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Are simple. known as okinawan sumo, it looks easy. it's not. your hands are wrapped in your opponent's belt. object is to get him onto his back, both shoulders before he does it to you. >> anthony: nice. you land on your back for even a second, you lose. >> james: there, he got it there. >> anthony: awesome. >> james: would you like to try? try it. >> anthony: yeah, sure. ♪ ♪ >> man: yes. ♪ ♪ >> james: go on, anthony. nicely done.

Attacks the weak point. all i know how to do in this situation, by the way, is pull guard and look for something to choke or lock. nope, apparently they don't know what tapping out means here because i was tapping like western god damn union. i thought he was going to push that 71-year-old finger right into my brainpan. >> james: there was a saying in the old days, that if there was a fight happening somewhere in town people would go and have a look. and they'd say, "are they fighting with fists or open hand?" and if they were fighting with fists they'd say, "oh don't bother, it's an amateur f...

No american presence? >> james: well, up until '72 there was an american base. >> anthony: there was. >> james: but then in '72, in the reversion, the base was taken away. >> anthony: now, nothing? >> james: only the japanese self-defense forces now. >> anthony: what do people do here? agriculture? >> james: growing sugar cane. >> anthony: i saw. >> james: tourism. fishing. >> anthony: fishing. have there been attempts to develop here? and, uh, have the locals been able to resist that impulse? >> james: he's saying on kumejima they have rich lives. they have everything they need. they have pro...

Humane way, but then if you had to -- >> anthony: right. >> james: finish them then you had the ability to finish them. the striking is important but a lot of the technique is not about striking, it's about submission techniques. and some of that is to do with kyusho, so, attacking nerve points. and, uh, hokama sensei in particular is extremely skilled at, um, dealing with, uh, you know, bigger stronger, opponents. >> hokama: human engineering, very important. point, point, point, point, point, point, point, point, point. then this point attack with the fingers. no, no knuckle, open. >> anthon...

Extremities. and it hurts even to watch. brutal. >> james: it's bad, it's bad. >> anthony: james pankiewicz, brit and black belt in shorin-ryu karate, moved to okinawa in 2009 to study budo, or "the way of martial arts." he acts as translator for most of the karate sensei on the island. earlier i met james and hokama sensei in makishi public market in okinawa's largest city, naha. >> james: that's the tasty one, right, we'll take that one. >> anthony: and what are these? >> james: so these are puffer fish. so, we got some -- they're gonna do some deep-fried fish for us. >> anthony: gurukun, th...