Rick really locks down the shoulders and recruits the lats and initiates the strikes with the hips in this drill. Those are not arm punches he's throwing!
It is all there in Uechi, each component develops in subtle and not so subtle ways.
But it is all in the understanding and ability of the student to put it all together as his studies evolve.
Rick is a prime example of this body mechanics understanding and excellence.
When we watch the boxing clips, we see why it is your whole body that strikes a blow, not just your appendage.
We must train and refine our studies along the natural way.
And under stress, it is natural for the body to want to enlist its whole mass for gross motor application.
To train with such a concept in mind is the difference between the amateur and the professional sensei.
Last time I talked to Jimmy, he told me the same thing. I believe you guys have it right. 
If you can't relax and use your body you got nothing. 
He speaks fondly of you and Victor and plans to drop in to visit you and your dojo possibly this fall early winter.
After a year or two of my obsessive compulsive karate mania, my sweetheart enrolled herself and her children in an Isshin ryu class at her YMCA. They are learning their first kata - Seisan, and they are all loving it. There is something priceless about the way she smiled the other day when she put on her brand new gi and showed me her kata. Seems that the teachers know what they're doing. No b.s. about that school. I love being the attacker for her exercises. The teacher for the children's class has a red belt, and from what she's told me about the way he handles the little ones, he deserves it. 