Great vids. My former instructor was from the Takeda Daito Ryu school (may he rest in peace) and everything that was shown in these 4 videos rings absolutely true to the ancient elite training techniques and one of the main reasons for this was the incorporation of wearing heavy armor. You had to move efficiently in combat to have energy for the battle. Great explanations by Sensei Amemiya.
Gotta say I love these videos covering the more subtle aspects of body mechanics like shutetsu, and now alignment and center axis. I feel like we’re getting a world class education in the higher aspects of technique, things that would normally be reserved for only a few who would give up everything and move to Japan, and study for years, but thanks to you we can learn many of these “secrets” and apply them to our practice much more easily. Thanks for these kinds of videos, they’re extremely valuable.
This is how Saotome Shihan (Aikido Hombu originally) has always moved and taught us to move. It’s part of why his Aikido looks effortless. But it is very powerful, full and efficient. And elegant.
I am new to karate and I have been watcho your videos intentionally it helped so much,its been 2 days i have joined karate and i dont know the blocks names proper could you make a video for that?and maybe a video on basic blocks and stretches??btw i have learned things from YOU that a black belt karate teacher Couldn't teach me in person 😂 big fan❤❤
Excellent content it's always good to study adapt every form of fighting as you are at in the lines of battle there is no this way or that way it is only how confident and how good a man is that determines how always work in this line of work as always enjoy every moment be well and fight on
I would love to see you try to learn some White Crane boxing in Fujian or somewhere and see the comparison to how it holds up to it's modern karate counterpart.
This is common in Chinese, separated into sticking and following. Through yi, "intent", in the mind. You make a connection with the attacker (down to his centre), and synchronise movements. You are not being faster than the opponent, you are following. You meet his attack, and stick to it. You then control; often you help the opponent go where he seems to want to go. Into the ground. But past you. This can look very leisurely and even slow, but there is efficiency, and it uses the opponents power, not yours. Of course it has to be understood and practised, to become innate.
@@KarateDojowaKu i believe it is, just differs at the start. the isujikuho starts with sitting on a chair, and then bow while standing. this one, he starts from standing and then bowing. very cool to see :)
no and yes. even before isujiku, Amemiya-sensei already demonstrated the kbr's posture which is very similar to isujiku(how the feet gets planted to the ground) but he himself said that the basics are very different. he applauded it and started taking notes from it. Btw Nishiyama-sensei(founder of isujiku) said that Amemiya-sensei has the strongest posture he has encountered.
sit stand walk run each can be done differently on what you want to achieve we have lost simple posture with modern living this should not need explanation it is us that have forgotten
Chair axis is clever incorporation of modern life into exercise! I'm working on how to incorporate smart phones into good posture and strengthening arms. Plus increasing awareness when crossing roads full of modern vehicles. Looking down at smartphones wrecks your posture, makes you use muscles in the neck to hold your head up. In turn causing stiffness (including rotational) and inducing kyphosis. Which causes problems all the way down to your sacro-iliac, even affecting your feet and agility. You notice these things in your seventies. Don't get bad habits in your thirties!
Considering Samurai didnt punch because punching armor is dumb id love to know where and when his clan came up with this punching technique. Looks adapted from another style not created
@@AwestrikeFearofGods up until the Edo period pretty much. And they wouldn't bother punching they'd stab. Most carried knives and other hand held weapons. If you are referring to dueling that happened after 1700s-1860s since the actual battlefield wars were done and the Tokugawa ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration. This was their wild West period and duels did happen but they weren't all the time. I've been doing Japanese Jujutsu for 20 years and many if not all of the punches came from other styles since the old family styles did not have them or focus on them. Open handed strikes were more prevalent or hammer fist type blows.
@@billgober2 Regardless of how much armored warfare favors grappling and/or armed strikes, every warrior-culture would have trained unarmed strikes. The hammer fist and knife-hand chop were preferred for greatly reduced risk of hand fracture. However, the punch is such a fundamental and effective attack, that any warrior worth his salt would have had a basic understanding of it, if not for offense, then at least for defense. Not all fights are fair duels. As someone who studies Japanese jujutsu, I'm sure you'd agree that a great deal of techniques focus on defense against less-than-honorable surprise attacks. Against a surprise attack, you often begin empty-handed, among other disadvantages. Such wariness and respect for a dangerous opponent extends to the etiquette, in the form of eye contact, attention, and distance management.
@@AwestrikeFearofGods that's all true regardless this technique didn't come from any Takeda related style or any random Samurai family. I've trained with many people and seen many styles and knowing how this works it was not in the Japanese bag to do strikes in this manner especially against an armored opponent like he's claiming it's for. Too many people in Japan come up with things and say it's from their family lineage or it's 2000 years old and it's not. The Japanese are too polite to call BS on it and westerners are too gullible to know. This technique looks like a Chinese style of striking and appears to implement the 7/10 principle Bruce Lee taught. If you look at Okinawan strikes they don't even punch this way and they integrated with Chinese white crane over time. So for this guy to say this is armor penetrating or his lineage passed this down for 1000 years I call bs. He trained with someone else who taught him this and he integrated it. It's a cool technique there's nothing wrong with the technique but his explanation of history on it is bs.
@@billgober2 I think you’re right about this not being an ancient Japanese technique, but I missed the part where he said it was a technique suitable against armored combatants. If this were more than a drill, why would he keep his hand open (sometimes) during the punch. I can’t rule it out as an ancient Japanese drill for demonstrating ancient Japanese principles. I’m familiar with Takeda lineage arts, but not his particular family. They could have their own secret sauce that was never shared until recently. Even if this isn’t an ancient drill, the principles he intends to demonstrate could come from his family. For example, the punch manages distance and unbalances the opponent upon contact. It is “aiki” in that respect.
If you can understand Japanese, he explains how he came to the current technique in other videos. I don't know if you're interested, but I think it's good to watch it.
There were six other families protecting Shingen, each of them were specialized in a different field, spears, bows, horses and such. Those families got the same crest of seven circles that symbolizes them. But then, he doesn't say like it's 100% accurate, rather like so it's said from a father to a son over generations without leaving any written records and that's 一子相伝 is like, according to him. There is also another guy who's family was protecting emperor families or (so he says) and he totally trusts Amemiya. I really don't know the truth, but those guys have amazing skills that's for sure. And among all those Japanese masters on You Tube, Amemiya especially is pure, humble and honest guy that often amazes me. I can't really imagine that he makes up stories to impress people.
He claims his family had been studied nameless techniques and they decided to modificative organize techniques into the system to prevent disappearing techniques into unknown that Now-successor, the master in the video, didn’t want to have children which means there will be no blood-successors. Due to the circumstance, they always saying: “we are modern martial arts, from our family ancient martial techniques. Not like 500 year old mystical style.”
@@Doskharaas I can hardly believe this story. It's more like the current master just learned these techniques in China, where similar techniques have been practiced for a long time.
Great vids. My former instructor was from the Takeda Daito Ryu school (may he rest in peace) and everything that was shown in these 4 videos rings absolutely true to the ancient elite training techniques and one of the main reasons for this was the incorporation of wearing heavy armor. You had to move efficiently in combat to have energy for the battle. Great explanations by Sensei Amemiya.
イス軸を分解して再構築しよった…
天才…
Gotta say I love these videos covering the more subtle aspects of body mechanics like shutetsu, and now alignment and center axis. I feel like we’re getting a world class education in the higher aspects of technique, things that would normally be reserved for only a few who would give up everything and move to Japan, and study for years, but thanks to you we can learn many of these “secrets” and apply them to our practice much more easily. Thanks for these kinds of videos, they’re extremely valuable.
It seems so basic but yet unknowingly we are out of alignment! Thank you for sharing Senseis
This is how Saotome Shihan (Aikido Hombu originally) has always moved and taught us to move. It’s part of why his Aikido looks effortless. But it is very powerful, full and efficient. And elegant.
I am new to karate and I have been watcho your videos intentionally it helped so much,its been 2 days i have joined karate and i dont know the blocks names proper could you make a video for that?and maybe a video on basic blocks and stretches??btw i have learned things from YOU that a black belt karate teacher Couldn't teach me in person 😂 big fan❤❤
Love the Taijutsu arts!
Excellent content it's always good to study adapt every form of fighting as you are at in the lines of battle there is no this way or that way it is only how confident and how good a man is that determines how always work in this line of work as always enjoy every moment be well and fight on
Great content as always! It would be great if you did (episode 5) on harmonization as I did not get how it was done/achieved. Did I miss it somewhere?
This was the only information I was get this time, so please look forward to more coming up in the future!
where is the part 2 of The Last Samurai please@@KarateDojowaKu
@@KarateDojowaKu That's impossible, he can't possibly be 500 years old!
@@R34L1T7 Some things are passed down through generations. Wisdom, for example. Or lack of it.
These are interesting concepts. Great video.
I would love to see you try to learn some White Crane boxing in Fujian or somewhere and see the comparison to how it holds up to it's modern karate counterpart.
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So how does one apply harmonisation to an opponents fast swiftly incoming kick or punch?
This is common in Chinese, separated into sticking and following. Through yi, "intent", in the mind.
You make a connection with the attacker (down to his centre), and synchronise movements. You are not being faster than the opponent, you are following. You meet his attack, and stick to it. You then control; often you help the opponent go where he seems to want to go. Into the ground. But past you.
This can look very leisurely and even slow, but there is efficiency, and it uses the opponents power, not yours.
Of course it has to be understood and practised, to become innate.
Is this supposed to be another video for Senda, the 4th strike?
Can you put subtitles in all languages?
oh that's a modified version of isujikuho exercise, right?
I'm not sure
@@KarateDojowaKu i believe it is, just differs at the start. the isujikuho starts with sitting on a chair, and then bow while standing. this one, he starts from standing and then bowing. very cool to see :)
no and yes. even before isujiku, Amemiya-sensei already demonstrated the kbr's posture which is very similar to isujiku(how the feet gets planted to the ground) but he himself said that the basics are very different. he applauded it and started taking notes from it. Btw Nishiyama-sensei(founder of isujiku) said that Amemiya-sensei has the strongest posture he has encountered.
@@genevievejoshuaoh that's some good info, thank you
改良と言う言い方だと、元が劣化版みたいな意味になってしまうので語弊があると思いますよ
影武流の軸はあえて不安定にしてるとおっしゃていましたし、椅子軸を参考にして影武流に合った形に再構築したのでしょう
Yuske, you should do a movie review on “The Last Samurai”. It was a great movie with lots of martial arts.
These principles are in the Kempo I practice that is heavily influenced by nami ryu
the concept is similar to Chinese Chi Kung and Tai Chi. Uprooting and being rooted.
And joining, sticking, following.
With chi gong and standing at post.
Using relaxed momentum rather than kinetics.
T'ai chi chuan.
yuske would you ever try taido?
I REALIZE KARATE IS A MOUNTAIN WHERE ITS SUMMIT IS HIGH UP IN THE CLOUDS.............
Does karate stance can hold the push of aikido?
Karate guy has no roots. His center of gravity is too high ,thus he can be ''uprooted'' easily.
sistema is using very similar tecnics
Wher is your dojo in japan
Their 4 principles is similar to the 4 principles of Systema
And systema is how old exactly?
雨宮先生じゃないか。
この打撃は猛烈に痛かった。
Seeing that makes me wanna go back to being a Doctor and doing chest x-rays on all of your ribs!
sit stand walk run each can be done differently on what you want to achieve we have lost simple posture with modern living this should not need explanation it is us that have forgotten
Bad posture.
Blame I-phones.
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影武流の姿勢矯正にイス軸の手法が加わりアップデートされてますね。この柔軟性が伝統という言い訳で新しい手法を取り入れない他の古武術との違いですね
雨宮先生の『家伝として伝わったもの』と、他流の『流派として残されているもの』とを比較して言い訳と言う言葉で片付けてしまうのは大変失礼ではないでしょうか？
生き残るために形を変えていく事と、昔の人が行った大変な技術を形として保存しつつ人に伝えることとでは存在目的が根本的に異なるのです。
アップデート(物事の発展)とは過去の蓄積の上に、新たなものが加わる事で成り立ちます。雨宮先生の技術のアップデートも、他流の先生と関わる中で行われました。それも、他流に昔から伝わる大変な技術が保存されてきたからこそできた事なのです。
世界中の戦闘技術の多くは、昔の戦士が行っていた技術から持ってきて現代戦闘に合わせてアップデートされたものです。
しかし、それも昔の戦士が行ったナイフ術などが残っていたからこそできた事です。
古いものを保存している古流の宗家の方々と、雨宮家伝体術として技を残す雨宮先生とでは背負っている重荷の性質が異なるので、まるで同質のものを比較して比べるのはよろしくないと思います。古流で伝える技術はアップデートしないことに価値があり、アップデート自体は個人の中で行われるのが、古流の技術の基本的な見方だと思います。
@@Fuji-K. これは確かに失礼いたしました。古流の先生に対して失礼な発言でした。
@@吉田さくら-x9d いえ、こちらこそ勢いで失礼な言い方をしてしまい申し訳ありませんでした。
イス軸を取り入れてるんか。
達人になっても、いいものをどんどん取り入れていく姿勢は見習うべきですね
Chair axis is clever incorporation of modern life into exercise!
I'm working on how to incorporate smart phones into good posture and strengthening arms.
Plus increasing awareness when crossing roads full of modern vehicles.
Looking down at smartphones wrecks your posture, makes you use muscles in the neck to hold your head up. In turn causing stiffness (including rotational) and inducing kyphosis. Which causes problems all the way down to your sacro-iliac, even affecting your feet and agility.
You notice these things in your seventies. Don't get bad habits in your thirties!
Considering Samurai didnt punch because punching armor is dumb id love to know where and when his clan came up with this punching technique. Looks adapted from another style not created
Do samurai only fight on the battlefield?
@@AwestrikeFearofGods up until the Edo period pretty much. And they wouldn't bother punching they'd stab. Most carried knives and other hand held weapons. If you are referring to dueling that happened after 1700s-1860s since the actual battlefield wars were done and the Tokugawa ruled Japan until the Meiji Restoration. This was their wild West period and duels did happen but they weren't all the time. I've been doing Japanese Jujutsu for 20 years and many if not all of the punches came from other styles since the old family styles did not have them or focus on them. Open handed strikes were more prevalent or hammer fist type blows.
@@billgober2 Regardless of how much armored warfare favors grappling and/or armed strikes, every warrior-culture would have trained unarmed strikes. The hammer fist and knife-hand chop were preferred for greatly reduced risk of hand fracture. However, the punch is such a fundamental and effective attack, that any warrior worth his salt would have had a basic understanding of it, if not for offense, then at least for defense.
Not all fights are fair duels. As someone who studies Japanese jujutsu, I'm sure you'd agree that a great deal of techniques focus on defense against less-than-honorable surprise attacks. Against a surprise attack, you often begin empty-handed, among other disadvantages. Such wariness and respect for a dangerous opponent extends to the etiquette, in the form of eye contact, attention, and distance management.
@@AwestrikeFearofGods that's all true regardless this technique didn't come from any Takeda related style or any random Samurai family. I've trained with many people and seen many styles and knowing how this works it was not in the Japanese bag to do strikes in this manner especially against an armored opponent like he's claiming it's for. Too many people in Japan come up with things and say it's from their family lineage or it's 2000 years old and it's not. The Japanese are too polite to call BS on it and westerners are too gullible to know. This technique looks like a Chinese style of striking and appears to implement the 7/10 principle Bruce Lee taught. If you look at Okinawan strikes they don't even punch this way and they integrated with Chinese white crane over time. So for this guy to say this is armor penetrating or his lineage passed this down for 1000 years I call bs. He trained with someone else who taught him this and he integrated it. It's a cool technique there's nothing wrong with the technique but his explanation of history on it is bs.
@@billgober2 I think you’re right about this not being an ancient Japanese technique, but I missed the part where he said it was a technique suitable against armored combatants. If this were more than a drill, why would he keep his hand open (sometimes) during the punch.
I can’t rule it out as an ancient Japanese drill for demonstrating ancient Japanese principles. I’m familiar with Takeda lineage arts, but not his particular family. They could have their own secret sauce that was never shared until recently.
Even if this isn’t an ancient drill, the principles he intends to demonstrate could come from his family. For example, the punch manages distance and unbalances the opponent upon contact. It is “aiki” in that respect.
Serizawa is that you????
That's impossible, he can't possibly be 500 years old!
Kudo
😂
Huh...Systema?
It seems to be a different martial art from Systema. He interacts with the Systema instructor in other videos and then has a conversation.
Do you really believe him about 500 year old samurai martial Art? 😏
If you can understand Japanese, he explains how he came to the current technique in other videos.
I don't know if you're interested, but I think it's good to watch it.
@@コジコジ-s5t No, i don`t understand Japanese.
There were six other families protecting Shingen, each of them were specialized in a different field, spears, bows, horses and such. Those families got the same crest of seven circles that symbolizes them. But then, he doesn't say like it's 100% accurate, rather like so it's said from a father to a son over generations without leaving any written records and that's 一子相伝 is like, according to him.
There is also another guy who's family was protecting emperor families or (so he says) and he totally trusts Amemiya. I really don't know the truth, but those guys have amazing skills that's for sure. And among all those Japanese masters on You Tube, Amemiya especially is pure, humble and honest guy that often amazes me. I can't really imagine that he makes up stories to impress people.
He claims his family had been studied nameless techniques and they decided to modificative organize techniques into the system to prevent disappearing techniques into unknown that Now-successor, the master in the video, didn’t want to have children which means there will be no blood-successors.
Due to the circumstance, they always saying: “we are modern martial arts, from our family ancient martial techniques. Not like 500 year old mystical style.”
@@Doskharaas I can hardly believe this story. It's more like the current master just learned these techniques in China, where similar techniques have been practiced for a long time.
2nd
Looks like aikido mixed with systema,,,,nothing pratical