Kyan-style Seisan

[mikeafd]

My thanks to Mr Richard Nilsson for taking these 8mm films and being my sensei in Shorin Ryu beginning in 1963. I had the honor of training with him and meeting Kaikyo Suzuki San Godan in 1965 when he visited our dojo in Chicago. Each class we had a money jar and through out the year we put spare change in it so that each summer we could pay for the flight of one of our seniors from Japan to come to our school. We were so traditional that few schools new that we even existed, very different now

[RCK502]

Thank you for posting this. Kyan was Tatsuo Shimabuku's Sensei at one time. I will be honest, I did not thing they liked to similar. Yes, basically it was the same Kata, But there were find differences, that really changed it for me.

This is a Kata that I really like. If there was one kata that I would feel was of of the betters ones, this one is it. Has a lot of good lessons to build upon.

[leejunfa]

@RCK502 I have been studying Isshinryu for years and this kata is almost exactly how Shimabuku taught it. Depending on where you learned it others could have changed it, but the sequence is almost identical.

[alekx58]

das ist ziemlich genau die kyan ke dao tiger technick im grunde nur aus einer einzigen figur bestehend ein ganz besonderer gyakuzuki hsing chi goa hu kyan ke dao hai

[toshiro858]

Mr. McCarthy, Richard Nilsson was a Direct student of Master Nakama. He was the first American to make top rank in this system of Shorin ryu. for more detail you will have to talk to him. I've been training this system since 1976, My father was a student and one of Mr. Nilssons top ranking students in Chicago and he started small clubs in California and Arizona. If you watch the Katas all the basic ones lead into the next (seisan through gojushiho) then pasai leads into kushanku ect

[mminer58]

Great footage! My grandpa was from Okinawa.  I am 51 and finally learning karate.

[aspen77rt]

Excellent.. Even with my choppy dial-up I see small things I did not learn in the Shobayashi version that are interesting. Do you have these on hard disk?

[1919shogun]

Rich Nilsson

Just thought that you should know that this Super 8 film was not shot in Okinawa. I made these films while I was living with Master Nakama, in the sixties. They are filmed in the backyard of Master Nakama's former home. I am surprised to see the film on your site. I had though, that I had the only copies of them. Although, I may have given a copy to the Yokosuka Karate Association. Incidentally, next year will be the fiftieth anniversary of my attaining Shodan

[toshiro858]

@1919shogun , Sensei Nilsson, this is Toshiro Carrington please contact me. ur students would love to hear from u. Toshiro858@gmail.com

[RoccoCypress]

At the end, after he completes Seisan, it looks like he performs a version of Ananku. Never seen it performed quite like that. Very interesting.

Thanks for sharing all this great footage!

[tapilolo]

Salut,

Thanks for the video.

Strange, in this version there is not the shift from shiko dachi to zenkutsu which exist in other Kyan lineages (Seibukan for example) ???

[Tetsubo64]

Does anyone know who this is performing the kata? This kata is almost identical to the Seidokan (Shorin Ryu) Seisan that Toma Shian teaches in Awase Okinawa. One of the differences is the double hand middle blocks. All the direction, stance work, and most hand movements are identical. Toma learned this kata from Shimabukuro's father I believe.

[americandevil]

Thank you Sensei McCarthy for sharing this video!

Seisan is a great kata. I learned the same/similar version of Seisan in Shorinji-Ryu. For some reason, it was a particularly hard kata for me to learn.

If you have 77 seconds to spare, please take a look at my channel. I have a seisan video from my shodan test. Look closely an you can see Robert Leong Sensei judging my test.

Respectfully,

Dan Wojcik

[mccarthysensei]

Hi Dan, thanks for inviting me over to watch your kata. I can see many promising skills developing; please keep up the hard work and find a dispassionate eye to critique your technique.

[chatanyarasan]

Thank you very much Mcarthy sensei for posting this old footage.Are you the wellknown Patric Mcarthy sensei? best regards from chile

[theshadowboy607]

footage from 48 years ago?

[bujin2]

Hi Lars.

Nakama Haruka was a student of Okuhira Bunei who in turn was student of Kyan Chotoku. I believe they can be seen in a picture together. Let me see if I can find it.

Regards,

Jim Sindt

Denmark :-)

[psors439]

Hi Jim,

My name is Pedro Sors and I had the opportunity to train at one time with Haruka Nakama in Yokuska, Japan. If you could lead me to where I could find the picture of Namaka with Okuhara and Kyan I would appreciate it very much.

Thanks in advance

Pedro

[monguaki]

Nakama Haruka from Yokosuka, Japan.

[Joshinkan]

Is this Shimabukuro Eizo or Nagazato Joen's style. Rather close to the Isshinryu embusen.

Regards,

Lars Andersen

Denmark

[guitarninja83]

Kyan was a teacher of Tatsuo of isshin I believe.