AJA
Kyan
Chotoku no sai (Kyan nu sai/Kyan no sa)i performed by Arcenio Advincula at
seminar for Jon Lee.
In
this demo I am using two sai. To properly demonstrate Kyan no sai kata, three
sai should be used as one is thrown in the kata.
Since
only two sai are used, at 00:28 a simulated sai throw to your opponents foot is
simulated. At 00:29 using the sai that you simulated throwing, you now simulate
drawing it from your belt and continue the kata.
Throwing
at the foot was the way Tatsuo Sensei taught me. Circa 1986???
Historical
note: Kyan Chotoku no sai was created by Shimabuku Tatsuo Sensei. He learned
basic sai techniques from Kyan Chotoku Sensei. From these basic sai techniques,
Tatsuo Sensei created the sai kata and named it after Kyan Chotoku Sensei.
Later,
Shimabuku Tatsuo Sensei creates Kusanku sai from Kusanku karate kata. At first
he incorporates kicks into Kusanku sai, and this is how I learned it in 1959.
In 1961 Tatsuo Sensei takes out the kicks. I ask him why he stopped teaching
the kicks in Kusanku sai and he said because he was a karate man so taught
kicks in Kusanku sai but now wanted to emphasize kobudo so removed the kicks.
You
can see Kyan Chotoku no sai at the end of Kusanku sai.
Sherman Harrill Kyan No Sai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqYODZFdOgo
Mark
Radunz
Harrill Sensei taught us to just throw the damn thing at center mass of your
opponent. Getting hit by a flying piece of metal hurts. He also said the only
reason they would throw the sai where most interpret the move as stabbing the
foot (good luck with that BTW) was they got tired of chasing their sai down the
beach.
Victor Smith
As Sherman explained it to me, he was originally shown to throw the
sai into the center of the body/abdomen. Then as the Agena dojo class size
increased and that was not safe in class, the sai throw was changed to the
foot. So some say foot, some say abdomen, for a practical matter does it matter
as you are not going to be carrying sai on the street.
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