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<blockquote data-quote="SenseiScandal" data-source="post: 2004103" data-attributes="member: 376850">Not all the Okinawan styles exclude sparring. Understand that Okinawan Arts teach principles that are instilled into the student to the point where sparring is not really necessary. These principles teach you how to destroy the attack. My school did sparring in every class. This did not make our skill any more proficient. Sparring does not allow for the usage of these principles unless you are taught to understand them. These is no such thing as &quot;50=50&quot; hands and feet. Karate is not a punching and kicking art. It is a full body art. When you step, turn, bend a knee, etc - you are executing leg grappling techniques, breaks, etc. When your wrists come together in a cross - someone is getting f---ed up. There are people with 20 , 30 and even 40 years in their art that do not know this. It&#039;s a sad thing that the majority of the karate being taught today - even in Okinawa - is not complete. Hohan Soken was a Master who left Okinawa for Argentina while the Koryu Arts were still being practiced. When he returned after almost 25 years, he was disappointed in what he saw. He was told that everyone was teaching the new way and Koryu Arts don&#039;t retain students. He rejected the new way and developed some great pupils of Matsumura Seito Shorin Ryu. One on one point sparring is useless to me and I don&#039;t allow it in my class. I have everyone &quot;spar&quot; against multiple attackers. No one on one. That&#039;s just the way I do things. If you want one on one point sparring learn from someone else. This is how you give yourself the privilege of going home and sitting down at the dinner table with your family. Not by pretending. Many explain kata as an imaginary fight. This makes me cringe. Tell that to Oyata Sensei.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SenseiScandal, post: 2004103, member: 376850"] Not all the Okinawan styles exclude sparring. Understand that Okinawan Arts teach principles that are instilled into the student to the point where sparring is not really necessary. These principles teach you how to destroy the attack. My school did sparring in every class. This did not make our skill any more proficient. Sparring does not allow for the usage of these principles unless you are taught to understand them. These is no such thing as "50=50" hands and feet. Karate is not a punching and kicking art. It is a full body art. When you step, turn, bend a knee, etc - you are executing leg grappling techniques, breaks, etc. When your wrists come together in a cross - someone is getting f---ed up. There are people with 20 , 30 and even 40 years in their art that do not know this. It's a sad thing that the majority of the karate being taught today - even in Okinawa - is not complete. Hohan Soken was a Master who left Okinawa for Argentina while the Koryu Arts were still being practiced. When he returned after almost 25 years, he was disappointed in what he saw. He was told that everyone was teaching the new way and Koryu Arts don't retain students. He rejected the new way and developed some great pupils of Matsumura Seito Shorin Ryu. One on one point sparring is useless to me and I don't allow it in my class. I have everyone "spar" against multiple attackers. No one on one. That's just the way I do things. If you want one on one point sparring learn from someone else. This is how you give yourself the privilege of going home and sitting down at the dinner table with your family. Not by pretending. Many explain kata as an imaginary fight. This makes me cringe. Tell that to Oyata Sensei. [/QUOTE]

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