Home Study Courses

[MASIsshinryu]

As one of my buddies put it, when referencing beginning students: "The video cannot tell you 'hey, your wrist isn't straight.'" Unless one has a very good grasp of the basic and intermediate concepts of the style being portrayed, it is all but impossible to cover the nuances which go into the techniques. There is no personalized feedback, to support the learning experience.

I have some very good videos of the kata, assembled and provided to me by my sensei (at the cost of a blank tape and some postage), which I use as reference (I now live 400+ miles from his Dojo), but I would not let anyone else try to learn something from them, for the first time.