Sensei Jagger, a big thank you from covid-ridden Canada. I am 63 years old and still practice my Goju-ryu, although not quite as much as I would like. Your masterful instructional 👍technique makes me want to move to S.A. to train with you! Keep up the great work! Arigato gozai mas!
What a beautiful comment to recieve! We have a couple of Canadian karate friends now, maybe one day we will visit you! We hope that covid leaves your country soon, though we know you still have a long winter ahead. We are thinking of you and hoping you remain well 🙇🏻♀️ Thank you so much for commenting, truly 👏🏻
I think that you are a Karate Genius! Your videos never fail but to thrill inspire and delight me! And I am so VERY impressed with your imaginative and constructive teaching style! This one was an especial pleasure to watch! And of course Sir, I am sure that a Great Man like yourself had already appreciated this; if you substitute a Kama for the Chishi in your enchanting Kata you have a perfect Kobudo Kata for cqb and ecq combat! Wonderful! Kata makes everything perfect at so many levels. As do your entirely fascinating videos!
What a wonderful idea to add the kama! We even have a set in the dojo (a live set, even) so it is definitely worth a try. Your words are truly a delight to us, and it is our great honour to share what we know with wonderful students of karate like you 🥋
A lovely clear demonstration on the use of chi ishi. It is the asymmetrical nature of the chi ishi that makes it challenge the core and stabilizing muscles. One is compelled to become aware of co-ordination and integration of the arm movement. The movement should not just be a swinging of the arms using momentum to move the chishi. There should be a deliberate and conscious awareness of each movement. This is what develops the joints and sinews, ligaments and tendons. It is also not about how many reps we can push as in building muscles, rather the movements should connect with karate techniques. It also assists with joint lock techniques and throws eg. shionage. Hope you feeling better Che Sensei.
Thank you for the wishes, John Sensei! Still healing but feeling a bit better. All of this is so valuable, and hoju undo should be moving meditation, practicing mindfulness (mushin no mushin) and being fully present in our bodies, which we're not always able to do. Chishi is a wonderful way to reinvigorate our muscles and understanding. Thank you so much for the lovely comment!
Thank you so much for the lovely comment, David! Chishi truly is the gift that keeps on giving - we are grateful to Sensei Higaonna for sharing his chishi sequence in his books, and for always sharing his knowledge online as well.
You are so welcome, Nancy! The more hojo undo we do, the better our karate! After all, Miyagi Sensei insisted on his students doing hojo undo before kata in order to develop the strength necessary to perform the kata properly 🙇🏻♀️
The chishi: bringing warmth to Scotland in 2022! Would love to visit Scotland one day - it looks so beautiful (though so very cold, and we don't know what real cold is 😅)
Hi Kevin! You're about the fourth or fifth person to ask - perhaps its time we took our equipment into our workshop and shared our process :) Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment - we really appreciate it!
Thank you so much for this kind comment, Alfredo! It is a great honour for us to contribute to the art we love 🙇🏻♀️ Thank you for watching and commenting!
Wonderful instruction video, Sensei Che. The Chiishi exercises are more difficult when done slowly, as one cannot rely on the momentum of the swinging mass to carry one through the last bit of the action, hence all the stress would be on one's forearm and wrist and other joints and muscles. We can see how Sensei Che slows down on the last bit of each motion as he breathes out. We can also apply Kime at the last instance of each motion if one really want to push oneself, some people will also perform this exercise with dynamic tension. It's a full program to introduce this equipment, and how each action or motion trains a part of our body to improve a specific set of karate techniques, looking forward to when Sensei Che and Zoe produce these videos.
Ah, thank you so much for this lovely comment, and for your insight into the hidden value (and challenges) in chishi! We've done three basics videos now in chishi, hopefully we'll do some advanced chishi work sooner rather than later. Personally, the more chishi I do, the more I love it, and by itself it is a comprehensive conditioning tool. I'm still on a 6lb chishi, but one day I hope to also be on an 11lb chishi!
Ah, thank you, Sirius! We are always on the lookout for more copies of those 4 volumes, and I really wish they would put them back in print! Chishi will always be fundamental, and we are planning to do an advanced chishi video one day 🙇🏻♀️
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre, Yes, I'm always on the lookout for this set, too. It's always good to have a backup of important out-of-print books like this. I suppose one could scan the collection and preserve it as a PDF. However, it's not the same as physical books. How awesome would it be if Higaonna Sensei released the second edition of those books? Imagine a full-colour, hardbound, revised set with additional content such as selected essays and biographies? I'd add this to my library in a heartbeat! I would also really love to get a copy of some of Sensei Chinen's works, but these are next to impossible to find, even if budget wasn't an issue.
That set would be amazing! Maybe he will start it and it will be his tombstone book, like Sensei Chinen's book. He also has an army of people now to carry the heavy lifting of filming the kata, the editing etc. PDF is no way to read - nothing like a proper book to get involved and invested. We only got the two Chinen books because one of his students happened to be passing through - other than that, I can't imagine us finding them. I wish they had been published through Tuttle so that they don't go out of print, and were more widely available.
Thank you so much for your effort and your sacrifice. I hope you get well soon. This is exactly what I have been looking for. I have trained in Shotokan and other arts that teach limited to no hojo undo. I have Mr Clarke's book and have been making my own hojo undo equipment. It is so much better when you have a follow along video to go by. Thanks again.
Wendell, you are on the right path - The Art of Hojo Undo is a brilliant resource, and we are happy to be a part of your chishi journey. Thank you so much for commenting and watching, we really appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
Thank you Jagger Sensei for this awesome Chishi training Kata. I have made my own Chishi with weights and a dowel and this is a great instructional video reference. I have previously watched Zoe Sensei’s Kata and have also learned a lot. Thanx again 🇨🇦
Always lovely to hear from you, Selwyn! Homemade chishi are the best, it reminds me of that phrase: "chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." I can do chishi for hours, it gets incredibly meditative after a while. Love it! Wishing you a stunning weekend, and my apologies for such a tardy response. Best, Zoe
Excellent presentation. Apparently all languages share this view of learning. La repetición es la madre del aprendizaje. Herhaling is die moeder van leer. Cheers, Terry.
Bilingual instructors, unite! Thank you for the kind words, Sensei. It's like we tell the kids - kata is like a pair of shoes: the more you wear them, the more comfortable they get.
great instructional video! I was wondering, what is the purpose of the movement when thrusting to the back between the legs? Just to strengthen the back or is there a karate movement that corresponds to that?
Great question! Largely it is to strengthen the lower back and legs, as well as work on hip flexibility, but there could be an application similar to the drop in Kururunfa, or maybe maybe cranking someone's arm while sitting on their back/shoulder? Thank you so much for watching and commenting, friend Cuttlefish! We truly appreciate it :)
Hello, Our short ones are 30cm (1 foot) and the long ones are 45cm (1.5 ft) - the long ones are better for serious practitioners. Our short handles help our new and young students handle the chishi without it getting too unwieldy because they are gripping at the end of a long handle. Thank you for watching and commenting!
May I add my 2 cents adjusted for inflation? And with no references to some message written in fire in letters thirty feet high on the far side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet of Preliumtarn, which orbits the star Zarss, which is located in the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine. It's been the hardest exercise I've ever seen. Because the chiishi was too small... :) Let me explain. There are two ways of doing it: Go (hard way which is the easiest to do although hard physically, nevermind it) and Ju (soft which requires "listening" to the device). When one does chiishi in a Go way, he or she does it physically with strength. And that's OK, especially for beginners because they need to build their muscles to perform. Then the Ju comes into a play when the chiishi is used as it was intended to be used (not to smack on the head, by the way) because it starts to correct ones posture (structure or gamaku, or whatever you call it in your language of tulip planters on diamond soil). Now, this time one must not fight the weight of the chiishi but try to follow the inertia while doing all the movements without any effort (told you, it's hard to do with a small and light chiishi). So, for example, when you pull the chiishi up, it goes up by initial inertia and you drop your body down, twist your wrist 180 degrees and sit below its shaft in shiko-dachi stopping it upright (heh, you've got it - and look, it's a structure of tsuki!). Then you let the chiishi fall outside while rising and... here we've got the uke in its proper structure as helped by the weight of chiishi, right? And so on and on with other exercises that could be a book written on the subject, but it's been written and what do I know then? And for hiki-uke part, I would put a shaft just above the solar plexus and fix its end there with one hand while I'd put another's wrist under the shaft with a palm facing up and then would make that hiki-uke while also turning the palm. In this case you not only train the form but also make the wrist less reactive to some pain when blocking (some kind of kote-kitae practice). YMMV, of course (this comment is already too long and it's Friday and it's a shame we have that bat-eaters shit floating all around us and with no message from the Fujian or whatever jian).
All of this is most wise and valuable (and entertaining, as usual - have never thought of Afrikaans as tulip planters on diamond soil, but that's exactly what it is) The only reason we were using the small chishi was so that Ché could finish the video without coughing his lungs out. (Luckily, doctor cleared him of anything serious this afternoon.) There's definitely a video worth doing on the ju aspect, of learning to work with the chishi instead of against it. Maybe soon, maybe we'll do it in a little while, but we will always look forward to your comment underneath the video 👏🏻
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : yeah, doctor may clear but never Zoe who demands Che to make a new video! :))) It's a Go life with a Ju side on your side (sorry for my puns).
Some of the best info for 2 cents Thank you for all your comments, I learn something every week from you. And the other commentators, The more I post, the more I learn how much I don’t know. You have helped educate me, and made me laugh Thanks again Che
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : thanks for doing such a great job here and behind here. W'all (see Texan y'all) love Goju-ryu and I'm happy that you may utilize my 2 cents in your teachings so your students get more knowledge (what a self-indulged shmuck I am thinking so high of my input, LOL). Get well, listen to you doctor (Zoe included) and fully recover from whatever it is (in 2019 I caught bird-flu but I still cannot fly). :)
I wanted to use an old video but Ché insisted that we have something good for the channel. I tried to record something but it was a disaster, so I'll try again next week 🙇🏻♀️
Just a quick tip. If you’re a man, bow with your hands by your side. If you’re a woman, bow with your hands in front of your legs. Source : I’m ethnically Japanese.
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : methinks, the chiishi is already in the hand and it's more convenient to use instead of hoping for comet to come. ;) (nothing personal agains Zoe, for a God's sake and my sake, too). :)))
We are hoping to launch a memberships program soon so that we can offer small classes via Zoom - watch this space! Thank you for commenting and watching 🙇🏻♀️
Sensei Jagger, a big thank you from covid-ridden Canada. I am 63 years old and still practice my Goju-ryu, although not quite as much as I would like. Your masterful instructional 👍technique makes me want to move to S.A. to train with you! Keep up the great work! Arigato gozai mas!
What a beautiful comment to recieve! We have a couple of Canadian karate friends now, maybe one day we will visit you!
We hope that covid leaves your country soon, though we know you still have a long winter ahead. We are thinking of you and hoping you remain well 🙇🏻♀️
Thank you so much for commenting, truly 👏🏻
I think that you are a Karate Genius! Your videos never fail but to thrill inspire and delight me! And I am so VERY impressed with your imaginative and constructive teaching style! This one was an especial pleasure to watch! And of course Sir, I am sure that a Great Man like yourself had already appreciated this; if you substitute a Kama for the Chishi in your enchanting Kata you have a perfect Kobudo Kata for cqb and ecq combat! Wonderful! Kata makes everything perfect at so many levels. As do your entirely fascinating videos!
What a wonderful idea to add the kama! We even have a set in the dojo (a live set, even) so it is definitely worth a try.
Your words are truly a delight to us, and it is our great honour to share what we know with wonderful students of karate like you 🥋
A lovely clear demonstration on the use of chi ishi. It is the asymmetrical nature of the chi ishi that makes it challenge the core and stabilizing muscles. One is compelled to become aware of co-ordination and integration of the arm movement. The movement should not just be a swinging of the arms using momentum to move the chishi. There should be a deliberate and conscious awareness of each movement. This is what develops the joints and sinews, ligaments and tendons. It is also not about how many reps we can push as in building muscles, rather the movements should connect with karate techniques. It also assists with joint lock techniques and throws eg. shionage.
Hope you feeling better Che Sensei.
Thank you for the wishes, John Sensei! Still healing but feeling a bit better.
All of this is so valuable, and hoju undo should be moving meditation, practicing mindfulness (mushin no mushin) and being fully present in our bodies, which we're not always able to do. Chishi is a wonderful way to reinvigorate our muscles and understanding.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment!
Really excellent video, I typically do Chishi in sets of x, never thought to do it all as a 'kata'. Looking forward to having a go, thank you.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment, David! Chishi truly is the gift that keeps on giving - we are grateful to Sensei Higaonna for sharing his chishi sequence in his books, and for always sharing his knowledge online as well.
It's bees years since I studied Goju Ryu. However, I'm learning so much through your channel that I didn't learn in a regular class. So cool!
Glad that it’s helping by hopefully Contributing to your training
Thank you for this video. I can see the benefits for my practice with this!
You are so welcome, Nancy! The more hojo undo we do, the better our karate! After all, Miyagi Sensei insisted on his students doing hojo undo before kata in order to develop the strength necessary to perform the kata properly 🙇🏻♀️
Super Thanks!
Just right after the weekend conversation with Chris.
Jeez ,just done three reps of the opening moves and I'm sweating ,first time I've felt warm in a month(I live in Scotland!)
The chishi: bringing warmth to Scotland in 2022!
Would love to visit Scotland one day - it looks so beautiful (though so very cold, and we don't know what real cold is 😅)
Your chi ishi look awesome! Would you be willing to make a tutorial on how to make your version? Thank you!
Hi Kevin!
You're about the fourth or fifth person to ask - perhaps its time we took our equipment into our workshop and shared our process :) Thank you for taking the time to watch and comment - we really appreciate it!
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Thank you for sharing all the great content! One of my favorite channels!
Thank you Ché Sensei for sharing and promoting the Goju traditional training methods and philosophy. Arigato gosaimashita.
Thank you so much for this kind comment, Alfredo! It is a great honour for us to contribute to the art we love 🙇🏻♀️
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Wonderful instruction video, Sensei Che. The Chiishi exercises are more difficult when done slowly, as one cannot rely on the momentum of the swinging mass to carry one through the last bit of the action, hence all the stress would be on one's forearm and wrist and other joints and muscles. We can see how Sensei Che slows down on the last bit of each motion as he breathes out. We can also apply Kime at the last instance of each motion if one really want to push oneself, some people will also perform this exercise with dynamic tension. It's a full program to introduce this equipment, and how each action or motion trains a part of our body to improve a specific set of karate techniques, looking forward to when Sensei Che and Zoe produce these videos.
Ah, thank you so much for this lovely comment, and for your insight into the hidden value (and challenges) in chishi!
We've done three basics videos now in chishi, hopefully we'll do some advanced chishi work sooner rather than later.
Personally, the more chishi I do, the more I love it, and by itself it is a comprehensive conditioning tool. I'm still on a 6lb chishi, but one day I hope to also be on an 11lb chishi!
Thanks for sharing another very informative video.
Ah, you're most welcome, Steve! We're glad you chose to watch our little video when there are so many videos out there competing for your time :)
Awesome exercise! Thanks for this video.
Thanks
Yes it’s a great way to get stronger for karate
Wow, this one is really good! I have the 4-volume set and this video really added even more value to the already timeless content. Thanks, Sensei!
Ah, thank you, Sirius! We are always on the lookout for more copies of those 4 volumes, and I really wish they would put them back in print!
Chishi will always be fundamental, and we are planning to do an advanced chishi video one day 🙇🏻♀️
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre, Yes, I'm always on the lookout for this set, too. It's always good to have a backup of important out-of-print books like this. I suppose one could scan the collection and preserve it as a PDF. However, it's not the same as physical books. How awesome would it be if Higaonna Sensei released the second edition of those books? Imagine a full-colour, hardbound, revised set with additional content such as selected essays and biographies? I'd add this to my library in a heartbeat! I would also really love to get a copy of some of Sensei Chinen's works, but these are next to impossible to find, even if budget wasn't an issue.
That set would be amazing! Maybe he will start it and it will be his tombstone book, like Sensei Chinen's book. He also has an army of people now to carry the heavy lifting of filming the kata, the editing etc.
PDF is no way to read - nothing like a proper book to get involved and invested.
We only got the two Chinen books because one of his students happened to be passing through - other than that, I can't imagine us finding them. I wish they had been published through Tuttle so that they don't go out of print, and were more widely available.
Awesome Sensei. You explained and demonstrated this step by step for me. Thank you Sensei.
Always a pleasure, Sensei Misheck 🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️🙇🏻♀️
Thank you so much for your effort and your sacrifice. I hope you get well soon. This is exactly what I have been looking for. I have trained in Shotokan and other arts that teach limited to no hojo undo. I have Mr Clarke's book and have been making my own hojo undo equipment. It is so much better when you have a follow along video to go by. Thanks again.
Wendell, you are on the right path - The Art of Hojo Undo is a brilliant resource, and we are happy to be a part of your chishi journey. Thank you so much for commenting and watching, we really appreciate it 🙇🏻♀️
Thank you sensei!
Always a pleasure, Lina 🌻
Thank you Sensei. Nice to watch and learn. Love this. thank you Sensei Zoë for your hard work. Brilliant.
Ah, thank you so much, Barbs 🙇🏻♀️
Thank you Jagger Sensei for this awesome Chishi training Kata. I have made my own Chishi with weights and a dowel and this is a great instructional video reference. I have previously watched Zoe Sensei’s Kata and have also learned a lot. Thanx again 🇨🇦
Always lovely to hear from you, Selwyn! Homemade chishi are the best, it reminds me of that phrase: "chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice." I can do chishi for hours, it gets incredibly meditative after a while. Love it!
Wishing you a stunning weekend, and my apologies for such a tardy response.
Best,
Zoe
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre “Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice”… brilliant and true 💜
This gets the hamster wheel inside my head turning! Great video Ché-sensei and Zoë-sensei. Love the backdrop too, lol.
If any student would practice at home, it's Jason-san 👏🏻
At home, on honeymoon, on hikes 🤣
That's a black belt attitude 💪
Excellent presentation.
Apparently all languages share this view of learning.
La repetición es la madre del aprendizaje.
Herhaling is die moeder van leer.
Cheers,
Terry.
Bilingual instructors, unite!
Thank you for the kind words, Sensei. It's like we tell the kids - kata is like a pair of shoes: the more you wear them, the more comfortable they get.
Amazing!!!
Stop, we're blushing 🥰
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre Yay, mission complete!! We shall hopefully be at the dojo on Saturday!😊🙈 I really hope so!!
We can't wait to see you 👏🏻
Excellent
Thank you!
great instructional video! I was wondering, what is the purpose of the movement when thrusting to the back between the legs? Just to strengthen the back or is there a karate movement that corresponds to that?
Great question! Largely it is to strengthen the lower back and legs, as well as work on hip flexibility, but there could be an application similar to the drop in Kururunfa, or maybe maybe cranking someone's arm while sitting on their back/shoulder?
Thank you so much for watching and commenting, friend Cuttlefish! We truly appreciate it :)
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre thanks! Looking forward to future vids
Sir, for the record, Higaonna Sensei's Volumes 1 and 3 are available in PDF download.
Ah, that's great news!
Filmed this morning one take, and without coughing , off to my Dr to look at what’s causing this nasty cough.
Rapid editing from Zoë Sensei.
I am amazed we got a whole video filmed and edited in 3 and a half hours - we're getting better at this 👏🏻
I hope you get better soon, Sensei
We will keep the Jaguars updated 🙇🏻♀️
How long is the short vs the long handles
Hello,
Our short ones are 30cm (1 foot) and the long ones are 45cm (1.5 ft) - the long ones are better for serious practitioners. Our short handles help our new and young students handle the chishi without it getting too unwieldy because they are gripping at the end of a long handle.
Thank you for watching and commenting!
Legal
Obrigado!
May I add my 2 cents adjusted for inflation? And with no references to some message written in fire in letters thirty feet high on the far side of the Quentulus Quazgar Mountains in the land of Sevorbeupstry on the planet of Preliumtarn, which orbits the star Zarss, which is located in the Grey Binding Fiefdoms of Saxaquine.
It's been the hardest exercise I've ever seen. Because the chiishi was too small... :)
Let me explain. There are two ways of doing it: Go (hard way which is the easiest to do although hard physically, nevermind it) and Ju (soft which requires "listening" to the device). When one does chiishi in a Go way, he or she does it physically with strength. And that's OK, especially for beginners because they need to build their muscles to perform. Then the Ju comes into a play when the chiishi is used as it was intended to be used (not to smack on the head, by the way) because it starts to correct ones posture (structure or gamaku, or whatever you call it in your language of tulip planters on diamond soil).
Now, this time one must not fight the weight of the chiishi but try to follow the inertia while doing all the movements without any effort (told you, it's hard to do with a small and light chiishi). So, for example, when you pull the chiishi up, it goes up by initial inertia and you drop your body down, twist your wrist 180 degrees and sit below its shaft in shiko-dachi stopping it upright (heh, you've got it - and look, it's a structure of tsuki!). Then you let the chiishi fall outside while rising and... here we've got the uke in its proper structure as helped by the weight of chiishi, right? And so on and on with other exercises that could be a book written on the subject, but it's been written and what do I know then?
And for hiki-uke part, I would put a shaft just above the solar plexus and fix its end there with one hand while I'd put another's wrist under the shaft with a palm facing up and then would make that hiki-uke while also turning the palm. In this case you not only train the form but also make the wrist less reactive to some pain when blocking (some kind of kote-kitae practice). YMMV, of course (this comment is already too long and it's Friday and it's a shame we have that bat-eaters shit floating all around us and with no message from the Fujian or whatever jian).
All of this is most wise and valuable (and entertaining, as usual - have never thought of Afrikaans as tulip planters on diamond soil, but that's exactly what it is)
The only reason we were using the small chishi was so that Ché could finish the video without coughing his lungs out. (Luckily, doctor cleared him of anything serious this afternoon.)
There's definitely a video worth doing on the ju aspect, of learning to work with the chishi instead of against it. Maybe soon, maybe we'll do it in a little while, but we will always look forward to your comment underneath the video 👏🏻
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : yeah, doctor may clear but never Zoe who demands Che to make a new video! :))) It's a Go life with a Ju side on your side (sorry for my puns).
Some of the best info for 2 cents
Thank you for all your comments, I learn something every week from you. And the other commentators,
The more I post, the more I learn how much I don’t know.
You have helped educate me, and made me laugh
Thanks again
Che
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : thanks for doing such a great job here and behind here. W'all (see Texan y'all) love Goju-ryu and I'm happy that you may utilize my 2 cents in your teachings so your students get more knowledge (what a self-indulged shmuck I am thinking so high of my input, LOL). Get well, listen to you doctor (Zoe included) and fully recover from whatever it is (in 2019 I caught bird-flu but I still cannot fly). :)
I wanted to use an old video but Ché insisted that we have something good for the channel. I tried to record something but it was a disaster, so I'll try again next week 🙇🏻♀️
Sensei how to do chikaku kata?
Hello!
Chikaku kata isn't part of our syllabus, but we hope you find a video that helps you with it :) Thank you for watching and commenting!
Just a quick tip. If you’re a man, bow with your hands by your side. If you’re a woman, bow with your hands in front of your legs.
Source : I’m ethnically Japanese.
Many Thanks that makes a lot of sense
Sorry I am so late 🙏🏼🙇🏼♂️
But you're here 👏🏻
It's OK, Zoe has sneaked out, too (saw her on the mirror!).
About as subtle as a comet to the kneecap 🤣
@@GojuRyuKarateCentre : methinks, the chiishi is already in the hand and it's more convenient to use instead of hoping for comet to come. ;) (nothing personal agains Zoe, for a God's sake and my sake, too). :)))
Please Teach me via Zoom Goju ryu
We are hoping to launch a memberships program soon so that we can offer small classes via Zoom - watch this space!
Thank you for commenting and watching 🙇🏻♀️
Love you guys and love your lesson .thank you.osu
Big love from South Africa! We appreciate you and your kind words 😘 thank you for watching and commenting 🤗