Just beginning to re-learn Heian Nidan after nearly two decades. My Shotokan dojo teaches the two or double hammerfist(s) from the back stance, especially the second one, at an upper angle, with the second strike from that position.
I studied karate about 10 years ago and now I want to go back to it a bit. And thanks to you, I gradually remember what I knew and learn new things. Thanks ;)
These videos are so awesome, easily the best I've come across. I practised Karate for about 9 years but gave it up for one reason or another and many many years later I now want to get back into it. Having to admit that you've forgotten everything you'd learnt is a hard pill to swallow, but thanks to these videos, I'm finding that I'm picking Katas back up quickly! Thank you!
Thank you so much this video has helped me alot ! Our sensai has'nt teach heian nidan yet so i just thought to learn this already and be perfect quickly when we learn this ! Once again thank u !
My sons and I have started taking Shotokan Karate and your videos are the absolute best at explaining the different katas. I normally don't subscribe to channels, but I did to yours! Thank you for taking the time to really explain the different katas, breaking them down step by step, and how they are implemented in a block / strike situation. This information is extremely valuable for up and coming students!
thank you so much this will be so helpful for my grading next week Edit: I forgot to say but I passed it and became a green belt but I have already done another grading after that so now I'm blue belt
It took you a week? Oh no, I’m returning to karate after a one year break within a month and I’m trying to review. If it took you a week for 1 kata I’m screwed 🤣🥲
Thank you for this video and your explinations. I train a group of kids and because of the lockdown here in Germany there is no training. I've recommended you to them, so they don't forget the kata (what happens within a week ;)) Therefor, Funakoshi roule No. 11: "Karate is like boiling water. If you do not heat it constantly, it will cool." (Message of this weeks exercise sheet)
Hello Karate Dojo Waku thank you so much for uploading this video I'm in yellow belt and i was having problems with learning Heian Nidan but your video helped me a lot i hope your channel gets 100000000000000 subscribers
There is a pattern in ITF Taekwondo that is around 60% similar with Heian Nidan / Pinan Sono Ni. The name of the ITF pattern is Won Hyo tul. For your next video, maybe you can make a review to compare between Heian Nidan / Pinan Sono Ni versus Won Hyo tul.
Love the power, speed and emphasis you put on your patterns, but the Bunkai needs a lot more thought. For a start, in many examples you do not have to even move because you are well out of range of the attacker. Place the attacker where they can hit you and the bunkai will change too, becoming more realistic and less stylish.
It appears that your background is influenced by Takushoku University, JKA and perhaps Mr. Nishiyama. My background is influenced by Waseda University, Mr. Egami, SKA and Mr. Ohshima. Our Heian Nidan is very similar, but with some differences. The hip movements in and out at the beginning we don’t do (I emphasize a hip movement in when the back hand does the Gedan hammer fist (block or attack) and right hip back out when the front hand does it’s Tsuki. Our back stance doesn’t leave the front foot ahead of the knee, but directly below the knee. When doing the Ude Uke on the back side of the Kata, I learned it with a VERY dramatic hip turn (far enough that the back foot rotates so the thigh closes off the groin from attack). When I first learned the Kata (before you were born I’d guess-LOL), the teacher kept asking everyone if their hip was turned enough. Everyone kept answering “Hai!”. Then he walked over to one guy and kicked him in the groin, dropping him to the floor. Everyone in the room found that there hips would turn just a little further. Now when matching and someone gets very close to me, my hips automatically turn with no thought from me.
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Hi - can I ask what you mean by 'application'? I assume it's application for a certain type of competition? As opposed to a realistic application that probably is far closer to what Itosu had in mind when he devised the kata? Given the influence you have perhaps you can consider explaining the difference between practical karate and competition karate?
Yusuke Sensei, I miss a detailed and complete Heian Nidan Kata tutorial. Could you please upload this sometime? I would love to learn it from YOU. That would be nice. Thank you very much in advance and my best wishes, Fuyuda
I recall learning movement 2 as you are showing it, but in M Nakayama's Best Karate book, the instruction in Japanese is "Migi kentsui hidari sokumen uchi-komi, Hidari tekubi nagashi-uki". The English translation, in the book, for the left side is "strike to left side with right hammer fist". Is there a mistake in the translation as what you are showing, and how I was taught, is not a hammer fist strike.
Interesting point in my club in Karate Union of Great Britain(KUGB) where taught the third and fifith movement where youre doing a tettsui uchi we punch straight out. I think everything else is the same.
Itosu Anko created "Karate-do" from Tode-jutsu for use in the schools. He took out the deadly self-defense techniques to make it safe for children. He created the Heian katas as part of his PE curriculum. They were not meant to be applicable for self-defense.
C how I would of block that ice pick from hitting my head if I seen it coming but did not for that wasn't my attention at that time was to protect both party's
So why is the right hand in what appears to be a age uke (jodan uke)? I've never received a good explanation on that....I believe the official JKA explanation is that after the first block it's an attack to break the opponents arm which has never really made sense because unless you grad the arm with your left hand I don't think it's possible to break it....last is a punch to the throat.
okay so im late but with age uke if someone tries to strike for your head you do age uke but you could after they strike with your free hand counter correct me if im wrong
With such a big platform, Yusuke-san, I really wish you wouldn’t show such outdated and impractical movements as “bunkai.” It misleads so many who trust your content, and makes it that much harder for us as karateka to teach application practices that are practical and related to actual combative principles. I know certain Shotokan organizations have a very choreographed view of what “bunkai” is, but surely as someone as connected to the karate community online as you are, you’ve had the opportunity to see / learn that simply standing there and doing the kata movements against someone’s stationary oi tsuki is not good karate. (As you’ve collaborated with Jesse Enkamp before, and use his name in your hashtags, at minimum I expect you’ve seen his many videos on this exact subject!) It worries me to see this comment section of so many people blindly trusting the example you are setting - but I hope you see that trust as an obligation to share better, more realistic and practical content going forward.
