the rum soaked fist: internal martial arts forum

wayne hansen wrote:

This guy I like. I always have time for Sensei Rick Hotton
He's on the other coast of Florida from me. About three hours away. The red headed guy I push with sometimes came from a karate background and trains privately with him. You'll see him (the red head) in some of Liang Dehua's recent videos and some of the martial camps. Great guy to measure progress against.

Hotton seems to connect with the Okinawan tradition. I don't know where/how he got the internals but he is talking taijiquan in a lot of places IMHO

Rick Hotton's, practice reminds me of the standard type of Aikido stuff


Like Peter Ralston's work better..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjrKxXVBbmA&t=42s

Not even on the same planet

infused with Aiki principle

https://rivashotokan.com/sensei-rick-hotton/

Rick Hoton is doing clean cut traditional Shotkan, it’s super clear he’s been a Shotokan practitioner for several decades.
Anyone knows who’s his (main) Shotokan teacher/branch is ?

Shotokan is of course outwardly stylistically close to Okinawan shorin ryu karate since the founder Gichin Funakoshi studied under legendary Anko Itosu, however mentality/spirit wise it’s very close to Japanese kenjutsu(sword”art”) such as Jigen ryu school.
Funakoshi was also close friend to Jigiro Kano, and it’s said there was some collaboration between the two exchanging ideas of atemi and nage waza(striking and throwing techniques). “Aiki” principles probably has been around in the very founding of Shotokan ryu, and many of Funakoshis students were already skilled in different Japanese jujutsu/kenjutsu when the began study under Funakoshi.
This is why Shotokan came to take its specific style flavor compared to Okinawan Karate