tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30045182.post6249685681425003196..comments2024-02-01T02:05:30.666-08:00Comments on Goju-Ryu Karate-do: Forums and stuffGiles Hopkinshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792620001178526712noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30045182.post-53932239474517081762012-06-21T17:37:06.935-08:002012-06-21T17:37:06.935-08:00Hello is it normal for a dijo to charge a fee for ...Hello is it normal for a dijo to charge a fee for the gi on top of membership dues?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16800455175230297953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30045182.post-16014155267046897702012-03-16T15:40:58.272-08:002012-03-16T15:40:58.272-08:00"...but don't you wish people that said s..."...but don't you wish people that said something actually said something?"<br /><br />One probably has to buy the book. ;)Nardahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16536913063519327736noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30045182.post-60200282140585058512012-03-16T13:47:06.393-08:002012-03-16T13:47:06.393-08:00Hi Charles, Thanks for the comment. Sometimes I wo...Hi Charles, Thanks for the comment. Sometimes I wonder if anyone is out there in the ether. Yes, I assume people are simply repeating what they have heard. But I think that's part of the problem; people are not testing what they are told. And, in the martial arts, there is a lot of veneration of seniors for no other reason than the sort of mystical aura of the martial arts. I was once called an "iconoclast" by one of the people you cite, simply because I questioned something that he had been told by his teacher. One of these was a statement that he avowed and repeated in writing (again, because a teacher had passed it on), a principle if you will, that techniques in kata that go forward are attacks and ones that go back are blocks. This is not, however, born out in the Goju classical subjects. But then again, you have to have a pretty good grasp of the applications to see that this is an over-simplification. He meant the label "iconoclast" as an insult, I believe, but I'm fine with it if the alternative is to be blind.Giles Hopkinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00792620001178526712noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30045182.post-24144738074717763802012-03-16T07:18:22.830-08:002012-03-16T07:18:22.830-08:00p.s. on the opposite end of this post/discussion t...p.s. on the opposite end of this post/discussion there are more and more dedicated martial practitoners who are seeking out answers and then testing and validation them so our undertanding is getting a great deal better. <br /><br />Folks like Kris Wilder, Rory Miller, Marc MacYoung, and Dave Lowry to name only a few off the top of my head.Charles Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812618556413423872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30045182.post-288984863657145592012-03-16T07:15:58.278-08:002012-03-16T07:15:58.278-08:00Only playing the advocate but I would have assumed...Only playing the advocate but I would have assumed that this senior was only spouting out what his Sensei told him.<br /><br />In a nutshell most don't have a clue and fill in the gaps to build a training facility in a commercialized way. <br /><br />The one's who do have the knowledge still sometimes don't know how to adequately communicate that to the student of any level.<br /><br />Most difficult but I suspect in your example it was simply using the vague to answer in a manner to promote the ego and to give that junior the impression the senior has some special knowledge that he or she may gain in time..... if you don't know the answer you should remain silent.<br /><br />Many principles of martial systems were hard to explain in my earlier years and only in the last decade did I discover the book of martial power which actually title aside provides a means to actually explain those principles in a coherent and accurate manner.<br /><br />The vagueness of the answers could be construed as Zen Koan like but I doubt it. <br /><br />Thanks for the nice post.Charles Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13812618556413423872noreply@blogger.com