Miyagi style Seiunchin – and study in derivative variation

 Seiunchin/Seienchin/Seiyunchin Kata and all other spellings.

  

Back in 1989 Joe Swift gave a French publication of Mabuni  Kenwa’s 1934 “GOSHIN KARATE KEMPO

Defense and Attack” and asked me to translate it for him. Interesting because he was and is a Japanese translator, but I had studied French for 7 years back in the 1960s. I work and worked some more and finally finished it for him. Some time later Patrick McCarthy learned I had done so and inquired if he could publish my translation. He did spif up the photos a bit then published it in his groups magazine. Then in time I made several more translations of French works for his use as he saw fit. I was never a member of his group,

 

The interesting thing is that book showed Sanchin and Seienchin Kata and the bunkai for Seienchin. Mabuni was a friend of Miyagi and incorporated the Goju kata in his Shito Ryu. To my knowledge this is the earliet documentation of these kata. I am adding that translation at the end.

 

GOJU-RYU SEIYUNCHIN KATA by MORIO HIGAONNA

 

    Bunkai  

 

Yagi Meitetsu, Hanshi 10th-dan, performing Seiunchin kata

 

Seiunchin Chinen Teruo st 5:00

 

Goshi Yamaguchi Goju-ryu Kata about 6:20 on the video

 

JKF Seiyunchin Kata

 

 

Seiunchin Kata Shimabuku Tatsuo

 

 

Ezio Shimabuku Seiunchin (brother of Tatsuo) kata

 

 

Seiunchin Kata - 1 of 2 -Angi Uezu -Isshinryu

 

 

Seiunchin Isshin-ryu karate kata Uechi Tsuyoshi

 

 

 

Tom Lewis in the 1970s

 

 

Charles Murray 1980

 

 

Charles Murray

 

 

Young Lee Seiunchin 1989 

(This was the way Tom Lewis taught me in 1974)

 

Young Lee performing Seiunchin 2009

 

 Victor Michael and I (performing an impromptu demonstration)

 

 

My translation of Mabuni's book:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More information about Goju Ryu can be found on my blog from another  translation effort. It is at :

https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/2014/04/histoire-du-karate-do-lecole-goju-ryu.html

True on Not?

 

 

 

 

Boards can be dried or even baked to make them easier to break. The same can be done with cinder caps. ice often has to be scored to allow a fracture line to form, Ice can even be sawed in half and refrozen with salt on those surfaces. Watching you cannot determine what is real and what has been doctored. Stacks of boards or cinder cap's use the weight of the descending portions of the first break to make the subsequent breaks easier. Similar to the stunts magicians employ. 

 

 

 

While a beginner I remember my seniors training for a demo where they would do breaking. Everything I saw was real at that time.

 

Years later while studying Tang Soo Do I found breaking was a requirement for testing. One board with a different break required for each test. I won a green belt breaking division by performing a front kick through 3 boards and then a back side kick through 2 boards, none of which was fake.

 

One night when a red belt I was asked to come to the front of the class and attempt a cinder cap break with my forehead. I was shown how to cover the cinder cap with a towel, then hold it myself. I then did it and it worked. Of course I had a gigantic headache the next day, swearing to myself I would never let myself be talked into any such thing again. And I kept that promise.

 

I have seen many breaks that were real, I have also seen many breaks of which I was suspicious about. You get what you get.

 

Among the more interesting breaks I have watched where the holder donned thick rubber gloves and then held a full whiskey bottle that when struck by the instructors knife hand broke the neck off of the bottle.

 

I don't know what happened to the remaining contents.

 

Ice Breaks  https://isshin-concentration.blogspot.com/search?q=ice

 

 

 

 

 

Victor Smith said...

The art you really need

The Finger

I just had an epiphany while viewing the 1963 Beach Party when the Professor (played by Bob Cummings) handled Eric Von Zipper (the bad guy) employing the finger. He placed von Zipper in a state of suspended animation.  (Likely where Star Trek got the idea for Spock’s Vulcan Nerve Pinch). It came from obscure Tibetan training he had.

 

Now roll forward a few decades and the connect the dots craze swept many martial artists. There were claims that were most like what the Professor did in those movies.

 

It is not impossible this was the source inspiration. Believe it or not. LOL

 

Paulie Zink and Chinese Monkey

 

 

 

 

 

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

Paulie Zink is an American martial arts champion, Taoist yoga teacher and well known practitioner of Monkey Kung Fu. He founded Yin yoga which is also known as Yin and Yang Yoga.
^]
Growing up in Hollywood, California, Zink was exposed to Zen teahouses by his father and to modern yoga by the hippies who practiced it on the streets of Hollywood Boulevard around him.^[4] At 14, he began practicing yoga, too, learning from The Complete Illustrated Book of Yoga and the yoga programs on PBS television with Richard Hittleman and Lilias, Yoga and You with Lilias Folan.

At 16, he began studying kung fu. While he was attending the Los Angeles City College, Cho Chat Ling—a student from Hong Kong—showed him that he could improve his kung fu through foundational advanced yoga postures.

Thereafter, Zink studied privately with Cho for a decade, learning three separate styles of kung fu. Zink was trained as Cho Chat Ling's protege to expose the styles of kung fu to the west.^[5]





During this period, Zink began to compete successfully in martial arts tournaments, ultimately taking the Long Beach International Karate Championship three years in a row, 1981,1982 and 1983. He won Grand Champion in the "weapons forms" category all three years and Grand Champion in the "empty hands" category, two of the three years.^[6]

Zink began teaching yoga in the late 1970s, when he founded Yin yoga by synthesizing Daoist disciplines and Hatha yoga with his own created postures and approach.^[1]

 

 

 

Kyan Style Seisan – a study in derivative variation

 

 
Kyan Sensei did not create a ‘style’ he simply taught karate (simply being an understatement).   Here are some of the Seisan Kata of his students and some of the Seisan kata of Isshinryu.

 

Shorin Ryu footage of Kyan-style Seisan

performed by Nakama Haruka

  seisan at 3:19

 

Nakazato Joen watching his students Seisan kata

– Shorin-ji Ryu

 

Seisan Kata Joshinmon Dojo of Joen Nakazato

 

The Chotoku Kyan version of Seisan.

Performed by Zenpo Shimabukuro of the Seibukan

Seidokan ( derived from Seibukan )

 

 

 

Shimabuku Tatsuo Isshinryu Seisan

 

Eiko Kaneshi Students Seisan

 

 

Angi Uezu Seisan

 

Shimabuku Kichiro

 

 

Shimabuku Eizo Seisan – Shobayashi

 

 

Tom Lewis Seisan

 

 

Charles Murray Seisan kata with chinkuchi

 

My son Victor Michael and his seisan the day before he went to college

 

Andy Sloan Seisan kata

 

 

 

That story is not Bull

Then there was the day Mas Oyama fought a Bull......

he was far more than a legend in his own mind.