Taikiken history

[MediumSizedCrane]

This is an awsome style. It has many ingredients and much flavor.

[syphen888]

Looks like the guy in checkered obi 4:55 has in some clear hits. What are your thoughts?

[kenseisato1989]

lol the funny thing is half of the negative comments are from people who dosn't know shit about martial arts

[Mider999]

You all see something you find odd and automatically say it sucks. Grow up people

[thejbcrazy]

This Style is rubbish ..... If I lose too this style, i would cry ...

[donoberloh]

Dragonboy, Maybe you need to train more, research more, and travel more. There are many Japanese arts that Im sure you havent been exposed too. Commercial arts get attention, classical Dojo do not teach for money, but to find a few worthy students

[GuamKomudo]

At 2:02 the guy all the way to the right... That looks EXACTALLY like my cousin... o.O That is so weird, he looks just like him, I had to look twice and show my family lol Its just like its him standing their from these photos from a long time ago, like he was born again lol

[Zinidatikazem2]

Osu!

[Siddthartha]

really great school imho.

a big individual influence of master. but this is one of the way to get all applications with tui shou.

[TheLibertard]

WTF!

[jimanHK]

great video and great music, thank you,

[culebrasty]

沢井の君、日中歴史の上で残す問題、王芗斋師の祖が本当の大成の­こぶしをあなたに教えることができないことを招きます.私はあな­た達を見ていて一生似て非であるいわゆる大成のこぶしを懸命に鍛­えて、私は先生の悲痛のためにやみません.

[culebrasty]

今日、私１つの大成のこぶしの正統の第3世代の弟子の身分であな­たとあなたに向って伝授したのあまりに息のこぶしの弟子、心から­の陳謝を表しています.

[jazz123214]

My thoughts exactly culebrasty!

[AkhilleusWeeps]

Interesting how martial arts have evovled over time. Thank God I wasn't around then.

3:41 Says it all.

[Krisgomgun]

OSU,

On minute 1:57 you can see Master Sawai with Kancho Royama who is the Kancho of Kyokushin-kan. I had the luck to have Taikiken training with Kancho Royama. I will soon post.

Thanks for this nice movie.

OSU

[wakanu7]

Wow! Way to go I was always curious to see how Sifu/Sensei Sawai add on to the evolution of Yi Chuan. Awesome.

Thanks for sharing the rare footage.

[hans89]

LOVE the music!! Where is it taken from?

[kingcurtiss]

This is strangely validating.

Having studied Karate for 5 years in my early teens, and later a bit of pushands, Tai Chi and a little Hsing-I.

I found myself naturally moving and fighting like this. This style must be a kind of natural meeting point of the three.

The phrase "fighting with feeling" also seems fitting.

This is interesting, I like it.

[joshinmaster]

okay no offense philip but you have to be a screw ball first of all Master Wang Xian Zhai studied xingyi chuan with Master Guo for a many years he also studied with some very high level shaolin monks. there really is no style in Yiquan there is Zhuang zhou yuan ( standing qigong) Tuishou ( pushing hands practice) Shili( force training) let's not forget Sanda( free sparring practice) all these area's are covered. Kenichi was a direct disciple that trained under master wang.

[a1562z]

Yes Mr. Sawai made it clear that his methods derived from hsing i chuan had no style and used no kata . However there are certain principles which some of these idiots want to call "style"

[culebrasty]

Mr Kenichi Sawai is a real yi quan master! he is great!

[philipw2005]

This is not Yi Chuan!! It seems Great Grand Master Wang Xian Zhai teached nothing to Mr Kenichi Sawai. Totally wrong concept!! Real Yi Chuan has NO-STYLE. It is something else!!

[sokaiiya]

What do you mean NO-STYLE?

[philipw2005]

U ar an intelligent person! All the nation's MArt has its own style. Such as Saolin, WuDong, TaiChi, WingChun in China; TKD in Korea, Karata in Japan, Thai Boxing in Tailand..etc. They are all training MArt by their own willing, own concept, own sequence of movement, formula of action and reaction- (Doing the action by only yourselve). The students are all learning the external movement and theory. But, on the contrary, they are binding their mind in small area as above. Cont..

[philipw2005]

Only Summit Martial Art like Yi Quan and Aikido are totally different from my point of view. No-Style is the most simple and the most difficult. Just example: Do you need to learn or train your eyelids to open and close very fast when something fly in front of your face even it is just a small mosquito? It is not about imitation. If you can perceive this, U ar jumping to other Martial Art's Level. But, this is just only.. only... the beginnings. Good Luck and health.

Philip

[Damzeus]

AMAZING ! A great master of Yi chuan !

[borz83]

great! thnx for posting!

[molezay]

very fluide and efficient.practicing martial arts since 1981.

[entho21]

i do taikiken since 8 months now and i didnt know it was a variant of Yi Quan

[a1562z]

I bought Mr Sawai's book "Tai ki ken" the essence of Kung fu" in 1976 It is out of print now. In it he describes how he was in China in the 1930's and challenged an older master Wang something. In spite of his yrs of training in martial arts judo etc this little old man was throwing him all over the room.

[eugeneshaolin]

This was very interesting. I didn't know there was a Japanese variant of Yi Quan. Thanks for posting these.

[bogoy106]

japanese version of tai chi chuan heheheh cool

[seal2006]

Using the Japanese pronunciation of the same characters may produce "iken" for "yi chuan"。As for the difference in meaning, it is sometimes impossible to translate a word into another language adequately, hence why it is often better to use the original (e.g. Sumo being called "Japanese wrestling" is not particularly satisfactory, as what is Judo?... japanese wrestling...). Maybe he chose Japanese words which best expressed the same meaning in Japanese...

[thkun33]

anyone knows the difference between taikiken and yiguan.

[zenchantao]

whats the music please ?

[Henkywijaya]

why Sawai Kenichi change the name of taichi i quan to Taikiken as if he found the style himself...

if i was his Si Fu then i would not accept him as my desciple.

[Muraku666]

@Henkywijaya It is impossible to say Tai Chi Quan in Japanese without sounding different. Attempting to say the "Quan" would sound strange in Japanese. "Taijiquan" is how the Chinese pronounce it. Taikiken is easier to say for them Learn more about the world before you make stupid judgment calls on youtube.

[wangzanzai]

this may all look like an easy simple thing to do, but it all takes years of practice to even make a single step toward becoming even an ok student, thanks for this film, i love it...