Post by fujicolt on Dec 3, 2010 5:50:33 GMT
Watch this little clip of Kase Sensei teaching. you will see the chap he is demonstrating on 'bounce of Kase Sensei. Now i fully accept that you may assume that the guy is 'playing to the audience' but i can personally assure you he isn't. I have been the Dummy for Kase Sensei many times at courses (Steve Cattle used to giggle and literally throw me forward.
I can assure you that although i have, over the years, partnered many karateka - famous and not so, who had immense physical power and left me in no doubt they could really do you damage....
Kase sensei was unusual in that he would move and then suddenly this awesome power, force, energy, chi, ki (whatever we choose to call it) would eminate from him and it felt like a shock through your system that you could feel all the way to the floor. I commented on it in a magazine article decades ago and wrote that 'he threw me around like an empty gi' and he did and could at will.
on another point i have heard people say that he (kase) couldn't kick for toffee. well take a little look at the chudan mawashi geri he just sends into the guy. the form is correct, it hits the target and doesn't appear to have been that strong.
But even Kase Sensei realises that he had sent his Ki into the guy and he grabs him immediately. Watch the guy try to shrug it of and then fold.
Kase Sensei could move only a few inches and strike you and you felt like you had been hit with a sledgehammer.
Also watch how Kase Sensei was trying to urge senior grades to take thier karate to new higher levels. he emphasised that higher grades did NOT have to use hikite all the time and must use the movement and torque created to hit leaving the other limb for other purposes. ther are many far more familiar with his work than I and i recommend exploring it with them if you can.
Fluid steel IMHO. Terrible loss that he has gone but i know that many of his senior students are still practicing his stuff - thank goodness!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmNRfM8axTI&feature=related
Here is an example of one of his students demonstrating the Kase way - different than your normal Gedan Barrai - Gyaku Zuki stuff and IMHO well worth investigating. Yes - you can say 'tis nothing new, i have seen similar before BUT how many are really adding it to there Shotokan Arsenal?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcd44ZkzObs&feature=related
you'll find many examples if you look.
good luck.
I can assure you that although i have, over the years, partnered many karateka - famous and not so, who had immense physical power and left me in no doubt they could really do you damage....
Kase sensei was unusual in that he would move and then suddenly this awesome power, force, energy, chi, ki (whatever we choose to call it) would eminate from him and it felt like a shock through your system that you could feel all the way to the floor. I commented on it in a magazine article decades ago and wrote that 'he threw me around like an empty gi' and he did and could at will.
on another point i have heard people say that he (kase) couldn't kick for toffee. well take a little look at the chudan mawashi geri he just sends into the guy. the form is correct, it hits the target and doesn't appear to have been that strong.
But even Kase Sensei realises that he had sent his Ki into the guy and he grabs him immediately. Watch the guy try to shrug it of and then fold.
Kase Sensei could move only a few inches and strike you and you felt like you had been hit with a sledgehammer.
Also watch how Kase Sensei was trying to urge senior grades to take thier karate to new higher levels. he emphasised that higher grades did NOT have to use hikite all the time and must use the movement and torque created to hit leaving the other limb for other purposes. ther are many far more familiar with his work than I and i recommend exploring it with them if you can.
Fluid steel IMHO. Terrible loss that he has gone but i know that many of his senior students are still practicing his stuff - thank goodness!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmNRfM8axTI&feature=related
Here is an example of one of his students demonstrating the Kase way - different than your normal Gedan Barrai - Gyaku Zuki stuff and IMHO well worth investigating. Yes - you can say 'tis nothing new, i have seen similar before BUT how many are really adding it to there Shotokan Arsenal?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcd44ZkzObs&feature=related
you'll find many examples if you look.
good luck.