The later years
of the 1980s I really began to work on many things, among them what kata
application could mean.
I also moved
into a new age where we had a video camera at the Club to preserve some of our
efforts. So we can see a bit of what we were working on with the youth and
adult students of that time too, I was a busy boy.
Shodan
training lower body https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkoAfSTH22g
After Bushi No
Te Summer Camp 1990 – Tris clinic bo and aikido
Mike and Andrew
Self Defense https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxupUX2zv04
1990
standard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ocmaD67mM
1990 Nihanchi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2O8NoAdHkE
1990 Chinto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCqHp8THVNI
1990 Kusanku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbFbnUBePTo
1990 Sunsu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUVjUsaHbGE
Urashie No Bo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DinRBnAD64
Aikido locking
chain
Bando horsemans
form https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u7SEtRtjRY
This is much of
what I was teaching then, but my personal focus was really all on what kata
application could be. And of course I was
working on several tracks at the same time.
While I knew
something about the Sutrisno approach to bunkai, and was reading what was
written, even attending a George Dillman seminar in Manchester NH. I had no
guidelines, rules to follow. I was not going to attempt to recreate the Sutrisno
model. While I learned much from him, I really was not trained in it
extensively. And for me there were literally no rules but what I choose to do.
I had done study
on what a minimalist system could be, even to the extent that any one technique
in and of itself (and any technique) could be a complete system in itself. Not
to eliminate Isshinryu, but to gain more understanding about what an
application for any technique might me. Below is a post I made on a bit of that
potential.
One of the
things I began to work on
Opening of
Seisan Kata
In turn that study
led to other things.
A Step Out of
the Past
Random notes on
Seisan-ness
The fluid
movement of kata
After the work I
had previously done on Kusanku as night fighting applications I turned much of my
attention to Seisan kata. Part of what I saw I videoed at base instruction level.
Not what moving toward
more advanced execution That would prove to be a later subject to consider. But,
one has to start somewhere and this was where I started.
Seisan
Applications 1990
My researches were
just that research. I was not at the point I was ready to introduce this as a study
in my program. I had no intention that this would ever be kyu study, O’ they might
see any of this from time to time, so they could understand what they were studying
had a direction. But not a necessary part of what kyu training was about. The earlier
videos are much of what the kyu program was about in its own right.
Of course my studies
incorporated other kata study too. More focused on individual technique of those
forms.
And of course work
and family came first. Then teaching everyone. Last my research and as you can gather
it was cooking on many levels.
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