Okinawan Seidokan Karate and fitness training. 8th degree black belt, over 45 years martial arts training and teaching. MsEd in Sports Conditioning and Human Performance. From head trainer to collegiate strength and conditioning coach to college fitness program instructor.
Very low level and slow techniques. I understand explaining a technique for a demo should be slower, but you full speed technique is too slow because of bad form and you taking extra steps.
Great for the application of Tuidi. I've been generating spontaneous attack responses with various colleagues of different martial arts. I recently went to a Jiu Jitsu school and learned how a Peruvian Necktie feels.
Thank you for this ... :)) ... actually I am Czech and our native language is from the fonetic perspective very close to Japanese. So for us is very easy to pronounce Japanese words pretty good. As I am practicing in Germany now, I find the german pronuncation of japanese words very strange but I have to tolerate. So for me the issue of the Japanese words pronuncation only appears when I am in English, French, German speaking countries. :)) But not in my home country or in Japan.
Great video Sensei but out of respect for the country of origin would you please refrain from calling it KUH RAH TEE and label it as its correct name KARA = Empty (Kahra) as in ka as in Cat -ra as in rat Te =Hand Teh (as in get or bet) otherwise excellent information and professional instruction Sensei.
This is fantastic! I trained under Tamae Sensei in 2009-2010 while in Okinawa. He is an excellent martial artist and instructor, and he ignited a passion in me! 🥋
these dojo's with a wooden floor like this always makes me think that they are just for decoration, not for training. I mean, I feel a strong contradiction between that floor and those kettlebells for instance. Doesn't it break and tear really easily ?
The kettlebells have rubber bases. Most Okinawan dojos have wood floor, as do most Japanese homes. It's very common. In Okinawan dojo with wood floors, they will usually place mats in the area where chiishi, sashi, tetsu getta, and other hojo undo equipment is used.
Our version of Naihanchi is very close to yours, with only two slight differences. First is the movement through kosadachi. Our feet slide rather than lift and stomp. The second is the second block in the sweep check series. Ours is more of a lower out to inside block. I know the head of our system was a student of Toma Seiki so there is a lot of Seidokan in our kata and kihon.
Lack of strength and rush. It's obvious that they don't train to compete, but doing such kata for 1st kyu grading should be a fail. It shouldn't be only about knowing the moves, especially with such a short kata. If the video was uploaded to promote the club it's not the best choice.
Nice video. Great historical overview. Since Niahanchi is part our Seidokan system, it makes sense to do that iron shirt training there. I did not know that historically, Niahanchi was used in this way. Interesting to me. Do you believe Niahanchi to be equivalent in terms of "iron shirt" training? It makes sense, to me, in some ways, but I do not understand how it could be as good as Sanchin, since the legs are spread in Nihanchi, where in Sanchin dachi, they contribute to the lower-body portion of the protection. One of the drills I incorporate into Sanchin is the centerline stepping, while checking the stance though movement. The 'squeeze-extend' stepping is prominent in Sanchin, which is important when moving. Can you comment?
The iron shirt component is accomplished by "shime" or impact training. The only difference is the opponent is at a 45° instead of directly in front. That's the misunderstanding of the groin vulnerability. At a 45° angle, horse stance protects just as well as Sanchin from he front, PLUS the foot sweeping and cross stepping address this.
Another great video, a little bit faster paced as well. I enjoy the faster pace as it represents real life situations. Also, congratulations Max on getting your black belt. I'd like to see this page post a video with Max speaking about his journey and how far he has come since white belt.
Those who know, know. When Fumio Demura does a 2 hour seminar on it, including the techniques I teach, it's time to listen. I attended it 30 years ago, but still valid.
Oss! 🥋 The hitting away of the hand from a grab (which is example 2) using down block is not a good way for we have learned to improve this idea. The 'hikite' hand is not and idel hand. When cuffed it means that it has being grabing or holding on to somthing...... No offence sensi. Thanks for your patience and time for making these videos available. Oss🥋!
@@Utahokinawanseidokankarate... No doubt, but in a self defense position if done as show here it is putting yourself ata disadvantage or on the same par with your attacker. Oss! Other wise. Love your videos. 🥋❤️🥉🏅
@@Utahokinawanseidokankarate yep, but you can't do that in a real fight.... You will get beat up. Only in the dojo you can perform but not in the real world. No offence sensi. 😔🥋Oss!✌️
@@sramdeojohn4428 MMA was only an example, and rules or no, they are really fighting! Telling someone who has actually done something that what they have actually done won't work us hubris. A simple search of street fight videos will yield results of all sorts of things working that "don't work" according to someone.
Oss! The first move "block" is questionable.... 🥋 The hikite hand is idel or no explanation was given for the hikite hand. In any application both hands must have an explanation. Every kata starts with an attack or strke/joint lock etc... defence against an opponent... Never a 'block' 🥋✌️
Thank you for your input. I don't disagree and you're not wrong, but I've made clear in the past several points. a - we weren't there when the kata were created. b - the hikite IS active depending on the application level you choose, (Notice at 7:15 the hikite used pulling on the elbow) usually starting at the "ura" level. I've explained in several earlier videos the paradigm - omote/ura/henka/sutemi, or ge/chu/jo, if you like. c - I have, in earlier videos, made clear that there are many levels of possible interpretation, and the words "always" or "never" are dangerously closed ways to see things. d - In Okinawan karate, there is no "oss". 😉 (Not a criticism, but a lighthearted observation.) e - most of the applications I show publicly are "omote", or simple obvious, with only hints at deeper or "truer" meanings. Note at the 3 minute, I definitively say "basic". d - contrary to the contemporary belief of many, sometimes a block IS just a block, although the term "block" is wrong, since it SHOULD be considered a strike to the attacking limb, so... Thanks again for your feedback!
this style of karate was once the most popular karate style in Greece specially in 80s. although is called Okinawa te tai karate do in greece its the same.
From what i have read Bill Zahopoulos was taught this style from former marine Les Mayo who had opened the Academy of Okinawan Karate , north of New York. Les Mayo had taught this style from Okinawa .At the beginning of 70s Bill came back to Greece where he opened his first dojo. After that and until the end of 80s hε had opened over 100 karate schools all over the country. Bill had said that is Shian Toma and Uehara Seikichi his grandmasters. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wwhd_ttPdX8.html@@Utahokinawanseidokankarate
I was hoping to go back a bit further to the okinawan source. At first glance, we are quite different, but as we are both from Okinawa, I will research the origins.
Thank you for showing the crossblock/choke option without the Gi. Very promising. Max is also a very good performer as well, and I'm excited to see him get his blackbelt in the future.... in other news, I just received my first stripe on my brown belt. #imeatingacustard #cheezeits #cinderblocks #valuableinformationasalways #brownbelt #turningtheleaf
Please could you explain also the usage in the other "blocks"? With soto and age uke is easier to understand, in all the styles are almost the same but the rest have a lot of difference between styles, and I usually can't find specific tutorials for Seidokan or at least shorin and motobu ryu, 90% of the karate explanations are for shotokan
How would you approach if there isn't a cuff to hold onto? For example, if they had shorts. When you do the flip, do you grab on the knee? Just curious because I live in a very warm environment. By the way, great performance out of you in this video. #brownbelt #funnel #custard
That's one of the reasons I showed the various options. The pants waist or belt position would work for shorts. The groin lift while pushing down the head always works.
I was just showing this kata by Sensei Caggiano yesterday so thank you so much as always for providing me a reference to help me learn the basic movements and then on my refinement on my own time!
