Ichi Knee

Ichi Knee

In our eighteen kata there are hundreds of techniques. Of those hundreds of techniques, we drop into a single-knee kneeling position three times… in Pinan Go dan, Wanshu, and Chinto. 

Matsumora’s Grasp

Matsumora’s Grasp

空手に先手なし   ‘There is no first attack in karate’ means that we respond when the cause is just and the need is present. People think that Gichin Funakoshi used the “no first attack” idea to communicate to non-Okinawans that his karate was a cultivated art, for cultivated people. The presumption was that karate and other arts […]