@@CornwallKarate It is. I used to teach with Anthony Woods and he always used to say how you thought outside the box. Since then I ve opened a small club in Lanner under the Sandokai Karate banner. It's small at the moment as we have nt even been open a year yet but I feel I need to impart this teaching on my students. Dom Arigato.
Good video, thanks. One thing about this hiki te stuff: Its a typical western way to think about a phenomenon in terms of "the reason for this is either the one OR the other". I personally think, pulling the arms of opponent away is only one aspect of this charakteristic hand position, as showed in so much styles. Thats the combat aspect. And its important - but its not "the only one reason". Another could be (and is) teaching basic movements and get the beginnerstudent to mindawareness control over BOTH hands all the time. Please note: In Kihon we start often with typical hikite to hip or chest area. But once the priciple is learned, we should go one step forward. Pulling the passiv hand to head is the more realistic version of the same move, because its supporting the action by other hand AND provides a chance for headcovering the same time. Another one is the power aspect, but to understand this, you have to understand, what hiki te really means and how it should look like. Hiki Te means not only "pulling hand back to hip" (or whereever). Its more meaned as a part of TWISTING THE BODY for strikes etc. If you twist your body, your shoulders follow. If shoulders follow, arms will follow. So Hikite is here more to be understand as "support move for body twist". As such it gives more power, because it forces the USE OF COREMUSCLES -> for powerful fullbodystrikes. And that IS a physical fact. (Btw: Exact this phenomen is shown so often by one of the powerful boxers of all time. Look close to the harder attacks by tyson, you will clearly notice, he is verry often using a hiki te like movement while exploding in his incredible powerful strikes. Why do his punches look the way they look?) To understand this phenomen fully, maybe this will help: Hikite should NOT feel like a sepparated pullbackaction of armmuscles only. It should feel more like the BODY is pulling back the hand. I know, many people in modern sportskarate do a hikite by a quick action of arrmuscles. This way it looks "snappy" and quick. But most of the traditional okinawan styles looking verry different here. Its clearly a fullbody-movement there. And this fullbody move does two things: It supports the forward striking hand with more (Core)power. AND it pulls the back hand much more stronger - which supports also the later "real" action application auf pulling the arm of opponent while striking him with other. Last point here, another reason: A back pulled hand strikes much harder for next attack. You can easyly prove it for yourself by tameshiwari. The back pulled hand will break more boards. Give it a try. Have fun!
Can we alter the technique to protect Pittsburgh perogies? They are smaller in size, and you can probably hold more than one in your pullback. I'm asking because I do not want to share.
You lucky bugger! You found one of the pages of a highly secret version of the bubishi. This appears to have come from the West Cornwall Pasty Company's staff self defense edition! Highly prized
Hilarious video! I love the deadpan humor! 😁 On a serious note, if it was indeed used to clear the opponent's guard prior to a counter-punch then shouldn't it be practiced open handed, not closed? The reason I ask is that Wing Chun has a similar move as part of it's forms (e.g. Si Lim Tao), but the hand is rotated open handed before being drawn back to the hip. (Wing Chun was dervived from Fujian White Crane Kung fu, which also heavily influenced Okinawan Te, so it shares some similar moves, stances and even Katas, with Okinawan Karate).
Yes hello, Sensei Bobby Shaneck, Goju-Ryu I have a copy of the Bubishi, along with some other serious books and writings. If you look at the bottom diagram of your secret page. You see the trapped arm of a man. Now starting in that position, use the technique from the upper diagram that you showed us, twisting your arm inward and down and back into the cocked position, while at the same time executing a forward strike. You would also be breaking the grip of your opponent. ???
Also you can use the bottom diagram to trap the arm, and the same time pulling your victim forward and into your forward punch, causing even more damage to your opponent. Than You
Also, not sure where you got the term “master” from as it it not used anywhere in the video that I recall 🤔 You may as well have said “low-level marshmallow” for all the sense it would have made 😂
