Higaonna Sensei - Tensho

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Uploaded by on Aug 2, 2008

Sensei Morio Higaonna performing the kata Tensho, at the 2008 IOGKF World Budosai

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  • when you attack Higaonna Sensei its like you've been punching the wall. When you are punched by Him you did not remember what happend

  • Later in a persons training, after many decades, karate takes on the life of the practitioner. This is never experienced by the shallow, egotistical or those with a short term reward threshold. Higaonna Sensei is displaying that very thing at the end of tensho and it is a manifestication of who he is at that time. He has his reasons and they are for him only. Kanazawa does the same type thing when he ends a kata. It is distinct and his to do. Karate, ultimately, becomes you but it takes eons.

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  • it looks kinda simmaler to wing chun forms, is it just me that sees that?

  • @Colemandina

    Interesting. I like that perspective.

  • @jimiwal no its not... id rather punch a wall... it wouldnt punch me back XD

  • When Higaonna does pushups, it's not him that's going up and down, but the earth moving away from him....

  • i can feel the power in my arms and hands when I do this kata!

  • Only if my Tensho was as good as his *sigh*

  • This "flapping of wings" is displayed in animals. Watch 2 ducks in a conflict and within a moment of disengaging they flap wings, discharging the negativity of that momentary conflict.

    Chi Kung has similar motions.

  • he has left an indelible mark my friend. he is truly an amazing man. a true inspiration for all practioners of goju-ryu anywhere. i would be honored to have the chance to train with him

  • well the beginning was pretty much like the sil nim tao form in wing chun. Probably it is true that no matter what martial art you train, after some decades you understands that there are no differences. It is like the religions - different gods one true. btw. Allah means God in Arabian language.

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