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About Laurence Lance
Expertise
I can answer questions on history, culture and on actual self defense effectivness of Okinawian Karate and some systems of Japanese Karate

Experience
Experience in the area I started learning Karate in 1967, so I'm comming up on 40 years experience. I have studied with four men ranked 8th Dan or higher. Organizations Over the past 40 years I have belonged to a variety of Okinawian Karate groups. As different masters have retired or passed away the groups have been renamed, so while I have belonged to differntly named organizations it has pretty much always been within the same family.< Education/Credentials My current certificate is Kiyoshi, 6th Dan.< Awards and Honors Kiyoshi is an honorific title signifing the full ability to teach. Past/Present clients I teach only on refferal and only privately.
Update:June 2007 Shortly before he passed away the head of the system in America, Ken Penland awarded me the certificate of Nanadan, which is a 7th degree, and considered a Master Level teaching certificate. I have known Ken since the early 80s. In those years he and I have written a number of historical research papers. Ken lived in Southern California but visited Seattle on several occasions and stayed with me on those visits. I am going to miss him but I know he expects me to continue research into our art.

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Expert: Laurence Lance - 10/28/2009

Question
I learn kyokushin kaikan karate is about 1years ago and i hear,only kyokushin is fullcontect karate and it is most powerfull it is right or not.OUSH OUSH

Answer
Dear?
You are asking two questions.
Firstly, is Kyo the most "powerful" and
Secondly, about full contact.

I presume by "most powerful" you mean is the style dominant in a combat situation. Or perhaps you might mean would a punch from a kyo practioner be more powerful than a punch from some other system?

In both cases the answer is "No". "Why", might you ask? The answer is simple. The human body has not changed in some 100,000 years. Nor has it changed due to the practice of one martial art or another. The physics of a punch or a kick has not changed either. Nor is there any "secret knowledge' which only once system has that others do not.

There are different approaches, but a wrist lock is still a wrist lock. For the most part is does not matter which action leads to a fracture of a a bone, nor the destruction of an organ. It all ends up with the same result; trauma, and perhaps death.

And that brings me to question #2.
"Full Contact" is nothing of the sort when there are certain techniques that are not allowed.

This is a public forum and you are not my student so I am not about to talk about specifics of a lethal blow, but I can tell you that there are one punch type techniques which result in crushing injury and death. Once such a blow is delivered there is no way to save the victim and it does not matter one bit if the person doing the punch is from any particular style. Injury is injury, trauma is trauma and the human body has no defense from these types of strikes.

Even the most skilled and talented fighter, lets take Mohammed Ali, the Olympic Gold winner in boxing ( 1964?) and almost without question the finest boxer ever to compete in the sport. What happened to him? He's in a wheelchair! The blows to his head, few as they were added up!

You and I are not Mohammed Ali and one way or the other we will pay an awful price in full contact. Ther is nothing to learn and only pain, injury, and regret by "Full Contact"

Laurence

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