Well done Sensei! Love the GRKC masks! Also thank u for teaching ALL of us no matter what your beliefs are that u still follow the protocols from WHO and Government regulations. This is called leading by example!
@%9F%99%87nel/UCYiME0ck7ROfcwWZ3lbnmwA If a Sensei can't set a good example, then maybe they shouldn't be a sensei! Thank you for the kind words, Derick - it has been great to have you back in the dojo again :)
Really excellent video Zoe Sensei! It always about the basics! No glamour, just good important work. It’s also great to see women teaching. It’s clear that you take karate and teaching seriously, but you also make it fun and enjoyable. Your students are fortunate to have you and Che Sensei as their teachers.
Ah, what a beautiful comment to recieve! We really are passionate about what we do, and we are so happy that our work is seen and appreciated beyond our walls. I hope to do more videos with my female peers this year. There aren't a lot of lady martial artists on UA-cam, and it's important that when the girls look up, they see women who have come before them to make a path for them to follow, and improve! Your comments are so kindly, @Priestbokemei, they really make my day 🌻
Well illustrated depiction of basic karate stances. Deep and long stances are important in the beginning to learn body form , alignment and structure until many , many, years of practice the principles of the stances are internalised and one must be able to quickly change from one stance to another ie.stances, are transitory.We're not supposed to be frozen in them. It is a snapshot of a sequence of body movements that led up to it and a precursor to the body movements that will flow from it.
Ah, thank you, Sensei! It means a great deal to receive such a lovely comment 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️ It is so important to explain to our students why we do it - not for aesthetics, but investment in our future ability and knowledge. Thank you for watching and commenting! - Zoë
You probably know this since you are as smart as a whip: Shiko is not only the sumo stance, but the exercise they do when the lean to one side and raise the leg, then stamp it down. Pretty cool exercise for dynamic stretching. Great video, thanks.
Zoe Sensei i find the videos you teach yo be both fun snd informative. I look each week to see of you are teaching. Basic drills and first katas would be great.
Thank you, William Sensei! This is so lovely to hear, and inspires me to keep refining my video teaching 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️ I actually have come up with a whole bunch of mnemonics and tricks for learning kata, and I'm putting them together for another video. Made my day to read this - thank you so much 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Thank you for the honorific but i am not a sensei. Just an old man with lots of years in the martial arts world. Picking up Goju Ryu. By this time i know great instructors when i seem them. Keep going.
I loved watching this video. Informative and just lovely to watch. It's so great to see lady karateka leading not only in the dojo but on UA-cam. Loved the ending 🥰 These videos are great for reference. Something as simple as a stance is so important so it's great to have this to make sure that one is doing it right and if not a simple self correction is possible.
We are learning from one of the best lady karate-ka! 😉 Thank you for the lovely comment, and for taking the time to watch, Sensei Davina 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Absolutely! Being a woman black belt is the best! And the more that we can set an example, the more women will hopefully join and stay! So lovely to receive this comment - really appreciate the time you took to watch and comment 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Very concise instructional video. Wonderful as usual. Fun fact: the Sanchin Dachi is so named because it is used in the Sanchin kata, but it's other name is uchi-hachiji dachi, which literally means "inner number 8 stance" because number 8 in Chinese/Japanese is "八". Other southern Chinese styles use different stances in their Sanchin kata, so their "Sanchin dachi" isn't the hachiji-shape. The neko-ashi dachi is a unique stance - because so much weight is placed on the rear leg it was often said to be a defensive stance (when the karate-ka uses the front leg to kick from a static position). However, the cat-stance is so named, because when standing in this stance, one is poised like a cat ready to pounce forward. The karateka stands in cat stance (weight may be 90% on the back-foot, but in some schools it's more like 70%), and when he wants to move forward he does 2 things simultaneously followed by the 3rd thing almost immediately: 1) lower the heel of the front foot 2) straighten the rear leg very rapidly like in Zenkutsu dachi. At this instance, if one maintains the same eye-level as before, the karateka's centre of gravity should be well beyond the front foot's toes (unless one's feet are too far apart), and in almost the same instance, as the rear leg straightens out, using that momentum 3) the karateka transitions into taking one step forward, by moving the rear leg into the fore, into say, Zenkutsu-dachi. In this 3rd movement, of stepping forward, one should use the waist and hips to propel the thigh of the rear leg forward as this generates more speed. In effect, one is not kicking off with the rear-leg to move forward, instead, one is using the straightening of the rear leg like a spring being released - just as soon as the CG is shifted forward and the inertia has been nullified by the lowering of the front heel. Naka Tatsuya sensei demonstrates a very similar thing in his "invisible oi-tsuki" from a sparring stance, basically by manipulating his centre of gravity forward he hides the initiation of his attack without kicking-off with his back-leg, and withholding the rotation of his upper torso and shoulders until the last moment (of course there were other tricks in that move, including the punch approaching from under the opponent's line of sight etc). But in Goju-Ryu, this same principle of moving forward is actually demonstrated (or practiced) by moving forward into Zenkutsu-dachi from neko-ashi dachi using the above method (many years ago, not so often nowadays). Another little detail about Neko-ashi dachi is, one should be able to convert one's neko-ashi dachi into sanchin dachi/vice-versa, simply by shifting one's weight to the middle (50-50 weight distribution) without changing the foot-positions drastically. Some schools go as far as to say the front foot of the neko-ashi dachi should see the toes pointing slightly inwards (eg, Morio Higaonna Sensei) - which of course helps this manoeuvre more.
Every reply is an education! Will definitely remember the inside-eight definition - cat stance is such a wonderful stance, and so versatile (if demanding!) Also a good reminder that the feet are equidistant, like sanchin, and that it can be converted. Thank you for bringing your knowledge to such a basic, entry-level video - it really is appreciated 🙇🙇🙇🙇
Great video! Master the basics and the rest will follow. I like how you discuss many of the potential bad habits in various stances as well as their long-term side effects (i.e., injuries).
I mostly teach beginners, so I tend to see more mistakes than perfect stances, and I see my mistakes echoed back, and writ large! Thank you for the kind words, and for taking the time to review every video. We are honoured to have karate friends like you 🙇
Ah, thank you so much! I read a quote that a dojo without laughter isn't a dojo worth being in - karate should be approached with joy and an open heart 💕 Thank you so much for this really lovely comment, and taking the time to watch - we really appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre I've recently started studying shito ryu as of 3 months ago as a new white belt at Northern California Karate-do and absolutely love it. I've been supplementing my in-class education with good online content and your channel has been really helpful. At my level, the styles are close enough that it's very helpful. Thank you for putting such high quality (and funny...the little post-edit comments always make me smile, especially since it's always a dry delivery) content. Cheers!
Interesting - my husband wears a mask for 5 videos and not a single comment about his mask, or his uke wearing a mask. Claire and I wear masks, and now there are comments 🤔🤔🤔🤔
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Hehe, perhaps that nay-sayer didn't mind if Che covers his face. Jokes aside, great video as always, and anyone who doesn't focus on the excellent content is not really interested in Karate.
Seems to be a way to gain the attention of two talented, effective, and creative female Sensei/karateka? Appreciate these excellent videos, definitely keep it up (and ignore the haters - they don’t deserve a platform to spread their hate)!
Tough stance to do. But I agree everybody needs it. Personally I can't do it well. Never had a decent turnout. Even with a lot of practice and stretching. My legs are strong enough, my hips just won't rotate that way.
Sorry I'm only seeing this now! I actually have coxa profunda - my hips bones are sunk too deep in their sockets. I have to manage it now so that I don't need hip replacements later, so my shiko dachi never looks nice and deep. I feel your pain, truly. Thank you for watching and commenting! Always appreciated :)
Whoa!!! As cool and informative as the stances are, those masks are SOOO AWESOME!!! You'd have to have had a frontal lobotomy to take issue with them. So cool!
Any other basics you'd like us to cover? We'll be going back to the high level kata for a while, and Ché will take over the videos again
Well done Sensei! Love the GRKC masks! Also thank u for teaching ALL of us no matter what your beliefs are that u still follow the protocols from WHO and Government regulations. This is called leading by example!
@%9F%99%87nel/UCYiME0ck7ROfcwWZ3lbnmwA If a Sensei can't set a good example, then maybe they shouldn't be a sensei!
Thank you for the kind words, Derick - it has been great to have you back in the dojo again :)
Very useful, loved all the props especially the egg. Glad no eggs were harmed in the filming of this video.
Ah, thank you! It's something I learned from Sensei Mary, actually - it's a great exercise to do with the kids :)
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre these are great tools for visual learners like me.
Really excellent video Zoe Sensei! It always about the basics! No glamour, just good important work. It’s also great to see women teaching. It’s clear that you take karate and teaching seriously, but you also make it fun and enjoyable. Your students are fortunate to have you and Che Sensei as their teachers.
Ah, what a beautiful comment to recieve! We really are passionate about what we do, and we are so happy that our work is seen and appreciated beyond our walls.
I hope to do more videos with my female peers this year. There aren't a lot of lady martial artists on UA-cam, and it's important that when the girls look up, they see women who have come before them to make a path for them to follow, and improve!
Your comments are so kindly, @Priestbokemei, they really make my day 🌻
Love seeing Claire in the videos too! Girl power!👏💪
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Thank you! Much appreciated 🤗
Well illustrated depiction of basic karate stances. Deep and long stances are important in the beginning to learn body form , alignment and structure until many , many, years of practice the principles of the stances are internalised and one must be able to quickly change from one stance to another ie.stances, are transitory.We're not supposed to be frozen in them. It is a snapshot of a sequence of body movements that led up to it and a precursor to the body movements that will flow from it.
Ah, thank you, Sensei! It means a great deal to receive such a lovely comment 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
It is so important to explain to our students why we do it - not for aesthetics, but investment in our future ability and knowledge.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
- Zoë
You probably know this since you are as smart as a whip: Shiko is not only the sumo stance, but the exercise they do when the lean to one side and raise the leg, then stamp it down. Pretty cool exercise for dynamic stretching. Great video, thanks.
My blushes 🥰 ah, so that's why they do the lift! Great idea for a stretch, will try it in the dojo this week 👏
@Goju Ryu Karate Center, This is very very helpful.
Glad it helps
❤I love it how you demonstrate the art of goju ryu karate, thanks
Glad you enjoy it! Thank you for watching and commenting 🙇🏻♀️
Zoe Sensei i find the videos you teach yo be both fun snd informative. I look each week to see of you are teaching. Basic drills and first katas would be great.
Thank you, William Sensei! This is so lovely to hear, and inspires me to keep refining my video teaching 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
I actually have come up with a whole bunch of mnemonics and tricks for learning kata, and I'm putting them together for another video.
Made my day to read this - thank you so much 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Thank you for the honorific but i am not a sensei. Just an old man with lots of years in the martial arts world. Picking up Goju Ryu. By this time i know great instructors when i seem them. Keep going.
@@williamyoung2517 This means so much to me - I hope that I can live up to this! Honoured to be part of your Goju Ryu journey, truly
Thank You so much, Greetings from Tanzania
Ah, only a pleasure! Honoured to hear from karate friends on our continent 🙇🏻♀️
I loved watching this video. Informative and just lovely to watch. It's so great to see lady karateka leading not only in the dojo but on UA-cam. Loved the ending 🥰
These videos are great for reference. Something as simple as a stance is so important so it's great to have this to make sure that one is doing it right and if not a simple self correction is possible.
We are learning from one of the best lady karate-ka! 😉
Thank you for the lovely comment, and for taking the time to watch, Sensei Davina 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Fully agree with you I love being a karate black belt and teaching both men and women all women should take up karate
Absolutely! Being a woman black belt is the best! And the more that we can set an example, the more women will hopefully join and stay!
So lovely to receive this comment - really appreciate the time you took to watch and comment 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Great video as always!
Thank you, Kylea! Always appreciated 😘
Thank you Sensei Zoe AND Claire. Nice change and thank you for the dedication. Loved it. 😘
Love the egg in the video. Nice hint. And thanks for all the stances. Was good to note
Only a pleasure! The Zoë and Claire sightings are rare, like owls in Jozi 🤣
Very concise instructional video. Wonderful as usual. Fun fact: the Sanchin Dachi is so named because it is used in the Sanchin kata, but it's other name is uchi-hachiji dachi, which literally means "inner number 8 stance" because number 8 in Chinese/Japanese is "八". Other southern Chinese styles use different stances in their Sanchin kata, so their "Sanchin dachi" isn't the hachiji-shape.
The neko-ashi dachi is a unique stance - because so much weight is placed on the rear leg it was often said to be a defensive stance (when the karate-ka uses the front leg to kick from a static position). However, the cat-stance is so named, because when standing in this stance, one is poised like a cat ready to pounce forward. The karateka stands in cat stance (weight may be 90% on the back-foot, but in some schools it's more like 70%), and when he wants to move forward he does 2 things simultaneously followed by the 3rd thing almost immediately: 1) lower the heel of the front foot 2) straighten the rear leg very rapidly like in Zenkutsu dachi. At this instance, if one maintains the same eye-level as before, the karateka's centre of gravity should be well beyond the front foot's toes (unless one's feet are too far apart), and in almost the same instance, as the rear leg straightens out, using that momentum 3) the karateka transitions into taking one step forward, by moving the rear leg into the fore, into say, Zenkutsu-dachi. In this 3rd movement, of stepping forward, one should use the waist and hips to propel the thigh of the rear leg forward as this generates more speed. In effect, one is not kicking off with the rear-leg to move forward, instead, one is using the straightening of the rear leg like a spring being released - just as soon as the CG is shifted forward and the inertia has been nullified by the lowering of the front heel.
Naka Tatsuya sensei demonstrates a very similar thing in his "invisible oi-tsuki" from a sparring stance, basically by manipulating his centre of gravity forward he hides the initiation of his attack without kicking-off with his back-leg, and withholding the rotation of his upper torso and shoulders until the last moment (of course there were other tricks in that move, including the punch approaching from under the opponent's line of sight etc). But in Goju-Ryu, this same principle of moving forward is actually demonstrated (or practiced) by moving forward into Zenkutsu-dachi from neko-ashi dachi using the above method (many years ago, not so often nowadays).
Another little detail about Neko-ashi dachi is, one should be able to convert one's neko-ashi dachi into sanchin dachi/vice-versa, simply by shifting one's weight to the middle (50-50 weight distribution) without changing the foot-positions drastically. Some schools go as far as to say the front foot of the neko-ashi dachi should see the toes pointing slightly inwards (eg, Morio Higaonna Sensei) - which of course helps this manoeuvre more.
Every reply is an education!
Will definitely remember the inside-eight definition - cat stance is such a wonderful stance, and so versatile (if demanding!) Also a good reminder that the feet are equidistant, like sanchin, and that it can be converted.
Thank you for bringing your knowledge to such a basic, entry-level video - it really is appreciated 🙇🙇🙇🙇
Great video! Master the basics and the rest will follow. I like how you discuss many of the potential bad habits in various stances as well as their long-term side effects (i.e., injuries).
I mostly teach beginners, so I tend to see more mistakes than perfect stances, and I see my mistakes echoed back, and writ large!
Thank you for the kind words, and for taking the time to review every video. We are honoured to have karate friends like you 🙇
informative, friendly and fun - how any training in karate should be :)
Ah, thank you so much! I read a quote that a dojo without laughter isn't a dojo worth being in - karate should be approached with joy and an open heart 💕
Thank you so much for this really lovely comment, and taking the time to watch - we really appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
Love your channel.
Thank you! It's so nice to see someone watching this old video - time to do an update!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre I've recently started studying shito ryu as of 3 months ago as a new white belt at Northern California Karate-do and absolutely love it. I've been supplementing my in-class education with good online content and your channel has been really helpful. At my level, the styles are close enough that it's very helpful. Thank you for putting such high quality (and funny...the little post-edit comments always make me smile, especially since it's always a dry delivery) content. Cheers!
thanks Zoe Sensei and Claire!!
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I am a white belt and exams are tommorow and this I know is really gonna help! Thanks tho
Ah, you are so kind to say that! Thank you for watching my little video, and all the best for your exam! Let us know how it went :)
Thank you sensei!
Always a pleasure, Lina!
i was student of guju Ryu dojo class. Me from India
Hello! Greetings from South Africa!
Thanks so much ❤️🙏🏼
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Thanks! OSU!
Hai! Arigato! 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Interesting - my husband wears a mask for 5 videos and not a single comment about his mask, or his uke wearing a mask.
Claire and I wear masks, and now there are comments 🤔🤔🤔🤔
Hmmm 🤔🤔🤔
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Hehe, perhaps that nay-sayer didn't mind if Che covers his face. Jokes aside, great video as always, and anyone who doesn't focus on the excellent content is not really interested in Karate.
Seems to be a way to gain the attention of two talented, effective, and creative female Sensei/karateka? Appreciate these excellent videos, definitely keep it up (and ignore the haters - they don’t deserve a platform to spread their hate)!
@@sustainablejaejay I just shared this with Claire - thank you so much for this lovely, and reaffirming comment! We are delighted to receive this
"Shiko dachi.... No one likes this stance".... Dame they need more Shiko dachi 😳❤️
Everyone needs more shikodachi 👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻
Tough stance to do. But I agree everybody needs it.
Personally I can't do it well.
Never had a decent turnout. Even with a lot of practice and stretching.
My legs are strong enough, my hips just won't rotate that way.
Sorry I'm only seeing this now!
I actually have coxa profunda - my hips bones are sunk too deep in their sockets. I have to manage it now so that I don't need hip replacements later, so my shiko dachi never looks nice and deep. I feel your pain, truly.
Thank you for watching and commenting! Always appreciated :)
It is good sensei
Thank you so much, Aamit!
Ok sensei I got brown 1 sensei
Dove si trovate vuoi, voglio anche io allenare
Hello! We are in Johannesburg, South Africa! If you are ever in the area, come visit us 🙏🏻
Hmmm, I really need a haircut sometime soon 🤣
One day is one day!
Whoa!!! As cool and informative as the stances are, those masks are SOOO AWESOME!!! You'd have to have had a frontal lobotomy to take issue with them. So cool!
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Hai! Domo arigato gozaimasu