Sepai Bunkai - Taira Masaji Sensei

Taira Masaji Sensei (8th Dan Jundokan) demonstrating applications from the Gojuryu kata, Sepai.

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[seagoju]

Have a look on GKCGoju's page at the clip 'Taira Masaji Sensei'; I hope you can see things a bit better than on this hand-held effort...

[ekkenaab]

is he drunken little bit? 

[Gerrytamshile]

Agreed.....There is really no point in discussing Karate (Okinawan) bunkai with Sport karate players. Theses are two different activities which should have had different names.

[malasangre]

There is no point in discussing Okinawan bunkai with Sport karate players. They are two different activities which should´ve had different names. I saw Taira sensei seipai bunkai in a TV documentary and it is superb. This clip confirms my first impression. Too bad I can not learn from him.

[singhakabuttar]

@ccthedragon forget scrapy think practical, how many fights have you seen that are neat and tidy, there all scrappy!



[seagoju]

@mrturner7

Re the bunkai, indeed he is keeping it close quarters (Gojuryu is after all a close quarter style). He is, however, adding no strikes or locks that are not in the kata. But, yes, this is a level above the kihon bunkai. Again, this is not an aesthetic endeavour. 'Scrappy'? Hehe; maybe so. I thought the same thing the first time I saw Taira Sensei perform his kata (he'd never win a tournament, that's for sure!). Until he did the kata TO me! Changed my mind. Changed my method.

[seagoju]

@mrturner7

I have addressed the kata 'footing' issue.

With the double strike, the hips are supposed to drop below hip height (following the opponent onto the ground, where he has been dumped by the previous technique)

[mrturner7]

@mrturner7 I'm just saying what I see! when refering to the bunkai, I said that he is using more of an advanced application, keeping it close qaurters and using very little of the basic bunkai and adding more strikes and locks than the kata demonstrates making it look very scrappy. I'm not one for trying to put other karataka down or bad mouthing and I do apologise if i come across that way after all I now train with a club with a very bad reputation in the karate world.

[mrturner7]

@seagoju my first comment was regarding the kata performed at the start. he lost his footing twice doing the same technique, to much speed or over rotating the hips when stepping back in shika datchi blocking gedan, also when performing the sweep and double strike before both slips he drops his hips below the high of his knee's this would probably give more power in some respects but takes alot of the power away from the stance? causes him to arch his back more. I dont wish to argue,

[seagoju]

@mrturner7

Secondly, Taira Masaji Sensei is a leading researcher into kata bunkai who, as you have highlighted, has been performing this kata a wee bit more than 6 months. You have noted what you see would be flaws in the style in which you came? Given that this is a Gojuryu kata, and that Taira Sensei (8th Dan) is a Director at the Jundokan (the first Goju dojo established after the founder's passing), I am not sure you can make that comparison.