I was so sorry to miss Sensei Rick when he came to Cheltenham. I knew I was missing something good. Fascinating to see elements of Sensei Scott's principle of dynamic stillness within Sensei Rick's technique. Oss.
Delighted to see this fine karate teacher being utilised by the WTKO. He has a great way of instructing & wonderful technique. I'm predicting the WTKO to really go places & they already have a pretty impressive team of instructors on both sides of the pond. I'd also reckon that they'd enjoy Pemba Sensei (NSKF Japan).
Random fact: Lots of old martial arts have that and it's common sense in wrestling where grabs are so common it's just a natural part of most moves and there's no need to think of it as something special.
my problem is, he wins in every encounter. What happens if the opponent stops your arm? how do you deal with it? karate is very heavy handed, they would hit it out of the way, but if the practitioner is skilled, he will use that against you. That said hes on the right track when it comes to movement. the problem with high kicks is my kick only has to be half as flexible, and half as fast to beat yours.
Flexible legs are more powerful legs. A guy that can high kick very well has an exceptionally strong low kick, stronger than inflexible guys who low kick. A flexible muscle is a stronger muscle.
weasel peniz. This is demonstration only and uke is not really going for him. Not all karate is heavy handed and I Include Shotokan in that personally if he used his hips more his tai sabaki would be faster but he gets the point of moving the body away from a direct attack well. A highly ranked karate ka in the U.K. was demonstrating Kisami tsuki gyaku tsuki and the student spun off to the side and hit the former with his kizami tsuki and didn’t like it because he was so used to being attacked linearly and that was back in the 80’s
Does not use his hips properly he shakes his body in stead o useing the energy from his hips he lifts his body up so his energy good up in stead of forward
