Sanchin Kata Isshinryu

Tatsuo Shimabukuro demonstrating Sanchin Kata in 1966, Tacoma Dojo USA.
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[ke7ggz]

Isshinryu is a high bread system that adapted to the times...Today, sai and bo are not carried on a daily basis and the gun as well as the knife, or club is the weapon of choice of the criminal...Therefore we still have to adapt to our environment, as they did centuries ago....Use what works~!

[ke7ggz]

Now, with the Help of Joe Swift, we now know where and how Isshinryu came to be...I always felt there was a Wing Chun connection...Some of the forms came from Wong Chun Gung fu, as well as Whooping Crane Gung Fu and upon studying the forms of these systems, one can see how they evolved....More importantly is how they are evolving today....It is how the martial art fits you and your environment as it did from China to Okinawa, because of Politics, as well as environment...guns have replaced sai.

[ke7ggz]

I started Isshinryu Karate in 1973, while in the United States Army and over the years after achieving Brown belt, I became ever curious on how Master Shimabuku Tatsuo brought Isshinryu to be...Some of the Kata were not found in the styles taught here in the U.S.

Sure, Seisan is known as Hangetsu in Shorin-Ryu as well as Tekki 1,2&3 are known as Naihanchi Kata, as well as Kusanku= Kwanku; But Wansu and Chinto is what made me curious....

[familystoned69]

too bad it is missing the big portion of kata at .53 :/

[Pitinaloves]

shorin ryu goju ryu te kenmp <lol.. they are alll okinawin styles that cultivated in or around the same time period as eachother.. i wouldn't be suprised if they also applied the verticle punch.. kenpo even uses the knuckle punch move and i believe that's held in a verticle position,.

[GameOf2Halves]

@Sochinsensei I'd like to see you grip torso tissue with your knuckles during a punch.

[GameOf2Halves]

@AMMrawCR Well to me, if you spend the rest of the time using vertical punches, it makes perfect sense to reinforce this in the subconcsious mind by doing the same in the kata. The horizontal punch tradition has already been broken, after all. BTW are there any other styles of karate that punch vertically? Shurin ryu?

[takeshimiyagi]

better!

[Sochinsensei]

@GameOf2Halves Further more the Vertical fist punch is the primary punch of Isshinryu and is a nasty punch at that,Shimabuku Sensei was a beast.

[Sochinsensei]

@GameOf2Halves even the twist punch still has relevance,there are times and places to apply twist punches, Also unless you can throw a particular technique you will never have a good understanding of how its mechanics work,My Isshinryu Sensei taught me years ago to basically twist the punch or finish twisting the twist punch at the point of impact that way your knuckles have already gripped the tissue of the torso and as you twist you will rip and damage internal tissue from the torque Osu....