Intro to Goju Ryu Saifa Kata - Basics, Stances and Tips
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- We are starting weekly online karate classes from the 3rd of August 2024: email dojo@grkc1978.com to get added to the sign-up list. Saifa is traditionally the third kata taught in Goju Ryu, and the name translates to "smash and tear".
Welcome to Saifa 101! This intro to Saifa is a step-by-step walkthrough of the kata, explaining the finer points of the kata as taught in our OGKK-affiliated dojo. Learn the stepping, hand techniques and subtle detail of this beautiful and deadly kata. We work on basics, stances and tips for this kata, as well as common mistakes.
Chapters:
00:00 - Opening moves - zenkutsudachi, musubidachi, break, shikodachi, uraken
03:07 - second section: double block, maegeri, double punch, fist smash
06:10 - kiai point: hammer fist, short punch
08:15 - Ending: gyaku-zuki (reverse punch), mawashi uke
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Once you've watched this, please check out our Saifa bunkai video to expand your knowledge: • Advanced Saifa Bunkai ...
Instructor:
Che Jagger, 5th Dan, OGKK
Head instructor and owner, Goju Ryu Karate Centre
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Video producer:
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Well done indeed. You guys are going a great job. And we are greatful for the hard work
Thank you so much, Barbs! 🌻
I love how you emphasize the tiny little details of the kata. It really helps since I'm currently learning this kata. The small details you highlighted really help me improve my understanding of Saifa.
Glad that it’s helping
Keep training
Che
You clearly dissect the kata, and preciously explain each movement thoroughly. (Pinky of one hand at the eye of the pinky of the closed fist - wow, what detail).
I'm very impressed with your teaching.
Keep the good and hard work up.
Thank you so much for this truly lovely comment! We try our best to give each kata the detail it deserves. Slowly working our way up the syllabus!
As a beginner or goju ryu recently here in Japan. Between yourself and the "Miyagi DOJO" channel.. it really helps..I see it straight from Higaonna sensei and then a breakdown from yourself.. it's life changing. I regularly practice sanchin and gekisai dai ichi after work by the river here.. once I perfect those I will surely move up to this... I hear that this kata is deceptively difficult and I can see that.. there are complex movements in here but that's the joy of karate for me... Understanding body movement and freedom..
Great videos. Please keep it up 🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂
We are so honoured to receive these words from you! You are definitely a true student, open to study and applying yourself even after a full day of work - this is the way!
We are lucky to have a student like you in our virtual dojo - please continue your training in such wonderful spirit! Arigato gozaimasu!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre back again! 😁 Arigato gozaimashita!!! I have a belt test this Saturday.. not quite sure how it works yet but I think I'm going for yellow.. the bunkai for dai ichi and dai ni I have down packed now.. saifa I'm just beginning to learn fully. Thanks again for the videos. It's super appreciated!!!
@@hezekiaharmstrong1532 Ah, wonderful! How did your test go? Sure you passed with flying colours!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre sorry for the late reply! Test went great! It was very tough though... A LOT of exercise (pushups, squats sit ups etc) and sonobakihon but I passed. Thank you again!
In Kata time is always working for you when you are patient. Nothing is difficult if you do not be perfecte the first time. It is my experience after I Began at 72. Time time works works patience patience... 🥵🥵👍🤛🤛
i’ll have to learn this by myself because of covid :/ but this video helped so much thank you!
Covid can close our dojos, but it can't take away our training!
So happy that our video helped, and so glad that you took the time to watch and comment - we appreciate you!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre ❤️❤️
Very detailed explanation of Saifa. I am still working on it after 45 years. I was awarded San Dan by Chinen Teruo sensei. Thanks for mentioning him in your videos.
Truly that is the best mindset - I always laugh when a blue belt tells me they're "done" with Saifa. Saifa still has many secrets for those willing to dig.
Ché tries to honour Sensei Chinen's memory every day - it was truly a great loss to the karate world. If only we had had more time with him. I'm so sorry I never got to meet him, but I can see his genius live on in my husband's work and in the books he wrote. A complicated man, like all great karate men, but nonetheless the fact that his karate survives all over the world is proof of his legacy.
Thank you so much for taking the time to watch and comment!
Best wishes,
Zoë
I agree😂😂it can be better men never perfecte... 🥵🥵🥵🥵😱🤛🤛
This is by far the best illustrated lesson I have found... and I did a lot of searching. Great work and Thank you.
Thank you so much for these kind words! We are always happy to hear when others find our videos useful. Thank you for watching and commenting, Tony 🙇🏻♀️
I'm very grateful for this - thank you! All of your dojo's videos have been of tremendous help. I'm new to the katas and learning this in middle age. The patient, clear way you explain things is massively useful. Keep up the great work.
It's never too late, and we're never too old! So glad that our videos are helpful to you, and we are grateful to play a small role in your karate journey :)
The best explanations are always comming from this Sensei. NO DOUBTS. 💕👊👊👍
These are the comments we live for! Ah, thank you so much! We really appreciate the time you took to watch and comment :D
Thank you, I’ve always liked practicing this kata
Wonderful! I didn't like Saifa myself for years, but I really enjoy it now
These kata videos are very helpful, thank you ✊
You are so welcome, Thomas! Thank you for watching and commenting :)
Thanks for the detailed close ups! I had my first lesson on the intro before Christmas 2022, and my school is on a 2 week break for the holidays. I’m trying to remember and work on what I’ve learned, but the details are a bit fuzzy. This seriously helps!
Hi From a Tang Soo Do Student in her last rank before black belt 👋🏻👋🏻❤️🥋
It’s a pleasure
Thankyou ❤
Great technique plus excellent technique! Nice work Sensei🙏🏽🥋
Thank you 🙌 So nice to hear from one of our favourite creators!
Really fantastic tutorial, thank you, sensei.
Only a pleasure! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment 🙇🏻♀️
Very very good explanation fro this SENSEI. I am sure he did many many faults in the past time.... And it the reason it makes him very good now. Respect to him. 🤛🤛👍
Well said! Thank you so much for the kind words, and for taking the time to watch and comment 🙇🏻♀️
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre the pleasure is for us too.!!
It really helps me. Thanks for your clear explanation. Subscribed.
Ah, thank you so much for taking the time to watch, subscribe and comment! We really appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
Excellent instruction Sensei.
So kind, thank you!
Just got my green belt last month, this will be super handy for training. Thank you!
Wonderful, and well done! We're delighted to be part of your journey 🙇🏻♀️
Thanks very much; I was a Shotokan stylist, but am loving the goju katas.
We love to hear from our shotokan friends! I would actually love to learn some of the Shotokan kata - they look elegant and fierce!
That was great! Please do one for seiyunchin!
Thank you for the feedback! Seiyunchin is indeed next on our list for a kata video!
@Goju Ryu Karate Centre thank you！
Saifa
Is good to learn it teaches you a lot about the style and the applications off it
Saifa is a wonderful kata!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting :)
It is really very helpful... Thank you
It’s a pleasure
Very good! Many things I understand better now… thanks a lot for your share!
You are so welcome! This is our greatest hope for our channel - it make karate easier to understand and enjoy :)
Once again Sensei Chè I am enlightened, I saw something in your technique, that triggers thought and an urge to go and train and assimilate 🙏🏻
It is my honour to be able to inspire, even though this is one of the very first videos we did, and the production value is so low! Your comments are a delight to receive, thank you 🙇
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre
You have created a veritable library of Goju Ryu knowledge that's for sure. Being the Sensei of a small humble club in the middle of England has left us with some gaps in knowledge or misunderstandings passed down from my Sensei to us.
When we get higher up the tree is is less easy to find inspiration from outside sources, certainly a lasting inspiration. I have always maintained karate is a Lifetime of study, at times I have doubted this but after seeing just a fraction of your videos and hearing your thoughts and experiences, I still have much to practice 🙏🏻
Thanks for the basics of this kata coz other arts don't really show the exact basics the kata like (blocks,strikes and the changing of stances) thank you very much once again
You are so welcome! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment, we really appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
Thank You Very Much
Only a pleasure! Thank you for watching and commenting 🙇🏻♀️
I see this video one more time and I don’t know why, I found that’s your best !!!
The others are good too💪
OSS!
Ah, thank you so much! That's actually our most popular video, even though we made it right at the beginning of our YT channel! The fact that the production quality was low but the video still does well makes us feel like we are on the right track.
Thank you so much for commenting and watching! 🙇🏻♀️
Debo decir que eres fantástico explicando pocas personas están a tu altura!!
¡Qué amables palabras, muchas gracias por este hermoso comentario! Realmente apreciamos que se tome el tiempo para ver y comentar nuestros pequeños videos. ¡Que dure mucho tu viaje de karate!
Thank you for the detailed explanation. I started this kata in my class today and I keep forgetting. This will be great help !
Thank you for the lovely comment! We know that you will memorize this sequence soon 🩷
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Domo arigato gozaimashita
Always a real joy to follow you. Everything has a deep explanation which takes all my soul! You are the king... Much respect for you! I mean it!! 👏👏
Ah, what a wonderful, wonderful comment! Thank you for your generous words and support - we are so glad to be able to produce content for people who get what we do, rather than wanting us to be just another MMA bro channel. Thank you 🩷
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre
I have nothing about MMA, but for me it is very important to make difference bethween deep tradition, culture with a saoul, and respect and not something with sauvage activity for money. A " karategi " does not need a cravat to be Great 😂it is because it is ART. 👊👊Not aggression.
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre I have nothing.... AGAINST...MMA. (NOT about... 😂✌️) excuse the wrong word.
Excellent explanation and examples Sensei, will keep an eye to your other videos
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! We have lots of other videos, and a new video every Friday - we look forward to hearing from you again soon 🙇🏻♀️
Well explained. Thank you Sensei 🙏
You are so kind! Thank you for watching and commenting, we appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
Thankyou so much sensei
Glad it’s helpful
Yeehah, 100 subscribers at last! 🌻
I know!!
Thank you! Very good!
Much appreciated! Thank you for watching and commenting 🙇🏻♀️
Amazing video. Subscribed. I learnt this in my class today :)
Thank you so much!
Saifa is a wonderful kata, and it only gets more rewarding over time.
Thank you for watching and subscribing - much appreciated 🙇🏻♀️
Oh thank you very much !!!very good explanation!!!trying to practice again😊😊Regards from Santiago de Chile
So kind! We are grateful for this kind comment - greetings from Johannesburg, South Africa
@GojuRyuKarateCentre thank you very much oohh so far away!nice place just started to practice!
Saifa is looks easy but to get all of its subtle parts just right takes some time. Especially the sliding across into the kick without losing balance is particularly challenging
That part still gets me sometimes.
- Zoe
You are great sensei 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Ah, so kind! Thank you 🩷
Bravo Sensei
Arigato gozaimasu!
Good job 👍, well explained about saifa.
Thank you so much for watching and commenting 🙇♀️
Great!
Thank you!
Gracias máster!
🙇♀️🙇♀️🙇♀️
Wow this sensei is incredible
Ah, thank you so much! Such an old video and we've improved our production value so much since then, but we are really glad you enjoyed it 😊
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre indeed! I've been a second degree brown belt for 25+ years ago, studied under 10th Dan sensei george Smith from New York, but haven't practiced since I was a kid.
Your videos are helping me relearn the katas in my own time, and then applying kata/bunkai to jiu jitsu (which other bjj students have been curious about the style in the studio.) your videos are helping spread the knowledge and persist the value of goju!
Thanks for the feedback Pete
I see that your root in gojuryu is the same as ours, namely OGKK
I’m glad to see that the video contribute to your development
Che
Arigato sensei 🥋
Hai, dou itashimashite 🙇🏻♀️
Awesome. 🙂
Thank you! Cheers!
Nice explanation, sensei
Thank you so much! We appreciate the view and feedback 🙏
Fantastic!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Sensei I did GojuKai for 35 years plus minus. My instructor was Herschel Michael Maasdorp from white belt to shodan. I am 4th dan now and joined Seiwakai last year. I really appreciate your tuition. I even downloaded your teaching of mawashi uke and go and watch it on my downloads from time to time. My instructors in Seiwakai are very good people Peter Klipfel renshi and Ben Mare kyoshi. They're in Cape Town and Durban so renshi sometimes teach me via wattsapp 😊 when he gets time.Thats why I subscribed to your channel cause its very informative and I feel I get a refresher course every time 😊.Where in South Africa are you based sensei?
Sensei I did GojuKai for 35 years plus minus. My instructor was Herschel Michael Maasdorp from white belt to shodan. I am 4th dan now and joined Seiwakai last year. I really appreciate your tuition. I even downloaded your teaching of mawashi uke and go and watch it on my downloads from time to time. My instructors in Seiwakai are very good people Peter Klipfel renshi and Ben Mare kyoshi. They're in Cape Town and Durban so renshi sometimes teach me via wattsapp 😊 when he gets time.Thats why I subscribed to your channel cause its very informative and I feel I get a refresher course every time 😊.Where in South Africa are you based sensei?
Thank you
You're welcome
Thank you sensai
Only a pleasure, Sanjay!
Muito bom gostei dos ensinamento..Oss
Thank you so much for watching this old video - we really appreciate it! 🤗
Didn't know about the thumb and pinky, thank you!!
Only a pleasure! Thank you for watching!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre loved your content!! Now i'm watching the seiyunchin video
Hooray! We're very proud of the Seiyunchin series, and hope that we have done such a great kata justice. Thank you for watching!
Very nice👌👌
Thank you so much!
Thanks sensei i will train
See you in the dojo soon!
Nice video sir...
Thank you very much!
Thank you sensei
Thank you for watching!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Thank you for replying!
These are great lessons! Please keep going sensei, thank you.
Good 👍
Thanks
I remember this OMG
Saifa is a kata that sticks! Hope you enjoyed our little video we made ages ago 🙇🏻♀️
You should do more tutorials like this I’m waiting for seiunchin,tensho and sanchin kata
Your wish is our command!
ruclips.net/p/PL50NPbA4MowIJ4yUdSk9HFmbqPYdKsTQT
All the kata breakdowns we have done so far. Please enjoy and tell us what you think 🙇🏻♀️
We had to do Seiyunchin over 3 videos and we still didn't fit in all the detail 😅
شرح جيد جدا يامعلم شكرا
You are so welcome! Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre مرحبا بك من العراق
讚👍!
Hai! Domo arigato gozaimasu 🙇🏻♀️
Please make more kata videos 😁
Definitely! Watch this space - we hope to do all 12 amazing Goju Ryu kata 🥋
I like the emphasis on looking fully. I tell all my peers to look with your nose, not with your eyes, because that fully turns your head.
This is such a brilliant and simple solution to a common problem! Thank you so much for sharing this insight with us, and for watching and commenting 🙇🏻♀️
Good Very good
Thank you so much for the lovely comment!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre الكراتيه فن يستحق الاحترام
You are great Master I am from India I would love to meet you once
Too kind, Ravi! If you are ever in South Africa, come by and train with us 🥋
#1 Sanchin, #2 Gekisai-1, #3 Gekisai-2, #4 Saifa but most important is SANCHIN because all other refer back to Sanchin. Keep up the good work :)
Someone once told me that all the answers are in Sanchin. I didn't get it until black belt, but I definitely get it now!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
my grading tomorrow and I need to do this kata and marshiqe ich
Hope your grading went super well! I'm sure your diligent study paid off 🙇🏻♀️
is there a tutorial like this for kyuu kata?
Hello!
Thank you so much for watching and commenting 🙇🏻♀️
We have videos for the whole Goju Ryu kata syllabus except Superempei, and from other styles, we only have Naifunchin.
So our videos cover:
Geki Sai Dai Ichi and Ni
Saifa
Seiyunchin
Shisochin
Sanseru
Seipai
Kururunfa
Seisan
Hope this helps!
Good
Thanks!
This was so helpful!! Is it possible to do one for kata seinchin, and applications for it?
Ah, wonderful! So glad you found it helpful!
Here is our Seiyunchin bunkai video (step by step bunkai coming soon) ruclips.net/video/S4q5pyJTOrE/видео.html
And our 3 part series just on this kata starts here: ruclips.net/video/KklkiTULUTg/видео.html
and then part 2: ruclips.net/video/VuhLVEitPDY/видео.html
and part 3: ruclips.net/video/97jYzl1uoZo/видео.html
Let us know what you think. Thank you for watching and commenting :)
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre thank you so much! I will be sure to check them out! 😊
Muito bom
Obrigado!
Hi there I'm green belt at goju kai karate the saifa is new to me I was wondering can you do the kata in slow motion it would help alot my Sensei trains only on Saturdays and we gonna have a tournament September so I need to be ready was just wondering if you could help me out
Hi Marlene!
Apologies for our super late response. We have done a second, slower video on Saifa - please check it out here and tell us what you think! ruclips.net/video/nr6NLnA1_Y8/видео.html
I learned full saifa kata
Wonderful! And the more you do this kata, the better it gets, and the stronger and faster you will get 🥋🥋🥋
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Sir next video, continue please
Hello!
Yes indeed! We have many videos on Saifa, check them out here: ruclips.net/video/BnB-qHM-kCo/видео.html and ruclips.net/video/6-oUXIOwYD8/видео.html
Please explain the meaning of saifa...
Hi.
I'am 54 years can I lean karate?
Yes, you are never too old
You must learn and practice.
🙇
A todo momento vejo " mestres de Karate" mudando os katas.e mais ,essa puchadinha da calça é.....
Você é muito bem-vindo, Oliverio Fernandes Borges Filho! Muito obrigado por assistir e comentar :)
Master a doubt this is orange belt kata
Hello!
In our syllabus, we start to introduce the basics from orange, but students are not graded on it until green and blue belt. It takes a while to get the basics of this kata right!
空手着の横の紐ダランとしてるの気になる〜…
Hello,
Sometimes our jacket ties come undone when we film - just part of the uniform 🙇🏻♀️
Great video ,I wish you where my senses 35 years ago.
I would of learned a lot quicker or at least not thought of a Kata as a useless dance... I know better now.
We are so honoured by this lovely comment 🙇🏻♀️
The important thing is that you are still making your way up the karate mountain, and sometimes we meet new guides as we go :)
Goju Ryu Karate Centre
I do have one question your Katas are sport and not traditional??
I ask this a a former practitioner of.
( Sensei DON WARRENER 4 th dan I believe in 1985 ish) Hamilton Ontario Canada.
I ask as I'm trying to rebuild my former knowledge.
I joined the military in 89 and was never able to follow a consistent path of training..
I like being a traditionalist
We only focus on traditional Goju Ryu kata - in fact we aren't part of the local tournament scene at all! It takes so much time to focus on getting a kata truly right, after all. As you go through our kata videos, you'll get a feel for how we approach kata, as well as our lineage 🙇🏻♀️
Goju Ryu Karate Centre yes agreed