- Format: Colour, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: NR (Not Rated) (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Tsunami Productions
- DVD Release Date: 20 Sep 2005
- ASIN: B000BI5MFO
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 243,640 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Due in part to the previously undisclosed historic footage of the founder of Wado Ryu dating from 1965 that was included in part one of this landmark series, the response from viewers around the world was swift and extremely positive. Volume 2 maintains the quality of content and production and includes further demonstrations by Hironori Otsuka of: Chinto, Niseishi, Rohai, Wanshu and Jitte. It also shows in detail the core concepts of the Wado Ryu karate; Inasu, Noru and Nagasu and their application which form the technical base of this style.
Special Features
All Tsunami programs are professionally made and feature; excellent editing, computor generated slow motion, 64 track stereo music mix, animation and high level graphics. Tsunami Productions is a U.K./U.S. collaboration, whose products are distributed throughout the worldâ€"in Japan by none other than the Japan Karate Federation, the Governing Body of Karate.
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Valuable, harming, well produced, 1 Feb 2009
By Dr. A. Sahal - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wado Ryu Karate Vol 2 [DVD] [2005] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
I bought this mainly for the footage of Ohtsuka Sensei performing his art, but as it turned out, the rest of the DVD was probably more valuable to me.
Ohtsuka Sensei Footage: Colour, well shot and generally well lit (out doors so toward the end of the day, the light isn't as good but still perfectly OK). Each segment of film is played at normal speed and then at a slower speed to a soundtrack of Japanese Koto music (which can be a little irritating after a while!). Ohtsuka Sensei's technique is endearingly amusing at times- some stances (that shouldn't) show heels in line, both knees bent which appears at odds with teaching from his students (Suzuki Sensei for example), unless he personally used tate Seishan for EVERYTHING which is possible! Kicks are often at gedan rather than chudan height, off target by not being in the midline (check out Chinto), his elbow comes out first when punching and parts of his body where his attention isn't focused sometimes waver and droop- things that I'd get pulled up on as a student! However we don't expect our swimming or football coaches to play anywhere near the level of those they are teaching, and I believe Ohtsuka was a great teacher, so I have no problem with this 'sloppy technique'.
This DVD comes into its own when it begins to show the essence of Wado Ryu Karate, Inasu, Nagsu and Noru. It explains them really well with plenty of examples shot very professionally and full and slow speed. This section alone makes the DVD really brilliant and worth the money. What is interesting though is observing the Dan graded students sparring in slow motion during the introduction talk over: they never once use Inasu, Nagasu or Noru! Just goes to show that in the heat of combat, these subtle but powerful concepts often fly out of the window!
Anyway, as a DVD this is a very good but indeed and I highly recommend it.
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