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Goju, Isshin, Shorin and its many factions and variations are all styles and that means they are all static or tied to one way, one person and one version of Ti. Ti, is just a symbol of a generic nature not tied to any one person, philosophy or way including individual perceptions and perspectives for it is so generic it falls under the heading of a, “System.”
Ti, or Te in Japanese, is an excellent way to describe the indigenous system of self-civil-defense of Okinawa. It is and was considered a system because until individuals decided to make changes according to their individual perceptive distinctive ideology and philosophies then called them, “A Style,” the entire island in those early years didn’t differentiate according to any one person’s way but remained a way, a system, that the entire island depended on then one day, “Someone felt they had the answer, and they decided to teach it according to their way and because of egoistic influences needed to name it to fit their way.”
To me, karate is actually “Ti” without the segregation derived from naming styles. Ti is a system that works not on technique but on a system of principles, methodologies and force requirements that make it work in all situations, under all changes, in the face of chaos and without regard to any one thing but embraces all things in the arena of self-fense, fighting and combatives using the hand or hands.
Te is a system while the various plethora of styles are … styles.
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