What are these blurry photographs of, oldman? A bigfoot sighting? Is this bigfoot practicing naihanchi? Are you trying to say naihanchi applications are in the same class as bigfoot sightings?


I think bigfoot is real.

Andy,

OkinawaBBTV is a live site for Okinawan's showing what's happening, and preserving various arts. It gets updated regularily (but I don't know what the schedule is so I check back every week.

They have been adding karate material which was taken from a movie about the Matsubayshi/Kashiba Juku teachings, which is where the Naifanchi material came from.

There is so much on www.OkinawaBBTV.com that you can spend hours watching all of it, and it keeps growing.

Good luck,

No. I was saying even bigfoot uses Naihanchi and doesnt know it.

Is the naihanchi Choki Motobu and Funakoshi were so thoroughly trained in and experienced with just Naihanchi shodan or all 3?

To my best knowledge, Funakoshi Ginchin from his first book in 1922, listed all 3 naifanchi/tekki kata in his art.

From Funakoshi's autobiography, his original instructor spent about his first 10 years of training just on those 3 kata.

Motobu Chokoi's son's video of his father shows both Niafanchi shodan and nidan. Motobu did document some of his art in several books and Naifanchi is featured promently in them.

There are similarities and differences in their arts.

So Motobu didn't jsut work so hard on naihanchi sho|?