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Uploaded by on May 2, 2009

Mikio Yahara demonstrates Empi Kata.

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  • Mr.Yahara so young!I wanted to see "empi do bunkai" of JKA.I will study.Thank you so much!

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  • from when is this vid ? sounds like something from the 80s ... half the bunkai is missing but what's there isn't bad. It'd be difficult for the viewer if they crammed too much bunkai in there so i guess it's ok as it is ... kata is different to the current empi but in my opinion is still not that close to the original .... anyone got any links for some really old empi vids ? would really appreciate ! Oss

  • @olev456 face the truth.thats the shotokan bunkai of this kata and nothing else.shotokan sucks

  • @acerwk this bunkai is most acurate to kata, ive seen many variations, they just made it easier for u and likes of u to understand it. If he would of wanted more combat like bunkai then you would be like" :O wheres that in kata and why is he moving there" etc.

  • This bunkai is crap.who on earth will attack you with oi-tsuki and then wait for you to counter?Or even worst,step back oi-tsuki?wtf?????

  • Thanks very much for posting this. I'm doing some light reading up on Enpi. Had a quick look at Wansu as well. So far so interesting! I'm SKIF affiliated. I noticed last night at an ASK dojo that Kancho Kanazawa has a peculiar way of doing "Empi/Enpi". During the Teisho uchi where the left foot is brought to the centre and right foot goes forward (@3:28). Kanazawa doesn't do this and instead brings the Right foot all the way from back to centre to forward. Other SKIF seem to be doing the same.

  • They don't come much harder than Yahara! Old school JKA,how times have changed, ego+ politics+money=100% DISASTER.....shame really because anyone who's anyone in Shotokan all read from the same sheet in the beginning now they cannot even speak to one another!

  • awsome

  • The keeling filing is so cool even to watch this had a effect in you thanks respectfully a Karateka from Puerto Rico.

  • Mikio Yahara is amazing and this video was well done

  • best of the best.oss.

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