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It's been awhile since I got to kick the inflatable fall down bag 20 times, but some weeks you can start to feel like your timing is pretty good, with the weight squeezing in the center, but with your back leg moving energy into the ground and toes grabbing the floor. Don't want your shoulders to be too tense or with your head tilting too far forward sometimes like at the end, lol. With some focus towards activating the wings when punching, and keeping the leg up after kicking, which it looks like you probably do well, with tail bone tucked, squeezing in the center, hip rotation and all that, like a pendulum, instead of falling on it, like some people I know that still look like they can kick the bag pretty hard. I definitely like the cat stance in katas sometimes anyway, although we might want a little power behind our kicks when someone pissed off is walking towards us usually. The kick from cat stance might be part of a kata as some kind of block from a staff or stunning rather than shattering blow or something like that I think. Although unless it's somebody breaking a coconut while breaking their fingers again, I haven't seen people practice spearhand thrust on UA-cam these days, which could start feeling more comfortable with practice over time, as a punch to the solar plexus can definitely knock the wind out of an approaching persons sails, while keeping your movements more in the center. Which as some kind of pad fighting like boxing can be good weights for conditioning along with everything else they do, while some practice some kinds of punches that put more tension on the shoulder for points, and otherwise change unnarmed normal form with a quicker open hand strike not meant to be practiced with getting caught on karate gees or used with pressure points in sparring, or making the most of some quickness building isometric exercises like carrying groceries home, while possibly having better jabs with some. Although your horse stance might be better with a lower stance, I sometimes do push ups by myself after class anyway; if you can do horse stance for one or twenty minutes, or thirty or a hundred push ups might make a difference with time though, good for strengthening your knee and ankle joints for me at least. Just like how Musashi says about holding a longsword with both hands not being the true way, unless the enemy is difficult to cut down and you have to use both hands. Which is why we train with two longswords. And running and whatnot. And with carrying two swords and not dying with an unused weapon, but much cooler sounding anyway.
I find it reassuring that my sensei in Scotland teaches the exact same way, even down to measuring your stance by using your fist. Love the lesson on holding a coin to keep a tight fist when punching!
The most important thing is to pay attention to your body. The textbook stance is not your stance. Different bodies have different stress points. Stand what feels comfortable. Practice Adjust to what works for you.
@@dr.davidhoward3179 I’m not sure (with respect) that I agree. My sensei trained with the Japanese masters when they brought karate to the UK and is very traditional in how he teaches, mainly because he was taught the Japanese way and he’s passed it on. I have also been fortunate enough to train with Japanese masters who have now sadly passed on. I never got a sense from them that the stance was your own and what works for you. There was the correct way and that was it. Maybe it depends on the style and coaching techniques though. I guess it’s also a criticism of karate in that it can be rigid.
@@dr.davidhoward3179 We aren’t talking biology. We are talking Karate. People can draw lines in the sand and preserve them and there’s nothing wrong with that. Very contemporary western mindset to throw away all principles and blow wherever the wind blows but the ship will not be the same if you change every part. If you don’t like it go to mma gym or JKD gym. We are here for Karate.
It is great to see the obvious respect and admiration you have for Sensei. This shows the character development martial arts gives you. Improvement of self for the good of society!
Wow such precision on stances! Such valuable lessons!! How to get seiko dachi.. two two twists of feet And 45 degrees, and the other stances with fist length, shoulder width stances.. such precision! Thank you for the video!
Like it and felt inspired! Seeing you as an much advanced practicer is still on the way of learning and challenging yourself with true emotion honestly shared with audience! felt admired being accompanied! Thanks! Keep the good work!
In Goju-Ryu, for the Neko Ashi Dachi, the weight is also mostly on the back foot, while there is no more than 20% of the weight on the front foot, in order to prevent sweeping of the front leg in sparring. Also, the punching instructions are identical to Goju-Ryu - especially, the parts about solar plexus and executing the pull-back as if there was an opponent behind you.
Sakugawa Sensei gave a very good analogy of punching like a cannon with barrel rifling. Twisting the fist while punching follows the natural biomechanics of the human arm, and works well with more relaxed styles that treat joints and tendons like coiled springs.
I truly admire your sincerity in learning from this sensei. It is inspirational to watch you as it is also very apparent that you are highly skilled but not arrogant.
I teach the back stance weight to be 60 percent back leg and 40 percent front leg. When you raise the front leg, your shoulders shouldn't move backwards. We do this so the front leg is less vulnerable to sweeps and it allows for faster front kicks because the weight doesn't need to shift to the back leg before kicking.
These stances, like a lot of other techniques, were brought over from various styles of southern Kung Fu. I've trained in a few southern styles, and in those, the whole point of the cat stance is to have the weight almost entirely on the back leg. In fact, the front foot often only has the tip of the big toe touching the ground. As the Shorinji Sensei was saying, the point is to be able to kick rapidly with the front leg. I think a cat stance where weight is placed on the front leg is a pretty pointless stance - just a 'stylish' pose rather than a useful martial arts stance.
I have a theory about the cat stance as you mentioned, which is for very light front foot for kick, that is for tripping like judo. I think that The almost entirely on the back stance is not ‘en guard’ for striking, but pulling the collar for grappling to control the opponent’s weight and central gravity, light front leg for ashibarai(leg sweep).
Your question soliciting about the cat stance weight distribution. This is my Okinawa Seidokan perspective. The front foot has little to no weight placed to it. You can then lift it effortlessly if swept, kick if in range, and never sacrifice your centeredness. The base foot is posed at the most 45 degrees open and can close this a little. This enables to block the groin or capture a kick with the base leg/knee. The base foot is never grounded but has a small air gap between the heel and the surface of the floor. This practice of not placing the weight directly on the heel of the foot enables mobility. To ground any foot to the heel would be considered a dead foot. I hope this helps.
👋 hello to all. From what I know, Kyokushin has a lot of influences on Okinawan styles, their back stance is very similar to this one, they leave their front leg light so they can kick, and also they use this as a counter measure for sweeps. Thank you so much for the video.🙏
Wow so traditional. You can tell by how many tips he is giving you. And as expected it would be like this for almost any karate practicioner doing another karate style. And his Ananku is very impressive. I am learning Ananku currently as a purple belt in my style along with Seienchin and hopefully Bassai dai soon!
@@KarateDojowaKu Thanks, your okinawa videos are awesome, but I think they woud be better if you did more techniques more than just talk about the style (dont get me wrong, I love those talks)
man that sensei could punch the life out of an opponent...no matter who...respect also i wish there was sort of an like a karate or similar dojo or somthing in my area.... i trained ju -jutsu for seven years...it was mixed with judo, karate and aikido too... i loved it...also i have the brown belt...i was like 2 months away from gettting the black belt....but it all fell apart....i miss it still
07:10 the term the Master is looking for is "Rifling" (carving curved lines into a projectile weapons barrel to create spin on the ball/bullet that make the projectile fly straighter and harder, which is why a "Rifle" is called a Rifle", the gun barrel is "Rifled")
That pulling the punch imagining you are elbowing an enemy behind you part is such an interesting bit of technique and a fun one to incorporate in practice I have to say.
Thank you! If I may elaborate on your question on the weight... During years of kyokushin practice I had almost no weight on the front foot during this stance exactly for the reason the Okinawan sensei says, useful in fight to keep your opponent on a distance with short geri quickly, like boxers use a jab. But we didn't call it cat stance but kokutsu dachi. This might be a little bit confusing because it means something else in some styles. Also it's important to notice that when progressing in zenkutsu dachi, the rear leg joins the other, then becomes the front foot while your other (previously front) still carries all your weight. In a brief moment of time you are exactly in this cat stance where one foot has all the weight and the others has almost none. Then your rear leg is like a spring like a frogg's leg and boom! You explode into zenkutsu dachi again. Moving backward is similar. This way both stances are like brothers ;) All of this is done relatively low. Therefore we didn't call it cat stance because neko ashi dachi is a relatively high stance in some styles.
Punching towards solar plexus center also causes slight bend in elbow that reduces chance of of hyper extension damage of joint, as well as making transition reaction to blocks etc. faster as elbows are closer to center of balance. Great video
Very cool to follow your training and your journey. In Hung Gar Kung fu we call the front leg of the cat stance "a false step", as it looks like there is weight on it when it's barely touching. I love the diversity of it, as you can easily kick from it, pull your foot back in a defensive move without changing your pose whatsoever, so a counterattack is easy to follow up with, as well as it's an easy stance to transit into other stances and kicks.
In Kukki Taekwondo we use separate "Back-Stances" and "Tiger-Stances" (Cat-Stance). The Back-Stance has 70% of the weight distributed to the rear leg, while the Tiger-Stance is supposed to have 90% of the weight distributed to the rear leg. It's interesting to see which styles of karate more closely resemble Kukki Taekwondo, and which styles resemble it less so.
In our system, Matsubayashi, the cat stance is 95% weight on the back foot and 5% front foot. With the back leg knee turned towards the front foots ball. Looking forward to the Ananku kata video! That's a kata that varies widely between the different systems and I'm excited to see this ones interpretation.
The cat stance with the majority of the weight on the back leg is how I learned it in taekwondo. It's also reminscent of a Muay Thai stance with the weight back and front leg ready to check or kick immediately.
I have trained Shitoryu mostly for just over 30 years, Nekoashi dachi is more 70-30 back leg, in order to kick and defend your relying on a fast lift off the ground, it helps to move quickly back and transition in stance when needed, 10% weight would not suffice to help move anywhere but stay on your back foot.
I train Shorinjiryu from Okinawa as well. Kudaka Island. My Sensei is Masayuki Kudaka. It is very interesting that we don't turn our fist over completely. We teach the use of the natural vertical fist. I guess there has been some controversy about this since the creation of Karate in Okinawa.
I have been doing both Shorin and Shorinji Ryu for 45 years. I find that the differences in the two systems are a lot less than the similarities. The differences are very subtle. I think that each style rounds out the other.
The way they do cat stance is very similar to how we are taught in Tang soo do. The lower belt students are taught a 80% weight on the back foot 20 on front or more on the back but they then teach black belts to put a little more on the front under the assumption that they have learned to shift their weight faster by that point
In traditional Wado-ryu the weight in neko-ashi dachi is central! So 50% front - 50% rear. Some schools change it in order to make it more appealing for the Kata competitions, but all the 3 cat stances (mahanmi, hanmi, shomen neko ashi) together with zenkutsu-dachi are all done with central weight.
In our style the weight is mainly on the rear leg, about 70% on the rear and 30% on the rear. although when moving around when sparring we are rarely in a stance longer than a few seconds.
In both American Kenpo Karate and Ryuei Ryu we keep almost all of our weight off of the front leg when in Neko Ashi Dachi (Cat stance in American Kenpo). Most describe it as 90/10 weight distribution. 90% back leg, 10% front leg.
Cat Stance in the SKA is done much like this Sensei teaches. Suggestion, don’t allow punching shoulder to advance when doing Reverse Punch. If you do, power will escape. You can test this by allowing your punching shoulder to advance forward and have someone push on your fist. You’ll find that power escapes out of the Hikite shoulder. The shoulders should be even at the end of your Reverse Punch.
For me like to keep my weight in the center so it help with movement if the need to get out of the way of an attack. But with the weight mostly in the back help a lot on front kicks attack fast to target. So depends on that is needed at the time.
In Goju Ryu, our weight is all on the back leg in Neko Ashi Dachi. Our Shihan explained that the essence of Neko Ashi Dachi is almost every stance transition.
in my style Shito-Ryu in neko ashi dachi we keep most of the weight in the back leg! We call them retreating stances and there is almost no weight on the front leg! So interesting!
Maybe the English subtitles are wrong, but the lines he mentioned are not on the cannon ball, they are in the barrel of the cannon itself. It's called rifling. The lines, more accurately grooves, cause the cannon ball (or a bullet) to spin on the way out of the barrel, giving increased distance and accuracy.
Our cat stance is identical to both ShorinRyu and Shoriniji Ryu, 95% of the weight on the back leg. In TKD our back stance is more 70/30 back to front, but our tiger stance is identical to the Okinawans.
We do Necko Ashi Dachi with a 90/10 weight distribution in general. There are some places in kata where it will be more equal, like when we have to transition to the other side.
In the Texan Taekwondo (Whose heritage is some generations removed from Shotokan) we have three back/cat stances: "cat stance" fu-gul sogi ko-jin sogi All three have knees and thighs aligned with the foot and toes, weight 90%, 70%, and 50% on the back leg respectively. In Wadokai there are three corresponding back/cat stances. ma-mi neko ashi dachi han-mi neko ashi dachi ma-han-mi neko ashi dachi These Wadokai stances also prescribe knee and foot alignment, but they're not as long as the Shotokan or Texan Taekwondo versions. All prescribe 50only -60% of the weight on the back leg. Taekwondo Oh-dan, Wadokai Ikkyu
this has me recall a few free lessons from the instructors at rapid city ymca in the 70's. as i cleaned and did power lifting team, even let a golden glove school mate use me for practice. these tips re ignite thot of some specifics a few other teachers showed, ( on TKD with son in 1995 im Mesa,Az i found am old and ill at time ,i repainted their signs on street for fun and practice. )
Go Ju Kai USA puts 70% weight on the back foot, and 30% on the front foot. Gogen Yamaguchi used the front foot for both Mae Geri and Yoko Geri with great facility. My Sensei is his number one son, Gosei and he maintains this practice.
Really good! Jesse Enkamp usually stresses that japanese karate differs from okinawan karate in that it favors perfection of motion instead of perfection of outcome. [he is a very, very diplomatic japanese karate basher :D] So, I was suprised by how technical this okinawan teacher got.
@2:31 a good step to take next is to balance free weights on your thighs with the bar horizontal resting on your thigh against your hip and then holding horse stance. Not holding it and letting being straight keeping it in place assures there is no cheating.
The stance thing he was teaching you was how to move from the hips. The kick he did was moving from the hips if you look at yours you moved from the knee. Same with how he was teaching you to hold your hips in horse stance and how to issue your fist from the core with the hips as the anchor your pushing your fist with your shoulder and lats when you relax you get it right when you try to add force you start pushing with your muscles which isn't correct. He was teaching you to move from the relaxed hips. After years of training you realize the forearm is like a nail and your punch is like a nail gun that throws the nail into a board. The adding force through muscles isn't necessary and actually decreases the force.
Stances aren't fixed but transitional but I do agree on your observation largely because of stability not sure if goju cat stance is same as shito ryu pressure wise and I am sure they would very from organisation to organisation.
We have both cat stance and back stance in Kung Fu. The Cat stance is exactly as the Okinawan Sensei described it. No weight on the front foot at all. All your weight is on the back leg. This way if people sweep you, you will not fall down and you can kick readily as he said. Back stance is way different. From front stance position you will pivot your feet back 90 degrees so instead of facing 45 degrees front and to the left, they face a diagonal towards the back. and then you sink your weight all the way down on your back leg. I don't know if Karate front stance is what we call fighting stance. I don't think it is. Front stance is when you put feet facing 45 degree angle away from the front of your body and put all your weight on your front leg. It's what they call bow stance also. I remember you learned Tai Chi from that woman. The bow stance is what I mean. Back stance is like that but instead of all weight on front it's on back.
Hi, Something I learned from a Okinawan Shorin Ryu Master...... your punches are loose and sloppy n the video (no insult intended). You will break your hands if you strike a hard object like a skull. "NO AIR" inside your hand! Squeeze your hand as hard as you can!Squeeze al the air out, and then touch your thumb to your. 3rd knuckle and squeeze harder! . Try it it and you will never go back. Its much more effort in training, but every punch should be thrown this way. iIt will instantly transform your fist into a rock. You will trade off a bit of speed to deliver a punch but after all you will be hitting someone with a rock! Instantly, you will know notice the difference, an so will everyone your train with :) Try it!
Sensei, can you please answer an age old question regarding punches? In particular straight punches (choku zuki) that you were practising. I was always taught in Shorinji Ryu that we should have our fist at 45 degrees to the horizonal floor. As supposed to what you were doing being parallel. The reasoning behind this was to make sure the radius and ulna bones did not twist across each other. They naturally want to be at 45 degrees to be untwisted. This was supposed to be more powerful. Is this something you've heard before and would it really make that much of a difference? I feel it does as it also accentuates the first two knuckles more which is used primarily for striking. Thank you.
Are you sure about that? FYI in our traditional Shomen-neko-ashi (cat stance) the weight is central. So 50% front leg-50% rear leg. Some schools changed it in order to make it more appealing for the Kata competitions. But in origin the weight is central in all 3 neko stences (mahanmi, hanmi, shomen).
@@raffaelebarbato9694 yes I am 100% sure that's how I was taught it. 95/5, the front leg is just for stability and you should be able to throw a front kick without transfering the weight back significantly. If you were taught differently that's fine but I was only commenting on my experience.
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It's been awhile since I got to kick the inflatable fall down bag 20 times, but some weeks you can start to feel like your timing is pretty good, with the weight squeezing in the center, but with your back leg moving energy into the ground and toes grabbing the floor. Don't want your shoulders to be too tense or with your head tilting too far forward sometimes like at the end, lol.
With some focus towards activating the wings when punching, and keeping the leg up after kicking, which it looks like you probably do well, with tail bone tucked, squeezing in the center, hip rotation and all that, like a pendulum, instead of falling on it, like some people I know that still look like they can kick the bag pretty hard. I definitely like the cat stance in katas sometimes anyway, although we might want a little power behind our kicks when someone pissed off is walking towards us usually. The kick from cat stance might be part of a kata as some kind of block from a staff or stunning rather than shattering blow or something like that I think. Although unless it's somebody breaking a coconut while breaking their fingers again, I haven't seen people practice spearhand thrust on UA-cam these days, which could start feeling more comfortable with practice over time, as a punch to the solar plexus can definitely knock the wind out of an approaching persons sails, while keeping your movements more in the center.
Which as some kind of pad fighting like boxing can be good weights for conditioning along with everything else they do, while some practice some kinds of punches that put more tension on the shoulder for points, and otherwise change unnarmed normal form with a quicker open hand strike not meant to be practiced with getting caught on karate gees or used with pressure points in sparring, or making the most of some quickness building isometric exercises like carrying groceries home, while possibly having better jabs with some.
Although your horse stance might be better with a lower stance, I sometimes do push ups by myself after class anyway; if you can do horse stance for one or twenty minutes, or thirty or a hundred push ups might make a difference with time though, good for strengthening your knee and ankle joints for me at least. Just like how Musashi says about holding a longsword with both hands not being the true way, unless the enemy is difficult to cut down and you have to use both hands. Which is why we train with two longswords. And running and whatnot. And with carrying two swords and not dying with an unused weapon, but much cooler sounding anyway.
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""you've been practicing alot" "your punches are excellent" that's really the highest praise you can get from a man like him!
Brilliant which is at least two notches above excellent
I find it reassuring that my sensei in Scotland teaches the exact same way, even down to measuring your stance by using your fist. Love the lesson on holding a coin to keep a tight fist when punching!
The most important thing is to pay attention to your body.
The textbook stance is not your stance.
Different bodies have different stress points.
Stand what feels comfortable.
Practice
Adjust to what works for you.
@@dr.davidhoward3179 I’m not sure (with respect) that I agree. My sensei trained with the Japanese masters when they brought karate to the UK and is very traditional in how he teaches, mainly because he was taught the Japanese way and he’s passed it on. I have also been fortunate enough to train with Japanese masters who have now sadly passed on. I never got a sense from them that the stance was your own and what works for you. There was the correct way and that was it. Maybe it depends on the style and coaching techniques though. I guess it’s also a criticism of karate in that it can be rigid.
@@Azlak-hj9yi Biology is clear. Read up on chiropractic adjustments. Everyone's physiology is different.
@@dr.davidhoward3179 We aren’t talking biology. We are talking Karate. People can draw lines in the sand and preserve them and there’s nothing wrong with that. Very contemporary western mindset to throw away all principles and blow wherever the wind blows but the ship will not be the same if you change every part. If you don’t like it go to mma gym or JKD gym. We are here for Karate.
It is great to see the obvious respect and admiration you have for Sensei. This shows the character development martial arts gives you. Improvement of self for the good of society!
Great punches! Especially for your young age! Sensei’s advice to you is golden. Keep up your hard work
Your punches looked great and its no surprise to me that the Sensei made a comment that you've been working hard on them. Good job!
The back stance for Tang Soo Do is very similar this style. It is say to be 80-20 or 90-10 back leg. In Taekwondo it is 70-30 or 80-20 to back leg.
70-30 for us too in Taekwondo
In Bubibirodu is 83,5666666666...to back leg
Wow such precision on stances! Such valuable lessons!! How to get seiko dachi.. two two twists of feet And 45 degrees, and the other stances with fist length, shoulder width stances.. such precision! Thank you for the video!
Great class. I leaerned so much watching this.
Can't wait to see the next Kata. It looks awesome 😁
I practice Isshinryu and was taught that in cat stance 90% of your weight is on your back leg and 10% on the front.
Yusuke Sensei's kicks are so pure
Like it and felt inspired! Seeing you as an much advanced practicer is still on the way of learning and challenging yourself with true emotion honestly shared with audience! felt admired being accompanied! Thanks! Keep the good work!
I'm looking forward to seeing you learn Ananku. Chotoku Kyan knew his stuff.
The smile on the face of the Sensei telling the 100 yen coin story is wholesome to say the least...
In Goju-Ryu, for the Neko Ashi Dachi, the weight is also mostly on the back foot, while there is no more than 20% of the weight on the front foot, in order to prevent sweeping of the front leg in sparring.
Also, the punching instructions are identical to Goju-Ryu - especially, the parts about solar plexus and executing the pull-back as if there was an opponent behind you.
Sakugawa Sensei gave a very good analogy of punching like a cannon with barrel rifling. Twisting the fist while punching follows the natural biomechanics of the human arm, and works well with more relaxed styles that treat joints and tendons like coiled springs.
I truly admire your sincerity in learning from this sensei. It is inspirational to watch you as it is also very apparent that you are highly skilled but not arrogant.
Your punches are very fast, very strong!
Sensei is not pulling your legs.
He looks incredibly strong and fit.
God bless the both of you
I teach the back stance weight to be 60 percent back leg and 40 percent front leg. When you raise the front leg, your shoulders shouldn't move backwards. We do this so the front leg is less vulnerable to sweeps and it allows for faster front kicks because the weight doesn't need to shift to the back leg before kicking.
These stances, like a lot of other techniques, were brought over from various styles of southern Kung Fu. I've trained in a few southern styles, and in those, the whole point of the cat stance is to have the weight almost entirely on the back leg. In fact, the front foot often only has the tip of the big toe touching the ground. As the Shorinji Sensei was saying, the point is to be able to kick rapidly with the front leg. I think a cat stance where weight is placed on the front leg is a pretty pointless stance - just a 'stylish' pose rather than a useful martial arts stance.
I have a theory about the cat stance as you mentioned, which is for very light front foot for kick, that is for tripping like judo. I think that The almost entirely on the back stance is not ‘en guard’ for striking, but pulling the collar for grappling to control the opponent’s weight and central gravity, light front leg for ashibarai(leg sweep).
I can’t count the number of times I’ve been practicing karate and (quietly) told myself, “holy crap, this is Wing Chun!”
Your question soliciting about the cat stance weight distribution. This is my Okinawa Seidokan perspective. The front foot has little to no weight placed to it. You can then lift it effortlessly if swept, kick if in range, and never sacrifice your centeredness. The base foot is posed at the most 45 degrees open and can close this a little. This enables to block the groin or capture a kick with the base leg/knee. The base foot is never grounded but has a small air gap between the heel and the surface of the floor. This practice of not placing the weight directly on the heel of the foot enables mobility. To ground any foot to the heel would be considered a dead foot. I hope this helps.
You're good. Always refreshing to see your videos with great masters.
I train in a Shito Ryu style, but we train cat stance and punches in precisely the same way as this Sensei is teaching you. Very interesting
👋 hello to all. From what I know, Kyokushin has a lot of influences on Okinawan styles, their back stance is very similar to this one, they leave their front leg light so they can kick, and also they use this as a counter measure for sweeps. Thank you so much for the video.🙏
Wow so traditional. You can tell by how many tips he is giving you. And as expected it would be like this for almost any karate practicioner doing another karate style. And his Ananku is very impressive. I am learning Ananku currently as a purple belt in my style along with Seienchin and hopefully Bassai dai soon!
Nice seeing him at work. As for kokutsu dachi/back stance it’s generally around 70/30. The 30 being the front leg.
Looking forward to seeing more.
the perfect weapon part threee!!!!!
wait, wait it's coming
@@KarateDojowaKu Thanks, your okinawa videos are awesome, but I think they woud be better if you did more techniques more than just talk about the style (dont get me wrong, I love those talks)
thank you arigato. one of my fave UA-camr-sensei. very educational bringing unity in karate. I'm in kyokushinryu but I love everything Okinawan.
man that sensei could punch the life out of an opponent...no matter who...respect
also i wish there was sort of an like a karate or similar dojo or somthing in my area.... i trained ju -jutsu for seven years...it was mixed with judo, karate and aikido too... i loved it...also i have the brown belt...i was like 2 months away from gettting the black belt....but it all fell apart....i miss it still
07:10 the term the Master is looking for is "Rifling" (carving curved lines into a projectile weapons barrel to create spin on the ball/bullet that make the projectile fly straighter and harder, which is why a "Rifle" is called a Rifle", the gun barrel is "Rifled")
In Tang Soo Do, our version of a cat stance is light on the front foot as well.
That pulling the punch imagining you are elbowing an enemy behind you part is such an interesting bit of technique and a fun one to incorporate in practice I have to say.
ゆすけさんのすべてのビデオついてに沖縄を見ることが本当に大好きです。僕は今沖縄にもいたらいいのに。おつけれ様に巣ばらしビデオよ。
Thank you!
If I may elaborate on your question on the weight...
During years of kyokushin practice I had almost no weight on the front foot during this stance exactly for the reason the Okinawan sensei says, useful in fight to keep your opponent on a distance with short geri quickly, like boxers use a jab. But we didn't call it cat stance but kokutsu dachi. This might be a little bit confusing because it means something else in some styles.
Also it's important to notice that when progressing in zenkutsu dachi, the rear leg joins the other, then becomes the front foot while your other (previously front) still carries all your weight. In a brief moment of time you are exactly in this cat stance where one foot has all the weight and the others has almost none. Then your rear leg is like a spring like a frogg's leg and boom! You explode into zenkutsu dachi again. Moving backward is similar. This way both stances are like brothers ;)
All of this is done relatively low. Therefore we didn't call it cat stance because neko ashi dachi is a relatively high stance in some styles.
awesome series sensei !
Punching towards solar plexus center also causes slight bend in elbow that reduces chance of of hyper extension damage of joint, as well as making transition reaction to blocks etc. faster as elbows are closer to center of balance. Great video
Very cool to follow your training and your journey. In Hung Gar Kung fu we call the front leg of the cat stance "a false step", as it looks like there is weight on it when it's barely touching. I love the diversity of it, as you can easily kick from it, pull your foot back in a defensive move without changing your pose whatsoever, so a counterattack is easy to follow up with, as well as it's an easy stance to transit into other stances and kicks.
In Kukki Taekwondo we use separate "Back-Stances" and "Tiger-Stances" (Cat-Stance). The Back-Stance has 70% of the weight distributed to the rear leg, while the Tiger-Stance is supposed to have 90% of the weight distributed to the rear leg.
It's interesting to see which styles of karate more closely resemble Kukki Taekwondo, and which styles resemble it less so.
I learned many of the same things in Okinawa. Ten years training there, miss my karate brothers there!
Awesome videos, I really liked the method of using a coin for practicing punches.
In our system, Matsubayashi, the cat stance is 95% weight on the back foot and 5% front foot. With the back leg knee turned towards the front foots ball.
Looking forward to the Ananku kata video! That's a kata that varies widely between the different systems and I'm excited to see this ones interpretation.
The cat stance with the majority of the weight on the back leg is how I learned it in taekwondo. It's also reminscent of a Muay Thai stance with the weight back and front leg ready to check or kick immediately.
I have trained Shitoryu mostly for just over 30 years, Nekoashi dachi is more 70-30 back leg, in order to kick and defend your relying on a fast lift off the ground, it helps to move quickly back and transition in stance when needed, 10% weight would not suffice to help move anywhere but stay on your back foot.
The weight being mainly on the back foot in cat stance is similar to american kenpo. We would say 90% of weight on the back foot and 10% on the front.
I train Shorinjiryu from Okinawa as well. Kudaka Island. My Sensei is Masayuki Kudaka. It is very interesting that we don't turn our fist over completely. We teach the use of the natural vertical fist. I guess there has been some controversy about this since the creation of Karate in Okinawa.
Yusuke's punches are so good they sound mechanical!
Outstanding Sir
I have been doing both Shorin and Shorinji Ryu for 45 years. I find that the differences in the two systems are a lot less than the similarities. The differences are very subtle. I think that each style rounds out the other.
The way they do cat stance is very similar to how we are taught in Tang soo do. The lower belt students are taught a 80% weight on the back foot 20 on front or more on the back but they then teach black belts to put a little more on the front under the assumption that they have learned to shift their weight faster by that point
In traditional Wado-ryu the weight in neko-ashi dachi is central!
So 50% front - 50% rear.
Some schools change it in order to make it more appealing for the Kata competitions, but all the 3 cat stances (mahanmi, hanmi, shomen neko ashi) together with zenkutsu-dachi are all done with central weight.
I love the differences between dojo in Nippon and Okinawa.
In our style the weight is mainly on the rear leg, about 70% on the rear and 30% on the rear. although when moving around when sparring we are rarely in a stance longer than a few seconds.
In both American Kenpo Karate and Ryuei Ryu we keep almost all of our weight off of the front leg when in Neko Ashi Dachi (Cat stance in American Kenpo). Most describe it as 90/10 weight distribution. 90% back leg, 10% front leg.
Cat Stance in the SKA is done much like this Sensei teaches. Suggestion, don’t allow punching shoulder to advance when doing Reverse Punch. If you do, power will escape. You can test this by allowing your punching shoulder to advance forward and have someone push on your fist. You’ll find that power escapes out of the Hikite shoulder. The shoulders should be even at the end of your Reverse Punch.
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For me like to keep my weight in the center so it help with movement if the need to get out of the way of an attack. But with the weight mostly in the back help a lot on front kicks attack fast to target. So depends on that is needed at the time.
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¡Thnks Yusuke Sensei! Ya extrañaba estos episodios y contenido.
In Goju Ryu, our weight is all on the back leg in Neko Ashi Dachi. Our Shihan explained that the essence of Neko Ashi Dachi is almost every stance transition.
I'm a Shotokan practitioner but we were taught to put the weight in the back leg when doing cat stance
in my style Shito-Ryu in neko ashi dachi we keep most of the weight in the back leg! We call them retreating stances and there is almost no weight on the front leg! So interesting!
In the ISKF we keep our weight almost entirely on the back foot in neko as well.
Maybe the English subtitles are wrong, but the lines he mentioned are not on the cannon ball, they are in the barrel of the cannon itself. It's called rifling. The lines, more accurately grooves, cause the cannon ball (or a bullet) to spin on the way out of the barrel, giving increased distance and accuracy.
Our cat stance is identical to both ShorinRyu and Shoriniji Ryu, 95% of the weight on the back leg. In TKD our back stance is more 70/30 back to front, but our tiger stance is identical to the Okinawans.
We do Necko Ashi Dachi with a 90/10 weight distribution in general. There are some places in kata where it will be more equal, like when we have to transition to the other side.
In the Texan Taekwondo (Whose heritage is some generations removed from Shotokan) we have three back/cat stances:
"cat stance"
fu-gul sogi
ko-jin sogi
All three have knees and thighs aligned with the foot and toes, weight 90%, 70%, and 50% on the back leg respectively.
In Wadokai there are three corresponding back/cat stances.
ma-mi neko ashi dachi
han-mi neko ashi dachi
ma-han-mi neko ashi dachi
These Wadokai stances also prescribe knee and foot alignment, but they're not as long as the Shotokan or Texan Taekwondo versions. All prescribe 50only -60% of the weight on the back leg.
Taekwondo Oh-dan, Wadokai Ikkyu
this has me recall a few free lessons from the instructors at rapid city ymca in the 70's. as i cleaned and did power lifting team, even let a golden glove school mate use me for practice. these tips re ignite thot of some specifics a few other teachers showed, ( on TKD with son in 1995 im Mesa,Az i found am old and ill at time ,i repainted their signs on street for fun and practice. )
@4:28 this stance is used in Long Fist and can be very effective in powerful strikes.
I have a new group of young kids starting. I think a quarter as a gift for learning how to hold the fist is a great idea
The style that I am a member of has parts of it from Shorin ryu karate, so our cat foot stance is 90% on back and 10% on front leg.
Do you practice Isshin Ryu?
Good info! 😀
Go Ju Kai USA puts 70% weight on the back foot, and 30% on the front foot. Gogen Yamaguchi used the front foot for both Mae Geri and Yoko Geri with great facility. My Sensei is his number one son, Gosei and he maintains this practice.
All weight is definitely in the back for the cat stance. This still goes back to being relaxed
Good video
Really good! Jesse Enkamp usually stresses that japanese karate differs from okinawan karate in that it favors perfection of motion instead of perfection of outcome.
[he is a very, very diplomatic japanese karate basher :D]
So, I was suprised by how technical this okinawan teacher got.
@2:31 a good step to take next is to balance free weights on your thighs with the bar horizontal resting on your thigh against your hip and then holding horse stance.
Not holding it and letting being straight keeping it in place assures there is no cheating.
The stance thing he was teaching you was how to move from the hips. The kick he did was moving from the hips if you look at yours you moved from the knee. Same with how he was teaching you to hold your hips in horse stance and how to issue your fist from the core with the hips as the anchor your pushing your fist with your shoulder and lats when you relax you get it right when you try to add force you start pushing with your muscles which isn't correct. He was teaching you to move from the relaxed hips. After years of training you realize the forearm is like a nail and your punch is like a nail gun that throws the nail into a board. The adding force through muscles isn't necessary and actually decreases the force.
On Kyokushin when we punch (oitsuki) we pull back the elbow just like Sensei teachs in the video (like a attack )
More weight on the back leg makes front kicks easier, but light weight on the front foot makes advancing easier.
Stances aren't fixed but transitional but I do agree on your observation largely because of stability not sure if goju cat stance is same as shito ryu pressure wise and I am sure they would very from organisation to organisation.
I respectfully request that you consider a segment about Brandon Lee.
The stances are so high and short. My shotokan instructors are constantly demanding longer, lower.
I dont do Karate but for striking I like weight on the back foot
A very compact thug style. :)
Hey man are you still gonna react to the perfect weapon part 3
Hey karate dojo , I wish u did episode of shito ryu karate !!
I was tought 70/30 in back stance, with the 30 being able to be lightened readily as needed.
We have both cat stance and back stance in Kung Fu. The Cat stance is exactly as the Okinawan Sensei described it. No weight on the front foot at all. All your weight is on the back leg. This way if people sweep you, you will not fall down and you can kick readily as he said. Back stance is way different. From front stance position you will pivot your feet back 90 degrees so instead of facing 45 degrees front and to the left, they face a diagonal towards the back. and then you sink your weight all the way down on your back leg. I don't know if Karate front stance is what we call fighting stance. I don't think it is. Front stance is when you put feet facing 45 degree angle away from the front of your body and put all your weight on your front leg. It's what they call bow stance also. I remember you learned Tai Chi from that woman. The bow stance is what I mean. Back stance is like that but instead of all weight on front it's on back.
I was taught the front toes barely touch the ground in cat stance.
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Hi, Something I learned from a Okinawan Shorin Ryu Master...... your punches are loose and sloppy n the video (no insult intended). You will break your hands if you strike a hard object like a skull. "NO AIR" inside your hand! Squeeze your hand as hard as you can!Squeeze al the air out, and then touch your thumb to your. 3rd knuckle and squeeze harder! . Try it it and you will never go back. Its much more effort in training, but every punch should be thrown this way. iIt will instantly transform your fist into a rock. You will trade off a bit of speed to deliver a punch but after all you will be hitting someone with a rock! Instantly, you will know notice the difference, an so will everyone your train with :) Try it!
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Sensei, can you please answer an age old question regarding punches? In particular straight punches (choku zuki) that you were practising. I was always taught in Shorinji Ryu that we should have our fist at 45 degrees to the horizonal floor. As supposed to what you were doing being parallel. The reasoning behind this was to make sure the radius and ulna bones did not twist across each other. They naturally want to be at 45 degrees to be untwisted. This was supposed to be more powerful. Is this something you've heard before and would it really make that much of a difference? I feel it does as it also accentuates the first two knuckles more which is used primarily for striking. Thank you.
Yusuke, can you review Heian Sandan
It's on my channel already!
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Neko Ashi Dachi is more on the back leg with the front leg very light in my style of Ko Sutemi Seiei Kan
In Wado Ryu I was taught 95% weight on back leg.
Are you sure about that?
FYI in our traditional Shomen-neko-ashi (cat stance) the weight is central. So 50% front leg-50% rear leg.
Some schools changed it in order to make it more appealing for the Kata competitions.
But in origin the weight is central in all 3 neko stences (mahanmi, hanmi, shomen).
@@raffaelebarbato9694 yes I am 100% sure that's how I was taught it. 95/5, the front leg is just for stability and you should be able to throw a front kick without transfering the weight back significantly. If you were taught differently that's fine but I was only commenting on my experience.
That sensei looks like he could punch thru a house.
Is just me or Kyokushin's Kukutsu Dachi is identical to Nekoashi Dachi in ShitoRyu? :D