessed" by basketball.
He would dribble 2 1/2 miles to the playground in his hometown of Clemson, South Carolina, and then dribble that same distance back.
He would dribble on his bicycle and in lightning storms.
