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Well, it had been a couple years, and I had been considering changing the theme, but I just sort of made it necessary. While trying to edit the previous theme to make the blog’s feed compatible with facebook, I sort of deleted a good chunk of the coding for the site. The content wasn’t at risk, but the old theme took it poorly. So, here we are. Most things work fine, and some things I like better. The search function wasn’t working, so I’ve deactivated it for a bit until I can get it behaving, so sorry for any inconvenience. Never mind, I was just being impatient, it’s back.

Thanks, Matt.

Ten more kempos have been posted from Bob’s notebook. If I have to tell you who he is at this point, you should follow this link, and then use the search function. Without further ado, kempos 21-30.

Sanchin is the fundamental form of the Naha-te styles. My cousins learned it in Uechi Ryu and I recently was talking with another Uechi-ryu 5th dan, and we were discussing the point of the form. While he was aware of the widespread use of the form in styles like Goju-ryu, he did not know about its chinese roots in white crane / whooping crane. Many of the ‘hakkutsuru’ movements that we associate with the crane had their start there as well. As luck (and youtube) would have it, I found a whooping crane Sanchin / Samchien video:(Please click through to watch)

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