There are
things which are better experienced live than just viewed on video tape. For
one thing you attention might waver and you miss the moment.
Long ago in
1980 one of the first things I saw Tristan Sutrisno doing with his Shotokan
students was a drill called multiple striking.
Immediately
I knew this was something new to me and I got it, and have worked it ever
since, unto developing other variations on the principle.
His Shotokan
was not JKA, but from his father’s studies in Japan in the 1930s, he also
taught his Indonesian arts at the same time. But the principle of the multiple
striking was that one strike could flow into a following strike which could
then flow into another following strike and so forth. Thus an opponent could
not be sure what was going to happen. This also went along with other studies
in Chinese principles where blocks turned into strikes. In fact they went hand
in hand and I have been working on them ever since.
Then when
video tapes were relatively new I purchased on called
Uchinadi
Karate.. 空手 地下...Ni Kawa Kai (Karate jutsu) by Oshiro Sensei. To my surprise I saw he was
demonstrating one of these techniques.
It was a
punch turning into a vertical backfist. You can find it here at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caRPBaQdEME&t=839s
This is the beginning of that drill performed by me.
And here is
Oshiro Sensei doing the same thing.
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