Sanchin Arm Thrusting: The Uechi-ryu Method
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Gain a deeper understanding of Uechi-ryu's signature kata, Sanchin, by studying the Anatomy of Arm Thrusting with Chip Quimby. Recorded at his dojo in Peabody, Massachusetts, Chip provides an introduction into the structure and philosophy of arm-thrusting as it relates to the practice of Uechi-ryu. Topics covered include: proper muscular tension and control; benefits of visualization; striking methodology and rationale; and common misconceptions associated with Sanchin kata practice.
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I've been a karateka over 50 yrs. Although I taught Shotokan for many yrs I was taught this version of sanchin by my Shotokan Sensei. This is by far the best explanation and breakdown I've ever seen. Sometimes an individual who has become what he has practiced can simplify the details and our understanding explodes! Thank You. Great video.
Thank you very much for the feedback. We're really glad you found the video beneficial.
Great stuff! Thanks for posting. So nice to see Authentic Karate being carried on in the states.
Theory in practice. With the instruction on a single movement you have opened a door to a kata that can be studied for a lifetime. Thank you!
Thank you Sir - I appreciate your comment.
Thanks for this valuable tutorial. Don't think that sanchin breathing deserve a exclusive tutorial ? As how to breathe in each part of the kata
Great suggestion! Thanks for your comment.
I would also appreciate a video on the breathing patterns of Sanchin Kata done the Uechi way. My background is Kyokushin starting when I was around 22 and just turned 75 last month. Karate is in my blood so bad, but I started having lumbar problems a couple of years after I started. Between 4 lumbar surgeries and many insults putting me on floor for several weeks or more. Then came cervical problems screwing my neck, and right shoulder up. Now I'm deal with 2 numb, asleep feet and legs which has made me loose my balance. I used to go class 2x week and train alone 4-5 days alone. I have basically had to stop my training and I'm really pissed. As far as Sanchin in Kyokushin, we really made unnecessary very loud exhalation which I see as not needed. Also very large circular motions.
I'm really intrigued by all Uechi Ryu Kata and would love to learn some. At present I would like info and demo of Sanchin breathing your way. 1st book and still have by Sensei George Mattson RIP. If you will make a video of Sanchin breathing the Ueichi way with explanation, this 75 yr young Karate-ka would be grateful. Sorry for long winded, do you have a phone were I can speak with you? I would greatly appreciate it so I can pick your brain. ☮️🥋
Thank you for your great video. It was very insightful and I learned a lot. Coming from Goju Ryu I really am enjoying the Uechi Style.
Thank you Mike! I appreciate the comment. Hope your training is going well.
This is probably the best explanation I've ever come across.. Thank you, sir. Take care and stay safe.
Thank you very much for your comment sir - much appreciated.
Very concise and succinct explanation of this part of Sanchin. All presentations and video demonstrations should be of this high quality. Thanks for sharing.
Wow this channel is really beautiful your details are really artful. I’ve only seen Hotton Sensei have that sort of deep passion for the clarity of details.
Thank you very much. That's quite a compliment! 🙏🏼
Great video, I learned a tremendous amount. I’d love to see more on the intricacies of San chin from your perspective.
Thank you very much sir - I really appreciate it.
Thank you Chip very interesting and very well explained !
Thank you for your support Lionel. I really appreciate it. I hope you and your family are safe and well.
This video was meant for me! Thank you Sensei, your friend from TN!
Thank you sir! Yes, it was made for you. Thanks for your support.
Sensei Chip very good video thanks for sharing your understanding
Thank you Felix! I appreciate your comment.
Thank you for this instruction.
You are welcome James! Thank you for your support.
Arigatou Sensei....Great ideas to incorporate in my practice.
Thank you for the comment sir - much appreciated.
Not too long ago, I came across the idea of seeing Sanchin kata also as a strategy. This opened doors for me, making much of the training and movements of this kata take on a definite practical aspect.
Thanks for the comment Lloyd! I appreciate your support.
Thank you Sensei, great video
Pete Authelet - thank you sir. I really appreciate it.
I normally go too fast on my katas. Thank you for the information on how to apply the power on the strikes. I am a 50 year practitioner of Isshinryu and added Uechi ryu four years ago. I am with Sensei Thompson. He counts all of the katas something that I never did in Uechi ryu. I will add the five count drill to my practice. I have my own FB as well. I will invite you to my page. Kind regards. John Blacha
Thank you for the kind words, sir - very much appreciated.
Great instructional
Thank you for your comment!
Excelente explanation about nukite and very nice Dojo, domo arigato
Glad you liked it! Thank you very much for your comment - I really appreciate your support. Wishing you the best in your training.
Greetings from Argentina.
I really enjoy your video. I´m Sensei Gondra´s student. Do you know him?
I practice Karate from almost 40 years ago, begining in Shorin Ryu, but start in Uechi Ryu in 2001, and i´m sandan at this moment.
Different lines, little diferences in techniques, but the same spirit.
Hope you and your beloved are (and will be!) OK. Be careful.
... and excuse my poor english :D
Thank you very much for your kind message. Yes, I know sensei Gondra. I hope you and your family are safe and well too. God bless.
All of your vivideos are excellent. I wish I could attend your school. I do not understand the purpose for the open hand thrusts. What is the target? Isn't a nukite a weak weapon? I have never thought a spear hand strike had any practical purpose unless it is aimed at a soft target? Thanks.
Sanshin cultivates tendons , tendon strength and strengthen one's structure. And cultivates an explosive ability in one's tendons much like Chinese martial arts Ji-lik training.
Do you have bunkai for this one?
I have one bunkai of shuto uke I like to know what you think.
You brush opponent's punch or leadhand with the shuto that go to your neck, the hikite arm grabs lapel of opponent, so now you got opponent's lead arm between your two arms, you pull the lapel with hikite arm as you strike the opponent's neck with your shuto.
This is my outside bunkai of shuto uke, let me know what you think
Thank you for your question sir. I'm not following exactly, but typically, the first section of the strike when one hand is brought over to the other is used to re-direct the opponent's linear-based attack. After the attack is re-directed, the depender's opposite hand would be used to control the limb so that a counter attack could be executed. I believe we're talking about the same thing. The technique is very simple however quite effective. I hope this explanation offers some value.
@@AuthenticKarateTCWestPeabody yes that's the force and motion, try even grabbing lapel of opponent and pulling it to your hip and see the response. I hope to see more of those closerange bunkai where you use the hikite on opponent to either control arm or gi, this is what real karate is, look at okinawan close range fighting, in their kakie drill they spar with their eyes closed because they can do anything technique once the handconnect.
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@@IbrahimKhalil-bt9yh - thank you sir! Indeed that is a lot of fun! : D
@@AuthenticKarateTCWestPeabody no thank you, you have very good form and when you show the technique and you correct me in many details of how to move the arms exactly.
Hie sir iam your new subscriber I want to know iam practicing iron hand training at my home daily early morning lcompleted my training my hand is lilbit heavy please give me some tips I want to break bricks
Hi Sir. In same approach of yours, I want to share my point of view, in order to feed the work of all people who want to understand and practise authentic Uechi Ryu Karate
1.I think Sanchin aims to teach how produce effective, fast and powerful strike. Why this thought? Sanchin is the first kata and the most important one in a discipline for fight. Old masters said that if you have to practice only one kata, it must be Sanchin. The most important ability in such a discipline is striking. It’s difficult to think that this kata doesn’t teach how strike effectively. Other reason: In fighting discipline, you have to develop your body condition in a way that doesn’t reduce your ability to strike effectively. Other reason: If effective striking is not taught in Sanchin, where is it taught? and where is it taught in a better way than in Sanchin?
2.So the question is how striking is taught in Sanchin. That meets one of the most fundamental question in Karate and Uechi Ryu in particularly: How is power generated? It’s not by rotation of the body like doing in boxing: It never has body rotation in any kata when a strike is thrusted. You mentioned one of the way in the video: Bow principle or Elastic principle. It can be done as well in Sanchin than in other kata. A second way is to use the brief, strong and explosive expiration. Expiration has to be the motor of the movement, not be doing “in parallel” of the movement (i.e. not at the same time without a very important impact of expiration on the movement). Hope to watch other interesting video like this one. BR.
Greeting sir! Thank you very much for your thoughtful and detailed comments, sir. I appreciate your contributions and agree and that thoughtful dialogue, exchange and analysis will contribute to the greater good and further understanding of the art.
Allow me to further clarify my statements. First, it’s my opinion that Sanchin kata keiko will greatly enhance one’s ability to nurture, generate and transfer power, particularly when delivered in the forward direction through linear arm thrusting. I do not believe, however, that this is the only goal of Sanchin training. If the purpose of Sanchin kata were only focused on performing the most powerful thrust possible, a number of modifications could be made throughout the body which would further serve this goal and ultimately increase arm thrusting velocity and the transfer of force.
It’s my belief that the primary goal of Sanchin training is the development of proper body structure, which among many things, also includes effective arm thrusting. It’s interesting to note that many venerated masters in Uechi-ryu, despite being capable of thrusting with tremendous power, intentionally do not use it while practicing Sanchin. This can be seen durning both their more formative years as well as well into their prime. I would also humbly offer other Ryu-ha as examples of this. Goju-ryu, for example, utilizes Sanchin kata for many of the same reasons as Uechi-ka, yet they practice at a much slower pace. I would not suggest that they are any less powerful because of this adaptation, nor for Miyagi Chojun sensei’s decision to change the hands from an open to a closed-fist position.
In terms of the koshi-no-kaiten, many practitioners say that Uechi-ryu does not utilize this principle, and that they never use their hip, however I am not one of them. I believe in using very slight, hip-pulse-rotation to assist in launching linear techniques, and find it to be an incredibly effective method of catapulting a strike forward. Similarly, many Okinawan master whom I've studied with will also tell you that they use this principle, as do many practitioners of southern Chinese systems, like Feeding Crane, who are renowned for their power delivery.
Thank you again for your comments and I look forward to further exchange.
I'm not sure about what you said about power doesn't come from the rotation of the body in Karate.
I'm pretty new to Uechi-Ryu but I did 10 years of Wado-Ryu Karate and many techniques get their power from hips rotation, at least in the kata. It's the same in Shotokan and I believe in most of karate style as well.
What you said is probably true for Uechi-Ryu but not for karate in general.
@@jean4j_, thank you for your comment and contributions. You'll find no disagreement from me regarding the body's ability to generate and deliver rotational force in karate. In sanchin kata practice however, particularly in the Uechi-ryu lineage of Okinwan karate, rotational power and torquing of the hips is something that is extremely subtle and minute. So I agree with you that it can be a very powerful method of generating force, however it's just not something that is encouraged in Sanchin training...especially in Okinawa. Moreover, what you see me doing here, relative to body rotation in this and other videos, might be considered by most Uechi standards to somewhat considerable. But I'm big believer in it so what I do I'm doing by design and very deliberately.
Certainly not the only way up the mountain though sir, as we all know. Good luck with your training and thanks again for your comments.
@@AuthenticKarateTCWestPeabody Thank you for your response and much thanks for all the good work. I've been watching your videos about Sanchin and Hojo Undo.
The way Uechi seems not using too much hips into the motion is actually very Wing Chun like (which I practiced for a year) and it makes sense given the root of karate.
Like it's the case for Wing Chun, speed is preferred over strength, especially when it comes to self-defense.
That's also why Bruce Lee prefer to have his strongest punch forward.
You're right, I will not discard my previous trainings. Both approach have benefits. Depends on the situation and the range.
Well said my friend!
sensei quimby great video. can you upload one one kanshu kata!
Thanks for your comment...I appreciate. Wishing you well with your training.
Here's a video I made of Kanshu kata - hope it's helpful.
ruclips.net/video/ObjlYZbY14E/видео.html
The main point is to jab the eyes and grab the groin. End it quick and simple.
Thats the last attack in sanchin, too bad I don't know what its called
3:42 Hypnosis - need an average Life.