Rare video footage from 1974 featuring various Keio University karate experts. Found in the late Master Kazumi Tabata’s belongings, and kindly shared by Stuart Chassen and NACKC (The North American Collegiate Karate Conference), this film is Part 2 of 2, and illustrates kobudo / kobujutsu (bo and sai) and other karate kata practised in the Keio lineage which includes but is not limited to origins from Master Gichin Funakoshi. While there is a nice series of films showing Keio karate and including experts who were at least partly taught by Gichin Funakoshi, made by MDV Communication, some or all of whom must have also been taught by Isao Obata, it is great to see older footage. In the first part, Master Obata demonstrates the kata jitte / jutte and hangetsu (sesan), which is fantastic to see! This is a very important historical karate record, in my opinion.
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