Friday, 25 April 2014

Shoki: The Story of Sensei Pete Ratcliff By Nick Armbrister out now on amazon

Nick: What other Martial Arts do you do and what are they called? Other than just karate. You mentioned Ju Jitsu.
Sensei Pete: I do Ju Jitsu, train in Kobudo which is weapon training, train in Thai Boxing, Kung Fu I’m interested in.
Nick: Have you done belts in those equal to black belt or?
Sensei Pete: No, mainly in just Karate. I just train in them.
Nick: Right. You say you’re interested in Thai Boxing. What have you done in that?
Sensei Pete: I’ve trained in Thai Boxing for a few years, I’ve instructed in Thai Boxing under Mike Duffy at Knuckle’s Thai Boxing Club.
Nick: Where Woz goes?
Sensei Pete: Yes.
Nick: Cool. Right, well that’s answered the other question which is what other Martial Art club types have you attended. That is obviously Thai Boxing and the other ones.
Sensei Pete: Muay Thai.
Nick: Do you see yourself teaching any other type of Martial Art to take over from Karate or will Karate always be the main Martial Art you will teach?
Sensei Pete: Karate always will be.
Interview 14/03/2013. Sensei Derek also contributed.
Nick: What is the role of pressure points in Karate?
Sensei Pete: You’ll have to explain yourself.
Nick: What do you do with them in Karate?
Sensei Pete: Well, the role of pressure points is to take someone down.
Nick: Say in a defensive way.
Sensei Pete: In a defensive way it would be better than just cracking them in the face or anywhere else. You use the pressure points to take them down. There’s other pressure points where it can cause more damage.
Nick: How many pressure points are there in total?
Sensei Pete: Off top of my head I couldn’t tell you.
Nick: But how many do you use in Karate defensively?
Sensei Pete: I use twenty or twenty five.
Nick: So on an opponent, you’d see them in front of you, and you’d know the pressure points where you can strike them?

Sensei Pete: Yes.

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