- That has regular cross-training classes with other martial arts students.
- That has regular skill sharing classes with other Okinawan karate teachers inside/outside of your style.
- That has regular cross-training classes with other karate students inside/outside of your style.
- That has regular seminars/presentations with karate historians/practitioners (such as Patrick McCarthy, Charles C. Goodin, Jesse Enkamp, etc).
- That has regular seminars/presentations with professionals in related fields outside of traditional martial arts (such as Rory Miller, Marc MacYoung, etc).
- Where uniforms are not required (but not rejected either).
- Where the belt system does not exist (but maybe like a certification of some kind).
- Where you are tested for your skill and not for your rank.
- Where the kata in your system are analyzed and practiced so as to determine their functional civilian combat applications.
- That regularly brought in qualified teachers (such as Iain Abernethy, Patrick McCarthy, Kris Wilder, etc) and/or held study sessions to aid in deciphering the combat applications of the kata in your system (so as to make it a living civilian combat system).
- That focuses on the students health and fitness just as much as on their fighting skill.
- That focuses on developing conflict de-escalation/people safety/boundary setting skills just as much as on fitness and fighting skill.
- That utilizes scenario-based-stress-training to help prepare the student to respond appropriately (functional spontaneity) to actual unprovoked habitual acts of physical violence.
- That not only incorporated Okinawan kobudo into the curriculum but modern weapons training as well; such as how to safely handle, breakdown and use a firearm, how to use a knife, etc.
- That encouraged the student to be actively involved in some kind of violence prevention group (such as Alternatives to Violence Project) or other similar group that deals with the consequences of inter-personal violence.
- That emphasizes learning and ingraining martial principles over style.
- That maintains style only so much as to provide the student with the necessary historical and cultural context with which to understand and appreciate their karate system.
- That took annual field trips to study and train karate in Okinawa; also took field trips to study and train martial arts in other countries.
- That provides instruction and study in Zen meditation and/or non-denominational, non-sectarian Buddhist history, philosophy and thought.
- Whose vision is to produce karate students that exemplify kisshu fushin (鬼手佛心).
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Elbow SMASH!
- Hiji Até
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