Essence of Karate

Here's a short video on Kendokai Karate School. I'm still studying Japanese but I was able to make out some of the messages on the video:

"Essence of karate is in the fist. Study the way of the fist."
"When the heart dwells the fist, the result is the iron fist. When the fist dwells the heart, the result is the sincerity (or determination. The exact meaning is unclear to me)."

Kendokai Karate Official Website

Sorry about not posting for such a long time. Any material on Kendokai and Nakamura sensei tends to be rare, so please understand.

Here's an updated Kendokai Karate official website. It looks quite dynamic, unlike the earlier version. It has a full screen video for the background, and a few video clips of dojo practice. I do hope that more material will be posted on this website in the future.

http://kendoukai.net/

Sensei Kuramoto's Punch

Sensei Kuramoto Nariharu is one of the top students of Sensei Nakamura Hideo. He's a literal human weapon, with thoroughly conditioned hands, feet, etc, even his head. He has broken clay sewer pipes with his headbutt. His karate is not about fancy techniques, but a solid foundation on the kihon, basics. I really like the sand makiwara he is using in this video. Very solid, but offers enough resilience to use safely. I couldn't understand most of what he was teaching in this video, but he seems to be stressing the importance of hitting with the strong portion of the fist.

Re-Posting Osaka Demo 1987

For some reason, the earlier posting of Osaka Demo 1987 didn't work. Here's another posting.

Apology for a number of unavailable videos and a very nice video

I've learned that a number of videos on my blog are no longer available. Some of them were linked to my facebook page but for some reason are not opening up. Also, one of the Youtube contributor to the video has deleted the content. But I did find one very nice video that includes very interesting footages of Nakamura Sensei and Kendokai Karate. Enjoy!

The opening caption reads, "Different styles of karate are not important. Karate is karate." This quote of Nakamura Sensei sums up his philosophy.

"Transfer-Training", "Movement Training", "Ido-Gekko"

It goes without saying that kihon practice is vital to improving one's karate. Without kihon, you have no karate. Kihon can be practiced while standing on the same spot, or by moving up and down the dojo floor. Sensei Lee Young of Kasugai dojo has been posting a lot of videos of Kendokai karate training routine, and recently he posted many "ido-gekko" or "transfer-training." These are great for learning to move one's core and executing techniques with the proper timing.

Nakamura Sensei's Osaka Demo

Unfortunately, the video of Nakamura Sensei's Osaka demo that I posted earlier seems to not work. It was linked to my facebook video but it does not open.

Fortunately, someone was so kind to post an identical video on Youtube.

His techniques are beyond fast; they are invisible due to the speed. It was reported that the photographers could not capture the moment of the impact, saying that his hand disappeared.