This is a lovely JKA video, and it starts artistically.
And slowly!
On the other hand, if you keep the faith, you’ll see some interesting karate techniques, and very, very good technique at that.
Sensei Tanaka is a very nice man.
But he sure looks scary!
Here’s a nice series of drills for use with the sequences in Kanku-dai, by Iain Abernethy, a generous teacher.
I like it when Shotokan adopts kata from other schools. Now I’m waiting to see the Goju version of Kanku-dai!
Sensei Ohta has inhumanly good technique. Now, most of the high level Shotokan Instructors have remarkable technique. His is remarkable even in that exclusive group.
Here Sensei Kanazawa in his prime demonstrates Unsu; and I am impressed with his skill.
I strongly recommend his dvds on Amazon, by the way. And you can see my reviews of them on Amazon, here.
Jion is a tranquil kata. I like it very much. It has no athletic, flashy movements, so it’s not as popular for tournaments as Unsu, which has flashy, athletic movements, and is also a wonderful kata.
Not as tranquil, though!
I’ve been writing about karate for a while now: enjoy my other karate blog!
It’s called ShotokanKarateAZ.
Enjoy!
This is the Kata Enpi, performed by Sensei Yahara, formerly JKA.
He has a reputation as a serious customer in a real fight, and I suspect that reputation is well deserved.
This is a particularly nice video demonstrating the five Heian Kata, by Senior JKA Instructors; the level of technique is, of course, remarkably good.
