The first on a series of posts to my blog on this topic.
About
1988 when I began to investigate the application potential of Isshinryu Kata
movement, I began with the initial movements of Seisan Kata. As Seisan was the first kata I had learnt.
In
time I worked out over 50 ways Seisan’s opening might be used to conclude an
attack directed towards oneself. Then as time passed I discovered more and more
uses for that kata session, finally referring to them as the 100 ways to use
Seisan Kata’s opening.
I
spent over 60 hours training with Sherman Harrill from 1995 to 2005, then more
hours with John Kerker from 2000 to 2015. I learned many exceptional kata
applications from them, a few made in into this study, but most of these
applications were my own analysis.
I
just realized I never wrote them down and so I am going to recreate them now.
I realize all of them were never
documented by me, however I believe this gives a fair summary of what I
discovered.
Of
course all one needs is one answer that works, and all of them work with the
practice of Seisan kata over a lifetime. But one needs to keep growing and
changing what one uses to keep fresh. And this approach can be applied to each
movemeni of every kata, more than enough to keep growing for a lifetime.
Here
are a few of these possibilities I filmed in 1991 for my instructors back in
1991. My son Victor Michael is assisting me as I describe what is occurring.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6UZr0RTPOU
To the best of my knowledge no one else in the
Isshinryu system has attempted to share similar knowledge in this manner.
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