SHORIN RYU SHORINKAN YAKOSOKU KUMITE

[Zanshin]

Hi P.A.L,

Thanks, that was really interesting to watch. I am a Wado person and a lot of our Karate is descended from Shorin-Ryu.

I think you can see the similarities, certainly with the more upright stances and fluidity of movement.

It’s a bit of a shame the camera lens seemed to fog over towards the end of the Kata. Or was that just my eyesight

[strangepair03]

Thank you for the videos PAL. It was good to see the kumite drill.

[P.A.L]

Yakosuku #2 and #3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRp1Z18Xxd8

[ps1]

Those are very interesting to watch. They are extremely different than what I'm used to. Most of our "set" kumite techniques are only one, two, or three steps long. Very cool.

[bushido_man96]

Thanks for sharing those, PAL. They were very interesting to watch.

[xena]

my style of karate is Shorin-Ryu

japanese

i was in the young dragons my sensi was

mark colgon

but there is manys styles of it

i was wondering if someone could list all the styles of Shorin-Ryu ?

[Montana]

Yakusoku #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGecC0Qfrkk

Although not your typical "well rehearsed" demonstration video...if you know what you're looking at anyway, that video shows some very fine basic blocking technique (note a couple of good examples of body shifting) of Okinawan karate!

Got any more links like that?

[P.A.L]

Yakusoku #1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGecC0Qfrkk

Although not your typical "well rehearsed" demonstration video...if you know what you're looking at anyway, that video shows some very fine basic blocking technique (note a couple of good examples of body shifting) of Okinawan karate!

Got any more links like that?

well you are right, these clips of #1,#2 and #3 shows the general structure of shorinkan yakusokus, but this is not the way the Okinawan kyushis want you to perform it, they like to see some standard block/punch karate, i posted this for some friends who know the form but may be a little bit rusty remembering it. we put our white crane techniques into it, so you could see the back hand block first some times or hands are open, you also may notice there were lots of distraction involve using finger poking,pinching ,pulling and grabing the gi, which is a NO NO in shorinkan. we stoped taping after two runs since after that the whole thing gets ugly ,we just throw the punches in the context of each yakusoku and it ends up to a ground fighting some times, my sensei found this more usefull for street applications.