Seipai Bunkai Oyo for Goju Ryu

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

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[@joari123]

Great ideas of application, thanks a lot! I love the comments 😅 Greatings from Cologne 😊

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Our comments section is why we keep making content! Hello from a cold but sunny SA!

[@chejagger1]

Finally it’s out there

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Been living in the archives for over a month!

[@salvatoreplacidoplumari3840]

one of my favourite kata from Goju-Ryu! Fantastic interpretation.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, thank you so much! Such a beautiful kata, such close and violent bunkai 🌺

[@H34vyTank]

Sensei, I love that you are maintaining the Okinawan influence, as well as bringing in some very pragmatic views and applications. I don't always agree with some of the "traditional" bunkai, but you are putting out some great content, and adding a lot of value to the Karate community. No wonder your channel has grown so fast. From a fellow instructor: Thank you! 🙇🏽‍♂️

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, thank you so much for these very kind words, Sensei Bobby! We are always so delighted to hear from our fellow instructors, and especially to recieve such lovely feedback 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️ It is our hope to keep providing good quality content on our scrappy underdog channel, and we are so grateful to have you here 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@robertwelch3240]

Extra credit for mentioning Queensbury rules.😎

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Delighted it was noticed!

[@matthews1082]

Nice video with some very strong bunkai indeed. 1:27 I am quite sure Chojun Miyagi did something similar in an old photo with Eichi Miyazato. 6:48 double technique - yes, you're absolutely right, it's best seen as set-up for a throw - first set is right hand over head block/strike and left hand middle block/strike - then as we step into the twist to do the second set, we drop our right hand down to our side - my late sensei used to say this dropping has been much ignored, but decades ago that dropping down of the right arm could sometimes be interpreted as a "break the guard" bunkai - so the opponent intercepts your arms in the first set of double technique, you pull your left arm away with force (swinging it behind your torso) while your right arm crashes down on his guard to break it, then you step in, twisting to set up for a throw: the left arm goes up in the second set, to grab head/hair etc, the right arm either strikes/blocks or grasps the front of his gi, your body is twisted, but it is also set up for a throw, then the turn generates the dynamics for a throw. In practicing this bunkai, I found that that a certain amount of ramming into the opponent obliquely to unbalance him, helps with the subsequent throw - and if you've got both your hands on his head/ears/nose/hair, he'll go which ever way you lead :D. Also the first set of double techniques has also been interpreted as the right-arm going behind the opponent's neck to grab his collar/lapel from behind to drag him down - but that's no longer oyo-bunkai. Once again, you've done a lovely video of Seipai bunkai. Keep it up!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Going to go have a look for that photo - hopefully I can dig it up! Always nice to replicate history. I'm not sure why the throws in the kata are so willfully forgotten by so many - my pet theory is that karate practitioners are generally terrible at ukemi-waza, and don't like being thrown. My background in Aikido and Judo has always made me super comfy with flying through the air, and also in seeing the throws in the kata (it's the closest I come to seeing the 'karate matrix' XD) We always learn so much from your comments - thank you for taking the time to watch, and time-stamp your comments to the video. We hope to keep making content worthy of these thoughtful and detailed comments! - Zoe

[@angelinadamatta2670]

Thank you sensei!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Always a pleasure!

[@barbarba7]

Thank you for the continued hard work and dedication.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you for always taking the time to watch, Barbs!

[@Uncle_Tijikun]

Great ideas, oyo bunkai are rarely seen online and I think it would be great for them to be shown more. Keep up the great work, hope to see more of these?

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

We love oyo bunkai! It is definitely the best expression of karate. We will add more oyo to our filming list 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@karatejutsudojosociety]

Love this Sensei

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

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[@paulh9979]

Any video you guys make is worth the wait 👍

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, our blushes, sir! 🥰🥰🥰

[@Tamales21]

Aw heck yeah

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Awww yisss, bunkai!

[@Burvedys]

Pst! Don't tell anybody, but first move is to shoot somebody with a pistol and then next move is to reload and change its magazine. Then it makes sense. And is deadly. Very. :)

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

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[@waynnosthestrange6054]

Lmfao I like it 😂

[@danilodibujo]

I really like your vision of bunkai. I´m a Ryuei Ryu practicioner from Argentina, but we also do Seipai, Suparimpe, Kururunfa, Shisochin and Seiyunchin. Best regards!!!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Ah, what a splendid comment to start the week with! We really do love to hear from practitioners across the world, and across styles! Thank you so much for this lovely comment, and for taking the time to watch our video. We appreciate it!

[@rayvandragon]

Thank You so much. I think in kyokushin the bunkai is different...I Will ask to my Shihan, but is an high level kata ARIGATO! 🙇Osu!!

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

We would love to hear about the bunkai of our kyokushin friends! We know it will be powerful and effective 💪💪💪 Dou itashimashite 🙇🏻‍♀️

[@zoehinis7848]

So the reason this took more than a month to surface is because we thought the audio was too bad to use the video. But I liked the bunkai and thought it would be a shame to lose the footage. Next week, something quite different ;)

[@paulh9979]

The bunkai is good and the audio came through just fine for me.

[@tatumergo3931]

6:58 That's definitely a morote seoi-nage, not a block but an entry for a throw.

[@ncondeg]

Great bunkai. There's more to karate than the percussive techniques, punching and kicking.

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Thank you

[@tombob641]

Could the double block, and turn be a Ude-garame?

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Excellent suggestion - we will try it out and see how it goes 👌

[@tatumergo3931]

That first movement seems complicated and confusing. It seems that it could work against a double lapel grab, to quickly be followed by a neck grab and twist. Like it's often done in Muay Thai, then followed by an unbalancing throw.

[@congtutran6079]

Arigato

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

Dou itashimaste!

[@tatumergo3931]

If we look at karate as a fighting art that incorporates grappling and striking techniques, then everything becomes clear. Technically karate is just really the jujutsu method of Okinawa.

[@phabbo122]

Face Diapers!😆

[@GojuRyuKarateCentre]

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