GOJU RYU KARATE - TENSHO, SESAN, CLUB LINEAGE

This opens with a demonstration of the Kata Tensho. Sensei Max Beddow then explains the lineage of the Broseley Goju Ryu Karate Club and demonstrates the Kata Sesan. For more details check out the club's website www.broseley-gojukan.co.uk/ or Sensei's own youtube channel on www.youtube.com/gojukanman

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• max
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• broseley
• keith
• pace
• gary
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[gojukanman]

Hi there what you say is very true, however with goju it is not about how the kata looks but rather how it feels that is important, but the soft aspect is always the most difficult part to achieve. thank you for your comment.

[TheKev1972]

goju is hard and soft and i agree...but you did the katas hard if your goju has a chinese back round it should be soft and whippy! am i wright??? kind regards kev...

[elu296]

@Natebaber Agree entirely, but you're slightly missing the point. The danger of MMA to TMA is distillation. When Chinese Sanshou was first codified after the Cultural Revolution, it had dozens of techniques. Now, it has a dozen. Thousands of athletes fighting each other for years under the same rule set shows quickly (and clearly) what the most effective techniques are (for those rules) and people concentrate solely on those. How many MMA fighters learn only Muay Thai and Nogi BJJ?

[masterdimsen]

@DW01 yeah but I was kinda trying to throw what he said back at him, to me shadow boxing and kata seem a lot alike though in shadowboxing you can choose your own actions... I know both are usefull but I was kinda raging at the time

[DW01]

@clearcombat I dont like kata but i see the point in the repetedness of technques - it just basically drills it into you.... Also, traditional martial arts will always have their place - all styles will always have their place.. MMA is still only a sport at the end of the day with rules, and does not help you defend against weapons, getting bitten, or having your eyes gouged.

[DW01]

@masterdimsen Hold on - shadow boxing is just a means of practising combinations and techniques to get them right... When you shadow box all you are doing is going through different scenarios in your head and how you would react, etc - nothing to do with the way your opponent would fight - That is for sparring!

[Natebaber]

TMA's finished? Tell that to George St. Pierre, Lyoto Machida or any of the Gracies. Yes BJJ can be considered a TMA because it was directly influenced by a Japanese TMA. The traditional martial arts can never be finished. If they are then there is no hope for the future of ANY martial art at all. They are a window into the past and a relevant resource for today. As long as there is violence there will always be a need to protect yourself.

[masterdimsen]

@clearcombat If you dont know the way a person will move what is the point of shadowboxing? doing shadowboxing is mostly used after researching whomever you're gonna fight, meaning you will know the way they will move or at least know their patterns. and breathing techniques are used in boxing aswell as wrestling and any martial art. And I know that shadowboxing isnt mindless, I were just mad at your mindless comment. and while MMA is getting popular, remember that its made from traditional MA's

[clearcombat]

@masterdimsen Shadow boxing is not mindless. It creates the way a fight could possibly go and at any time change. Kata is pre-determined. How do you know the way someone will move, you don't. bBreathing like that is so useless. Put him in a fight with me and I will leg chop him, then box his ears in. This is why mma has come about. Traditional martial arts are finished.

[masterdimsen]

@clearcombat Apparently you have misunderstood the whole point of kata, it is like shadowboxing, but instead of mindlessly punching away in whatever way you feel like, you develop musclememory and perfect every individual technique.