Genten No Ti.

Most things, over the years, have seemed redundant. There are easier, more direct ways to study this stuff and it need not take years to become competent at utilizing any of it... Mind you that does not imply proficiency.
Having studied, and cross studied to depth and death over and over again from varying angles many things became apparent, but something was always missing, yet blatantly hinted at within every single aspect.

I found some of it, to varying degrees, in various sources. Then I reconnected with an old friend and Dojo Brother, Sandifer Deer, who felt that I should become acquainted with Okinawan Ti to further my study, to breathe new life into it.
This led me to Genten Kai and a man named Jan Dam, a Policeman in Denmark, a wealth of deep old school knowledge in Okinawan Ti, having learned it directly from a family lineage into which he had been taken by his Teacher.

Now my Karate is forever flavored by this study. The Ti he presents draws off of Naifuanchin Kata, but goes back before Kata were even an aspect of the Okinawan Military Training.
Genten, itself, refers to a ‘source’ in more ways than one and I do not fully, or even partially grasp everything or anything about it to any degree of proficiency, but, it is straight forward and easily applicable once one begins to study and practice the principles imparted.
From active footwork to shapes, lines, power generation, body mechanics, it barely even begins to scratch the surface, but the basic stuff is enough to blow anyone’s mind.

Karate is the surface level art. It was never an art practiced in secret, it is highly influenced by the Chinese and, to some degree, it was influenced by Ti, but Ti is Ti, incomparable with Karate. There is no concept of Bunkai because there is no need for it.
As Jan constantly states, nothing exists in Ti... Drawing from this, everything exists because it is not bogged down by points of focus, rather, lines of execution, circles, locking, throwing, taking down, striking, deflecting.
Ever flowing and moving, brutal in its’ execution and beautiful to behold. One can apply it to Karate and deepen their understanding, and one can also study Ti in its’ own right and be able to understand, to great degree, aspects of Karate just by witnessing.

Carrying to daily life one can apply the mechanics of Ti to everything and utilize their motions to greater effect whilst safeguarding their overall health.
If you want to go to any great depths then go straight to the source... It still exists and it is definitely NOT what we have been told.