Fantastic presentation. These gentlemen are so humble, despite being remarkably accomplished in their respective arts. It makes me proud to practice Okinawan budo.
@rommelasfora5 жыл бұрын
Kobudo is part of karate, Kobudo is karate, and every style should train.
@franciscoj59455 жыл бұрын
I practice Shotokan JKA, we dont do Kobudo, this year I started to practice Matayoshi Kobudo attending to some seminars, then my Karate katas were improved notoriusly!.
@rommelasfora5 жыл бұрын
@@franciscoj5945 Congratulations my friend. I also practice Shotokan, but unfortunately we don't have kobudo teachers here.
@franciscoj59455 жыл бұрын
@@rommelasfora I dont know where do you live, but I can recommend you look for a IMKA dojo or seminars. They have an structure very similar to our style, even the stances, so is totally compatible with Shotokan-ryu practicioners (very Shuri-te style).
@rommelasfora5 жыл бұрын
@@franciscoj5945 I live in northeastern Brazil. Thanks for the guidance, I will look for that.
@franciscoj59455 жыл бұрын
@@louroberts5567 I think that you are misunderstanding what he tried to say, for your information: 1) You are right defining the meaning of both expressions, but Kobudo is not just an individual martial art, you have 2 Kobudo branches, the 1st one from the mainland (ex: kenjutsu, Iaido, Naginatajutsu, etc, its knowed as Kobujutsu in Japan), and the 2nd is Okinawan Kobudo, but its not reserved just for use of weapons, there are empty hand techniques too. Also, there is a phrase that masters from Okinawa say: "Karate and Kobudo are brother and sister, and must be practiced together" (its related to the origin, and each branch has his own history). 2) You must know the basics of Karate to practice Kobudo, because Karate has the basics for the stances and points of hit, otherwise is almost impossible. 3) The lost of Kobudo practice in most of modern dojos is not because they are not related, the are many factors that ocurred when Karate was introduced to Japan mainland (like the size of dojos, costs, difficilty, etc, you can find a complete analysis writed by Jesse Enkamp). 4) There are "masters" that teach "Karate with weapons" and others Kobudo (both are complementary but not exactly the same). 5) Most of Karate founders practiced some kind of Kobudo style. 6) Even in some modern Karate styles (like Shotokan, Wado-ryu), there are many Katas inflenced by Kobudo techniques, in Jitte and Meikyo you can find techniques that are practiced with Bo, also, many of tradicional Katas were developed from the stance with weapons to empty hand form. 7) Okinawan masters say that Kobudo came first than what you know now as Karate, because in the far past humans defended with sticks, rocks, and any kind of external tool, when they loosed the weapons, the fists came out. 8) The mutual practice came from the Karate grandfather, yes, Kung-fu.