Jim you must think I flame rather easily with a few poor insults.
The post I quoted stands by itself Ray as verification of my opinion.
The fact that you feel you are on a mission to do Uechi a service or save us poor Uechika from ourselves is really not necessary but it is what I have seen in your posts over the last while.
So, thank you for confirming it to all those lurking who doubted it. There were those who did not believe it but there it is in your own words.
You see I would rather you abandon your mission to save us and just post from your knowledge of all the styles you have tried out off and on.
Those are the posts I like rather than the knocking of Uechi.
You can make a strong point and then back it up with reason such as this post over on
Van’s forum:
“Yeah
I think we all know that .low kicks are the best, but if you have no knowledge of high kicks then they will nail you every time. I was never a great kicker but it was surprising how many folks I could nail with a high fast roundhouse...I even put somebody in hospital with a backspin kick to the head ....the giveaway that I always look for is the supporting leg, I look for which way the toes are pointing, if they are at a right angle I usually think high roundhouse.so I move to the side that his big toe is pointing and attack from there ”
Now folks can disagree or discuss your comments but they contain an opinion and a reason for the opinion and no slam on Uechi or attempt to save us from poor foolish selves.
OR if your post had been this one:
“I wasn't talking about Bill, actually the person that I had in mind has never posted here
The point that I am making ( .and why does this seem so hard? ).is that when somebody makes up a Kata it starts with fighting movements, as with Tai-Chi, as with Wing-chun as with preying mantis. They all start with key component parts.which are then meshed together to make a whole.Now this doesn't always happen. some arts do not have a key stratagy they just train techniques. now Uechi as everyone keeps telling me is a sister art to Wing-Chun and to Mantis, which implies it has similar component parts. I have even said that Uechi has tan-sau i.e. Sanchin and fook sau as in the uechi guard stance, this would seem to imply that it is indeed a similar style to WC however you can't keep on doing these kind of analogies add nauseum without making your argument eventually nonsensical...if it has similar components to WC then it sure as hell doesn't have similar component parts to Tae kwon do or judo or savate or whatever. If it does have a core then simply state what it is”
Then I would not have made a comment because you post an opinion and why you feel that way and, oh yeah, there is no comment about the superiority of WC over Uechi. (Well not overtly enough to comment anyway.)
Again, just like Jim’s post on Mauy Thai, people could then agree or disagree and discuss your rational for the post.
And just for the record I do not happen to think Uechi is Mauy Thai or Aikido or Judo.
I happen to think like all styles there may be moments where they are similar even if I do it poorly.
And, pretty much as you commented, I happen to think that some of those styles share some principles with Uechi and therefore similar moves can be done within Uechi.
I happen to have agreed with Jim’s post on Mauy Thai (or TKD which I studied) and Uechi. I do not see any similarities in the body mechanics and try as we might; stretch as we might; there just isn’t a roundhouse kick in our kata.
You will just have to forgive me for doing it anyway Ray.
And I am afraid that the verification of the fourth form has not happened yet. Yes Toyama Sensei believes he saw Simon do the same form he saw done once over thirty years ago and I guess if that is good enough for you then good for you. It may well be for many. It just isn’t for me.
And one would wonder why the heck it didn’t look more like Uechi but then perhaps that is everything is Uechi right? But then you do not believe that.
I'd like to get them back eventually to where I had them..
