You folks keep on discussing. So far so good.
Just remember to be gentle with someone who obviously needs a little bit of perspective on their martial arts training. I think it's fair to say that there's quite a bit of conventional wisdom that many Uechi greats preached for many years before better evidence led them to believe to the contrary. This would include things like techniques which worked beautifully in the dojo, but failed on the street because they relied too much on fine and/or complex motor coordination, and they didn't have the ability to control their stress response.
I truly believe Uechi is going through a bit of adolescence. Like little children, we used to idolize our elders. The culture from which it came taught us to treat elders with respect. The Okinawans who passed this information on are fallible humans just like you and I. Some of the great knowledge and wisdom that came from the land Kanbun visited was able to make it on to Okinawa and beyond. Some did not. We're still learning about all that today.
And some things just weren't known until recently, because modern dissection of human anatomy is a nineteenth and twentieth century Western tradition. And we're just now recording (not passing on by word of mouth) lots of good detailed information on what works and under what conditions.
Shove the nose up into the brain? Does anyone remember Mike Tyson saying this? (He did...) You gonna argue with him? (I won't...) Even great fighters say stupid things.
But as we reject the stupid things taught to us by those who don't understand the material, don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. You know how adolescents are. They go from thinking their parents know everything to their parents knowing nothing. Neither extreme makes sense.
It will take more time before many will re-discover how smart their elders were...
That starts with more personal growth.
Where did Joe learn that roundhouse kick? Probably indirectly from all that experimentation going on at Cambridge and Hancock - the old Mattson Academy. That was quite an eclectic bunch! Folks like Bobby Campbell copied other arts as easily as you and I drive to work. And that "general knowledge" permeated the entire community.
The thing that I like to tell people about Uechi's style (and some other martial arts as well) is that it's a blank slate. With its parsimonious three kata, most anything you want to do with your body in a fight can be found in some motion somewhere in the forms. It just takes a little eye squinting to see it.
- Bill
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Hell I know it. 
