Ko-do Ryu Pushing Hands

Ko-do Ryu Pushing Hands
Featuring Ko-do Ryu Senior Instructors: Nathan Johnson & David Blachford, Martin Johnstone & Steve Nowaki.
Music from 'The Great Karate Myth' (c) 2005 The Wykeham Press

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• nathan
• johnson
• karate
• martial
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• kung
• fu
• pushing
• hands

[tripitaka99]

The music is so beautiful where is it from?

[kodoryu]

@tripitaka99 ...The music was very kindly created for The Great Karate Myth, by Duncan Thomas & Elliot Cohen - Ko-do Ryu instructors in Manchester.

[csthundercat]

good... when i think of push hands, this is what i expect to see. way too much BS out there in the "world of martial arts"

[gaugustcrane]

None of the applications you see here are pre-arranged; it's a form of improvisation and reactions to what your partner is doing. We use Sanchin, Rokushu/Tensho and Naihanchin in this activity and they are interconnected by a series of push/pull techniques working on the six-gate principle and body mechanics.

[dawsieboi]

Excellent video, thanks for sharing :-) Its a shame we couldn't see your feet in the clip...I would've liked to see your footwork and use of sanchin, thanks again :-)

[ronin752]

@sportbo

The question is how much do you know about Classical Okinawan Karate? Secondly, without giving credit to "Wing Chun," tode (what you call classical karate), means china hand and comes from Southern Shaolin systems. The Okinawans always gave credit to the Chinese systems.

[thecontemplative2]

@thecontemplative2

PS, yes I did notice the 3-4 seconds of material that looked like chi-sao. But there is a two hand form (mororte) of kakie that is not unlike that, although it doesn't seem very common even among Okinawans. In any event, we are still just talking about 3 or 4 seconds. The other material looks like pretty straight forward Okinawan karate. Judging from his kakie, I suspect NJ has done Tai Chi, and that Tai chi has influenced his martial arts more than Wing Tsun.

[thecontemplative2]

@sportbo

After watching the video again, I can say that the trapping and "hand passing" are quite typical of good Uechi ryu including, if not especially, Sanchin kata. Every joint lock on the video is found in authentic Okinawan tuidi. The Naihanchi kata are particularly heavy on tuidi (according to Okinawan masters).

Pushing-hands is called Kakie and really looks nothing like Wing-tsun chi-sao.

To suggest that this video "has nothing to do with Classical Karate" is just LUDICROUS.

[thecontemplative2]

@sportbo

Not Win-tsun. Before spouting off again try googling kakie, karamidi, tuidi etc

This is pretty well within the parameters of Okinawan arts as I learned them.

[sportbo]

This is totaly Wing Tsun and has nothing to do with Clasical Karate. They also do a lot of things just wrong. It is ok to train with different methods, but you should be honest about it and say that it comes from Wing Tsun. And has absolutely nothing to do with Karate.