Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Uechi and Uzeu on Isshinryu Kicks

 

Tsuyoshi Uechi 8th dan Isshinryu Karate(traditional okinawan karate) all Isshinryu kicks here

 

 

Keri Waza-Isshinryu HD


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nznlnRs8kY&t=34s 

 

 

 


 

Angi Uzeu Kicking

 

 

Top of Form 1

Andy Sloane

 

These are the kicks that Uechi Sensei teaches at Camp Foster and his dojo in Misato, Okinawa City.

 

He performs them in a more thrusting-type motion moving forward and more snapping-type motion moving backwards.

 

Bill Pogue

 

the chart 2 kicks are only very basic actions.

 there are many variations and other kicks not in the basics or kata.

 

a side thrust kick is in wansu in my humble opinion although most do a side snap.

 some do a forward angle kick like i first learned.

 sliding back kick,

 spinning back kick,

 side thrust kick and roundhouse kicks are all very effective

 

and I taught those with the explanation that they weren't in the basic curriculum, but now are part of the style.

 

I was in detroit when angi uezu learned the various kicks from Willie Adams and then put them in his curriculum and on his tapes.

 

Mr Uechi was a shodan when i was in okinawa and a very nice man- good karate,.

 

 

All, the Keri Waza being shown by Tsuyoshi Uechi, on Okinawa, are probably very close to what Shimabuku Kichero taught. Uechi does teach on Okinawa today, and a ‘grand’ student- Andy Sloan does teach with him.

 (although I am of the opinion that Isshinryu may not continue long there, too much effort towards foreign students and not enough to Okinawan students the possible answer to that)

 

The lower body chart I used was the same I studied in Tom Lewis’ dojo in Salisbury. Which is the same Charlie studied there too.

 

When I joined the internet in the late 80s and started talking with Isshinryu, I quickly learned there were many different versions for the kicking.

 

As I wasn’t associated with anyone else, I saw no reason to change. The chart we use actually has about 90% of the kicks on Okinawa. The rest are more obscure IMO and not as likely answers how to kick.

 

The one Uechi shows are at times somewhat different, but just with the variation of the themes. IMO there is no right answer, there are just those who make their answer right.

 

Tom Lewis Dojo Original Lower Body Combinations

 

1.     Front Snap Kick

2.     Knee Strike (45degrees)

3.     Front Kick (Side)

4.     Cross Kick

5.     Side Snap Kick

6.     Heel Strike (Knee)

7.     Knee Strike

8.     Rear Kick

9.     Side Kick (45 degrees rear)

10.   Squat Kick

11.   Side Kick (on  Floor)

12.     Front (from floor)

13.  Double Jump Kick

14.      Roundhouse Kick

15.      Side Kick (Rear 45 degrees), Rear Kick

 


 

Expanding on the Lower Body Chart Exercises

 

The process of learning never stops.

 

Let me give an example. Last night Mike was putting the kids through some of our kihon from Me. Lewis’s lower body chart. Of course Kihon, while referring to basic exercises, are also fire breathing techniques.

 

Specifically those techniques were the front thrust kick from your back on the floor and the side thrust kick on your side on the floor. While defensive in nature they teach you to defend yourself from the disadvantaged position on the ground.

 

I began them my first night and I still teach them within the first 4 nights. They are not beginning techniques and are regular drills, Crossing the legs to protect the groin, raising yourself to your elbows so you can shift around to face the attacker, and of course learning the front thrust kick and the side thrust kick from the floor. With the groin and the knee as targets. Then becoming the target to allow the youth to have a shifting target to move towards.

 

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