equaninimus Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 http://www.shoto-kan.com/videos/index.html This site has footage of Funakoshi Gichin, Funakoshi Goko, Harada Mitsusuke, and others. Comments? There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyte Posted March 23, 2004 Share Posted March 23, 2004 Very nice site. Until now I didn't know that there existed a video of Gigo Funakoshi performing the kata Heian Godan. The comment says that the only real thing that has changed with this kata are the back stances at the end. The back stances are performed in Okinawan style, rather than in modern Shotokan style. I can see more things that Gigo does different. He uses shiko dachi instead of kiba dachi. He doesn't lift his knee up when he performs the fumikomi with gedan barai. I have also noticed the following. After the jump and the low juji uke when he performs morote uke his rear foot doesn't point forward like in a normal zenkutsu dachi, but instead his rear foot points sideways. "Practising karate means a lifetime of hard work."~Gichin Funakoshi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wado_lee Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 very nice site cheers!!! theres no one style just your style--------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wado_lee Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 equaninimus is there anything out there simular site for wado-ryu?? this site is amazing didnt know footage that old existed theres no one style just your style--------- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rig Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 Yea, great site! Thanks. -- Righttps://www.AtherstoneKarate.co.uk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aefibird Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 Good site, thanks! "Was it really worth it? Only time and death may ever tell..." The Beautiful South - The Rose of My CologneSheffield Steelers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ESA-Shotokan Posted March 24, 2004 Share Posted March 24, 2004 Wow! Yes now that is good! Incredible rare videos there. I have the JKA ones myself on tape but the Funakoshi ones are totrally new to me. Thanks for sharing that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equaninimus Posted March 25, 2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2004 Take some of the statements about fotage's age with a grain of salt. The half naked guy doing Nijushiho isn't Okinawans, it is Shotokan Nijushiho, and probably dates from the mid 1930s. Wado Lee, I'm not going to do your research for you. You are just as capable as the rest of us of doing a google search. There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gyte Posted March 25, 2004 Share Posted March 25, 2004 Take some of the statements about fotage's age with a grain of salt. The half naked guy doing Nijushiho isn't Okinawans, it is Shotokan Nijushiho, and probably dates from the mid 1930s.equaninimus, The guy doing Nijushiho isn't half naked. The guy doing the old Jitte kata is half naked. The comment says that the Okinawan Seisho Aragaki created the kata Nijushiho back in the 1800's. But Aragaki actually didn't create it. In fact he only taught a kata named Niseishi at his dojo, which wasn't created by him. Later this kata got into Shotokan where it was slightly altered and renamed in Nijushiho. "Practising karate means a lifetime of hard work."~Gichin Funakoshi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
equaninimus Posted March 25, 2004 Author Share Posted March 25, 2004 Oops, I meant Jitte, Anyway, they are the post Gigo Funakoshi versions of those Kata. There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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