Dear Panther, sir,
You wrote:
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They don't match with the movements that I learned as the Goju-ryu Suparinpei (I know two slightly different variations- only practice one, but the form is the same and it's not this Fuzhou version... )
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Thank you for your observations. As a Goju guy myself, the differences are obviously... obvious
Anyway, the xing/kata at that site, is the Fuzhou Tiger version, as taught in the Zhou Zi He lineage... it is unrelated to the Goju lineage, IMHO, and therefore only natural that they are completely different.
However, as Bill G. Sensei pointed out, the Tiger Suparinpei xing/kata is different to the "big three" Uechi kata... this may or may not be the "lost Uechi 108"... who's to say for sure.
However, when you mentioned Seisan and Sanseiru (Goju vs Uechi), I'll give you that Sanseiru is different, *but* I feel that there is an underlying "Seisan-ness" to all of the versions practiced in Okinawa karate today, be it Uechi, Goju, Shorin, Ryuei, Isshin, Okinawa Kenpo, To'on etc etc etc...
Thoughts? Or should we move Seisan to another thread, of there is interest?
Thanks,
Joe Swift
[This message has been edited by Joe Swift (edited September 04, 2000).]