[QUOTE=cerebus;996122]Ha ha! Here are some quotes from Keehan that got him in trouble with the martial arts community when he first broke these “revelations” back in the '60s.
“In karate, and most Oriental self-defense arts, there is an over-emphasis on form practice, kata (dances), terminology and history, all of which have little to do with the development of effective stree defense- which should be the goal of the students.”
“The bulk of karate, kenpo, and gung-fu stances are too strict or tensed, so as to restrict smooth and fast movements… a boxer who uses a much more natural stance has much better footwork…”
“…most fistic arts are too robotic appearing and unrealistic. Most Japanese karateists remind one of the old time boxers with their crude stumbling movements. I believe the main reason for this is due to the fact that there is no professional karate (by this I mean full-contact knock-out karate); the participants are too wrapped up in style rather than effectiveness.”
“Another serious fault in the present-day karate movements is the fact that the self-defense forms or techniques practiced are practically non-moving and performed from near-stationary positions. It is quite easy to hit or defend against a stationary target or an attacker who attacks with one punch and stops.”
“The striking effectiveness of exponents of gung-fu, karate, tai chi chuan, etc, is highly overexaggerated… If the striking techniques of these systems were so effective I am quite sure the many thousands of professional boxers throughout the world would be using these techniques, since fighting happens to be their business. There is no doubt that a boxer can easily out-punch a karateist.”
And much, much more. Sounds obvious these days, right? But when Keehan publicly printed these comments and others, people believed in the “one-strike kill”, that these arts were “too deadly” for contact competition. Keehan was the first to call Bullsh!t on such ideas and to promote realistic training. When he held his first no-holds-barred tournament in 1967, the martial arts community was outraged, positive that people would be killed or crippled. In fact, no one was even injured very badly, but Keehan had p!ssed off too many people by then, so he reveled in his role as an outcast.
Interesting how big the whole "no-holds-barred’ tournament scene has become since then, eh? :p[/QUOTE]
impromptu scuffle ups weer happening long before beardbangstachefro guy came along. and he said nothing new. Mas Oyama had addressed pretty much everything you quoted him as saying for instance. Now that guy po’d a lot of karate people. lol
also, I don’t think beardbangsstachefro guy had anything at all to do with the popularity of nhb/ufc type stuff at all. he was completely forgotten by the time that started getting organized and quite frankly, Tank abbot and the gracies brought that about more than anyone else. lol
the guy is barely a foonote in regards to real martial arts and especially in context to todays martial arts which are 6 bodies and two sets of head and shoulders above everything this guy ever did…which was mostly selling nonsense on the back of comic books and running a little dojo and getting into a fight.
He is unknown for any contributions he might have made because it’s obvious what his focus was:
a)his hair
b) his tight ass bell bottoms
c) having people see him in teh same light as bruce lee
Not too mention, his biggest fan and lackey is that ass wipe ashida kim. more laughable nonsense.
