Uechi ryu karate do
I will only cover a few sup-topics (principles) in this article, that I believe most practitioners can relate to.Īccording to Master Inoue himself, breathing is one of the more advanced techniques in martial arts. Rootness, balance, relaxation, breathing, body-flow, “kime” etc are all more or less related to using gravity to its advantage.
UECHI RYU KARATE DO HOW TO
In my opinion, everything in traditional budo that is revolving around how to overcome an opponent without relying on muscle power and brute force may be related to this “mother” principle of using the gravity.
How to use gravity in a smart way is a principle that I believe almost all martial artists are familiar with and therefore can easily relate to – but there are different levels of understanding how to use gravity to its advantage. However the principle is typically not trained and used (sufficiently) in modern kumite practice. This is a principle that some karate practitioners train and partly obtain through kata and kihon practise. Some of these principles requires a more practical explanation and may not be correctly explained and transmitted just through a simple text.ĭo not resist gravity – use it to your advantage Take what you like and don’t bother with any idea that you may not like. You may get new ideas or even reconsider why a certain technique is practised in one way instead of in a different way and so on.Īnyway, consider the ideas presented below. Some of the ideas of Master Inoue may seem controversial but the intention with this article is to give some new dimensions to anyone who practices budo and martial arts.
He meant that many (not all but many) old principles could be used even in modern karate to fill it’s purpose of developing skills that would typically be rewarded in modern karate competitions.
Inoue thought this was a bad way of evolution. Many of the principles, practiced and used in old days have been forgotten or just are not emphasized in modern budo. Soke Inoue himself used to refer to traditional karate and modern karate as two quite different types of training (but that still have many things in common). The ideas and principles taught by Inoue may be applied in both traditional martial arts as well as for the purpose of training for modern competitions.
The purpose of this article is to share some of Master Inoue’s teachings and ideas to the karate community. One of his strengths was to teach “principles” rather than style-specific techniques, Inoue’s principles could be adapted to martial artists, regardless of background or previous martial experience.Ĭonsequently, Soke Inoue did not only attract students from many different styles and martial arts from all over Japan (and the world), he was also appointed National Coach before he started his own Lineage, Japan Karate-do Inoue-ha Shito-ryu Keishin-kai. He rarely rejected anyone that asked for his teachings and he always inspired his students with humour and laughter. Soke Inoue has also received a lot of attention for being a great contributor to the modern karate by connecting some of the rather traditional karate principles to the modern competition karate.Įxcept the fact of Master Inoue being remembered as a martial art’s genius, he will always be remembered as a kindhearted Budo-man. He was famous for not only teaching some of the best karatekas of modern karate in the world (World Champions such as: Antonion Diaz, Mie Nakayama, Ryoki Abe, Rika Usami). Having had the opportunity of being a close disciple of the legendary Yoshimi Inoue I would hereby like to contribute to the Karate community with some of Master Inoue’s ideas and teachings. My name is Jacob Bartoletti, I am a martial artist from Sweden but I live and teach karate and martial arts in Sao Paulo, Brazil.