Thanks for your well-considered and sensei level reply. Frankly your teachings are missing from about 95% (for argument sake) from the the knowledge of those critical of karate.
In Chris Parker's terminology,
"grab a coffee, this may take some time". 
I would go one step further and say no one will just step forward and punch like that. Even an unskilled person will tend to throw wild combinations.
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I don' quite agree. However from your standpoint of a self-defense expert; I can agree wholly in principle...No Problem.
I agree that these are harder to defend ... if you are moving back. I'll get to that more later. The MMA video is training for competition. In the case of boxing people train to move back out of the way, we train to move in and tie the guy up.
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I see the general tactical advantage of your approach, having read & re-read your material & postings. However, under my principles including KIME as a mental process, I'm not so limited. I think the challenge of a hook is physically harder to stop than a straight, coming from the side, arcing, in combination as set forth in the Jay G. demo. His demo is kind of the opposite end-of-the-spectrum to the the step-&-straight-punch-only scenario. An escalation in complexity, if you will.
As an ex-boxer, albeit many, many years back, so can I.
. I never boxed.
I think you need to look at the context of Joe Mirza's video. He was training against a punch that he knew was coming. That makes it a drill, perfectly valid, but not something that can work like that in real life.
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See my complexity comment just above. The context for the Joe Mirza exercise, to me, is a mental one, KIME centric. The concept of mental KIME, of mental discipline in traditional karate is universal, the Joe Mirza kumite combo is, in principle, directly applicable to real life.
In real life you will react instinctively and do whatever you will do. If you actually did that defence, great, but even then it doesn't mean the hook will be effective.
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On the hook judged as automatically effective, I took the antagonist view for a moment. My supposition is that if you took the average, conventional Shotokan kumite competitor and put up against Jay G.'s hook / combo, the Shotokan kumite competitor would lose.
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On instinct, I am moving ahead of instinct in my fighting. I can see your position that in certain SD situations, instinct is all the mental capability one may have.
That shouldn't be an issue for a karateka. We fight both ways so you can easily change kamai if that was of concern.
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I'll qualify: Someone of your capability; someone who has trained traditional karate diligently & intelligently...No Problem.
Which is the way I start most of my training scenarios. If you are lucky the attacker will come in with a wild haymaker. If he is more skilled you might get a jab/straight combo. It doesn't matter, unless you are training for that exact attack. Training for that exact attack is fine in theory but won't work in practice because our reaction time is slower than the time it takes for the punch to arrive, so we have to rely on what we train instinctively. I will instinctively move to the side but I do not know ahead of time which side that will be. I don't choose the side I move to, my reflexes choose it for me.
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Under strong mental awareness, my reaction time is not slower than the incoming strike. That's the key. The Shotokan karate manual lays out the terms for these mental abilities, defines them. Still, they are general concepts & principles,,,, leaving an emormous amount to be filled in by the practitioners own trainig.
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Good luck with that....
The square on approach that we train also gives that ability. That and the correct movement on the body to give added penetration.
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With your expertise, I'm sure it works; I can 100% agree on that as an ALTERNATIVE.
Trained to react to that first movement you won't be there for the right hand
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Again, Tai Sabaki, tactically intelligent movement.
Way too late. But even then, Krav's helmet defence which is very similar to the defensive move in Goju should protect against that type of tight hook.
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NOW, NOW, we're in a Shotokan T. However from an overall SD perspective, I say do anything to win the conflict. So bully for you....re KRAV.
Unless you step back you will not have time to assess whether the attack is real or a feint.
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I have, other than starting out in training, been able to distinquish a feint from a real strike. The key is KIME. see below. The Key is all the mental disicpline qualities outlined in Shotokan.
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2. Chung Shin Tong Il - Concentration (Clean, Clear / God / Govern / One) [Someone else with have to qualify the () meanings].
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Borrowed this from the "8 Key Concepts" Thread. Strictly speaking it's TSD. Yet another pillar pointing to or verifying the critical importance of mental KIME. We have Tang Soo Do explicity in agreement with Shotokan...
In our training we assume it is real and take it from there. Either way it is really the same. Either it is a feint and the straight follows or it is a jab with intent and the straight follows. In each case I will be off the line and moving to tie him up to hopefully get his back.
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By your definition of KIME, I would agree wholeheartedly.... Strictly speaking tactically, it is not the same; under your assumptions it is the same....
Only if he is standing there waiting. OK for a hypothetical but he shouldn't be there in real life.
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Under your expertise, or the way your dojo is training, probably not (he shouldn't be there). So I would agree. The conventional Shotokan stylist had better bone up, IMO.
I can't put that down as a definite. You are saying here that a skilled puncher (Jay) is a better fighter than a skilled karateka (Joe) based on a hypothetical position.
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Right. see above, on qualification. I was trying to illustrate the conventional Shotokan reliance on specific combos which would have to be adapted against more challenging opponent. Your change in karate style training has taken care of all that.
Yes, but again you are assuming that someone is going to just stand in front and exchange blows.
I'll leave kime out of it at this stage because my kime would have me somewhere else.
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You have a tactical reponse to be somewhere else. I have a tactical response to move in like you, and END the exchange by blocks & blows. I'll also wait, like Shotokan precepts, and allow he opponent to move first. This is easier. However, I can act simultaneously or per-emptively--all three under KIME.
Now here is a major difference of approach. I teach NOT to be focussed on your opponent. That is a sport concept. Every other situation requires the use of peripheral vision. On that we'll have to agree to disagree.
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Ah, I would agree completely with your position. I was complimenting Jay G. for stressing KIME, here on the opponent, as opposed to no real KIME. The specific KIME Jay G. was at least lauding too is spoken of in both Shotokan and Tang Soo Do. Jay's context is in an MMA match (sport). So bravo in my book for him.
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In the broader context of self defense, martial conflict in general, your perspective is imperative.
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Time for that second coffee.
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I missed a point. See below.
