So smooth, without any exaggerated transitional moves that other practitioners seem to focus on. This is gold.

Excellent! Thanks for this video. It's great to see Otsuka in action, not only performing Kata, but also Kihon and interacting with students. He seems relaxed and quiet cheerful.

Both Shotokan and Wado made their moves bigger and more dynamic, a great pity !!

I'm reasonably certain this is the way Gichin Funakoshi originally taught in Japan. Otsuka was one of few first generation black belts awarded by Funakoshi after agreeing to the ranking system. Otsuka also already held a mastery certificate in Shindo Yoshin-ryu Jujitsu. Otsuka was one of Funakoshi's original instructors. Here Otsuka is pretty old. One may not note a subtle foot sweep, deep stance, or large move. Gichin Funakoshi's son Gigo and numerous other students would make Shotokan appear as it does today.

@78a67h

3 жыл бұрын

Quite so!

It's amazing how much time changes the ways these katas are shown and taught. In our Wado Dojo we have much lower and exaggerated stances, which does make the kata nicer to look at but in Otsuka Sensei's versions these are much more applicable to bunkai.

Invaluable. months of study are here. Amazing footage.

When the late Suzuki Sensei said that Master Otsuka was a trully great martial artist, like a Samurai, he was telling the truth, not speaking solely out of respect. This video proves it!

Pure wado , thanks 🙏

wonderful, thank you for sharing. i have 2 vhs tapes released by mr Ajari that have footage which i guess is taken from these recordings. it's interesting how some movements have changed/evolved and some that haven't such as gyakuzuki tsukomi and junzuki tsukomi.

Absolument merveilleux .... MERCI

Great to see and it gives so much information about movement....simplicity is the ultimate complexity...thanks a lot for uploading.

Verry nice sensei

Awesome video great master

Brilliant!

Great video!

Meu Mestre descanse em Paz oss

Déjà présente sur YT mais deux fois valent mieux qu'une dans ce cas là ...

I'm looking for the source material

RIP

Thnx for sharing this vedio lots of knowledge

Grande mestre OSS

Does anybody know where and when this was filmed?

@molezaymolbacheh4157

4 жыл бұрын

when my grand mom was virgin!

@skankhorde5222

Жыл бұрын

This was filmed at the Berkeley Dojo on University Ave & Grove St (now MLK St) in Berkeley, CA no later than 1966. I think it's more likely 1965. The beginning of the film showing kata on the brick area is at UC Berkeley. For the life of me, I can't remember where... it's been 50+ years since I've been there.

How effective is this material art?

@IQzminus2

2 жыл бұрын

Pretty effective. Though this is a video of the founder of the style doing some demonstration when he was in his late 70s. Though he still has a lot of movement for his age. He is still an old man here. But wado ryu is as effective like most styles of karate. maybe a bit more than some other karate styles. But they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Overall having a good trainer is probably more important than what sport or style of karate you train. The main difference between Wado ryu and other styles of karate is that it incorporates a lot of Japanese jiu jitsu. So it has a lot more grappling, holds, throws and lock techniques. And overall more floor/wrestling-ish techniques. But you also see it's influence in more or less all techniques, though in some more than others. It’s quite fundamental, and not like training a specialised grappling martial art. It’s a bit of training of locks, throws and grappling, but it’s not on the same level as a grappling specialised art. Wado ryu also has quite a bit of sparring and kumite. So you do quite a bit of 1 one 1 training, though this again depends on the instructor. Otsuka (the founder) trained under quite a few of the people that were the founders of most of the styles of karate we have today, one among them was Motobu Choki. Motobu Choki is the founder of Motobu-ryu which is a very very small style of karate today. But Motobu was during his lifetime often described as most practical and efficient focused of all the founders. He was known in his youth for regularly going to the roughest parts of town and pick street fights in order to test any new techniques he learned, and toss out anything that didn't work well in street fights. And his teachings were very few techniques, with a super heavy focus on sparring and kumite. He was quite the character, and his approach a bit controversial even during his lifetime. You can see really clearly in Wado Ryu especially in Kumite and the kata naihanchi that Otsuka trained under Matobu. But karate training is about a lot more than just learning to beat somebody up, if that is what you are after, then you probably should look elsewhere. It’s not what Wadō-ryū karate is about, and if that is your only goal, there are probably other martial arts where you can learn to do that quicker

Oss

Suis je le seul à ne pas entendre le son de cette vidéo ?

@ianisskinsuit4213

6 ай бұрын

Il n'y a pas de son ni sur les autres supports.