The best karate style ?

[Matt Bernius]

Originally posted by ronin69
The others are Wado, shito and JAPANESE Goju. There is quite a difference between Okinanwan Goju and Japanese Goju.I'll take your word on it. My experience has been with Okinanwan derived schools of Goju.

- Matt

[Ronin]

Where as, Okinawana Goju is more like Kyokushin, lots of conditioning, hard contact sparring and even some grappling, Japanese Goju is for pussies !!
Yeah, thats right I said it, PUSSIES !!!!!!!

[IzzyDaHedgehog]

About Shidokan....

There's a school kinda near my house but I just assumed it was a goofy romanization of "Shotokan."

Apparently since it's like a blend of Kyokushin, grappling, and MT, would it be just like an MMA class or what? Anyone want to share some experiences?

[Solid]

The best type of karate is called boxing

[Gezere]

Originally posted by Matt Bernius
Goju at least. Shotokan, last time I check, was one of the first non Okinawan Karate systems (or am I just smoking dope).

Shotokan was a Okinawan mesh that was JAPANAFIED. Later Shotokan was considered the 'dancers' fo the karate family and not fighters.

[Gezere]

Originally posted by IzzyDaHedgehog
About Shidokan....

There's a school kinda near my house but I just assumed it was a goofy romanization of "Shotokan."

Apparently since it's like a blend of Kyokushin, grappling, and MT, would it be just like an MMA class or what? Anyone want to share some experiences?

Whiteshark is a Shidokan guy. PM him.

[WhiteShark]

Originally posted by IzzyDaHedgehog
About Shidokan....

There's a school kinda near my house but I just assumed it was a goofy romanization of "Shotokan."

Apparently since it's like a blend of Kyokushin, grappling, and MT, would it be just like an MMA class or what? Anyone want to share some experiences?

Where do you live? I can find out all about it if it is part of Shidokan. There is another smaller group that uses the romanization Shido-Kan.

www.shidokan.com is the official US site.
www.shidokan-atlanta.com is my gyms site.

[liuzg150181]

Anyway is there shidokan in Singapore?

[WhiteShark]

Ok you got me there, I can only answer questions about Shidokan in North America!!!

[liuzg150181]

WhiteShark owned,now for the sharkfin soup~~~:D

[cactus-jack]

well the kemp-kido-kan system is the best new karate system i have personally trainned in bar-none since it has only the essentials of sanchin-ryu jujitsu,chinesse kempo, american kempo, aikido, judo, escrima, iaido, and wing-chun, with some jeet kune do and , hallo-ryu ju jitsu. founded by my sifu grandmaster thomas hughes. the white-orange belts are primarily ju-jitsu (sanchin-ryu flow locks) with some kempo after that it gets literaly hardcore into kempo. and aikido with judo jkd wing-chun all blended evenly into the system. contact me if anyone wants history on the art or any technique descriptions or anything.

[cactus-jack]

i jacked up on one of the style spellings it's hakko-ryu not hallo -ryu srry guys

[johnbo]

Originally posted by cactus-jack
well the kemp-kido-kan system is the best new karate system i have personally trainned in bar-none since it has only the essentials of sanchin-ryu jujitsu,chinesse kempo, american kempo, aikido, judo, escrima, iaido, and wing-chun, with some jeet kune do and , hallo-ryu ju jitsu. founded by my sifu grandmaster thomas hughes. the white-orange belts are primarily ju-jitsu (sanchin-ryu flow locks) with some kempo after that it gets literaly hardcore into kempo. and aikido with judo jkd wing-chun all blended evenly into the system. contact me if anyone wants history on the art or any technique descriptions or anything.

you're kidding, right?

[IzzyDaHedgehog]

I live near Palatine, IL. Though, the school might be a little more towards mount prospect.

[Kempocos]

Originally posted by punchingdummy
I liked IshinnRyu as well and thought it was great...until I got into a fight that went to the ground and was unprepared.


And that was the styles fault because your instructor was too stupid to show groud techniques. I like ISSHINRYU myself at least where I train spar every class and ground work is part of the training. Lots of work on hand and foot speed , low kicks

[Gezere]

Originally posted by cactus-jack
i jacked up on one of the style spellings it's hakko-ryu not hallo -ryu srry guys

Uhm Kemp -Kido-kan is jacked up spelling since you can't spell KEMP in Japanese kana. \

Plus I find arts that try to mash alot of things together end up sucking. Pple think they are JKDing* when they are just making a mess of things.


*JKDing the uninformed thought that JKD is a mesh of other styles when in truth it is a collection of principles.