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This is gold.

Listening to this as I am entering a somewhat forced time of taking a break from training, it was very insightful to hear from both of you, and what you have seen in the past few years! Thank you for sharing, great topic Senseis!

Never seen a more defined load of horse shit in my entire life.

I watch you guy's all the time. This was by far the most touching episode yet! Many people aren't able to see those special moments in life until they know their own life is in jeopardy. The courage shown from Hanshi Joslin is awesome on another level and it's amazing he is leading people to the bible.

Thanks to the people of Punch Kick Choke Chat for having me on their podcast. It was a pleasure to share some of my perspectives with some very welcoming and knowledgeable people

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Thank you for dedicating yourselves to the martial arts in this format. As far as this video is concerned, however, as Itosu's biographer, I am sorry to say that it contains many errors and anachronisms - starting with the opening photo, which shows Japanese fencing master Miyake Sango and not Itosu Ankō (1831-1915). The photo issue was corrected several years ago. It is very important to make this clear, otherwise such kind falsehoods based on incorrect sources and interpretations regarding Itosu will continue to spread.

Good lord.

I concur 💥🖖🏾

I'm ready for it Sensei ❤️‍🔥🥋

Interesting, thank you

Very interesting to learn more about the history of karate in this way. Thank you for that.

That was amazing!

Awesome reveal Sensei. The crisp sound of both swords cutting through the air and beautifully simple design,makes it worth owning. ❤🖖🏾

Love it, thank you

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While at Tsuruoka's summer camp,,it was my turn to help cooks I made a special secret fartless chili ,,Ron really liked it,,but during the night it sounded like the blazing saddle movie,,feel sorry for those that slept in the tents, yelling at me saying you lied...priceless

I am proud to call Kyoshi one of my very best friends. This was a great show to watch again.

Met Sensei Ron at one of Tsuroka's summer camps, we trained hard, but Ron had us laughing even harder,,it was nice to hear some of his stories and his speed and power were something to behold,,thanks Ron

Osu!

Yes I like it also. What a team!

Love it ! Pascal is an amazing person, expert, hanshi, but of course an amazing dad ;)

Love it, thank you

Osu!

Great conversation on practical considerations. Also love the mention of Canadian content at the end. Thank you Sensei DiSanto

Would love to see Suino Sensei perform the entire Seiza no bu

Do u need a professional CZcams thumbnails designer?

Very Cool!

What is a Back Belt? What is a White Belt?

History is really important. Thambu shihan always says to know who you are and where you are going, you must know where you came from.

Wonderful Conversation, Thank you. True Self defense is ugly, but an advanced technique will only work after the basic one does.! Kihan's are King.

Love it, thank you

What a podcast! It's very interesting to me how martial arts can be a "vehicle," as you mentioned, to make martial artists balanced and benefit their lives in many ways. You all have great perspectives. Master Rego, Sensei, you hit many points I needed to learn!

I didn’t want this one to end!! So many great points and discussion about self defense. Thank you all!!

Awesome podcast guys. Master Rego has been my Sensei for almost a decade. He's absolutely amazing. Really loved hearing all your perspectives. Ossu!

Fantastic chat, great points made from all three sensei. Every martial artist should listen to this. Realistic training could save your life some day.

Well..here it is 2024 and I have just discovered this page. I was a student of Benny Allen back in 1975 and it was so wonderful to hear Sensei Guest speak so highly of him. It was my great misfortune to have started training with Sensei Allen only scant months before he and Sensei Bill Hind closed the Beaches Karate Club. As Sensei Guest mentioned, karate is a business and Sensei Allen was still only charging $20. a month at the time so the club closed. Speaking here of greatest regrets, my greatest regret may be that I didn't just attach myself to Benny and try to be his shadow for as long as may have been possible. Benny was not a stickler on time served and grading. If he thought you were ready, he just advanced you. He did hold gradings but I was working evenings a lot when I was training at the Beaches Dojo so I missed grading nights. But after one month as a white belt I came to the dojo the afternoon following a grading night and Benny just tossed me a yellow belt. Two months later a similar event when he just tossed me an orange belt. I would often show up at the dojo in the afternoon when, often, it was just Benny and myself there. I recall one day I was kicking the bag and Benny was watching and giving me tips when he said to me, "If you keep training like this you will have your black belt in two years." Needless to say, my head swelled about three hat sizes as I knew that the trip to sho dan was generally around four years. But as was Benny's way he quickly deflated my ego by pointing out how my high mawashi geri's lacked any real power. The night the Beaches club closed was the last time I ever saw Benny. I continued training with Bill Hind in church basements and rec centers for a few months after that...and not to take anything away from Sensei Hind, but Benny was, and would always be my Sensei. I look forward to watching all of these videos where I am familiar with many of the names mentioned. Many thanks to all involved in producing them.

Keep shining your Warrior Light Sensei

Bill has a seminar end of May for 3 days; you senseis should try it out.

Another thought-provoking discussion. Well done! Also, thanks for the shout-out 🥋

About hikite. I think it's natural instinct to try and grab the attackers arm and you're not wrong to do so, especially if there's a weapon involved. You want to minimize the danger by restricting the weapon's range of movement. But whatever comes after is not so clear and has to be trained (pull them out of balance & reposition yourself in an angle where it's "safe" to strike back). So from a self defence perspective, practicing hikite five hundred million times makes sense - because once you grab their arm, its also natural instinct to try to push/pull the "danger" as far away from your face/torso as possible; but that gives your opponent the initiative and the leverage to pull you out of balance and then you die.

Had the pleasure of training at James dojo last time I was in Okinawa. He also served as my tour guide and arranged several additional sessions with other Masters. A true teacher and life long student.

Thank you for sharing this. Bill Hind is an awesome teacher. I remember him from Main & Danforth.

Love it

Very cool to find this , it seems really hard to find stuff of Carlos Newton these days and he's a very important fighter for his hybrid style , very cool dude.

Another great micro-episode with a wealth of gems to write down and remember. Rather than being not entirely pertinent, Dauphin Sensei’s citing lessons learned from a “failed” marriage was spot-on - my experience was similar and very definitely resulted in a far better marriage and life than likely would have been the case otherwise. When I was most deeply involved in karate, I was the smallest black-belt in the dojo. All of the other black-belts outweighed me by 40- to 75-pounds or more, and in every case, it was solid muscle. So, in our sessions of contact-sparring I would get the crap kicked out of me every time. Which would have been debilitatingly frustrating, had it not been for one thing: In every match, if I landed even just one solid blow, I would count that a victory. Maybe a very small victory in the context of the entire match, but was enough to enable me to line up across from one of those guys the next time.

This was a great Micro Episode! Thank you both for sharing your insights into this! :)

Hanshi Chuck was a bodyguard for Kiss in 1980 on their European tour. I'd love to hear stories.

Loved it

I have said OSU in Shukokai and Shito Ryu. Occasionally still used in our dojo.