The "new" gold standard

This woman is INCREDIBLE.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=UP7ltirXYGI&feature=related

It is hard for me to imagine anyone doing better.

Watch, I'll immediately see someone I like even more.

BTW: Heiku is a kata that we have in our John Sells syllabus. If you senior students really like it I'll work at remembering it and teach it to you.

the "old" gold standard

For a number of years I've thought that Mimura Yuki was the BEST kata performer I'd ever seen:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-VVbbBN2NXI&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=JJyijs90oVE&feature=related

I've got a new gold standard.

Good article

Here is a good article:

http://ezinearticles.com/?Makiwara-Training&id=31146

In Hawaii, all the shito-ryu guys were known as having REALLY powerful punches. We didn't take a back seat to anyone, including the Kyokushinkai guys. A number of us used variations on the Tani-ha punch mentioned here and I still teach my interpretation/expansion on the Tani-ha method of developing power.