Kenji Tokitsu - Shaolin mon Karate-Do

[TheFudokan]

but in first kata I saw just okinawan karate.but at the end I saw kata which is not from karate...it is like tai chi chuan..but just katas are having some kung fu style...but kumite principle is from karate,but it looks like sport kumite..there is not anything from okinawan karate...no kyusho(kick in vital spots on body), there is no TODOME wase (the last technique whicht kills opponent.),so some katas are like okinawan, but in kumite there is no deadly techniques..so what do u practise?

[TheFudokan]

I think it has nothing to do with kung fu shaolin....it is written shaolin monk maybe bcs he is practising karate very seriously..his kata reminds me of goju ryu 70 percent and shorin ryu 30 percent....it si like some old okinawan karate style like naha-te, tomari-te or shuri-te...in kata there are all karate punches....and bunkai is all from karate...I am shure that this is okinawan karate....maybe mixed between styles, but it is shure mixed with okinawan karate styles....very good...OSU!

[buakawfan333]

@TheFudokan

read his book, 'ki and the way of the martial arts' and it explains his angle to practicing martial arts ;) basically, HE feels that the modern way of practicing karate doesnt particularly cater for developing superior amounts of ki. He really reveres kendo as a way of developing ki in modern martial arts and the soft chinese styles like tai chi etc. His style is a sort of jeet kune do for a system that develops ki using various martial arts. His book is a very interesting read !

[vr079962]

seeing it just by the first seconds makes me say: I don't like it.

but just for information, what are precisely the characteristics of his style?

[gcpreda]

5:18 is done very very well, as representative of his approach.

[gcpreda]

I'm reading his book, an edit of Miyamoto Musashi's The Book of Five Rings.

[gcpreda]

he's pretty fluid. i get the moves, he has some karate stiffness, but kung fu fluidity as well. whereby i see elements of baji chuan, and deflective/redirective tactics. very interesting.

[dynamiz]

i really like this karate is useful but like all other martial arts it is a art that can be used martialy , its not the martial art its the man tha uses it :)

[emado4ever]

this dude is panik he dont know what he is doing while fighting

[supergiannis090960]

The first kata he does is Chinto. The level is low to medium.  Too many spaces between the moves. Power generated is okay, though. He is no where near the level of the teachers I had on Okinawa.

[shodo2007]

like it;)

[PakDaeHan]

fucken speak english

[SenseiShotokan]

Super

[corili]

Quand on leur montre la lune, certains regardent le doigt

When they are shown the moon, some are looking at the finger

[cluses2]

tu as regardez tous les films de bruce lee

[Bassai]

idiot. trying to to do kanku-dai - kushanku - kosokun - and mixing it with a weak form. another self-proclaimed master...

[PakDaeHan]

@Bassai isn't that what one suppose to do mix the techniques for effectiveness?

[Bassai]

@PakDaeHan Mixing techniques just for the sake of "mixing" doesn't make it effective. Example, if you mix a bunch of nonsense, you get nothing but nonsense. My point of my poor criticism on this teacher, is that he tries to mix parts of different kata to invent his own, which is his own right to do so, but his technique is poor and is evident in his sparring. His Karate would only work against low-level fighters, such as drunkards and street fighters of little experience.

[PakDaeHan]

@Bassai seems like you have a "swell head" my friend, you must be american? why even criticize this man? I think if he keeps training no matter what fucken kata technique he mixes in time he will become skillful.

[Bassai]

@PakDaeHan Use logic in your argument, not random statements. When you said " I think if he keeps training no matter what fucken kata technique he mixes in time he will become skillful" makes no sense at all. If you do any technique in a poor manner, it will never be effective no matter how many times you practice it. Example: Weak punch x 1000 = 1000 weak punches. This guy is a con artist and tricks people into paying him to teach them self defense, which actually doesn't work.

[PakDaeHan]

@Bassai who gives a fuck what your think? stop acting like a smart ass, logic you say? you do not even sound like you are speaking logic here?

[Bassai]

@PakDaeHan Who gives a fuck about what you think?  Yeah, your answers sure show how intelligent you are... Your a waste of time.

[PakDaeHan]

@Bassai the only idiot here is you! stop acting like some teacher!

[PakDaeHan]

@Bassai you must be jealous of this guy? stop crying you make me sick!

[PakDaeHan]

@Bassai bassai your ass you wish! I still don't give a fuck!

[GoldenGhettoFilms]

@PakDaeHan Lol you're an idiot. Although I don't really know whose right or wrong, he's using logic and you're being an idiot.

And why is this guy speaking French?

[deosullivan3]

@GoldenGhettoFilms The better question might be why can't you understand French?

[GoldenGhettoFilms]

@deosullivan3 I can.

I was just wondering : )

[deosullivan3]

@GoldenGhettoFilms Dans ce cas-la, peut-etre que tu pourrais m'expliquer exactement tes impressions sur la video en francais?

[deosullivan3]

@GoldenGhettoFilms

I wrote to you in French THREE WEEKS AGO because you said that you could understand French.

Obviously, you're just a big liar.

[cluses2]

rien a voire avec kenji midori

[cluses2]

le karate c est japonais avec son style et son caractere et le taichi c est chinois avec le sien faire du karate avec des tecniques de taichi on perd l essence du karate a chacun son style il faut conserver ses valeurs et comme techniques de combat en competition sa gagner quoi se style?c est qui leur meilleur pratiquant? et personellement le karate est tres complet pour le deformer avec un autre style d arts martiaux a la fin tu ne fais ni du karate ni du taichi

un salut a tous.

[mille964]

fammi capire... nell altro tuo video fai vedere un applicazione di unsu di shirai e dici che e' irreale, ora posti questo video... la dismostrazione delle tecniche di kumite' di questo video le giudichi invece reali??? hai visto come para i mae geri? hai mai provato a parare un mae geri di uno che lo tira per farti male?? penso proprio di no....

[mitsourugi]

I suppose this was a long time ago when he was well young, and begining in tai ki ken, art from which he has reconized has taken various concepts according to his books . I suppose if you recognize this. It is not longer a rip off. as hapkido instructors do with tkd and aikido.

[LeviathanAngel]

taikiken rip-off....

and not even very good- taikiken should work form even closer, making it a good close combat martial art....

nothing beats the original dachengchuan though...

[tokaidosan]

this is shit..I have never seen something so bizarre!!

[acquafredda75]

Very similar between Tai chi chen and Tai ki ken of Kenichi Sawai.

[shadowchao2]

Merci ^^

[7majestic]

hahahaha, what is this?...funny

[simone221]

io ho un mio video visitatelo si chiama "il piccolo valdesi" lasciate dei commenti

[sakura800]

forza!!karate do x sempre!!XD

[teresalopezm]

Hello newenglandbudo you're right in the translation however i might add that shorin is the japanese pronunciation of the chinese shaolin and that shorin ryu is a descendent of the martial arts brought by chan buddhist monks when they traveled to china. Chan buddhism the system developed by Da Mo aka boddhidharma aka Ta Mo and is kwon in japan as Zen

[Socks360]

fuckin spot on teresalopezm

[NewEnglandBudo]

Shaolin is Okinwan dialect means "Shorin"; this is basically Shorin Ryu with poor pre-arranged kumite because he is not doing any follow up. His body distancing is way too far away for this.

[sajite]

Man, you wouldn't like to know it by yourseft. Tokitsu sensei can fight despite being almost 60 years old.

And his "mai" is of the highest level.

His practice now is a lot diferent from what can be watched in this clip... night and day. He's A LOT BETTER now...

:)

[ranta70]

This is just one aspect of his kumite training, in this instance to develop "flow" in body movement and technique. He is not my teacher, but is a well known and highly respected teacher in both Japan and Europe.

[meniane]

tu as raison c'est un chercheur , pas un trouveur...

[supebizox]

la danse de l'énergie.

[kakumaku]

Excellent moves!! Unlike full contact or sports karate. Real bujutsu !!

Thanks for posting!

[tjfnee88]

Hahahah, yeah right. Maybe it's so easy to teach this bullshit because he's teaching frenchies. Such crap, "merde", if you like. Brothers would own him in the hood.

[tamplet]

c du chi gung vers la fin (j'en faisait tjs ac mon pere avt), aucun rapport ac le karate...

[kingtigerII]

Le kata qui ouvre le film est la kata kushanku, la forme ancienne de kanku de shotokan qui en est une version terriblement appauvrie. Tokitsu étudie les racines du karaté et il cherche à l'enrichir sans s'y enfermer.

[ranta70]

The kata clip at the beginning is Chatanyara Kushanku, the Shotokan version is based on Master Itosu's version. The second kata is Yabu Chinto.

[cluses2]

ce kata je l ai vu faire par l equipe de france de karate et sa rien a voir avec ce qu il fait ton maitre. le karate japonais a son caractere et le taichi le sien si tu melange les 2 a la fin tu fais rien. il faut garder l art et les origines des pays qu il ont fonde le taichi terapeute a rien a voire avec le karate desole de te le dire et le karate est un art martial tres beau et complet si il est bien fait si tu cherche ses defaut biensur il y en a rien est parfait.

salut et bonne journe

[Baguaguy]

Si je ne m'abuse c'est plutôt le début de la forme Chen de Taiji.

[daaoo]

recherche de complémentarité intéressante

[leruben]

c'est une daube.

[thanks88]

japanese martial art is originated from southern shaolin why there re alot similarity

[leruben]

C'est une grosse truffe .

[kingtigerII]

Il te suffit d'un coup d'oeil pour en juger, bravo. Je crois quand même que je vais te donner l'adresse d'un ophtalmo. Tokitsu est l'un des plus grand chercheur actuel dans le domaine des arts martiaux et il essaye de dégager ceux-ci de la gangue des présupposés qui entrave leur évolution.

[kinesthesis]

Kenji Tokitsu est d'origine japonaise, ce qui ne l'a pas empêché de devenir prof à l'université de Paris VII. 8e dan de Karaté, il a travaillé la dimension interne, ce qui l'a amené à s'intéresser au Taiji quan (d'où la partie Qigong). Il a écrit plusieurs livres sur les arts martiaux qui font autorité. Hormis cela, tu as raison, c'est une grosse truffe. J'aimerais franchement être le dixième d'une grosse truffe comme ça.