Saishu Ryu Karate Jitsu

[P.A.L]

find a better picture for home page, i am talking about two heads, i think the same about lady in kimono doing jumping side kick in living room.

lineage of the style is not clear unless you don't care.

[johnnymac]

find a better picture for home page, i am talking about two heads, i think the same about lady in kimono doing jumping side kick in living room.

lineage of the style is not clear unless you don't care.

Thanks for the input. I was thinking the samething about the 2 heads thing. Our linage is interesting because the founder trained with so many people. I was thinking about making something pertaining to that, but it's hard to have a good set linage when the guy moved around so much. It's one of the downfalls of having a active duty military guy starting a system.

John

[Charlie]

Your website doesn't list the locations and contact information for your local schools/dojo that I could find.

[johnnymac]

Your website doesn't list the locations and contact information for your local schools/dojo that I could find.

I'm actually working on that today. Is there anything else you can think of that might be useful to have on there?

John

[Smitty]

i have been practising all katas about 38 so far. i get new katas on every week basis. it's not that hard dude.

iam getting new kata tonight or tomorrow night.

Wait wait wait. What?

Not that hard?

38 katas? I've never heard of a system having that many. Heck, mine has 12. Do you spend a long time perfecting every little thing, or do you just have to know the movements?

That post made no sense to me.

[Charlie]

Is there anything else you can think of that might be useful to have on there?

I don't think this is necessary, because I think your site will be looking really good once the local school contacts are on there, but, would it be possible to display some actual stories of people using Saishu Ryu techniques in real situations (Iraq, Afghanistan)? Like I said, I don't think doing this is necessary for your website. I guess it's just basically because I would be interested in reading stories like that since it's unlikely that I'll ever actually witness events like that myself.

[johnnymac]

i have been practising all katas about 38 so far. i get new katas on every week basis. it's not that hard dude.

iam getting new kata tonight or tomorrow night.

Wait wait wait. What?

Not that hard?

38 katas? I've never heard of a system having that many. Heck, mine has 12. Do you spend a long time perfecting every little thing, or do you just have to know the movements?

That post made no sense to me.

High numbers of kata aren't to bad. We practice around 70 of them. Just it's broken down over years. From white to black is 14 kata. Then after that it really slows down. But there is still a lot of kata.

I know our head guy is practicing around 200 kata. It's kind of hard to explain how we do our stuff. Because we start off our classes doing punch kick drills, then do about 30 minutes of groundfighting, then do kata. But I guess it's not to bad, good mix system with about 50/50 standup and ground.

The number thing isnt to bad, it's all based on how you break them up. Usually the rule for us is 1 kata every 2 months until black belt, then like 1 kata every 3 months for the black belt kata. My only complaint with Saishu Ryu so far, is that it takes forever to make any rank. But hey, I'm okay with that because I feel like the training I am getting is good.

[Smitty]

Still... 70?

1 kata every two months? Seems a bit much. It takes years to "master" a kata, and having that many to practice seems a bit time consuming.

[P.A.L]

Still... 70?

1 kata every two months? Seems a bit much. It takes years to "master" a kata, and having that many to practice seems a bit time consuming.

keep that in mind that Saishu ryu is not a traditional karate system it's more like a jujitsu system not even karate-jutsu , so having lots of kata won't effect their quality that much since system is not just based on kata. of course you can't see a saishu ryu practitioner become a world champion in kata like a shotokan or shito-ryu stylist. i just don't see the reason for bringing all of these katas inside the system, in a video clip i noticed the saishu ryu pratitioner(may be the founder) performed a hakutsuru kata in deep forward stances and shiku-dachi(s) which shows the influence of shotokan.so why not just using shotokan katas

[johnnymac]

keep that in mind that Saishu ryu is not a traditional karate system it's more like a jujitsu system not even karate-jutsu , so having lots of kata won't effect their quality that much since system is not just based on kata. of course you can't see a saishu ryu practitioner become a world champion in kata like a shotokan or shito-ryu stylist. i just don't see the reason for bringing all of these katas inside the system, in a video clip i noticed the saishu ryu pratitioner(may be the founder) performed a hakutsuru kata in deep forward stances and shiku-dachi(s) which shows the influence of shotokan.so why not just using shotokan katas

PAL you are right. It is more like jujitsu than karate. I have talked to Doshu about this issue with the kata, and what he told me was that the Shotokan kata weren't very well rounded, it was better if you had a little bit of everything. I don't forsee any great Saishu Ryu kata guys either, definatly not to the quality of Shotokan or Shito Ryu. However the exposure to such a vast array of kata is nice. I don't feel as stagnant as when I was studying karate. Always learning something new and getting new ideas, so it's kind of nice.

John