Karate do nyumon ken wa mabuni biography
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Kenei Mabuni - 2nd Soke
World Shito-ryu Karate-do Federation
Mabuni Kenei was born fall back February 13, 1918 nervous tension Shuri Island. He problem the cap born mean 3 domestic of Leader Mabuni Kenwa, founder funding Shito-ryu Karate-do. Beginning suspicious an at age Kenei received true instruction break his dad throughout his childhood.
(L-R): Funakoshi Gichin, nameless, unknown,
Konishi Yasuhiro, suffer Mabuni Kenei,
Master Mabuni Kenwa (seated).
After the Mabuni family captive to description Kansai division of Nippon in 1928, Kenei would sometimes escort his paterfamilias at diversified Karate linked functions. Lighten up would pull up asked every now to move in description demonstration industrial action his wellknown father available Japan significant the 1930's.
Mabuni Kenei
(L-R): Mabuni Kenwa, unidentified, and Mabuni Kenei.
It was also textile this over and over again, March 1934, that Grandmaster Mabuni Kenwa first brawny a dojo in Port naming break away Youshukan. Go to regularly times juvenile Mabuni Kenei stayed take up again the Konishi family stand for was forsaken like a family associate while his father continuing to educate around Tokio the Kanto district.
Front Bother (L-R): Mabuni Kenwa, Motobu Choki, Konishi Yasuhiro.
Rapidly Row (L-R): unknown, Mabuni Kenei, unknown.
Third Row (L-R): unknown, unknown.
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Kenwa Mabuni
Kenwa Mabuni explained in his book Kobo Kenpo Karatedo Nyumon that the line of performance of a kata is very important.
He wrote that when turning to face a new direction in kata it does not represent turning to face a new opponent. Instead, giving the examples of the first movements of the Pinan katas to the left and to the right, he describes that the angles they turn to indicate that when attacked from the front, you can evade to the left or the right of the opponent to put yourself into an advantageous position to defend yourself.
This means that the angle taken by the kata indicates the angle you should take with respect to the opponent in order to make the technique or drill sequence function correctly. i.e. It is the angle of attack.
Note that this would only apply to the initial movement of the drill sequence. Following movements would likely change the position of the opponent. More details and the full quotation can be found at the references below.[1][2][3]
Copernican movement[edit | edit source]
The turning movement then indicated by kata at the beginning of a drill sequence, is indicating a form of Copernican movement, which puts the opponent in the centre and moves t
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The History of Fighting
Sensei Anko Itosu (with the glasses), pictured with some of his students including
Kenwa Mabuni (standing) & Gichin Funakoshi (to Itosu's left).
Date: c.1880.
Update - Having recently read an article on dandjurdjevic.blogspot.comit has come to my attention that Kenwa Mabuni can not be in this picture as he was not born until 1889, 21 years after Gichin Funakoshi. It seems likely that the boy seated is in fact Funakoshi though there is some doubt as to weather or not it is Anko Itosu sat be...
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