Kata UECHI SEISAN - Okinawan Karate Championships

The kata SEISAN of Uechi-ryu, performed at the Okinawan Karate Championships. This placed first in younger male category. Visit http://www.karatebyjesse.com for more info, videos and the blog!

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Sports

Tags:

• okinawa
• uechi
• ryu
• seisan
• ryukyu
• karate
• kata
• tournament
• winner

[whitecloud]

what is his name and his school?

[KARATEbyJesse]

His name is Nakamine. School? Don't know. :P

[fedecortexxx]

i think like you do... this is not a very good performance, im in dissapoint with the new way to do okinawa karate, its very "sport" (i dont know how to say this) im sad about this

[KARATEbyJesse]

I agree that it is not what it used to be...

But like it or not, the Okinawan judges thinks this is the best "traditional" performance.

[frostymane]

I like the kata itself but not the performance. It's not that I don't like the performer, because he's performing the kata the way it must be performed to receive a good score what I don't like is how today's tournaments suck the life out of karate. The tournaments today promote robotic step by step movements and mistake that type of movement for "perfection". People should feel the emotions of the karateka and they should also get a feel of what the kata is about.

[Yamtendo]

SOOO INSANE. AWESOME SPEEDS. =P

This is the only kata I've seen with 1-2-3 timing that didn't look like shit. On the contrary, it's genius.

[DonutLukeXP]

ahh man... that's not how the Uechi's wanted it to look like

[OrangeRanger87]

He had very sharp and strong techniques, but I feel like the rhythm of the kata was off.

[axp59]

OMG this is horrible

[SHIHANDAY]

me parece genial que okinawa y sus estilos esten evolucionando a un sistema mas estilizado y poniendo en manifiesto que por ser tradicionales no dejan de ser competitivos, estupenda ejecucion muy limpia, ritmo, muy acorde a los principios deportivos de la ejecucion del kata contemporaneo, y al mismo tiempo con un sentimiento de tradicion

[tulsa5252]

That's not the way I learned it. And I had one of the best Uechi-ryu teachers, Shinjo Seiu(sp?) and his son Kiyohite(sp?). This fella is lacking in smooth flowing.

[Yamtendo]

Amazing. I'd personally like to see some slower movements in there, but i'm not one to judge because I'm definitely not that fast. Whew.

[it34]

@frostymane Absolutely, martial-arts should not be a robotic..or .pre-setted movements but adaptive to the real situation, Bruce Lee is the finest...the one very example or that !