Tokumine No Kun – a study in derivative variation

Tokumine No Kun  – a study in derivative variation

 

BO Kata TOKUMINE NO KON - Okinawa Kobudo Championships

Matayoshi Kobudo

 

 

Demonstration of the kata TOKUMINE NO KON (old-style),

at the Okinawa World Karatedo Tournament 2009, Budokan, Okinawa

 

 

Tukunmi or Tokumine nu kon

(tangible cultural property of Chinen village of Shimajiri)

performed by Nakazato Jyoen sensei.

Who was also a student of Kyan Chotoku

 

 

 Shorinji Ryu kata Shorinji Bo

 

Shorin-Kai International: Tokumine No Kun

This Kobujitsu Kata comes from 10th Dan Grand Master Eizo Shimabukuro

Ezio was Tatsuo’s Younger brother

 

Tatsuo Shimabuku Tokumine No Kun 1958

 

Shimabuku Tatsuo Tokumine No Kun

 

Angi Uezu Tokumine No Kun 1968

 

Tokomine no kun Bo kata - 1 of 3 -Angi Uezu

 

 

Kensho Tokumura does Tokumine No Kun at IHoF in 2009.

 

 

 

Tom Lewis Tokomeni No Kun

 

Charles  Murray 1968 Tokumeni No Kun

 

Mike Cassidy Tokumeni No Kun 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBNlX2fQdSI

Naifanchi/Nihanchi and all spellings – a study in derivative variation

 

Naifanchi Shodan by master Choki Motobu

 

本部のナイハンチ初段 - Motobu no Naihanchi Shodan

right

left

 naihanchi - shinzato katsuhiko

 

 

Soken Hohan shinshii, Naihanchi Shodan & Nidan 祖堅方範先生 ナイハンチ初段と二段

 

 

tekki funakoshi naihanchi shodan shito.avi

 

a very personalized version

Naihanchi Ju no Kata  Katsuyuki Shimabukuro

 

 

One of the interesting things I discovered was I really don’t know of  Kyan Chotoku taught Naifanchi,

There are those who maintain he did and those who do not feel that is correct.

One adept of Nakazato maintains all of Kyan’s students who became instructors

Eventually chose to incorporate Naifanchi, each from a different source.

 

 

Matsubayashi-ryu from 1960's / Naihanchi Shodan

 

 

 

Nakazato Shorinji Naifanchi

 

 

 

naihanchi - shimabukuro zempo

 

 

 

Eizo Shimabuku Naihanchi Kata

 

Shimabuku Tatsuo Nihanchi

 

 

 

Naihanchi Kata - 1 of 3 -Angi Uezu –Isshinryu 

 

 

 

Charles  Murray 1980 Naihanchi Kata Instruction

 

 

Mike Cassidy 1990

 

 

My students performing Naifanchi kata in a stack

 

 

My own Naifanchi in my progressing decrepitude

 

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.
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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]