Friday, April 23, 2021

Ernest Rothrock's Shaolin School in the 1970's

 

Ernest Rothrocks’s Shaolin School when I first met him

In the 1970’s

 



 

Ernest Rothrock on the far left,

Dave Belsky in the middle, he later became owner of the Wilkes-Barre school,

Gay Aston on his left,

Cindy Rothrock on the far right

Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Teaching the young, an instructors perspective.

 


From the perspective of someone who taught the young through the Boys and Girls Club between 1979 to 2016.  I understand what you are commenting on. Of course I only taught for free, just wanting to pay back to my community what adults did when I was young. 

When I first taught I was expecting teens to come, but discovered most at that time were not interested in karate. Many of my students were young. But regardless of who the students were I only taught the karate I studied. Never play classes to make money as many schools I have seen do so many times. 

In fact one time I had a young girl join our program, he father brought he to our first class, and at one time he had trained to black belt in a different system. He chose our program because it was not a play karate program as were many others he  looked at. 

After observing what was being taught to his daughter (who was 7) after class he approached me to state,  I can’t believe it you were actually teaching her karate."  

I replied, “Of course I was that was what I was trained in.”


It is invariably true almost 100 % will not stay more than a few years, an those who reach black belt when they move forward in life, as young people do, will almost certainly place karate aside.

 

I have had instructors who had huge and good commercial programs express the same experience. Young people move on in life and rarely include karate in their path. 


But the value is there for each and every one of them,  Not the karate, which is real, but the value to their lives, which is beyond measure. For everyone of them, whether they stay or not, gains the knowledge that they can really learn if they apply themselves to the training. The confidence of that effort is beyond price as they keep it for life.




Thursday, April 15, 2021

An Interview with Sensei Toshihiro Oshiro

 I just found this in my files. No idea where I saved this from but I believe it if of interest.

An Interview with Sensei Toshihiro Oshiro
Oshiro Toshihiro: The Way of Yamanni-ryu
by Dong Tran

Dong Tran: When and where were you born?
Toshihiro Oshiro: I was born May 1st, 1949 in Haneji, Okinawa, Japan.

DT: When did you begin training in karate? Did your youth revolve around martial arts?
TO: I started when I was sixteen. But in actuality, when I was eight or nine in elementary school my sempai already taught me karate and bojutsu. So you can say I already began at age eight. But it's not similar to the way you practice in the dojo today; it's more like kids playing baseball or basketball, that kind of thing.

DT: Was it called Shorin-ryu then?
TO: No. I wish I could remember the kata they taught me. It was a mixture of Pinan and Naihanchi katas but I don't know who made that kata. After WWII many Okinawan karate practitioners were prisoners of war and one of the stockades was near Haneji so I guess one of them taught karate to our town people.

DT: Who was your first karate sensei? Did you also train with Nagamine Shoshin sensei? Did you teach at his dojo?
TO: My first and main karate sensei was Shima Masao sensei. One year after I joined his dojo, he recommended that I go train at the hombu (HQ) dojo. When I made shodan I became assistant instructor and then instructor. But leading a class is not the same thing as teaching. They are two entirely different things! Shima sensei taught me from the Fukyu gata to Chinto. At headquarters, Nagamine sensei, Kushi sensei, Yamaguchi sensei, and Nakamura sensei taught me Chinto kata. Nakamura sensei, especially, taught me Chinto kata very deeply..

DT: When did you meet Kishaba Chokei sensei?
TO: I met him when I made brown belt. It's not like the modern ranking system. In those days we trained day and night, seven days a week. I achieved brown belt in one year. Shima sensei's dojo was jointly started by Shima, Taba, and Kishaba senseis. Then Taba and Kishaba senseis went to mainland Japan so only Shima sensei ran the school. When I made brown belt, Kishaba sensei came back; that's how I met him. That's when he started teaching us. But Shima sensei was my main karate sensei. My foundation and technique came from him. From Kishaba sensei I gained a lot of knowledge and polished my technique.

DT: Where did you train?
TO: Training was very personal. If sensei saw that a particular student really wanted to practice, after class he'd bring the student to his house and teach him more.

DT: When did you meet Chokei sensei's brother Chogi, your Yamanni-ryu teacher?
TO: Shima sensei always talked about Chogi Kishaba sensei and Chokei sensei also talked about his brother, how he was a really good bojutsu practitioner. When Kishaba Chokei sensei came back from mainland Japan, he didn't have a place to stay, so he lived at his brother Chogi's house, which was where I used to come to practice karate with him. It took eight years before I finally got to see for myself Chogi sensei's bo technique and how different it was from other people's.

DT: Had you heard of Yamanni-ryu before that?
TO: I had never heard of Yamanni-ryu before. The first time I heard that word, it was from Kishaba sensei himself. But other senseis knew about Yamanni-ryu; I was just a young kid and didn't know about it.

DT: Was Kishaba sensei actively teaching Yamanni-ryu at that time?
TO: I don't know. The only thing I knew was that every time I came to his house for training, I was the only student.

DT: Did Kishaba sensei accept you right away or was there a testing, waiting period?
TO: I was allowed to practice with him because I was recommended by his brother.

DT: Were you also working at the time?
TO: I was working then in the Police department.

DT: Is Kishaba sensei the sole successor to Masami Chinen sensei, the founder of Yamanni-ryu, or are there other teachers?
TO: I believe there were other Yamanni-ryu instructors. They learned from Masami Chinen or his grandfather Sanda but I heard that only Kishaba sensei knows all the Yamanni-ryu katas. Other people may have studied from Masami sensei or Sanda sensei but how many people can really say they learned from them? No one can claim Menkyo Kaiden because there's no such thing. The word doesn't even exist in the Okinawan language.

DT: Can you tell us about a typical training session with the Kishaba brothers?
TO: I never practiced with them on the same night. I would train at the dojo, for instance, from 8:00 to 9:30 p.m. then go to Kishaba Chogi sensei's house for bojutsu. Once in a while I practiced at the hombu dojo then go train with Chokei sensei afterwards. The sessions were separate. I used to train bojutsu with Chogi sensei in his veranda. It was dark but there was some light. I could see what he was showing me but mostly I heard (his bo cut the air). His technique was so swift but he would not break it down for me. He would only do the same technique over the same way. When teaching kata he would break it down but wouldn't explain anything. He would only say, "Do this!" I haven't learned all his techniques yet. I think he has more to teach.



DT: Did you have to do a lot of training and research on your own?

TO: Yes. Of course Kishaba sensei taught me a lot of kata, techniques, and history but technically I had to research for myself and do a lot of self-training. The foundation and 99% of my knowledge and technique came from Kishaba sensei but I had to practice a lot on my own.

DT: Most of us are used to being spoon-fed. Can you tell us how Kishaba sensei taught you Sakugawa-no-kon?
TO: There was light in his veranda but still it was very dark. Now I wish I could see what he did but I'm surprised I could follow the sound of his bo. He just told me what to do. The first time he showed me the kata it was very different. I think he slowed it down for me.

DT: At the time, there were no basic or intermediate katas; you went directly from Suuji-no-kon to Sakugawa-no-kon. Is it why you feel today it is necessary to create more basic katas to introduce the student to Yamanni-ryu slowly?
TO: Right. As far as Ryubi-no-kon is concerned, there was already a basic kata by that name but it didn't work. When I had to teach in the US I had to create a simple kata. You know how hard Suuji-no-kon is, even though it looks simple. I adapted the existing Ryubi-no-kon to Yamanni-ryu and showed it to Kishaba sensei. He approved it because he knew the Okinawan katas were too difficult and we needed introductory ones.

DT: Did Kishaba sensei also teach you the secondary weapons or did you have to research on your own?
TO: He never taught us the small weapons. He said there were only katas for bojutsu and karate in Okinawan martial arts. For everything else (sai, tunfa, etc...) We would have to study ourselves.

DT: Can you tell us how Kishaba sensei taught you saijutsu?
TO: One day I ordered a pair of sai that was very well balanced, with a good shape. I brought them to Sensei's house and asked him to teach me. I knew there must be a way to control the weapon (even if there was no kata). Sensei really liked those sai so he took them and we went upstairs for our regular bojutsu practice. Halfway up the stairs he turned around and swung the sai-just once-in front of my face and said: "This is how you are supposed to swing the sai." That was the only time he showed me. He said that as far as the small weapons were concerned, I had to study on my own. And that's what I did.

DT: When did you come to the United States?
TO: In 1978. I came because one of my karate sempai, who owned a dojo in California, had passed away. They needed a replacement instructor, so I came.

DT: When you came here, did you begin teaching Yamanni-ryu right away?
TO: For five years after I arrived in the US, I taught only karate. Karate was the main curriculum because I felt bojutsu was something I did just for myself. I didn't teach anybody until one day I went to a tournament and saw how people practiced bojutsu. Somebody asked me to do a demonstration and when I did people were really surprised at how different it was from their styles. Interest picked up and that's when I started teaching Yamanni-ryu.

DT: It has taken a while; are you happy with the foundation you have laid so far?
TO: As far as introducing Yamanni-ryu to the public, I hope I did a good thing for Okinawan martial arts. Some people have said that karate has changed into a modern version while ancient kobudo has not. I hope that through Yamanni-ryu they can get a glimpse of the old karate. I don't know if I have done a good job. Maybe if there had been a more capable person (than I) and he could have taught Americans and made Yamanni-ryu more popular and raised people's level of martial art...I only know I did my best. But I'm happy with what I've done and seen. Even though there are people who are just using Yamanni-ryu's name, there are those who sincerely want to learn it, and that makes me very happy.

DT: You have given seminars and clinics abroad as well. Recently you have been to France. Do you feel Yamanni-ryu will grow on the international level?
TO: I think so. In other countries people want to learn Yamanni-ryu but it's difficult for them to get instruction. I was lucky to have been invited to France to teach last month. This was the first time Yamanni-ryu was introduced in public in Europe.

DT: What are your hopes for the future? You have begun using kendo bogu (armor) to practice tournament-style kumibo. Do you want to incorporate this into the Yamanni-ryu syllabus?
TO: The introduction of kumibo and intermediate katas was not my idea but rather Kishaba sensei's express orders. He requested the kumibo practice but the technical implementation was my own. For the future of Yamanni-ryu I believe that the sport/competition aspect of it will make it easier for the public to understand up to a certain level, but at a higher level, people will have to do the martial art, the Way of martial art. However, if we do only the martial art, people might not be able to do Yamanni-ryu and it might disappear.

DT: Thank you, sensei, for granting me this interview and sharing your views with us.

Dong Tran first met Oshiro sensei in 1986 and has achieved the rank of nidan in Yamanni-ryu in 1998. He brings Oshiro sensei out to New Jersey for an annual workshop in June. His dojo, the Asian Arts Center, is located in West Caldwell, NJ. His web site is: www.asianartscenter.com


just some thoughts on menkyo kaiden


I'n not here to change anyone's mind, because it seems people have their minds made up already. I will, however, contribute a little to this older conversation (i just came across it today) with a bit of my own thoughts.

Quote:

If Kishaba Chôgi - who maybe studied under Masami Chinen in whatever meaning you may interpret "study" - should have such a written diploma it may be allowed to ask for it's existance and what it states (Shihan Menkyo, or Menjô etc.). Also there are maybe more hints on such a diploma, like "the person learned Bôjutsu for a long time" or "... reached this or that level" etc. It should be in your mind to provide such an information, if it exists (as Miyagi Chôjun did not give our diploma or ranks, it would also be intersting to know how long Kishaba trained under him, if he continued training with others).



I trained in Yamanni Ryu with Oshiro Toshihiro for almost 20 years. I also trained with Kishaba Chogi for the three years I lived in Okinawa (1994-1997).

I remember a conversation I had in Kishaba's dojo one night. During one a mid-class break in one of Kishaba's classes, I asked sensei about the menkyo kaiden.

We were all sitting in a corner of a room, and Kishaba answered me with a very short reply, one in which I could not understand at all, given that it was a mix of hogen and very masculine Japanese. It was up to another member of the group to explain to me in more simple terms (I forgot who it was), but the gist of it was that at the time Kishaba was training with Chinen it was not a given that people got menkyo kaiden in Okinawan martial arts: that tradition was more a practice seen in Japanese martial arts than it was in Okinawan ones. Okinawan martial systems traditionally did not place such a deep emphasis on records, certificates, and licenses.

Oshiro, in fact, said a similar thing in an interview with Dong Tran. (http://www.oshirodojo.com/kobudo_int_dong.html)

OSHIRO: "I believe there were other Yamanni-ryu instructors. They learned from Masami Chinen or his grandfather Sanda but I heard that only Kishaba sensei knows all the Yamanni-ryu katas. Other people may have studied from Masami sensei or Sanda sensei but how many people can really say they learned from them? No one can claim Menkyo Kaiden because there's no such thing. The word doesn't even exist in the Okinawan language."

I am not saying that okinawan martial artists never received these papers, as it has already been pointed out that some of them did. And I am not asking any of you to believe what has been said to me. I myself have no reason to doubt the knowledge and honesty of the poeple I trained with. Even so, given what they've said, I am wondering how many people received these menkyo kaiden in Okinawa prior to World War II, when schools started to get more students and organizations were forming in a big way.

if it really wasn't a common practice, then it might not be so unbelievable that a smaller more secretive style such as Yamanni Ryu didnt give them out, as they were looked upon merely as pieces of paper.

 

nobida is on a distinguished road

Nobida

 

 





Monday, April 12, 2021

Tribute to Roy Blackwell

 


Roy Blackwell was my first black belt student.

 

He began his training under Charles Murray who was also training me, when Charles began a youth program in his church in Providence Pa. When Charles returned to the USAF the Blackwell brothers continued their training with me.

  


A photo I took of some of the students of Charles Murray back in 1978,

 

When I began my program for youth at the Scranton Boys Club, they assisted me with the program as they continued their own studies. Often they accompanied me to get additional training at the many schools I visited.

 

Roy continued the training and eventually reached Black Belt, prior to moving with his family to Texas.

 

At times he would visit me for varying times and eventually reached 3rd dan.

 

In Texas he chose to join the USMC reserves.

 

In life he faced many trials and eventually succumbed to them, passing away.

 

I would like to remember Roy best through these photos

 



Mike Toomey (my 2nd black belt), myself and Roy

 




  

 





 

 


Myself and I preparing to participate in a karate camp war game.

Some Lessons an Instructor Learns the Hard Way

 


 

My senior student was Roy Blackwell. He actually began training along with his two brothers in the church program Charles Murray started in his church. When Charles returned to the USAF the Blackwell brothers kept training with me and when I began my program at the Scranton Boys Club they greatly helped me launch that program.

 

As the years passed  often whey you train siblings as one  pulls ahead of the others in skill, the other brothers turn to something else and only Roy remained training.

 

When he entered his Junior year of training his parents put it to him it was either Football on the School team or dropping karate for that time. Roy chose football and discontinued karate training for that time. At that time Roy was a brown belt and I did understand why his parents made him make that decision.

 

Of course my program continued at the Boys Club, they for an upcoming Parents evening I was asked to provide a karate program for the parents to see.  I proceeded to design a program.

 

Just before that program, Roy’s football year ended and he was very eager to return to the karate training with me.

 


 

 So he got into the training and practicing with the rest of the group for the program.

 

It was just the standard overview of what the kids were studying in our Isshinryu karate program.  Toward the end I was going to perform a simple head board break for all,   Really a simple pop break with my forehead. Then have several of the youth perform a dynamic self defense skit I had originally put together for the Blackwell brothers for a tournament several years before.

 

In actuality, a very simple set of drills for the youth to perform before their parents.

 

The night of the program Roy came up to me with a begging request. He wanted to do the head break. It really was a simple break and I knew he had the body mass to do so. However I also knew it was a bad idea.

 

I really did try and dissuade him from that request. But he pleaded so hard eventually I gave in against my better judgment.

 

Then the demonstration began.

 

You know some group and individual kata performances, several sparring demonstrations. Group basics, etc.

 

As it was winding down I announced Roy Blackwell was next.

 

I decided to have some fun with it. (which as it turned out was a very bad idea).

 

’ I told the group Roy had just returned to karate, choosing to stop to play football for his school team. So for deciding to stop karate training I think it would be reasonable for him to pay for that choice and have him break a board with his forehead.

 

I stood before Roy, holding the board in my hands.

 

He prepared himself,  then suddenly drove his head forward,  he smashed his head through the board.

 

But as I was holding the board I clearly saw is was not his forehead that broke the board, instead he did a face break.  It was his face I saw breaking the board.

 

I had Roy return to the group and began my explanation of the final self defense demonstration that would conclude the program.

 

But as I was talking I saw Roy had blood streaming from both nostrils. I realized I had to act, and of course it was before everyone there.

 

So as I continued with my explanation I began moving toward Roy. When I reached him I quietly told him he was to leave, enter the locker room and clean his face and place pressure on his nose to stop the bleed.

 

And of course as he was pumped up for the demonstration he wanted nothing to do with that.

 

I had to get insistent before he would leave. He did so.

 

All the time I had to continue talking to the crowd.

 

I selected a replacement from the group. 

 

The demonstration concluded the show.

 

I then went into the locker room to find Roy had stopped his nose from bleeding. I also got an explanation from him as to what happened.

 

It turned out Roy had a new girlfriend in the audience.  He had her come there to show off his karate.

 

I learned a very big lesson that day,  Never,  never…. never let a student suggest you change your planned program for them.

 



 

 

 

Sunday, April 11, 2021

The Cartoid Choke

Saved from from 

the Journal of Asian Martial Arts

Volume 3, 2009

Probably the best article on the Cartoid Choke I have seen.























Of course it does take work to read, 
but it is worth the effort.
Just click on the first of the screen prints
and it allows you to view each screen
print in order.


Kyan Chōtoku and Protective Gear Kumite Match

https://ameblo.jp/motoburyu/entry-12667916484.html

 Related articles

https://ameblo.jp/motoburyu/entry-12666402573.html 

https://ameblo.jp/motoburyu/entry-12665059384.html 

These pages are a really superior resource.


This article describes how Kyan Sensei wrote about the use of protective Kendo gear to be used in kumite matches.  At almost the same time a Japanese University group started doing the same thing.

 

Shimabuku Tatsuo did the same thing and used that gear in his dojo back as early as the 1960’s. Surely his practice was influenced by Kyan Sensei.

 



When Lewis Sensei trained in Agena there was sparring there with the kendo gear.

Here is a photo of Sensei with a set of the gear he possessed in the Salisbury dojo.

I remember Sensei telling us it was a hot as hell to spar in, nor could you get your breath. You had very limited tunnel vision to see, and as you could not be injured most fignts in the dojo were till the partner was on the ground. He also said the Okinawans often used a front heel thrust kick to knock their opponents to the ground.

 





Friday, April 9, 2021

Some Illustrations from the Hayanawa Kappo Kenpo Kyojan Zukai, Zen

 From the

Hayanawa Kappo Kenpo Kyojan Zukai, Zen

 

Complete Illustrated Book of the Teaching Method of Tying (Hayanawa), 

The Striking Methods of Jujutsu (Kenpo)

And the Method of Resuscitation (Kappo)






Wednesday, April 7, 2021

The reality of communication difficulties - an observation

 


Plagiarism, Plagelism, Pugilism

Phantastic play pon pwords pafter pall

 

When a communication channel is created it takes both sender and receiver, original communication and feedback to try and bride the gap and make communication meaningful.

 

Tools like dictionaries try and bridge that gap in part by showing common usage as accumulated.

 

But language is living and flows and changes, as the user lives, flows and changes.

 

It’s easy to look at something and take it to the extreme one way, but as words really have no meaning but in context, and the receiver can interpret them alone as they wish, and the sender has no idea if they have communicated, there in lies some of the true openings for misunderstanding.

 

I’m reminded of a very old science fiction story. Earth discovered there was intelligent life on Venus and sent a ship to represent the earth. It broadcast the message “We come in Peace”, over and over. Before the ship landed on Venus a ray struck out and destroyed the planet Earth for all time. The Venusians acted correctly hearing a direct challenge that we were ready to destroy them, as all Venusian dictionaries define ‘Peace’ as the declaration of a war of total extinction.

 

Alfred Korzbyski realized how much misunderstanding how language functioned was an underlying cause for many of our problems. Long ago he explained how language functions with his levels of abstraction.

 

A Victor Smith simplification.

 

There is the event level of reality. The atoms, molecules, physical reality of matter, energy, heat and light.

 

Then there is the perceived level of reality. The sun shines through a window and the dinner table glows from it’s polished wood.

 

We abstract that perceived level of reality and end up with words, Table, Wood, Sunshine.

Those words are not the thing. Table as a term describes many, many, many tables. And if you want it to be understood as close to 100% of the time, in a room with 5 objects which can handle the label table, you need to add many descriptive modifiers. To make this simpler is when you wife tells you to get something out of the kitchen drawer, and you look in a few and can’t find it, because as a husband you’re supposed to know in which drawer she was referring.

 

But words can describe words too, at a higher level of abstraction.  An example of this would be the pride in the word table by a cabinet maker, where table is a much more abstract knowledge of each piece of wood, each shaved plane, each joint constructed.

 

This is but a simple view of Korzbyski’s General Semantics, but it is at the heart of the discussion these past days.

 

Someone reads something and jumps to an assumption about what was written, then layers of abstraction and miscommunication occur ad infinitium.

 

My response of course is a classical rhetorical device, "reductio ad absurdum".

 

Hence we go from Plagelism (original usage) to Plagiarism to Plagelism (my definition) to the implied Pugilism I suspect of Len.

 

It’s best to keep in mind what difficulty we face when we try to communicate.


In fact its the base of all of the problems that exist within Isshinryu if you delve deeply enough.

 

For myself rather than talk I’d rather grab a handful of Plagels and start heaving them at everyone!

 


Back in 2005 I prepared this as a think piece about a parallel of kata creation to music creation.


 

Chopin and Karate – a parallel?

 

I find I have many passionate interests in life I try to follow a bit.

 

One of them is to try and understand classical music better. I enjoy an extremely wide range of music but my musical education has always been extremely limited.

 

Over the years I discovered BBC Music, a British magazine dedicated to classical music that also includes CD’s with complete works (unlike other classical music magazines that have CD’s with pieces to try and get you to buy those CD’s).  I find it very interesting to gain some more knowledge about things I enjoy.

 

The May 2004 issue has an article “the Final Score – can a score ever tell us exactly what the composer intended us to hear” by John Rink that I feel incredibly parallels many issues in the transmission of Karate, especially on the question about a kata’s original composer. 

 

Consider how exacting music has been transcribed for hundreds of years.  Exact notation in infinite detail, much more than the shape of kata. Yet the article suggests other issues worth considering.  From page 30.

 

“Performers often say their goal is to realize ‘the composer’s intentions’.  On the face it seems noble enough, but can such an  ambition ever be achieved, and if so to what avail?  And which composer’s intentions’ do they mean: those at the time of the music’s conception, or when the first manuscript was finished, or when proof sheets of the first edition were corrected, or at the first performance, or after years of performances and if so corrected by whom?  What if those intentions conflict – and what if the composer’s view of the music was less fixed than our own might be, whether as listeners or performers.”

 

“These questions are difficult to answer, and they challenge any simple truths we might choose to hold about how music “should” sound.  The fact of the matter is that when it comes to composer’s intentions, we believe what we want to believe – and our beliefs are inevitably based on knowledge that is less than complete. Taking hold of someone else’s music, whether in words or in performance, requires educated guesswork on the one hand and our own creativity on the other.  That partly explains why no account of the music could ever conform to what the composer intended: we as interpreters and co-creators get in the way. And for all the convictions we might have about how composers X and Y wanted their music performed, no one has the requisite insight or authority that some have proclaimed over the years…..”

 

“Chopin offers a particularly interesting case study of how ‘composer’s intentions’ can change over time. His artistic convictions were more or less immutable and passionately, if quietly, held, and with few exceptions, he dismissed those performances of his works violated the aesthetic principles that he professed.  But he was far from rigid when performing his own music. ……we know from Alfred Hipkins… that Chopin never played his own compositions twice alike, but varied each according to the mood of the moment.’…..”

 

“…his creative genius was irrepressible and forever engaged.  To that extent he continually modified his compositions on paper as well as in performance….. Chopin reveled in the music’s creative potential by indulging in all manner of variants, whether in a given piece or at successive stages of the compositional process.”

 

“… So which reflects of the two extant manuscripts best reflects Chopin’s intentions: the earlier of the two, prepared when he was most alert and his ideas freshest, or the later one, copied out more of less mechanically but with the opportunity to refine initial thoughts and introduce new ones?”

 

Think how this parallels so many questions we hold about the origins of the Okinawan arts?  What was the right version of Seisan kata? The original created one?  Or later versions on the theme?

 

I think that a link  such as karate to Chopin’s music may suggest the study of the kata may never have been a fixed shape as much as a themeto work with.

 

If the originator of a kata could return today? Would they be distressed that kata drift occurs, or would they be thrilled their original theme continues with new life generation after generation?




Monday, April 5, 2021

Toodii

 

From  Uchinaanchu nu Tuudi tu Tegua

UchinaaguchiYamatuguchiUrandaguchi