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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trevalon Moonleirion" data-source="post: 378937" data-attributes="member: 492">What an interesting thread...makes me really miss doing karate.  takyris' idea was quite a good one, so I'll follow his format while describing my style.I studied Isshinryu Karate for about five years before, unfortuately, my dojo closed its doors.  The last year or so was tough...we had to move out of our dojo and were in this crappy little storefront "Center for the Arts" which was a dance studio...and not a great one at that.  We had plywood floors with nails sticking up--obviously not the most barefoot friendly place in the world.  Only slightly better were the cheap rubber mats they duct taped to the floor after we complained.  I missed class for about a month because of getting mono, headed for class like normal once I was better...and the place had just closed up shop and vanished.  I hate the bastards that ran the place.  Isshinryu KarateFOCUS: Punches and low kicks.  There are weren't too many grappling rules, but some of our basic techniques could very easily be used to grapple or knock down someone.RANGE: LONG VERSUS SHORTEh.  I'd say medium.  We don't really get in too close, but we don't have insanely long kicks either.  STYLE: PRAGMATIC VERSUS ARTISTIC VERSUS SPORTWell, just about any style can look nice when performing kata, but other than that random point I wanted to make....Isshinryu is DEFINATELY pragmatic.  It is an ultra-practical style formed from Goju Ryu and Shorinryu in the 40s or 50s.  We don't ever kick above the waist, everything is very linear (perhaps excepting the crescent step used in kata).  Even our punches are really practical--we don't rotate our wrists to punch.  The Isshinryu fist is vertical without the thumb tucked or anything.It's definately a great style for self-defense and people of all ages just because it IS really practical.  It was my only form of exercise when I was younger, and really helped slim me down, not to mention it built my self-confidence.I really miss it though... the school closed like 3 or 4 years ago now, and I've been too busy to practice.  The school lives on at a YMCA, from what I've heard from some former classmates, but it's a 45 minute drive with traffic the way that it usually is around here.  Sad too... I had a second-degree brown belt that is just kinda wasted now.</blockquote>

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