Late last year I met Tomaz Stanovnik at a seminar I was teaching in Germany on Chinto / Gankaku. Tomaz recently sent me some footage of demonstration / seminar he had done on Chinto. I really like it and I asked if I could share it with you all here. Tomaz also sent me some footage of him explaining how kata evolved from combat which I also thought was excellent. Additionally he also shared some footage possible applications of an elbow strike combined with gedan barai. Tomaz was kind enough to allow me to share all this footage with you all and I’m sure you’ll also be very impressed. Enjoy!
All the best,
Iain
The evolution of kata from combat
Chinto applications
Applications of the empi combined with gedan barai
Iain,
Thank you for your kind words and for sharing the videos. And thank you for sharing your knowledge in seminars, videos and articles - they were a great source of inspiration and ideas in my own research.
It is great to see a site which offers martial artists a place where they can share their knowledge and experience.
Best regards,
Tomaž
Tomaz,
Thank you for the great bunkai videos etc, what Ryu have/do you train in specifically?
Hi Tomaz
Great set of videos, great to see a wonderfully elequent lesson covering not only the physical aspects but also the principle and theory without making it boring or too wordy. A real art, very difficult to make it look spontaneous and engaging..which the blank stares from my training collegues can attest to when i try and explain the same concepts... ho hum..
Hi Tomaz
Just to add, your final video on the empi combined with gedan barai application, is remarkably similar to the final set of movements in Bassai/Passai.
Rather than applying the empi as you demonstrated, Bassai (certainly the shotokan version) seems to imply that you would apply the low-uchi-uke to the crossed arms, further applying a rotating counter-pressure to your opponents arms, further unbalancing and then leading to a throw or shuto-strike (as shown in the kata).
And again a great set of videos.. thank you for sharing.
Hello,
I am glad you liked the videos. I studied Shorin Ryu and I am currently studying Ryukyu Kempo and Modern Arnis at the Kempo Arnis Federation, based in Slovenia, under Shihan Borut Kincl.
Hi Thomas,
Thank you for your kind comment. It reminded me that I have to brush up on my Passai kata - I haven't done it in quite a while, since switching arts has led to a whole new set of katas. :) I haven't considered this movement in the context of this kata, but I certainly will do so now - so thank you for a new idea to try out :)
Regards,
Tomaž
My pleasure Tomaz
Because be absolutely sure, I will be blatently stealing your ideas..I never let quality go to waste.
Thanks for saying, interesting.
I no nothing about Modern Arnis, a fair bit about Shorin Ryu and very little about Ryukyu Kempo (I met Jim Logue Sensei RIP just once for a day).
Which Shorin Ryu did you study?
I very much like Ryukyu Kempo, personally for me from what I have seen I felt it is to complex, but an outstanding art.
Hi Tom
Thank you for sharing. I really like the way you extract principles from the Kata and Kihon, very practicle, please keep it up
Sincerely
Anwar
Thank you : ) You are welcome to "steal" anything you like. It's the sharing of ideas that makes us all better martial artists. Nothing wrong with a little creative appropriation :)
To be perfectly honest, I don't really know which style of Shorin Ryu I practiced. Lineage wasn't really a strong suit at our club at the time. It was more "come to practice and sweat a lot" sort of thing. :)
Modern Arins is basically a stick fighting art, but it has a very fluent approach to empty hands combat, which I have found to be very useful in my understanding of the more linear traditional karate movements.
Ryukyu Kempo, as taught by my teacher Borut Kincl, is based on a pragmatic approach to combat and as such it includes elements from other arts such as boxing and several grappling arts. I find such an approach to be quite useful when it comes to considering realistic applications of a certain technique.
I really like your methodology and your applications! Brilliant stuff! More like this please! ;]
Thank you for your kind words, I am glad you enjoyed the videos. :)