What is a Kongoken? History, Exercises and Ideas

[@terrysanders2817]

Hi to the Both of You, Appreciate both your candor and your higher educations. Your students are fortunate! Well presented!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you kindly, Sensei Terry! Hopefully all who train and teach under the GRKC banner are better for it - that is our only goal and hope.

[@jasonmorgan2799]

Now that's proper hojo undō! So cool, Sensei!!! So jacked!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you for stopping by to watch! As always, if there's a topic you'd like us to cover, please drop it in the comments below 🙇

[@PirataSports]

Great video, you could do a whole set on various implements.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you for the great comment! We are working out way through all the implements - you can see our hojo undo series here: kzbin.info/aero/PL50NPbA4MowIpc89hjRu1sRqZ9isHjiV- Have a most excellent week :)

[@chejagger1]

Thanks to Zoe Sensei who has made my humble video , far more enjoyable and insightful with all the additional comments

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

You give me the best material to work with, my love x

[@curtisanderson7246]

I really enjoy watching your video. Please explain using a sledgehammer to develop the forearm

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Hi Curtis, Thank you so much! We've touched on replacing the chishi with a sledgehammer in these two videos: kzbin.info/www/bejne/bp_CanyNhtCYa9U and kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXavdHSsrreGpZY Hopefully it will help you in your own training! A sledgehammer is much easier to procure, and wonderful for home training. Apologies for our delayed response to your comment :)

[@toninhamalta474]

Bom dia! Muito bom... Gratidão 🙏

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, muito obrigada pelo lindo comentário! Que bom que gostou do vídeo :)

[@kyleandramorgan3536]

... Just the opening 10 seconds... Definitely been living off of breakfast with an extra spoonful of cement.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Cement, moerkoffie and decades of hojo undo 💪

[@jonasjpm1989]

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[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

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[@satoh59]

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[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

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[@daddydhensTV]

Great Job Sir., 👋🙏

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@daddydhensTV]

@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Welcome Sir way back 1982 when I was in Highschool our Karate name is Goju Ryu Karate Club in the Philippines.

[@josephhajszani7441]

This dude is the real deal, I don’t know his background but his info is spot on concerning goju.

[@jasonmorgan2799]

He's 5th dan, trained since like... Birth? 😅😅

[@dogguyful]

Hello master/sensei and everyone else, have you watched this movie "Art of self defense" It's a very interesting dark comedy about karate. Oss😊😊🥊🥊👊👊🥋🥋🙏🙏

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Hello! Not yet, but I'll definitely put it on my playlist for next weekend :) Thank you so much for watching and commenting!

[@matthews1082]

Wow, that's wonderful that you trained with one of the original kongoken passed down from Sensei Miyagi. I picked up an original nigiri-game passed down from Sensei Miyagi thru Seiko Kina (Junkokan) to Anichi Miyagi to my Sensei.....but it was too precious to train with because Kina Sensei inherited a pair but broke one of them during training - the other is like a relic now. Kongoken on the other hand, is almost indestructible in training so you can do whatever with it without reservation! It is also really great how Sensei Che mentions the background, the origins of all his Chiishi, some of them going back decades! Imagine all the senior students who must have trained with those same Chiishi so many years ago!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

I am so jealous that you and Ché have had the opportunity to train with these precious karate artefacts! Poor Kina Sensei must have felt terrible breaking one of the nigiri-game - hopefully they were able to make something out of the pieces using kintsugi. There's a line by my favourite author, Terry Pratchett - no man dies while his name is still spoken. Maybe no sensei ever dies while their equipment is still used.

[@aneesh70]

Good dojo, Ooos

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Hai! Domo arigato gozaimasu 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[@toninhamalta474]

Oss.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Hai! Domo arigato gozaimasu! 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@Burvedys]

Your kongoken is from Congo as its name suggests.

[@jasonmorgan2799]

The kongoken is unique to Okinawan Goju-Ryu and was based on a steel ring used by Hawaiian wrestlers. After seeing this in Hawaii, Miyagi Chojun Sensei on his return to Okinawa decided to develop a similar piece of equipment changing the shape to oval... Not so much the DRC...

[@Burvedys]

@@jasonmorgan2799 : thank you, I'm shotei-ing my face right now. :)

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Our Egidijus is our most entertaining commentator - he definitely knows his history, but he also lives to gently troll the karate community 🤣

[@jasonmorgan2799]

@@Burvedys shotei is such a fun word 😅🤣 I'll join you in shotei-ing myself in the face.

[@Burvedys]

@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : gently is a middle name of Goju-ryu! :)))