Steve Cattle

[HugoDavid]

Yes! I heard that George had one wazari up , then Steve attacs with combination an get an ippon and win! But, George was one the floor don´t remember anything?
And Steve says there was no contact

[HugoDavid]

Hi Steve!
I got this today! They were great fighters! See the link bellow!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3WvxEgA-k

Great to get contact with you!

Bests Patrik

[fujicolt]

HUGO

thank you so much - was watching it AND THEN cut off and can't get it open again. I am a computer idiot - please help?

[ashjake0]

Fantastic!!!..Any more videoes out there.. apart from the excellent Legend ones?

Rich

[fujicolt]

HA! finally got it to play.

watch the clips showing Steve Cattle and see his incredible timing - he slips incoming punches with perfect timing and BANG he counters. This takes immense courage and very precise skills - play his sections back a frame at a time and you will see what i mean.

He was incredible to spar with and when training for an upcoming tournament he really would get into the Zone - you simply couldn't catch him!

and do you note Billy Higgins - no guard to entice them in and then superbly timed counters.

all good stuff!

[HugoDavid]

Hi Steve!
I found this link today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI3WvxEgA-k

Wonderful to see! Impressed how flexible and quick George was!

Bests

Patrik

[fujicolt]

George was? HAHA!

more importantly was his sense of timing - but he was out of Steve Cattle's Dojo and thus could not have good timing and jealous

[TheKaseway]

Hi rich its chris from the dojo didn't know you was on this forum. i only trained with steve for a few short months before he was so cruelly taken from us . i took my 2nd kyu under him and dave wilkins and remember him telling me off for not showing enough power , he went on to show me how to make more power and what a lesson that was he proceeded to demonstrate to me the correct way to use kime and hips etc he had a very big impact on me and my way of looking at how to train . to this day i still remember his lessons . my first lesson with him i remember thinking what can this "stumpy man" have to offer how very ,very, very wrong was i (very young and dumb) he is truely one of the best instructors i have ever had the pleasure to train under .

[Paul Bedard]

First time that I have read this post. Gives me a real understanding on why Steve Hyland holds sensei Steve Cattle in such high regard. `Wow`
OSU
Paul B

[ashjake0]

Hi rich its chris from the dojo didn't know you was on this forum. i only trained with steve for a few short months before he was so cruelly taken from us . i took my 2nd kyu under him and dave wilkins and remember him telling me off for not showing enough power , he went on to show me how to make more power and what a lesson that was he proceeded to demonstrate to me the correct way to use kime and hips etc he had a very big impact on me and my way of looking at how to train . to this day i still remember his lessons . my first lesson with him i remember thinking what can this "stumpy man" have to offer how very ,very, very wrong was i (very young and dumb) he is truely one of the best instructors i have ever had the pleasure to train under .

hi mate .. yeah pop on here every now n then .. started the steve cattle topic to see if many people remember him ...congrats again on the 2nd dan ..

rich

[fujicolt]

First time that I have read this post. Gives me a real understanding on why Steve Hyland holds sensei Steve Cattle in such high regard. `Wow`
OSU
Paul B

Paul

| Ran a full time professional dojo half an hours drive from where Steve lived - for many years he would come over in the morning.
now understand this he was my dear friend out of the dojo - - my Mum loved him and he would come to Mum's House 500 yards from the Dojo and I didn't exist (Dave Hazard would do the same when he visited) Steve and Mum would laugh and joke and even SING AND DANCE! and i would serve them Tea! but each morning he came - he and i would go in the dojo and he would literally make a fool of me - he was so far advanced to me - and he gave no ground whatsoever - and remember he was also an accomplished JudoKa! i learnt so much from him and can honestly say i miss him to this day. it was like a journey man boxer being friends with Mohamed Ali and having regular private lessons and sparring sessions! He would hurt me BUT never injure me - his control was so perfect!

the result - little old me survived decades as a doorman dealing with real violence!

I know i am alive because of him, Dave Hazard, Frank Cope, John Tattum (others too numerous to mention in short spells) and my Dad - who boxed professionally and also taught me lots til he died when i was nineteen.

Steve Cattle was THE best example ever that Karate is for everyone - irrelevant of size or natural ability! IMHO

A sad sad loss to Karate and i ache to this day that he was alone on that train!

[Paul Bedard]

No wonder you enjoy sharing so much Steve, look at the fine examples that you have been fortunate enough to spend time with. Thank you so much for sharing. One of the many wonderful things about this site is the opportunity to learn about such fine people who have made a difference..
Paul B

[fujicolt]

Paul - i know Steve C visited Canada but it is so vast - what do you know of him and his achievements?

[Paul Bedard]

Sorry Steve, but I hadn`t even heard of him prior to my first reading through your posts. However everything that I have learned so far has me holding him in the highest regard.
Osu
Paul B

[fujicolt]

he was small, bald, bespeckled and looked like a librarian. but he was strong, fearless and had IMHO the best timing of any karateka and the cunning of a fox. he was oft accused of being BORING to watch fight because he would wait and wait and then BANG! Score - he was interviewed about it - go look up old SKM's and TO's FA mags.

But he was also - despite not liking to teach - an extraordinary teacher who could make YOU get better. he won international and national titles in Kata and Kumite and was Very highly respected by the Japanese and other world leading Karateka.

He also was an Instructor whom demanded you go elsewhere to learn - as he did.

because i also knew him as a friend - i have been with him in REAL situations - he could talk a lion out of attacking you and was a very well educated and persuasive man - until HE decided it (the Lion = attacker) wasn't listening and then he was awesome! He wasn't perfect - none of us are but he was inspiring. When Bob Poynton knocked him unconscious at a KUGB finals he came to my dojo the following Monday and said - Steve I think i swallowed a tooth - they found it in his lung shortly after.It was surgically removed!

And when FB beat him with those hideous mae geri's he came and said - Steve are those refs blind? - his groin and upper thighs were literally Black and blue - no marks to chudan. these are facts! But he never complained publicly and just got on with it.

On a lighter note - he loved a drink and could get very (nicely playful) when drunk
i shall remember for ever him sitting on John Erringtons Knee - at a party at my dojo - and being the Dummy for John's ventriloquism - it was hilarious from two fine and seasoned Karateka - my students suddenly realised - they are only people!That was Steve and John! Awesome! no ego!

But he also had a mischievous side and oft got me in trouble - especially with the Japanese Instructors at Crystal Palace - but that is another story!

and please understand i post this as yes a contempory of Steve but NEVER anything other than a Student and friend!

as at his memorial in York - when i stood up and spoke - i spoke of him as a friend whom had helped me immensely - enough people had stood up to honour his Karate and they did so wonderfully.
I KNOW you could find thousands who would have given anything to be with him on that train - cos had we been he'd probably still be here beating the sh*t outa us - which strangely - would be nice!