We're going to talk about principles and applications, the principles of our system. The applications and principles of any kind of Okinawan karate. Okinawan karate, goju ryu, eishin ryu, shorin ryu, it doesn't mater what you do. Some of the applications are a little different but the basic principles upon which all techniques out of Okinawan te - it's a white crane influence out of China. And they all are similar and the only difference primarily consists of the stances and the body changes. You know it's taken me 48 years to figure this out but you know I have more and more of these enlightened epiphanies as I live every day and continue to train with many many good people that have good basic fundamentals. That's the key. I don't really learn a whole lot from people, my peers. Thank god they're there because I have learned a lot from them when I get down to the end but the thing is when I see them work and we sit and we discuss it, then we apply it, we're suprised at what we all don't know. And the nice part about it is that it never ends. It never ends.

We used to say martial artist. We're not martial artists, we're karate-ka. We got a flyer from a martial artist. He's a big guy; he's got this dummy hanging there and he's going to tell you when somebody gets in your face how you do this and he cross trains in Brazilian jujitsu which is all fine but the thing is he has no home. He's a martial artist and no one can say he isn't. The thing is you're a karate-ka. If someone says, "I'm a karate-ka." And you say, "What kind of karate do you work? What's your discipline? What ryu-ha do you work?" "Oh well, I've studied this, that and this now I'm doing this and that . . ." Then you're a martial artist. A karate-ka is a person who has a ryu. Has a home. And the home we have is Matsumura Seito.

Kobaiyashi Shorin Ryu. Shobaiyashi Shorin Ryu. Matsubaiashi Shorin Ryu. Uechi Ryu. Goju Ryu. Eishin Ryu. Those are ryu-ha's. Shotokan is a ryu. They have homes. They have basic principles upon which their system rests. That's what you have. Martial artists do a lot of things. That's neither good nor bad but they're not a karate-ka and it's not karate-do. They don't belong to or have any kind of allegiance to someone. Most of them want to do what they want to do and they make up their own. Now there's nothing wrong with that. Nagamine Shojin said, and he's right, that each generation reinterprets their style. Every generation, and that's every ten, fifteen, twenty years, will reinterpret their style. And when I say reinterpret their style we aren't talking about changing it. What they're saying is off the basic principles they'll reinterpret as they learn more but they'll maintain the basic principles of karate. And that's what we do and that's what we are. I am not a martial artist. I'm a karate-ka. And I am the way of karate-do. That's my life. I hope to be able to do it until I'm ninety-five. If I live to be a hundred I'll want to do it then. And what I do is based on the principles of my system, the Okinawan system. That's the basic thing. That's bushido.