Two great little films on karate

[Ueshirokarate]

Ok, I am biased as this is the same style I study. But surely anyone with an Okinawan Karate background should enjoy the following two short films on the front page of this website:

http://shorin-ryu.com/

Ota Sensei is not affiliated with the school/system I am involved with, but we do share Nagamine as our founder and our katas, philosophy and overall training is pretty much the same.

[Dobbersky]

I love Okinawan Karate, it seems to encompass "real" techniques and it more akin to my style of Ashihara than mine is akin to Japanese styles of Karate.

Okinawan Karate still practices full contact sparring too.

Ueshiro-san when you studied Judo, did you ever study the Judo Kata and how do you feel they relate to Okinawan Karate kata, if we should open another thread on this that would be good to

[Ueshirokarate]

I love Okinawan Karate, it seems to encompass "real" techniques and it more akin to my style of Ashihara than mine is akin to Japanese styles of Karate.

Okinawan Karate still practices full contact sparring too.

Ueshiro-san when you studied Judo, did you ever study the Judo Kata and how do you feel they relate to Okinawan Karate kata, if we should open another thread on this that would be good to

Surely there is someone on here who holds rank in judo and some form of Suri-te based Okinawan Karate that is better able to discuss this. I agree, it would be most interesting to discuss that topic. It is a bit of a political topic in my system though, as there are those of much higher rank than I who don't believe grabbing and throws are part of our style (I greatly beg to differ with that) and those that say years ago they practiced throws and ground work all the time. Interestingly, the founder of Matsubayashi (Shosin Nagamine) also held dan rank in judo. When you are back on computer, let's start a thread to discuss this and the work of Patrick McCarthy, tegumi, etc.

[sojobo]

I did, thank you.

There are some major wrongs in them (not least the translation of Kara) but then again solid in most respects as far as I could see.

I particularly liked how the group in the second vid got up from seiza.

Don't get me wrong, I do that in my kids class to demonstate correct weight distribution wilst kneeling, but it isn't in our typical reigi.

Sojobo

[Ueshirokarate]

I did, thank you.

There are some major wrongs in them (not least the translation of Kara) but then again solid in most respects as far as I could see.

I particularly liked how the group in the second vid got up from seiza.

Don't get me wrong, I do that in my kids class to demonstate correct weight distribution wilst kneeling, but it isn't in our typical reigi.

Sojobo

I don't know, Ota Sensei is Okinawan born and raised and trained under some of the top Okinawan karate masters. I don't think he made any mistakes within the video i.e. kara's translation. These are probably cultural and linguistic differences between Okinawa and mainland Japan. Japanese is not the native language of Okinwa.

[sojobo]

I did, thank you.

There are some major wrongs in them (not least the translation of Kara) but then again solid in most respects as far as I could see.

I particularly liked how the group in the second vid got up from seiza.

Don't get me wrong, I do that in my kids class to demonstate correct weight distribution wilst kneeling, but it isn't in our typical reigi.

Sojobo

I don't know, Ota Sensei is Okinawan born and raised and trained under some of the top Okinawan karate masters. I don't think he made any mistakes within the video i.e. kara's translation. These are probably cultural and linguistic differences between Okinawa and mainland Japan. Japanese is not the native language of Okinwa.

As I understand it the original character of Kara referred to China, but this was subsequently changed to "Empty".

Empty in this respect pertains emptiness or purity of mind and body.

The fact that the majority of Karate is done without weapons is not the reason it is called "empty hand".

Sojobo

[Ueshirokarate]

As I understand it the original character of Kara referred to China, but this was subsequently changed to "Empty".

Empty in this respect pertains emptiness or purity of mind and body.

The fact that the majority of Karate is done without weapons is not the reason it is called "empty hand".

Sojobo

I highly doubt that Ota sensei would disagree with you, despite the film stating empty hand. I don't know how deeply into Zen he is, but there is a very strong Zen tradition in Matsubayashi:

http://seinenkai.com/articles/art-heshiki.html

[sojobo]

I highly doubt that Ota sensei would disagree with you, despite the film stating empty hand.

There ya go then.

Sojobo

[martialartscounter]

Ok, I am biased as this is the same style I study. But surely anyone with an Okinawan Karate background should enjoy the following two short films on the front page of this website:

http://shorin-ryu.com/

Ota Sensei is not affiliated with the school/system I am involved with, but we do share Nagamine as our founder and our katas, philosophy and overall training is pretty much the same.

Nice video on those website, i really like that karate man video