What do you think of this documentary...?

Thanks for sharing this video. I had seen this before. But it was good to watch again.

Chibana is a much greater karateka than I . I do not believe that I could allow someone to beat me and not defend myself because I feel I was in no danger of death.

I like how the 5 time karate champion now realizes what it took me a long time to realize in how important is the kata. I was once all about fighting and competing. Now I want to gain more knowledge and improve my techniques. I like those in the video hope never to use my art again. In the past I wanted or hope to use it.

I have spoken in the past on here how when I was much younger and my sensei took me a few other students to train in different dojo. I hated what we were doing, think this stuff wasn't "practical". This dojo was in the basement of a storefront church. There were only 2 students there doing this ridiculous kata. Then the sensei began to give the applications of the kata. My sensei told me to give it a chance. I did out of respect for him. After learn just a few of the applications and learning why every time you did one technique the instructor hit you in different parts of the body I began to enjoy that kata and wanted to go back and learn the entire kata. We were learning Sanchin. We never trained with him again, but he has been to our school and had some student do a demonstration. I've met him a few times again. I has impacted me greatly even though he might not know it.

I have seen this again, very interesting documentary, Japanese made. The same guy hosted other documentaries as well about other Japanese Martial Arts, interesting as well. He is Greek, raised in Denmark and went to Japan to study with Mass Oyama full time for 3-4 years. He was a champion in Kyokushin. Obviously after an age (not that old) you have done the competitions, you have won your medals, so it's normal to get an interest in Kata. That is natural and the documentary did a well made point on that. It wasn't just another documentary on an art but more on that. From sports competition champion to an interest in Kata.

That was very interesting. Thank you for sharing.

Some of that is very hardcore. I loved seeing Nicholas, who is by all standards a tough sport oriented karateka, struggle with some of the conditioning drills. It illustrates the difference in the training because of the difference in goals.

I had heard the story of Chibana before but it is still hard to believe. That was someone with a seriously strong set of convictions and a will of iron.

Thanks for posting this is a great documentary and helped me enjoy memories of my past training. See, my original Sensei in Okinawa (now passed) trained under Chibana Sensei and talked about how powerful he was. He told us about an American champion who practiced when he was there. According to the story after Chibana left a few of my teachers friends asked to be taught sparing. As he punched one of them the volunteer paniced and blocked as he was taught which broke the American's arm. All of them were scolded in private when Chibana Sensei learned about the event.

According to my Sensei, all kata have lethal techniques.

Refused is ******* ineffective the documentry. that's some band from the 90s that had a valid so influencial to music yet grew to become into too early for their time. All this screamo, emo, hardcore crap you hear immediately's a watered down version of Refused.

I've seen it before but it is very good.

I particularly enjoy the episode where he does Aikido. It was refreshing to see a hardcore karate fighter see Aikido as a legit art.

I have never seen it. Thank you for sharing. It explains a lot about what my Oklinawnan Sensei told us but we didn't understand at the time. I understand now and I also understand more about myself.

Interesting!

Thank you Sensei.

Thanks

It's an interesting video