Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Once upon a time I competed with a modified T'ai Chi form.
One time I decided to compete with a competition
Yang T'ai Chi form I created just for that day.
Actually I was assisted in the creation of the form
by Ernest Rothrock, who was in Mass. at that time.
Bushi No Te Aikido Drills
I studied these aikido drills the first night I trained with Tristan Sutrisno
in 1980. Later I incorporated them into my program at green belt as
they are a great way to 1.) learn how to enter and work the space an
attack offers, and 2.) Learn a bit about how aikido works too.
IMO they are aikido presented as a way to introduce the students of his Shotokan system to this art. The techniques are a blend of Aikido, Karate and perhaps Tjimande.
This first presentation is how I shared the first 6 drills with my youth students.
Aikido drills 1-6 1989
IMO they are aikido presented as a way to introduce the students of his Shotokan system to this art. The techniques are a blend of Aikido, Karate and perhaps Tjimande.
This first presentation is how I shared the first 6 drills with my youth students.
Then adult students learn drills 1-8 between green and brown belt training. The remaining drills are for advancing dan study.
Aikido
Drills
Aikido 1
Aikido 1a
Aikido
2
Aikido 3
Aikido
4
Aikido
5
Aikido
6
Aikido 7
Aikido
8
Aikido
9
Tris doing No 9
Aikido 10
Aikido 11
Aikido
No 3 Young and Marc
Aikido
No 2 Young and Marc
Aikido
No 1 Young and Marc
Aikido No 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_FRt3qgwuY
Aikido
No 6 Young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Mspi7MBW
Aikido 9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la3mqtW7wm8
Tom Chan training with a friend in Massachusetts acquired this drill from that source. Seeing it I realized how much it had to offer our black belts and became another black belt drill from that time on.
Aikido
locking chain Mike
Aikido
locking chain Young
The purpose of these drills is not just to teach some Aikido.
Rather they are teaching how to use the space an attack offers
then to use that space to take the opponent out.
They are taught at brown belt to offer skill development
To be used in later kata application skills.
Monday, February 16, 2026
The Kata of systems descended from Kyan
To better
understand the Kyan Chotoku origins of the Isshinryu kata, perhaps viewing
other systems descended from Kyan would help you find similarities.
Haruku Nakama's
shorin-ryu
Master Haruku Nakama demonstrates the kata he learned from
Okuhara Bunei, student of Chotoku Kyan
A sai kata ?
1:40 A bo kata ?
2:40 drills sai/bo compared to the same techique as empty hand
3:15 Seisan
5:02 Ananku
5:39 Wansu
6:40 Gojushiho
8:06 Patsai
9:55 Kusanku
11:47 Chinto
Shorin
Ryu Seibukan Karate (Chotoku Kyan, Zenryo Shimabukuro, Zenpo Shimabukuro)
Patsai
Chinto
Kusanku
Seisan
Ananku
Wanshu
Gojushiho
Wanchin
Shorinji
Shorin kata (desc from Kyan) Nakazato Joen head instructor (friend of Tatsuo)
Annanko
Seisan
Naifanchi
Wansu
Patsai
Chinto
Kusanku
Bo
Seisan with shime
Gojushiho (Useishi) Kata
Supplemental Kata studies before Seiunchin Kata
Softie that I am
I wanted to give my students a break between
Seisan kata and
Seiunchin kata.
So I decided to
go Goju ryu this time.
When one of my
students went to college and studied Goju Ryu
At Ithica
College with Ed Savage,
I met and also
trained with him several times.
He made the
point that for them the order of kata
Placed Saifa
kata before Seiunchin kata.
Remembering that
I decided to use Saifa as our next supplemental kata.
But having trained
with so many in Goju I no longer recall
Where this
version came from.
But after
decades teaching it I remain convinced I made
the right choice.
Saifa Young and Mike
Youth
Performance of Saifa
After all I am
not teaching Goju
Just using the
form as a supplemental tool
Allowing my
students to gain some understanding of Goju.
Then we follow
with the Isshinryu Seiunchin kata.
Young Lee
Seiunchin1989
Michael and dad
Seiunchin kata
Kata Seiunchin Young Lee
Sunday, February 15, 2026
The white belt kata movement potential development.
It
came to me to use Supplemental (mandatory) kata at white belt.
Originally
the use was to permit development of youth kata, but in practice all in our
practice, young and old follow the same path.
The
order we use is as follows.
Kata
Sho (an Isshinryu modification ot Fyukata Sho
originally developed by Nagamine)
Kyozai
(the form developed for school physed classes)
Kata
Annanku (from the Shimabuku Ezio
lineage)
Kata
Seisan
They
serve many purposes:
1.
Allowing
more time to let the beginner develop stronger kata skill.
2.
Second
to let them touch other systems and thus not be worried about their existence.
If only through a brief touch.
3.
Where
adequate performance is expected of the white belt by shodan it is expected
there will be skilled performance.
But
they are also an important part of Dan training.
1.
They
can be used for study on various skills timing development.
2.
They
can be used for study of a variety of different breathing modes.
practices.
4.
More
importantly they are useful to allowed skilled use for attacks using techniques
from those kata which they have developed skill in which to work against in the
study of Isshinryu kata application potential and then application realization.
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