This is my most recent Sanchin Kata. Feel free to comment or criticize.
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I so love that kind of stuff.
its not really that bad. and the strikes are usually only as strong as the student can take. any punches to the side are to the latt muscle not the kidney, you can damage the kindeys easily.I love it when people say kata is a waste of time. It's only a waste of time if you don't know why you're doing it.
The full dvd where that clip came from has a section where guys are breaking 2 X 4s off of the person doing the kata, and guys are holding Sanchin jars full of water, sand, etc. while performing the kata.
Traditional Uechi Ryu is said to be the hardest body conditioning style there is. I can't think of too many people willing to be kicked in the calf and punched in the kidneys while doing a kata for any length of time. One of the gentleman in the video's principals is being able to take so much punishment that your attacker loses the will to fight. Combine that with brutal and direct strikes, and you've got a pretty effective combination IMO.
I'd love to say I'd be all over it if there was a place locally that does what they do and how they do it, but I don't know if I'd truly want to subject myself to that for years and years. When I was in my 20s and invincible, yeah. At almost 40, not really.
nice sanchin kata Bill. question ,,,is the chamber position supposed to have the hand drawn back to the hip? in Goju and Uechi the hand is drawn back so it rests in the middle, between the hip and the arm pit
nice sanchin kata Bill. question ,,,is the chamber position supposed to have the hand drawn back to the hip? in Goju and Uechi the hand is drawn back so it rests in the middle, between the hip and the arm pit
We draw back to the hip for the punches. For the gouges, we draw back to nearly the armpit and then lower to the hip, opening the fist as we lower it. Is that what you meant?
I know this was directed to Bill, but I thought I would also add some input. Isshin Ryu's Sanchin kata is unique in the style's different lineages. This was the one kata that Tatsuo Shimabuku taught using both the horizontal punch and the vertical punch. Depending on your lineage, it means that you will do this kata with the traditional vertical punches from the hip in Sanchin kata, or some lineages do the horizontal punches from the hip also. There are also lineages in IR that do the horizontal punch from the mid-chest like Goju Ryu does them. It all depends on what time period your lineage learned from Tatsuo.
I know this was directed to Bill, but I thought I would also add some input. Isshin Ryu's Sanchin kata is unique in the style's different lineages. This was the one kata that Tatsuo Shimabuku taught using both the horizontal punch and the vertical punch. Depending on your lineage, it means that you will do this kata with the traditional vertical punches from the hip in Sanchin kata, or some lineages do the horizontal punches from the hip also. There are also lineages in IR that do the horizontal punch from the mid-chest like Goju Ryu does them. It all depends on what time period your lineage learned from Tatsuo.
its not really that bad. and the strikes are usually only as strong as the student can take. any punches to the side are to the latt muscle not the kidney, you can damage the kindeys easily.
I know this was directed to Bill, but I thought I would also add some input. Isshin Ryu's Sanchin kata is unique in the style's different lineages. This was the one kata that Tatsuo Shimabuku taught using both the horizontal punch and the vertical punch. Depending on your lineage, it means that you will do this kata with the traditional vertical punches from the hip in Sanchin kata, or some lineages do the horizontal punches from the hip also. There are also lineages in IR that do the horizontal punch from the mid-chest like Goju Ryu does them. It all depends on what time period your lineage learned from Tatsuo.
I know it's a progression, and it's not some animal going all out on you. But that video is also a very, very small snippet of what they do for conditioning.
If you haven't seen them, check out Tee: The Spirit of Okinawan Karate and Samurai Spirit's karate episode by Nicholas Pettas. They give a ton of insight on Okinawan karate in Okinawa. I'd love to do that stuff, but I don't recover as quickly as I used to.
Sorry to sidetrack.
Miyagi also taught Sanchin several different ways. Not every student of his learned the kata the same way. Some had turns, some didn't, some were open hand, some were closed fist. He reportedly taught kata to each student's strengths and weaknesses, not a one size fits all approach. This runs counter to a lot of "traditionalists" who argue kata must never be changed in any way by anyone. Furthermore, Miyagi didn't teach the first kata, which as Sanchin, until about 3-5 years after the student started.
Source: Interview with Meitoku Yagi, the Sensei who was given Miyagi's belt and chosen to lead Goju by the Miyagi family.
Meitoku Yagi