Tsuchiya Kata Demonstration: Sochin

Kata enbu by Tsuchiya (JKS kata champion)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Karate
• kata
• Sochin
• Tsuchiya
• JKS

[pyong69]

I can't believe what I just saw. This is the best Sochin i've ever seen

[aquariaman3]

@Taggard123 what is more ridiculous is people who sit on their couches nitpicking what is a masterful performance. of course no one's kata is perfect, that is the paradox of doing it, seeking what is unattainable. but if you open your mouth and criticize someone's performance, you must back it up with a better performance to show us what you mean. otherwise your criticism has no merit. you must see the kata for what it is, not what it is not.

[pskarma]

This is very good performance no doubt but Osaka sensei's kata is more mature and technically more complete due to greater experience.

[snyggdorte]

as always; the battle between traditional and sport-karatekas. Please, shut up about demanding to see videos of each other's katas! no matter from what school someone comes from, traditional or sports, he/she still have the right to speak. Funakoshi talked about good spirit, show some, please.

that said, i'm from the traditional school and have to say that this kata is much better than both Valdesi's and Milon's versions.

[snyggdorte]

Why? Sport-katas (Valdesi & Milon) are less organic and fluid; it's more of a perfected show than a kata with spirit. Let me explain: the kata itself is its own basic level of bunkai and therefore relies more on spirit, kime and fluid movements. what sport-kata does is removing the bunkai (and so the spirit of fighting) from the katas and turning it into a polished scenography where it's all about contrast of movement.

[snyggdorte]

but that doesn't mean that Tsuchiya's heels should lift during punches, as 'MMilon' pointed out. going into the other things that 'MMilon' pointed out.

1. legs like spaghetti is harsh, there's tons of kime. but i agree that they' aren't as rooted as they could due to the heels.

2. this is purely a sport-vs-tradition difference: if you look at the traditional use of fudo-dachi, his stance is perfect.

3. once again, sport-vs-traditional difference.

[snyggdorte]

4. utilizing the hip is key in every movement in karate. to execute a empi in fudo-dachi and fully using the hip is extremely hard due to the hips being partly fixated. so you have to choose to either push more kime into the technique OR to concentrate on a totally fixed dachi ....

[snyggdorte]

... he simply chose to focus on the empi and if you freeze the frame just before the empi lands you'll see that he's using zenkutso-dachi to push the hips and then lands nicely back in fudo-dachi, thus dragging the back foot a bit. both dynamic and fluid.

[snyggdorte]

5. arguably - yes.

6. sochin isn't fast or 'snappy' like empi/enpi or kanku sho. it's a heavy kata (even more so than hangetsu in some ways) utilizing more weight and kime than speed. And other than the double-tsukis it's sort of a medium paced kata. very heavy and rooted, especially the last part of it.

[snyggdorte]

now, i'm not implying that he's doing a perfect and flawless sochin. firstly: i'm just trying to say that you're rating it the same way you would do with a Valdesi or a Milon even though it's two different ideas behind them - traditional and sports. And for example, the “lack of hikite” is ridiculous cus I’m pretty sure both Valdesi and Milon have done so too in katas they’ve preformed, you know, like every ones else.

[snyggdorte]

secondly: it all comes down to what you want to obtain from training a kata; scenographic perfection or spirit.

All that said – I think this is a monster sochin. One of the better once I’ve seen.

[reality7777]

Wow. Having read all the criticisms to Tsuchiya's Sochin, I can only think that there are a huge number of finely tuned karateka surfing YouTube looking to correct some crappy efforts like the one shown here. Great job people!