With some Uechi conditioning/influence and an odd Sanchin perhaps..
The majority of the training time was spent moving around the room looking a lot like this gentleman...and making a lot of noise..
Although our fist chamber were in the armpits..don't know which would be correct for JKA..
While working all the traditional blocks and punches, circle stepping, kicks, intermediary positions, etc.. And with pretty darn good positioning from what I have seen elsewhere in "pure" SK.
Most other karate schools I have visited or trained in were not as "traditional" as this kind of training, which was tough.
They also sparred hard every class and trained several "self defense" moves and had interesting testing involving fighting multiple opponents in sparring, and having your hands tied behind your back and/or seated while being attacked...
Any examples of the JKA "standard" sidekick training, I'd be interested to see if we did anything like that.. Is that more common that the step behind thing? We did others like the "step slide" "skip" etc, as well.
Yet I take it that these variations or lack of what I detect as "purity" seems to mean <and I am not disagreeing I don't think, and correct me if I am wrong> that this was clearly NOT Shotokan nor Uechi..
I this not the very idea that has been adamantly debated on this very thread that there is a clear definition of what something is and if it isn't something specific, through and through then it is something else?
This seems to contradict the notion of "Don't tell me my Uechi--or ShotoUechiKan--isn't whatever it is" No?
And I am not disagreeing with you or trolling....
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