Kusanku kata

Grandmaster Tatsuo Shimabuku demonstrates kusanku kata for his students in the mid 1960's.

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• Isshinryu
• Shimabuku
• Tatsuo
• kusanku
• kata

[kungfuxdrummer]

yes it was. if you knew anything about his history you would know that these videos of him were unknowingly distributed. grandmaster shimakuku was not happy to hear this because he knew that they did not resemble the true essense of the katas. tatsuo was the top out of all of his master's students.

[brasshandmartialarts]

Or perhaps he did not think it was needed to add strength to kata....but just to know it...its hard to say what the masters were thinking.

[Frodo0306]

At 15 seconds, is he punching or doing a knife hand block?

[abysmalatrocious]

I also studied Okinawan Isshinryu Karate. On the last two moves of Kusanku, I would say, "Yes, Yeah!!" You complete this long kata, you deserve to. I never got to learn Sunsu, unfortunately.

[ThePresidentFreeman]

Can anyone tell me the basic teaching motion around 0:51 after he turns from the right hand low block and left hand side block.

I was having trouble with the bits up til the elbow strike just before that, so that's all I've been doing the past week, and now I forgot the last move my teacher showed me.

[msnaruminem]

apparently, he was on rice wine when he demonstrated this form to "relax" him.

[ThePresidentFreeman]

@kungfuxdrummer If what my teachers were told by theirs is right, while the basic motions Master Shimabuku were using were correct, he also didn't want his forms recorded because he believed in the idea of an evolving art: That whoever took over his place should be better than him and therefore, if they saw fit to change how they did and/or taught a kata, it was a good idea.

[Bassai]

He was just doing it half-heartedly, as many of us do from time to time, as a "quick-breeze" review of the kata. Nothing wrong with that. We all have those moments in training when we are simply just reflecting on a few sequences of the kata...

[umasbob]

@umasbob Fighting as dusk, or with the sun setting.

[umasbob]

The most physical and challenging of the Kata's in Isshin Ryu.

[sillyrulesband]

@Isshin1

[armanox]

@chatanyarasan Looks like Chatanyara no Kusanku to me.