I searched for practical, realistic kata application for my entire youth and couldn't find a single sensei to teach me, so I quit practicing karate. Now I'm happy to see that much people was in the same quest as me by that time and gave Karate real life again. Though I'm older, I'm eager to return practice.
"Daft distancing"... I love it. You are of course quite right, you often see karate people practicing at *ridiculous* distances. I actually have a video on my channel in which I try explain how unrealistic distance completely distorts the art called "Realistic Bunkai and Combative Distance". I love Naihanchi because it is nice close fighting and is very pro-active in dealing with an attacker's own defensive reactions. The masters who invented/developed it were very insightful and realistic.
This is the real deal. Thank you for posting this enlightening instructional video. Karate community needs this approach more than the oxygen we need to breathe.
Insightful analysis of an extraordinary Kata that is often misunderstood or ignored. Please keep this level of instruction coming. Thanks very much for sharing it.
Mr. Parker your analysis and presentation of the bunkai is absolutely amazing and informative. I can't say enough at how blown away I am. Motobu Choki's statement of "the contents of Naifanchi contain everything one needs to be an effective fighter" you sir have clearly demonstrated that in spades! I look forward to diving into more of your videos, Thank you. Bows.
Glad to see your feeling better, I've recently overcome esophageal cancer and have been told by my doctors that my physical condition (I'm 63) had a lot to do with my recovery. I'm sure the same is true in your case. Seven times down, eight times up! I've enjoyed your videos and have found them very informative, answering many questions about the kata for me. Keep up the good work.
This is the first video that introduced me to you and immediately knew you were the real deal. That's why I watch everything I can that you've put up, because there is a wealth of knowledge you have that is seriously worth studying. Thank you for posting.
Mr. Parker thank you! This video is a wonderful learning tool. I've been studying Matsubayashi ryu for 7 years. This type of break down on the movements within a Kara go even farther than the bunkai does. The slow motion break downs and different angles make it a wonderful resource.
Thankyou for posting, I had the pleasure of training with Taira sensei in Okinawa last August. So fluid and so much to offer.He is amazing. The karate community is slowly gaining a better identity and relationship with it`s art thanks to you guys. Keep up the good work. Thankyou.
Thanks for posting, filming, thinking, editing, etc... I love to see Okinawan Karate get attention because it really is amazing. More importantly, the spirit of the educational methodology is inspiring. "Here's the puzzle, Go!"
+Ryan Parker, I found your facebook group and karate piqued my interest like it had never before. Now I've been diligently exploring Naihanchi and it's like I've been introduced to karate for the first time in my life despite being "familiar" with it and several kata for over a decade. Arigato!
Just adding my support too for kata applications where the attackers doesn't look like a complete knob and it's done at a realistic distance. Great job of making sense of kata and using them as a tool or text book. 'Ask the kata'. Love it.
Thanks for posting, filming, thinking, editing, etc... I love to see Okinawan Karate get attention because it really is amazing. More importantly, the spirit of the educational methodology is inspiring.Excellent!
I completely concur and appreciate you sharing what you've learned. The Ryukyu kingdom may not have been a powerful empire but it was not an insignificant back-water country either. It was one one the major trade hubs in Asia and Okinawan maritime routes were quite vast with Okinawan sailors frequently setting foot on soil throughout East Asia and South East Asia. Ryukyu martial arts were likely quite cosmopolitan in their influences IMHO, with Chuan Fa being only part of the overall story...
Mr. Parker, thanks a lot. Sometimes I feel that karate is taught like christianism: in parables (=kata), to look without seeing, until someone gives you the clue, lest they learn.
so nice to see karate that doesn't rely on daft distancing and a cooperative attacker who holds his punch in front of him and the back fist on the hip while you try to apply some block. :) Thanks. Wish I'd been taught this way 20 years ago. Maybe then I wouldn't have stopped training for 15 years...
Yes, to some extent. I no longer focus much on TCM type analysis of techniques but I certainly still pay close attention to the range of possible targets (some seemingly innocuous) and methods for exploiting them.
Great video thanks very useful. it has expanded my thoughts on how katas can be utilised in so many different ways..naihanchi is what I am learning and practising at the moment it has certainly helped me with that.
This is excellent, i can not wait for the next installment. I would enjoy anything of this nature for future videos, but if i could choose i would probably like to see more advanced application regarding to the naihanchi kata, as there has been a lot of beginner and intermediate bunkai so far. Thanks for the great video Ryan!
Nicely explained ! Very similar and almost identical to Silat moves.... looking back at history, Okinawa has always been in close network with the. Malay nation and Archipelago (ie NUSANTARA as we call it - Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei...) where Silat is the traditional warfare and art of self preservation....
Nicely done. The preservation of the center line along with body angles and near simultaneous block and strike techniques are a good indication we are looking at pre 1879 technique. I believe we need to do much more research into Itosu to learn the bunkai of the kata.
We don't have this kata in our branch of okinawan karate(goju ryu). But I find this fascinating, the "Oh I get!"-level on this are amazing. Truly insightful.
My dad studied under Kuda sensei in the early 70's. He still practices on occasion. My dad said that he was taught that the lateral movements in the Naihanchi was to defend against when your back was against a wall, hence the lateral steps.
Wow! I only recently have come upon your RUclips Channel, but it brought up an immediate urge to share what I had seen with my own Sensei and friends. Very informative and impressive videos! Even if my Shuri-ryu Naihanchi Shodan is slightly different, this video has given rise to much contemplation!
I've had a surprising amount of requests for a video on footwork/tenshin/tai-sabaki. So I definitely will be doing a video on that topic. Actually I think that footwork is one of the things that differentiates Western bunkai from the bunkai of some Okinawan teachers. Unfortunately my legs/feet have more loss of function from GBS than my upper body so I will have to take some time and do it right...
Thanks for the reply, i now understand where your coming from, i was just thrown off a bit by the title labels (my fault). please keep the great videos coming, especially the videos focusing on the principles behind the kata as these are so often either neglected or not even understood by any means. I recommend checking out Ian Abernethys web site, articles, blogs and you tube for some great realistic kata application and approach to karate in general.
I love this video. You've got a wonderful teaching style. On a side note... I've read that cannabidiol (CBD), has shown promise as a treatment for Guillain-Barré syndrome. I wish you the best.
Thanks so much for this video Mr. Parker. I have a 2nd Dan in Tang Soo Do & for a while now I have been very interested in bunkai. Lot's of the lower ranks don't seem to understand the importance of forms or how to add power so I have wanted to see if teaching bunkai would help them understand. I wanted to start by teaching the 1st Dan's bunkai for Naihanchi but I have trouble figuring out bunkai & how to teach it on my own. This helped a lot.
Muy bueno el vídeo y la explicación Ryan parker. Desde un principio hay que analizar los katas al completo sino son ,como dice J.A Blanco, simples ejercicios gimnásticos. Thanks Ryan.
Ryan; Sorry to hear about your difficulties. You're not alone. I have train around my disabilities myself. I know just how hard it is on ones self concept. I can't do things I used to either. Hang in there, you'll learn how to train around the problems like I did. peace.
...nice bunkai...it is interesting to notice how similar these movements (techniques) are to both Southern Chinese martial arts systems and South East Asian systems (Silat/Kali/etc.).
Fantastic stuff. I feel your last two videos fill the niche of discussing the principle's of a kata instead of the application. Especially this one. You definitely built a bridge for me with this. I'm a "long time" lurker of your blog and your videos. I was wondering if you could do a video on tenshin? I read much about it, from you and elsewhere, but I never get to see much of it in action, at least with regard to instruction.
PS it is great to know that my intention (illustrating principles of bunkai more than the specific bunkai themselves) was at least somewhat successful. When I was putting it together I wasn't really sure if it was going work or if it would be a -total- failure...
That was supposed to say: "you first need to be able to put yourself in a position where you can reliably and cleanly strike to the head or neck before you worry about hitting targets ON the head or neck.
I agree. Thats why I´m a bit more strict and say you cannot learn martial arts without doing it. You can´t read your way or watch videos to become a martial artist. But you can certainly try something you have seen, but you will not actually learn untill you try it and train it. And thats what handicaps me a bit, becaue this is so far from the kind of training I usually do, so I would not get the right training unless I pay other guys a visit, who do this by default.
As long as you're not referring to this video displaying to any level of proficiency, real traditional Karate. Try typing Goju Ryu, Shito Ryu, or Shotokan.
Even better than that: There is a report for the portuguese king from 1515 by Tomé Pires called "Suma Oriental que trata do Mar Roxo até aos Chins" (Summa of the East, from the Red Sea up to the Chinese). Pires there states that the most important traders in the region come from a kingdom called "Liu Kiu". Their most important merchandise were high qualitiy swords which they sold in Malakka. He also told that they were respected fighters which would collect the debts with the sword in the hand.
The Ryukyu kingdom traded with Indonesia, and Okinawan sailors would have traveled there regularly. Indonesian weapons have been found in Okinawan archeological sites which seems to suggest the definite possibility that some Okinawans may have studied Indonesian methods of fighting.
なるほどですね！Motobe Chuki (famous fighter before WW1) had only 1 kata, and that is Naihanchi. It was Sensei Jesse Enkamp or Karate Dojo Waku had bought this up. I mastered one of the kata Yantsu. I wonder how this Yantsu can be analyzed.
I have the material I'd like to cover on those to kata mapped out in my head pretty well... Just have to actually film it and edit the footage. I actually am planning on waiting until I'm a bit farther along in my recovery of lost function and ability before filming more. I'm going to create a great deal more content eventually. Just want to be able to do a better job.
All I can say is that Kuda shinshii used the cross stance (kosa-dachi) as a "body change" (tenshin/tai-sabaki) when I had the opprunity to train with him. To a significant extent his footwork and that of Oyata shinshii (who also used kosa-dachi as tenshin) were really quite similar. I feel fairly confident that the "back to the wall" theory is not something Kuda shinshii ever espoused. But maybe Kuda shinshii's views evolved over the 20 year gap between your father's experience and my own.
So, for me advanced is more about an ever deeper and more refined understanding of basically the same type of stuff. Just more thoroughly integrated (combining techniques) and refined (a much more selective targeting). It is also to possible to consider learning how to "pull off" the techniques in kakie, (or other resistant sensitivity drills) to be advanced. This is only "advanced" because it requires one to able shift smoothly from one technique to another as one flows -with- the resistance.
sorry to hear that. never heard about this disease behore. I understand it's rare. hope for your full recovery. there is a group of italian wado ryu practitioners that are coming periodically in my town. first time there was a 7 dan sensei between them, in crutches. he was barely moving. I was surprised to see him leave the crutches during the seminar. he was not moving much and of course he was not doing anything with the legs, but his hands were fast. he had a car accident.
I guess the importance of the Ryukyu kingdom is very underestimated in our days. They weren't the poor peasants without swords. They produced high quality goods including armory. They adopted southeast-asian music and dance. They fought wars with the Satsuma han over the Amami islands. The Okinawans were described as being cultured and truthful - but were also feared fighters. They travelled between China, Japan and the southern islands. So there was a great cultural exchange.
Hey, thanks for the clarification, it is very helpful. I think your dad is right that Naihanchi would work well in that context (and most situations with really close range). Gun-a-te.. that's funny. ;-) Surely will beat karate nearly every time ;-)
This is top material. Regarding your Guillain Barre, good news is that most people recover completely from it, so I hope it will be in your case as well. Those nerve related symptoms are scary and irritating as hell. I strongly suggest you to buy Neurobion, it's a synergistic coctail that really helps in nerves recovery.
Thanks for kind words and the well wishes. I am outside the time-window in which further recovery can be expected. I'd guess I have recovered perhaps 85% of the function I lost which is OK. My hands still shake at times and my balance is still somewhat effected. I am hoping to find training methods which might compensate for those deficits.
Ryan Parker I went through something similar, although I was never formally diagnosed with GB. Apart from loss of motor functions and all kinds of paresthesia, I had autonomic disfunction as well so my blood pressure and heart rate was all over the town. In other words, I was kind of living death:) What did the trick for me was Neurobion in combination with few cycles of T3, as in Wilson's T3 protocol.It was two years ago, now I lift weights heavier than ever without any symptoms left. I couldn't wash my car not so long ago without having shaky hands after that when lifting empty dinner plate. While T3 isn't something to play with, you have absolutely nothing to lose trying Neurobion. It's just a B vitamin complex, but in huge concentration (B12 is in 10.000 times daily recommended amount). It's specifically formulated for nerves regeneration. I guess large dose of pharmaceutical grade (that's important) fish oil also can help provide building material for myelin sheath recovery.
I searched for practical, realistic kata application for my entire youth and couldn't find a single sensei to teach me, so I quit practicing karate. Now I'm happy to see that much people was in the same quest as me by that time and gave Karate real life again. Though I'm older, I'm eager to return practice.
One of the first bunkai-videos I've seen and still one of the best! Thank you, Sir!
"Daft distancing"... I love it. You are of course quite right, you often see karate people practicing at *ridiculous* distances. I actually have a video on my channel in which I try explain how unrealistic distance completely distorts the art called "Realistic Bunkai and Combative Distance". I love Naihanchi because it is nice close fighting and is very pro-active in dealing with an attacker's own defensive reactions. The masters who invented/developed it were very insightful and realistic.
Very intetesting although I see many inefficiencies in this form it is certainly note worthy
This is the real deal. Thank you for posting this enlightening instructional video. Karate community needs this approach more than the oxygen we need to breathe.
Insightful analysis of an extraordinary Kata that is often misunderstood or ignored. Please keep this level of instruction coming. Thanks very much for sharing it.
Mr. Parker your analysis and presentation of the bunkai is absolutely amazing and informative. I can't say enough at how blown away I am. Motobu Choki's statement of "the contents of Naifanchi contain everything one needs to be an effective fighter" you sir have clearly demonstrated that in spades! I look forward to diving into more of your videos, Thank you. Bows.
Glad to see your feeling better, I've recently overcome esophageal cancer and have been told by my doctors that my physical condition (I'm 63) had a lot to do with my recovery. I'm sure the same is true in your case. Seven times down, eight times up! I've enjoyed your videos and have found them very informative, answering many questions about the kata for me. Keep up the good work.
Best Naihanci breakdown I've seen !
You Sir are a Legend👑for this! ✨👍
This is the simples and best bunkai breakdown of Naihanchi... ever! 💎✨👌
I love how once any art is understood, how it becomes so simular we other arts.
Ryan Parker has done his homework. Great job. I wish more people would study
their kata as deep as you have. :-)
This is the first video that introduced me to you and immediately knew you were the real deal. That's why I watch everything I can that you've put up, because there is a wealth of knowledge you have that is seriously worth studying. Thank you for posting.
I love the way you open our minds for the multiple possibilities of the kata. Thank you for the video!
Best video on Naihanchi on RUclips... I feel like it will years to get this trapping & Tuite just right!!!
Mr. Parker thank you! This video is a wonderful learning tool. I've been studying Matsubayashi ryu for 7 years. This type of break down on the movements within a Kara go even farther than the bunkai does. The slow motion break downs and different angles make it a wonderful resource.
Thankyou for posting, I had the pleasure of training with Taira sensei in Okinawa last August. So fluid and so much to offer.He is amazing. The karate community is slowly gaining a better identity and relationship with it`s art thanks to you guys. Keep up the good work. Thankyou.
Thank you M Ryan Parker for generously sharing! This is most useful to refer back to!!
Thanks for posting, filming, thinking, editing, etc... I love to see Okinawan Karate get attention because it really is amazing. More importantly, the spirit of the educational methodology is inspiring. "Here's the puzzle, Go!"
+Ryan Parker, I found your facebook group and karate piqued my interest like it had never before. Now I've been diligently exploring Naihanchi and it's like I've been introduced to karate for the first time in my life despite being "familiar" with it and several kata for over a decade.
Arigato!
What's the facebook group?
thank you for the great interpretation of these portions of naihanchi shodan.
Just adding my support too for kata applications where the attackers doesn't look like a complete knob and it's done at a realistic distance. Great job of making sense of kata and using them as a tool or text book. 'Ask the kata'. Love it.
Spot on sir! Your work here concurrs with my own years of bunkai research. Thank you for this video.
THX alot! It is a amazing video and I can't count how often I have watched it since you uploaded it!
Awesome! Naihanchi is my favorite kata. Your demonstrations are very clear and straightforward. Thanks for sharing this!
Thanks for posting, filming, thinking, editing, etc... I love to see Okinawan Karate get attention because it really is amazing. More importantly, the spirit of the educational methodology is inspiring.Excellent!
I love this kata. It’s one of the best.
Your demo is great!
Thanks Ryan!
I completely concur and appreciate you sharing what you've learned. The Ryukyu kingdom may not have been a powerful empire but it was not an insignificant back-water country either. It was one one the major trade hubs in Asia and Okinawan maritime routes were quite vast with Okinawan sailors frequently setting foot on soil throughout East Asia and South East Asia. Ryukyu martial arts were likely quite cosmopolitan in their influences IMHO, with Chuan Fa being only part of the overall story...
We need more videos like this...thank you
Mr. Parker, thanks a lot. Sometimes I feel that karate is taught like christianism: in parables (=kata), to look without seeing, until someone gives you the clue, lest they learn.
I'll agree the above video is just like religion... If the power of belief can give you good form, or determine where you go when you die.
so nice to see karate that doesn't rely on daft distancing and a cooperative attacker who holds his punch in front of him and the back fist on the hip while you try to apply some block. :) Thanks. Wish I'd been taught this way 20 years ago. Maybe then I wouldn't have stopped training for 15 years...
Who studied karate so much I saw for the first time. It is a revolution of karate exactly.
Yes, to some extent. I no longer focus much on TCM type analysis of techniques but I certainly still pay close attention to the range of possible targets (some seemingly innocuous) and methods for exploiting them.
Coming from taekwondo, a background not very useful in regards to real life, material like this is a true godsend. Thank you very much, shinshii.
This is a great video. Thank you for sharing such valuble imformation for free.
Awesome. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. It is extremely helpful and thought provoking. Very well done.
Very informative and straight to point.
Great video thanks very useful. it has expanded my thoughts on how katas can be utilised in so many different ways..naihanchi is what I am learning and practising at the moment it has certainly helped me with that.
Brilliant, now this is fantastic work thankyou.
Love those 2 rules... knew it but cant use words to say, NOW i can,make it clear. THX
This is excellent, i can not wait for the next installment. I would enjoy anything of this nature for future videos, but if i could choose i would probably like to see more advanced application regarding to the naihanchi kata, as there has been a lot of beginner and intermediate bunkai so far. Thanks for the great video Ryan!
Yes, please continue.
Thank you sensei for your instruction.
Nicely explained ! Very similar and almost identical to Silat moves.... looking back at history, Okinawa has always been in close network with the. Malay nation and Archipelago (ie NUSANTARA as we call it - Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei...) where Silat is the traditional warfare and art of self preservation....
I'm definitely planing to do all three Naihanchi kata. I'm currently editing a video analysis of 5 movements from Naihanchi Nidan.
Nicely done. The preservation of the center line along with body angles and near simultaneous block and strike techniques are a good indication we are looking at pre 1879 technique. I believe we need to do much more research into Itosu to learn the bunkai of the kata.
We don't have this kata in our branch of okinawan karate(goju ryu). But I find this fascinating, the "Oh I get!"-level on this are amazing. Truly insightful.
My dad studied under Kuda sensei in the early 70's. He still practices on occasion. My dad said that he was taught that the lateral movements in the Naihanchi was to defend against when your back was against a wall, hence the lateral steps.
Wow! I only recently have come upon your RUclips Channel, but it brought up an immediate urge to share what I had seen with my own Sensei and friends. Very informative and impressive videos! Even if my Shuri-ryu Naihanchi Shodan is slightly different, this video has given rise to much contemplation!
I've had a surprising amount of requests for a video on footwork/tenshin/tai-sabaki. So I definitely will be doing a video on that topic. Actually I think that footwork is one of the things that differentiates Western bunkai from the bunkai of some Okinawan teachers. Unfortunately my legs/feet have more loss of function from GBS than my upper body so I will have to take some time and do it right...
I see Okinawa Te as well as China Hand clearly in the application of the kata. Awesome dissection. Arigato
Thanks for the reply, i now understand where your coming from, i was just thrown off a bit by the title labels (my fault). please keep the great videos coming, especially the videos focusing on the principles behind the kata as these are so often either neglected or not even understood by any means. I recommend checking out Ian Abernethys web site, articles, blogs and you tube for some great realistic kata application and approach to karate in general.
I love this video. You've got a wonderful teaching style. On a side note... I've read that cannabidiol (CBD), has shown promise as a treatment for Guillain-Barré syndrome. I wish you the best.
Thanks so much for this video Mr. Parker. I have a 2nd Dan in Tang Soo Do & for a while now I have been very interested in bunkai. Lot's of the lower ranks don't seem to understand the importance of forms or how to add power so I have wanted to see if teaching bunkai would help them understand. I wanted to start by teaching the 1st Dan's bunkai for Naihanchi but I have trouble figuring out bunkai & how to teach it on my own. This helped a lot.
Very good Bunkai job.
Muy bueno el vídeo y la explicación Ryan parker. Desde un principio hay que analizar los katas al completo sino son ,como dice J.A Blanco, simples ejercicios gimnásticos.
Thanks Ryan.
Ryan; Sorry to hear about your difficulties. You're not alone. I have train around my disabilities myself. I know just how hard it is on ones self concept. I can't do things I used to either. Hang in there, you'll learn how to train around the problems like I did. peace.
Thank you cyber name for your instruction
Excellent close in work
Excellent video, nice drill, good pedagogy. Thanx :)
...nice bunkai...it is interesting to notice how similar these movements (techniques) are to both Southern Chinese martial arts systems and South East Asian systems (Silat/Kali/etc.).
Great video as usual.
Nice stuff Ryan. Keep 'em coming :)
Mr. Parker, you should have a t-shirt with your logo and the phrase "ask the kata"!
Ryan Clark Nice suggestion! facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10203585190502307
Ryan Parker
Awesome!!!
Outstanding bunkai!
Excellent video
Fantastic stuff. I feel your last two videos fill the niche of discussing the principle's of a kata instead of the application. Especially this one. You definitely built a bridge for me with this. I'm a "long time" lurker of your blog and your videos. I was wondering if you could do a video on tenshin? I read much about it, from you and elsewhere, but I never get to see much of it in action, at least with regard to instruction.
Looking forward to it!
Wow. Just found this. Excellent.
Gracias por compartir este hermoso conocimiento master.
Excellent!
Good stuff, Mr. Parker.
PS it is great to know that my intention (illustrating principles of bunkai more than the specific bunkai themselves) was at least somewhat successful. When I was putting it together I wasn't really sure if it was going work or if it would be a -total- failure...
That was supposed to say: "you first need to be able to put yourself in a position where you can reliably and cleanly strike to the head or neck before you worry about hitting targets ON the head or neck.
Fantastic. I am impressed.
I agree. Thats why I´m a bit more strict and say you cannot learn martial arts without doing it. You can´t read your way or watch videos to become a martial artist. But you can certainly try something you have seen, but you will not actually learn untill you try it and train it.
And thats what handicaps me a bit, becaue this is so far from the kind of training I usually do, so I would not get the right training unless I pay other guys a visit, who do this by default.
Traditional Karate schools are hardcore. Thanks for posting.
As long as you're not referring to this video displaying to any level of proficiency, real traditional Karate. Try typing Goju Ryu, Shito Ryu, or Shotokan.
Even better than that: There is a report for the portuguese king from 1515 by Tomé Pires called "Suma Oriental que trata do Mar Roxo até aos Chins" (Summa of the East, from the Red Sea up to the Chinese). Pires there states that the most important traders in the region come from a kingdom called "Liu Kiu". Their most important merchandise were high qualitiy swords which they sold in Malakka. He also told that they were respected fighters which would collect the debts with the sword in the hand.
Excellent. Love it.
I still love this okinawan traditional style of martial arts..
The Ryukyu kingdom traded with Indonesia, and Okinawan sailors would have traveled there regularly. Indonesian weapons have been found in Okinawan archeological sites which seems to suggest the definite possibility that some Okinawans may have studied Indonesian methods of fighting.
Большое спасибо.
なるほどですね！Motobe Chuki (famous fighter before WW1) had only 1 kata, and that is Naihanchi. It was Sensei Jesse Enkamp or Karate Dojo Waku had bought this up. I mastered one of the kata Yantsu. I wonder how this Yantsu can be analyzed.
I have the material I'd like to cover on those to kata mapped out in my head pretty well... Just have to actually film it and edit the footage. I actually am planning on waiting until I'm a bit farther along in my recovery of lost function and ability before filming more. I'm going to create a great deal more content eventually. Just want to be able to do a better job.
All I can say is that Kuda shinshii used the cross stance (kosa-dachi) as a "body change" (tenshin/tai-sabaki) when I had the opprunity to train with him. To a significant extent his footwork and that of Oyata shinshii (who also used kosa-dachi as tenshin) were really quite similar. I feel fairly confident that the "back to the wall" theory is not something Kuda shinshii ever espoused. But maybe Kuda shinshii's views evolved over the 20 year gap between your father's experience and my own.
Excellent vid,
Nice bit of history, there.
So, for me advanced is more about an ever deeper and more refined understanding of basically the same type of stuff. Just more thoroughly integrated (combining techniques) and refined (a much more selective targeting). It is also to possible to consider learning how to "pull off" the techniques in kakie, (or other resistant sensitivity drills) to be advanced. This is only "advanced" because it requires one to able shift smoothly from one technique to another as one flows -with- the resistance.
Hope you recover well! Great video.
sorry to hear that. never heard about this disease behore. I understand it's rare. hope for your full recovery.
there is a group of italian wado ryu practitioners that are coming periodically in my town. first time there was a 7 dan sensei between them, in crutches. he was barely moving. I was surprised to see him leave the crutches during the seminar. he was not moving much and of course he was not doing anything with the legs, but his hands were fast. he had a car accident.
I guess the importance of the Ryukyu kingdom is very underestimated in our days. They weren't the poor peasants without swords. They produced high quality goods including armory. They adopted southeast-asian music and dance. They fought wars with the Satsuma han over the Amami islands. The Okinawans were described as being cultured and truthful - but were also feared fighters. They travelled between China, Japan and the southern islands. So there was a great cultural exchange.
Hey, thanks for the clarification, it is very helpful. I think your dad is right that Naihanchi would work well in that context (and most situations with really close range). Gun-a-te.. that's funny. ;-) Surely will beat karate nearly every time ;-)
Brilliant at last real Karate.
Tim
Fantastic video sir! You put a lot of effort into opening up a lot of minds. Well done.
Robert
Shorin Ryu / Shorinkan
It was excellent. Just to ask if it is possible to explain the foot work too and how it is linked to the hand techniques.
Thank you
Francisco
"ask the kata" is gold 👊
Excellent! TY!!
очень интересная трактовка !!!
That's good. It's difficult to understand kata at times or I get lost because we are told to turn our head in the direction of the technique.
Rad stuff Parker Sensei! Nidan and Sandan would be much appreciated. 押忍！
I love this.
This is top material. Regarding your Guillain Barre, good news is that most people recover completely from it, so I hope it will be in your case as well. Those nerve related symptoms are scary and irritating as hell. I strongly suggest you to buy Neurobion, it's a synergistic coctail that really helps in nerves recovery.
Thanks for kind words and the well wishes. I am outside the time-window in which further recovery can be expected. I'd guess I have recovered perhaps 85% of the function I lost which is OK. My hands still shake at times and my balance is still somewhat effected. I am hoping to find training methods which might compensate for those deficits.
Ryan Parker
I went through something similar, although I was never formally diagnosed with GB. Apart from loss of motor functions and all kinds of paresthesia, I had autonomic disfunction as well so my blood pressure and heart rate was all over the town. In other words, I was kind of living death:) What did the trick for me was Neurobion in combination with few cycles of T3, as in Wilson's T3 protocol.It was two years ago, now I lift weights heavier than ever without any symptoms left. I couldn't wash my car not so long ago without having shaky hands after that when lifting empty dinner plate. While T3 isn't something to play with, you have absolutely nothing to lose trying Neurobion. It's just a B vitamin complex, but in huge concentration (B12 is in 10.000 times daily recommended amount). It's specifically formulated for nerves regeneration. I guess large dose of pharmaceutical grade (that's important) fish oil also can help provide building material for myelin sheath recovery.