www.okikukai-ru... A very old kata originally from China, kata Okinawan style Hakutsuru (White Crane) Rubin Evgeny 4 dan Uechi ryu karate do Video by Roman Semenov (St. Petersburg Okikukai)
It's fun; although the Papuren kata was first introduced to Shito-ryu and they already got many things very wrong, Uechi people doing the same kata actually instinctively get certain aspects more correct. Cool! Good job!
Дмитрий Филинский I'm rather convinced that this is originally a Feeding Crane form. The Shito-ryu execution deeply misinterpretes many movements of this kata. His "Uechified" rendition fixes few of the issues - which is fantastic - although not all of them entirely, because the way of execution for some techniques has already changed past "the tipping point" where the original intent cannot be traced anymore without outside information.
Ville-Pekka Turpeinen I guess you saw Hayashi-ha-shito-ryu version. This is Mabuni-ha version. Of course it's not original Feeding Crane form. It has changed over 100 years. And of course Eugeny performs this kata with Uechi-ryu specifics. I just try to say, that in this situation is incorrectly to say "uechiryuka understand kata better then shitoryuka's". I know, what I'm talking about: he's friend of mine and we learned this kata together. Anyway Evgeny is a good karateka with deep and sharp understanding of kata.
I wonder how and when this kata entered the Mabuni lineage, since it was only first taught in Japan (and was never taught in Okinawa) probably in the late 50s or early 1960s by a Taiwanese crane stylist Cai Changgeng, who became the president of JKF in 1959. Mabuni died in 1958.
All of Mabuni died in 1958? :) I'm talking about Mabuni Kenei. He said that he studied this kata from Go Kenki. Perhaps he was cunning. And story about Sai Choko - is just one version. Of course, very similar to the truth, but only the version. Actually there is three quite different Papuren kata in Shito-ryu. Perhaps Mabuni Kenei was talking about another one.
