Youtube Clip of Kanbun Uechi's 25th Anniversary of Death

[Bill Glasheen]

As an aside This has been more common in lacrosse than many may realize. There has been a recent movement to always have a defribrilator(sp?) on the sidelines at ALL games. Apparently, this is the only way to restart the heart in these cases.

You are correct about this, Ted.

The result of commotio cordis is ventricular fibrillation. In short, the cells in the heart wall completely lose their synchronization.

Imagine a skull (in crew) with all the oarsmen trying to row at random intervals. You aren't going to get anywhere. The only way to get things going again is for everyone to stop at some point in the cycle, and start all over again. This is what you accomplish with cardiac defibrillation. The electrical jolt makes all cells synchronize so they can start again with the normal synchronized contraction pattern.

When commotio cordis happens on the playing field and there isn't a defibrillator around, your only (slim) hope is to do CPR until an ambulance arrives. They have the epinephrine, lydocaine, and defibrillator on board to do it right, assuming you've managed to preserve brain and body tissue in-between a 911 call and their arrival.

Modern defibrillators do the job pretty well with little intervention - thanks to biomedical engineering. A layperson can be taught to hook someone up and let the machine do its thing.

- Bill

[Kuma-de]

"There is one part where a thin fellow is taking shots to the chest. That frankly is a bit dumb. Obviously someone who is directing that has never heard of commotio cordis . It's rare, but it happens. Around about that same time a UVa student was killed in an intramural lacrosse game (on nameless field) when he got hit in the chest with the blunt end of a stick. No penetration, but the heart stopped and never re-started. "

Are you trying to tell us that dim mak is real?

Heart punch. I don't care if it puts you in cardiac arrest or not, that stuff isn't good. Kind of a bummer to feel your system go into catch up mode.

Yes folks, the human body is vulnerable to force.

A Goju Ryu-ka, Domingo Llanos, who was on the USA karate team struck a young competitor (20's) in Japan in the sternum and the guy dropped dead.

Similarly, a young Ohio karate-ka (age 14 or so) was struck in the chest @ 1998 at a USA-NKF event and died.

I've also heard of a few incidents involving baseballs striking chests of young players.

[Kuma-de]

Here is the 3rd portion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZaIcl7unU

[Bill Glasheen]

Here is the 3rd portion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCZaIcl7unU

Thanks, Jim!

A few comments...

• Interesting knife randori. There are a few interesting techniques there.... My biggest criticism is the rear chamber stance that the knife attacker uses. Study a little Filipino knife (thank you, Raffi) and you'll change your style in a New York second.
  
  True story... Rich Castanet (my student) was working with an instructor in the Marine Corp Martial Arts Program. Rich had seen what the Marines were teaching. Well it came time for Rich to do a little knife randori. Rich snuck a water-based marker in his hands instead of the knife. At the word go, Rich got off half a dozen cuts from his front chamber position that criss-crossed his instructor's torso. The instructor paused in silence to look at himself with the nice markings decorating his shirt.
  
  Things change.
• The things I note about the sparring are the leg kicks, the crane knee postures, and the use of front hands and shallow stances by a few of the fighters. This definitely isn't generic WKF sparring. It's refreshing to watch, even though sparring is just sparring.
• Who is that American doing Sanchin?
• Very nice Seiryu kata.

- Bill

[f.Channell]

Gong to download that one and save it.
at first I thought this was the 33rd.

F.

[Kuma-de]

Enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhApCxyGB7Q

BTW, Mario McKenna is the person posting the clips. You can read his blog here:

http://www.mariomckenna.com/

He has an interesting bio.

[Seizan]

The gentleman performing the rather "unusual-looking" Seisan around 2:43 is not Toyama Sensei. He is Furugen Soryu Sensei, one of Kanei Sensei's first students in the Osaka Dojo. Mattson Sensei once told me that he sat by Kanei Sensei during this performance and asked about Furugen Sensei's performance style. I could be incorrect here, but I think Kanei Sensei responded that neither he nor his father ever taught that way...

Furugen Sensei passed away here on Okinawa about 3 years ago but his particular style is still taught in the UechiRyu TomoeKai Dojo in Osaka. I have a video of the forms and some of the drills, but the students do not show the interesting prelude to their kata that Furugen Sensei shows. However, the rest is the same performance style.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Kuma-de]

The gentleman performing the rather "unusual-looking" Seisan around 2:43 is not Toyama Sensei. He is Furugen Soryu Sensei, one of Kanei Sensei's first students in the Osaka Dojo. Mattson Sensei once told me that he sat by Kanei Sensei during this performance and asked about Furugen Sensei's performance style. I could be incorrect here, but I think Kanei Sensei responded that neither he nor his father ever taught that way...

Furugen Sensei passed away here on Okinawa about 3 years ago but his particular style is still taught in the UechiRyu TomoeKai Dojo in Osaka. I have a video of the forms and some of the drills, but the students do not show the interesting prelude to their kata that Furugen Sensei shows. However, the rest is the same performance style.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Yes Sir! A very a very "unique" performance.

Merry Christmas to you and yours!

[Bill Glasheen]

The gentleman performing the rather "unusual-looking" Seisan around 2:43 is not Toyama Sensei. He is Furugen Soryu Sensei, one of Kanei Sensei's first students in the Osaka Dojo. Mattson Sensei once told me that he sat by Kanei Sensei during this performance and asked about Furugen Sensei's performance style. I could be incorrect here, but I think Kanei Sensei responded that neither he nor his father ever taught that way...

It is most unusual, Mr. B. It's fast. It's very spirited. But... On a public forum I'll just stop there.

Boy there sure are differences from performance to performance, aren't there? And do you know what's cool? I've seen these various styles of Uechi from the seventies through to today. Talk about passing on your quirks...

Something I noticed in this string of Sanseiryu performances is the use of legs/hips in the kata - or not. We were just having a discussion about this elsewhere. Any more when I look at kata, I'm looking for power coming from the core, and flowing out uninterrupted and freely to the periphery. In a couple of places where I saw no hip movement, I saw ... a rather portly midsection and/or their a$$ sticking out slightly to the right in horse stances. (An inability to carry a proper Sanchin tuck into a charging horse stance.) No names or performances will be specifically mentioned...

Who is the gentleman doing the Kanchin from 1:47 to 2:12? Except for the shoken sukuiage uke after the three shoken thrusts (where he lets his right elbow fly way too far away from his ribs), I find that to be a remarkably "clean" and powerful performance. No rush. No excessive displays. Just good honest karate. My opinion, of course...

Would that be Kanmei (Sanchin) and finally Kanei (Sanseiryu) finishing the program out?

- Bill

[Seizan]

Who is the gentleman doing the Sanseiryu from 1:47 to 2:12? {snip}

Would that be Kanmei (Sanchin) and finally Kanei (Sanseiryu) finishing the program out?

- Bill

The earlier performance is a young Takara Shintoku Sensei.

The latter ones are indeed young Kanmei Sensei doing Sanchin, and Kanei Sensei performing Sanseiryu.

[Bill Glasheen]

Thanks for the info, Mr. B!

Happy holidays to your family. Give my very best to the Toyama dojo.

Bill

[f.Channell]

Part three looks exactly like a demonstration of technique from the Master in France. On his first DVD.
http://www.amazon.com/Uechi-Ryu-karate- ... 942&sr=8-6