Gekisai Padwork Drill

[Wastelander]

Gekisai isn't part of my organization's curriculum, but many people in the system practice it, and several other Shorin-Ryu systems call it Fukyugata Ni. This video is a simple padwork drill I've been playing with for the mae-geri/age-enpi-uchi/uraken-uchi/gedan­-barai/gyaku-tsuki sequence. While we only recorded one iteration of the drill, there are several ways it can be altered to suit the people practicing it. Of course, there are more ways to apply these movements, but this drill is used to highlight and develop the striking applications, specifically.

[JR 137]

im a big fan of Gekisai Dai kata. Mas Oyama changed it slightly, therefore Kyokushin and its offshoots (Seido being an offshoot) do it differently...

Kyokushin and its offshoots also do Gekisai Sho...

Kyokushin schools often claim it's a Chojun Miyagi kata, but I doubt it. No one outside of Kyokushin does it, and there's no mention of Gekisai Sho anywhere in anything Goju Ryu. I wonder if Oyama created it (I'm sure he'd take credit if he did though), he picked it up from Gogen Yamaguchi (Goju Kai schools would at least mention it if he practiced/taught it), or from So Nei Chu who was a Korean who taught Oyama Goju in Japan.

Gekisai Sho is a shodan kata in my former and current system. I didn't care much for it when I did it; I guess I always wanted to work on Seiunchin instead, which was the other shodan kata.

[bushido_man96]

I like the padwork, a lot. I saw a clip of Iain Abernethy demonstrating some pad work on my FB page the other day, as well, and it caught my eye. I think being able to translate forms work or other prearranged movements into padwork helps the practitioners see the benefit of it. The pads also offer feedback that doing a kata or form alone cannot.

Thanks for sharing these links.