I remember Malcolm from my days training with Norman Robinson. When I asked my students whether their punches or kicks would have any effect, I asked them to hit or kick me as hard as they could - and they did, to their credit. I would never have asked any student to assault another student. Apart from Stan Schmidt, the best sensei I trained with in South Africa was Vernon Willer - a true master of karate. Not very impressed with Malcolm's exhibitionism. Very sad indictment of Norman Robinson's teaching style.
Is Akihito Isaka the one who stays in low stances and has amazing fighting style? I dont understand why in karate clubs they teach to kind of jump all the time in kumite. I understand the meaning of it but you can do same thing in neuromuscular perpective just liek this guy is doing. Jumping all the time is just waste of energy and also while you are "in the air" you are more vulnerable to attacks, at least in high level. I fight like this guy, just stand, move a little and wait the opening and attack.
I think that the jumping technique happened to evolve because of competition, making it useful to score points but less useful in a real situation. The technique is easy for beginners to pick up when they have little to no strategy (as in using sen no sen)
Yes, it's the same Isaka Sensei. I was in the JKA Hombu Dojo in the very early 1990s when they were in Ebisu and I got to train under Isaka Sensei quite a bit. Whenever he used me for demonstration, it always seems as if he were coming toward me on a skateboard. There was no up/down movement at all and he would either move in on me really slow or really fast, but the funny thing is, I couldn't tell if he was coming slow or fast. He was so deceptive. And he also used to do that thing where he would crawl toward you with his toes so you didn't even know he was moving. Then all of a sudden he would be there.
@@BooLee01 Thanks, great stuff. In our JKA sessions its always emphasized that your head level should not change in basic attacks. That makes it for the opponent much harder to figure out is something coming toward you or staying at same distance.. as you explained well in practise!
Ja, das Drehen über die Fersen habe ich auch schon vor vielen Jahren kennen gelernt und praktiziere es seitdem konsequent, aber manche Leute glauben es mir bis heute nicht....
Izumiya Sensei used to sometimes teach the other JKA Honbu instructors calligraphy back in the 1980s. He holds high rank it the art of calligraphy. I remember once in 1986 being asked by him to write out on a sign the English translation of the Japanese he had jut written to notify students of something. I did OK until the last couple letters. He asked me to sign it with his name. I wrote "Izumia" and he smacked me and yelled at me for forgetting the "y"! 😛
People need to appreciate how valuable RU-vid videos like are. I started in the early 1970’s and we were lucky enough to have Japanese JKA instruction but only during local gradings, and even then the lessons were focused on the Kyu Grade syllabus. So to get high level black belt instruction like this you had to go away for bespoke training courses. In the 1980’s & 1990’s I would train on Sensei Enoeda’s spring and autumn courses for sessions just like this from his guest JKA instructors. So you were limited to this quality of instruction to twice a year [or sometimes a couple more if other events were held] And then you had to remember what you had learned to assimilate it. so we Started to travel to Enoeda’s Dojo for extra training and even then it was pot luck on who was teaching and what level was being taught. ….. You still need to train in these sessions but you can now in these videos access reference to this knowledge at literally any time. ……. Thank you for posting these videos.
Sensei Naka is a great instructor! Anything he's in you can see the detail in his technique is just beyond amazing. Added note, I was a head instructor in TKD for 15 yrs, Olympic style, we didn't have realistic hand techniques like Shotokan karate has, I seen this so I asked our instructor to get some BJJ guys in. The last two years we had a blast. BJJ/MMA guys would come in after classes found out their were judo muay thai guys in there too so I took as many classes I could two hours of classes after i got done with teaching within six months my standing game cardio was through the roof and my ground game became second nature I was ecstatic . I think If I got back into the martial arts I would definitely take Shotokan its old school theres more strategic techniques that can be used in self defense if taught by a good instructor like Sensei NAKA! I would like to see Sensei Naka and Sensei Larry Tatum of kenpo Karate get together and talk about techniques! That would be very interesting seeing the different styles of self defense, it just amazes me with seeing instructors like Sensei Naka! Intelligent, Skill, and a great attitude while instructing.
