Gangaku is mandatory, and choice of Bassai-Dai, Kanku-Dai, Empi or Jion. Ash is going for Empi (I find the first move hard on the knees.) Mon is going for Jion. I'm going for Bassai-dai.
"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
Needs a little updating: "Man will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. That, or we simply decide to stop abrogating our responsibilities to 'society' and behave."
No one gets out alive. So, I think the only thing that really differentiates us is how much, and what type of, pain we endure before it all comes crashing down.