Bao wrote:middleway"the way they move and recieve or produce force very different to the internal arts I have experienced.
My experience as well with Karatekas. It's all very different.
[quote="Trick wrote:For the one strike to work one must possess great understanding of timing when interacting with an opponent, it must be delivered with perfect precision backed with correct power. It can not be telegraphed or it will fail, the perfect timing must therefore also happen within, so the whole body in unison. Whole body awareness holding a perfect center, being relaxed but alert in body and mind is of course an aspect reached in Karate too.
I've tried to find some high level and more soft Karate on the tubes, found nothing yet.
General IMA principles are that body and hand moves together, the middle initiate movement, hand coordinates with the dantian, when one part of the body stops, the whole body stops.
This is a 10th Dan Shotokan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U7KPaiZJ08I find nothing here that I can associate with IMA. The limbs move independent from the body, he is hard all over, even his breath is hard and he makes effort breathing.
So if you could show me any Karate vid that shows anything near what you are suggesting....
BTW, In Spain the Catalonian Karate Federation has claimed that Tai Chi Chuan is derived from Karate.
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Don’t know what you mean “high level” ? In post four of this thread i posted two vids of high level Karatekas in action internal or not......About the tensed karate. The sudden tension(Kime) displayed is to be gone as sudden as is came, as the crack of a whip, but I agree far to many overemphasize the tension part. The tension needed should be just enough to stop the for example speeding punch one has thrown, here I’m talking about a punch thrown in solo practiceI exercises. The speedier the punch the more visible the hips an torso action in accordance . Traditionally in karate the makiwara(striking post) where used to refine the punch or any other strike. This equipment and similar is mostly absent in Shotokan(and probably also in the other “mainland” Japanese Karate styles) Dojos(practice hall) in the west, maybe different nowadays. But anyway practitioners should get an understanding trough the basics, forms and sparring exercises.....The makiwara -
https://v.youku.com/pad_show/id_XMjUyND ... w.20023042.