I appreciate everyone's positive feedback! I posted this on Youtube and got negative feedback, one of them from a Dillman's org in Slovenia. Here are a few:
arm bars are jui jitsu... and the ground drills where wrestling, the arm choke with striking, looks like MMA too, not Ryukyu kempo... in fact, it all looks like a hybrid of MMA arts, no disrespect, doesn't make your practice any less effective, I just wouldn't call it Okinowan Kempo... or "RyuKyu"
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Ryukyu kempo is a martial art, not a sport! It seems to me that you are practicing it as a sport....
My response to them:
In response to some negative comments:
Most of this video WAS made to present the sport side of Ryukyu Kempo. And yes, there is a sport side. If you are familiar with the lineage of the art you will know that the 12 empty handed katas came from Shigeru Nakamura. Nakamura also devised a sporty side to the art called BOGU KUMITE. The bag work presented in the video were some techniques that I do for preparation in this FULL CONTACT sport. You can visit
www.4selfdefense.com for a description of Bogu Kumite and the rules. If you do not do Bogu Kumite and the 12 empty handed kata but your system is called Ryukyu Kempo you are not practicing the whole art as devised by Seiyu Oyata.
As far as the MMA, Jiu Jitsu, Wrestling comparison… Ryukyu Kempo is a classical martial art. This being that all ranges of combat are addressed – Kicking Range, Punching Range, Clinch Range, and yes the Ground Range. Also weapons fighting (Kobudo) is also addressed. To say this range and that range is not Ryukyu Kempo means you are living in a fantasy world. Life protection means that… preparing yourself for an encounter that is violent and can end up in any range.
Naihanchi Shodan as presented in the video addresses the ground elements that many feel are MMA or Wrestling. The principles contained within this kata transcends all ranges. The Naihanchi cross step is meant to be done to get to the side or behind your opponent in the vertical plane. In the video I show what it looks like if practiced in the horizontal plane. The opening move – hands come up and come to the chest and feet come together. Take this position add an arm in between and you are on your back… classic arm bar. The arm choke as presented is just the naihanchi cross chest punch (get the arm out the way) and if you freeze the frame when I punch you will see that I am in a double block position.
Yes, some bag work and some training drills I have picked up from other styles I have fought against and worked with. BUT, hasn’t this been the entire Okinawan tradition? Picking up the hard system of Chinese boxing, melding in Japanese Bujutsu after the Satsuma invasion in 1609, having top students train with other masters from other styles to better themselves? What am I doing that is so different? Or would you be happy to see me do “no touch knock outs” or Kyusho Jitsu techniques against a static opponent like every fake Dillmanite out there. I pressure test my techniques against people who want to take my head off. What do you do besides throw stones at me?
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only one thing, when throwing your right hand turn your hips into it instead of jsut using you arm, youll find you have A LOT more power
