SHIRAI Sensei: This is karate

Impressive demonstration of basic techniques!

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Sports

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• karate
• kihon
• shotokan
• shirai

[sroedner]

Thank you zbirut. I didn't know the exact time of the clip and thereforeI didn't publish it!

[mallardgreen]

Yes, that is probably because he is creating floor pressure through his stance, using the floor as a kind of reaction plate, something to push against to generate power - "for each and every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction". It also allows his body to properly react to the impact generated upon striking an opponent, so his body does not give way and reabsorb energy he would rather transfer to his target. The final snap is focus, kime, total body power at the end of technique.

[kungfushus]

I love how heavy he moves and snaps each technique. It feels like he has weights on the ends of his limbs!

[Darragh62]

6 dislikes? people av no idea lol

[BelloBudo007]

This clip of Shirai is great viewing. For over 40 years, in my quest of 'natural movement' I have been trying to commence the uke technique with the hip. More often than not I struggle and delay with a midway preparation. Shirai though seems to have mastered it without looking in the least bit sloppy. Hats off to him.

[jacopo0o0]

@MrWintersho

About wing chun , i don t know, i see that soldiers use a systems based on different stances and different ideas.. in krav maga i don t see chisao and inside the MMA neither. i think that we haveto look in that direction to see what kind of tecnique works. because they try.Ithink that the error it s use gyaku and the oder tecnique in the classical form, they are just an ideas of the "perfect" hit, but ot functional for the real fight,they are usefull to learn some concept, like hip

[jacopo0o0]

i m not talking just about kiling, i m talking about to be in the situation in which someone want to kill you, or, anyway, like it happens in a full contact match,someone that want hit you for ko.

I think that only in that situation you can find your mushin. did you talk about ian aberteney? it s good, but too complex..he focus too much on a single opponent. didier is more essential i think, ad it s more near to my vision because i m practicing shotokan too.

[MrWintersho]

@jacopo0o0 Ask him, not me, my friend. I didn`t want to upset you, but infact, "mushin" is not only got by repeating techniques (no matter aimed on air, makiwara, punching bag or pancakes(yes, a joke), Maybe sometimes"mushin" is seen like "coldblooded", but it is not the same for me.To kill people on duty is not a question of "mushin" but education and motivation. You are sure, those people are in balance with their fate? If you like the work of Didier, please try Abernethy. Oss

[MrWintersho]

@jacopo0o0 Ask him, not me, my friend. I didn`t want to upset you, but infact, "mushin" is not only got by repeating techniques (no matter aimed on air, makiwara, punching bag or pancakes(yes, a joke), Maybe sometimes"mushin" is seen like "coldblooded", but it is not the same for me.To kill people on duty is not a question of "mushin" but education and motivation. You are sure, those people are in balance with their fate? If you like the work of Didier, please try Abernethy. Oss

[MrWintersho]

@Leonidaslost Honourable Peter, no doubt, that you are an experienced Karateka both Kata and bunkai. I agree, that so called "long techniques" (geri-waza except hiza, sometimes Kizami-Geri and fumikomi) maybe not useful, but you know, that it is the principle that counts. As you know, there are lots of Tuide or "WT" techniques in the Kata and close throwing techniques I agree, that shotokan learned as it is used in competition is not best choice, so I try to go deeper. Oss Frank

[Leonidaslost]

@MrWintersho After 25 years I hope I have some understanding of Shotokan Bunkai. However, real fighting takes place 6 to 12 inches closer than most Shotokan techniques allow. A good example of realistic distance is wing chun "Sticking hands". I think now our style is "too big" (practitioners will know what I mean). Our kata and techniques train the body well but a beautiful gykuzuki as demonstrated here has no application in itself for the street. Remember please I still do my kata.Oss Peter

[jacopo0o0]

@MrWintersho

Maybe because they don t want to teach something really useful.. but just a "depurated" version of real karate.

They know tha we are more affascinated by a lot of oss, and a fake martial atmosphere than by a real small tecnique...

[jacopo0o0]

@MrWintersho

And about heavy bags and makiwara.. in italy ,where shirai teached a lot, and i think not just there, they are few used. And makiwara in particular i think-and not just i- it s very dangerous for the spine. Not all that cames from tradition is absolutley good . The evolution works in training also..you spoken about didier lupo, i like him, why shirai; the biiig master from japan.... can t do a work like this with some black belts and not just the same things?