He is explaining the Principle of INTENTION, SPIRIT, LETTING GO, and the knuckle heads are focusing on how punches are being thrown. Get this in your head people, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE between training in the Martial Arts and BECOMING A MARTIAL ARTIST. Geeeeeeshhhhh!
I always enjoy Mr. Hotton’s videos. In this one, however, in this one the attacker starts too far from Mr. Hotton. Mr. Hotton was under no real threat. When the attacker Kamai’s, the defender should feel a little uneasy. If he doesn’t, the Ma is too extended. Mr. Hotton makes a great point here that, even when he’s going back, his feeling is IN. My Seniors, decades ago, used to emphasize, “Going back with forward feeling.” 46 years ago, I used to “spar” with my pit bull, “Tora” (tiger). I’d slip back every time he’d advance until he’d closed the Ma (distance) just enough for me to touch him with a front kick to his chest. Then he’d spin around a couple of times with excitement as we both had great fun and great practice for me. LOL
High applications of principles.....i thought i was going crazy nowadays i don't have a particular technique or strategy.....i just relax and let the body explode.
Donde están videos de kumites o peleas de este señor , no existen , solo sabe dar clases , que muestre un video de sus competencias en kumite , muchos dan clases , pocos tienen habilidades para el combate ,, 👎👎👎👎 muestren algún video de sus kumite si es que existen ,,
Trouble is good looking at karate blocking and simultaneous striking techniques is that nobody you encounter you encounter on the street will be attacking you with a kazami zuki or gyaka zuki it's just not gonna happen that said Rick Hotton is probably better than any Japanese I've seen he seems to make his karate fit him rather than the other way round
I did years of this ritualistic approach to combat, we now know it doesn't really work, No one fights like this for real, but it's still good cultivation of self
What is evident in all the videos is that although everyone wears a black belt, there is no black belt. What it means to wear a black belt if you then need to learn from another black belt.
My opinion exactly. So what is the purpose of these drills? No one will ever attack you that way. Preparing to defend from an attack that will never come that way is a waste of time. Better to prepare for boxing like jabs etc.
@@JackBlair2008 In sports, MMA, I would agree. Not that people in the street fight like this either. I think people think martial arts is just about fighting. Look at some of the moves in kata and you could study them till the end of days and they'd still make no sense. I think there's more to them but I don't think the human mind at this period understands it frankly, we haven't the time or patience. As for bunkai, rehearsing 100+ moves that will probably never happen, looks good and who doesn't want to look like Bruce Lee. That said I do believe there is benefit in studying certain katas. They came from China, perhaps India and then Japan. Was it meant to be taught to a room full of people? Was it meant as a sport? Was it meant solely for street fighting? And big organisations stating this is this because it's always been? And one last observation, why has it got to be practised in the Japanese language? The English don't say if you want to play football, rugby, cricket etc just speak English! Definitely the last one, MMA, UFC, conceived to find the best martial art. Still haven't found it. Because it all boils down to one thing. The person
@@burntrim Ian Abernethy has done a fair bit of work recently developing kata as self-defense for close-in fighting i.e. not consensual fighting against another fighter. It's quite interesting, suggest you check it out: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-msWGFFBq19M.html
@@AntN he didn't develop a thing. This is the original purpose of kata. Because kata never go without a bunkai this is useless. This is true that most of the time, people do bunkai with "karate" attacks. But most of the move would be useless, essentially the intermediate move. If we often hear we should practice one kata for 2 years at least, this is not to learn it without bunkai Still great to see some bunkai with this kind of mentality. 😁 I sincerely think people don't learn martial art for the purpose to fight. At least most of the time.
@@AntN Thanks for the link. I've a book by Iain Abernethy, bought it years ago and he studies martial arts and I respect that. I have some radical views lately lol. ie no one will agree with me! I don't think the moves are to be taken literally. Perhaps ONE move, or EACH move, but not as a sequence. A punch is straight forward, as is a kick, an empi etc. But to say, "If you do this, then this will happen so do this etc" I'm not convinced enough with my theory that it wouldn't happen but know enough about the unwillingness of an opponent that it probably won't happen. I have seen superb take downs and strikes in competition. If someone can point me in the direction were a sequence of moves has been done against an unwilling opponent, either street fighting or competition then I would be interested to see that. I'm a big fan of kata. I sometimes wonder if bunkai was introduced to keep students interested. Here's something to ponder, the first move in Heian Nedan, what's that all about?!
Major problem with shotokan and other so called classical styles is unrealistic attack distances sorry to say. Also sure is easy to defend knowing the attack. No disrespect meant as I am a longtime former shotokan stylist.
I agree with you.. I'm a 2nd Dan shotokan karateka under my godfather and my dear friend keinosuke enoeda.. karate is a terrifically good base for combat training... ill suggest that people should cross train in other arts. To gain a better than of distance training and combative fluidity
@@305Lfx Thank you for your comments. As I stated absolutely no disrespect for these fine practitioners but dojo and aggressive nasty uncontrolled attacks is quite different. Enoeda died years ago I believe. He was the tiger od shotokan. Heres an unknown story about him. He and Kanazawa went to Okinawa to study but the masters felt that Enoeda was too aggressive and refused to teach him. I got this from a top level master from Okinawa.
@@truthserum9456 enoeda died on March 29th 2003. I was fortunate to be his disciple and friend for 7 years.. that story is both awesome and quite funny.. I can see enoeda san being too aggressive..he was a special man
