Just for the record this looks seriously cool, reminds me a bit of http://www.kravmaga.com/ for its focus on practicality.

Ashihara Karate is a practical style focused on real fight situations. It has a strong emphasis on circular movements and maneuvering to adventitious positioning. It also uses the Sabaki:

"Sabaki is a difficult concept to translate from Japanese. Broadly speaking, Sabaki refers to movement, often involving a concept of control, sometimes implying preparation for a subsequent movement. For example, Sabaki can be used in reference to training a horse. The rider performs certain movements in an effort to control the animal, in order to make the animal behave as he/she wants it to.

Kancho Hideyuki Ashihara has adopted the word Sabaki to epitomise the essence of this style of Karate. In Ashihara Karate, Sabaki describes the movement made by a defender stepping out of line of an attack, into a position from which he/she can launch a counterattack. This controlled movement, in preparation for a subsequent advance, is the basis of the strategy of Ashihara Karate: the combination of defence and offence into one ... SABAKI."
Source(s):
http://www.ashiharakarate.org/html/what_is_ashihara_.html
http://www.ashiharakarate.org/html/what_is_sabaki_.html

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