https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xg-vHvP8qQY
I like everything he says and does. Is his approach or philosophy common in Shotokan karate? It seems you would be more likely to find it in Okinawan.
Overlord wrote:My favourite karate form. Has all the key moves of Chinese martial arts.
Goju ryu school had paid Hong Yixiang and Hong family a sum of money to decipher the form/kata in the early days.
Trick wrote:There is footage/film from Taiwan, a gathering in a room demonstrating their GongFu forms, the Hong’s are there too demonstrating forms Among the people At the honorary end(table/seating) of the room sits Kanei Uechi the son of Kanbun Uechi the founder of Uechi-ryu style Karate(similar to Goju-ryu).....But Talking Shotokan And Taiwan, Shotokan was getting quite popular and spread on the island, but politics put an end to that http://findingkarate.com/wordpress/spot ... ous-storm/
C.J.W. wrote:Trick wrote:There is footage/film from Taiwan, a gathering in a room demonstrating their GongFu forms, the Hong’s are there too demonstrating forms Among the people At the honorary end(table/seating) of the room sits Kanei Uechi the son of Kanbun Uechi the founder of Uechi-ryu style Karate(similar to Goju-ryu).....But Talking Shotokan And Taiwan, Shotokan was getting quite popular and spread on the island, but politics put an end to that http://findingkarate.com/wordpress/spot ... ous-storm/
Very cool. Didn't know that at all!
As for Asai Tetsuhiko, he married a Taiwanese woman and spread the art on the island with his brother in law, who was already an avid Fujian White Crane boxer prior to learning Karate. Asai also compared notes with him and incorporated elements of FWC into his system, which is quite dynamic compared to other branches. The brother-in-law's dojo in Taipei was pretty close to where I used to live, and I would go and watch people train sometimes.
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