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equaninimus
Purple Belt
Joined: 31 Dec 2003
Posts: 562
Styles: Seibukan, Shotokan, Wado Ryu
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I have to admit I've never seen a Shotokan McDojo.
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Sho-ju
Red Belt
Joined: 25 May 2003
Posts: 774
Location: Canada
Styles: Karate, judo and jujitsu.
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:41 pm Post subject: |
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| equaninimus wrote: |
| I have to admit I've never seen a Shotokan McDojo. |
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equaninimus
Purple Belt
Joined: 31 Dec 2003
Posts: 562
Styles: Seibukan, Shotokan, Wado Ryu
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| Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2004 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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I have seen a Wado McDojo. 
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xianzhong
White Belt
Joined: 23 Jan 2004
Posts: 19
Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Styles: everything
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| Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2004 11:33 am Post subject: asdf |
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actually I haven't seen a Shotokan McDojo either, haven't really looked around for Shotokan dojo's, but the few Shotokan instructors I know in my area are all part-timers, and teach for non-profit in the evenings and weekends at community centres, gyms, etc...
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amp
Yellow Belt
Joined: 04 Sep 2002
Posts: 68
Location: Midwest, USA
Styles: Ryukyu Kempo/RyuTe Karate, Aikido
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| Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2004 8:59 pm Post subject: Re: Most popular style |
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Yeah, I would defo go by Shotokan. I wonder which is the most popular martial art in the world? Maybe that is also karate.
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Sadly enough, I think it's Tae Kwon Do. I might be wrong, though.
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EvilTed
Orange Belt
Joined: 22 Jan 2004
Posts: 129
Styles: World Oyama Karate San Francisco under Sensei Seito. 2cnd Kyu.
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| Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2004 8:32 pm Post subject: |
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It depends upon how you define 'most popular'
At his death in 1994, Mas Oyama (Kyokushin) could bost the most students world wide unified under one man - some 12 million!
As far as which style is the biggest (has the most branches) then it's probably shotokan.
Which style of karate is the most respected as a 'real' fighting art?
It has to be Kyokushin.
After I explained to my sensei about seeing a program on TV about Okinawan karate and them breaking boards with their big toes, his answer was "Oh yeah? - how well do they fight?"
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I-Self
Yellow Belt
Joined: 12 Dec 2003
Posts: 40
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 2:16 am Post subject: Well, very well... |
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The Uechi Ryu stylists you saw in that video can fight very, very well. Everyone who knows more than Japanese karate knows this. They can kickbox and spar with the best of them, and have even integrated BJJ into their Ryu. Uechi Ryu condiditoning is more hardcore than Goju! Try and break a 1.5-2 inch board with an open hand kakushiken (fingertip strike) or a big toe kick. Tell me what happens.... 
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stencil
Yellow Belt
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
Posts: 47
Location: New York City
Styles: ShoreiKan Goju Ryu
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| Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject: Re: Well, very well... |
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| I-Self wrote: |
| Try and break a 1.5-2 inch board with an open hand kakushiken (fingertip strike) or a big toe kick. Tell me what happens.... |
What happens? I wonder what the heck I was thinking and go back to training. |
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firesong56
Yellow Belt
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Posts: 62
Styles: wadoryu
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as much as i hate to admit it i would go for shotokan but all i have to go on is my town nubers beaaus there is a lot of compyion between us and they usaly out nuber us
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kotegashiNeo
Blue Belt
Joined: 23 Dec 2003
Posts: 342
Location: Barrie Ontario Canada
Styles: goju/ Aikido
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The way you make it sound evil ted all the worlds top fighters are kyokushin to bad that just ain't true
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