Sai Katas...

[tommarker]

try a search for "Sai kata" in a search engine like Google and you should find lots of online diagrams and even a couple of video clips. I also bought a book with many sai basics and kata which I actually found in Borders! Look in your local bookshop/library or even try amazon for books on kobudo.

 

not to call you a liar but...

 

i couldn't find squat for sai kata online... where are the lots of things you found?

[Solo]

http://216.40.249.192/s/contrib/blackeye/lol.gif Elvis doing a Sai Kata...Ahem http://smilies.networkessence.net/s/cwm/3dlil/rolleyes.gif Sorry that was a classic. I've checked that site out too major_motoko, but the guy is dayum hard to keep up with and the images are way whacked lol But thanks anyway, I'm still gonna try it when I have the time to focus on it..Once again, Thanks

 

Btw tmmarker, I didn't find anything on google either...not much anyway No biggie.

[major_motoko]

There is a video clip of a sai kata here if you scroll down a little:

 

http://www.uechi-ryu.com/videos/tc_videos.html

 

The picture's a little fuzzy but you can still get the idea.

 

 

motoko

[major_motoko]

Some nice sai movie clips:

 

http://www.zentokukai.com/movies/Kobudo_nincho_marquez/kihon_sai_kata.mov

 

http://www.zentokukai.com/movies/OshiroiSai.mov

 

http://www.ikkf.org/okk8.mov

 

http://www.ikkf.org/okk20.mov

 

 

motoko

[tommarker]

keep in mind that when you visit a person's site who hosts videos for free that they are probably paying a lot of money to do so.

 

if you visit a site, pull the video out of your cache so you can view it repeatedly instead of reloading it from their site.

 

The reason I bring this up is because one of my favorite sites for watching isshin-ryu kata went down for this reason.

 

Good news: Kusanku Sai (about 15MB, MPEG)

 

http://www.msoiaurora.org/kusanku_sai

 

Sai Chatanyara No Sai (the only official sai kata I have learned)

 

http://home.planet.nl/~poel0383/ChatanyaranoSai.html

[Solo]

Pull the video out of your cache so you can view it repeatedly...Not to sound dumb (unfortunatly I will heh)...Pull it out of your cache? How do you do that?

 

Btw, thanks for the katas guys

[tommarker]

solo...

 

if you are using Internet Explorer, look for a directory on your computer called "temporary internet files" and there will be a couple different folders in there. browse around in them (i like to view file details, and then organize them by file size. it's easy to spot a 15 mb file in your cache, because it is huge.) then drag it out of the cache folder, and onto your desktop, or whereever you like to store that stuff.

[DownwardSpyral]

Doesn't that defeat the purpose of the cache? The cache saves recently downloaded and played files, and loads them from the hard disk instead of re-downloading it.

[tommarker]

point taken..

 

but it is a good idea to make copies of stuff you like, especially since the good stuff comes and goes.

[Solo]

Thanks Guys. I'll do that Thanks for clearing that up