Goju-Ryu Tensho form

[Kuma-de]

Here's Whooping Crane teacher Jin Jinfu performing Happoren as filmed in Fuzhou 1990


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_sUj2R3EhY

Here's a [Feeding] Crane quanfa routine performed by Liu Songshan [brother of Liu Chang I] that was filmed in 1988.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hs8ZDOFles

[Dana Sheets]

Outside in:

~34 seconds in. He does a double...something...towards the centerline.

Watch his back instead of his hands.

Hi Dana,

Here is Kusano Sensei performing Hakucho kata. It is taken from a different vantage point and you have a nice opportunity to see the techniques.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzVdNiZUxmc

Yoroshiku,

Thank you for that Jim. The form simply fascinates me.

[Kuma-de]

Juhatso Kyoda was a contemporary of Miyagi Chojun Sensei but his senpai in the dojo. He was older and trained with Higaonna Kanryo for many years.

After Higaonna's death and Miyagi naming his style as Goju Ryu Kyoda named his style Tou'on Ryu. For more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C5%8Don-ry%C5%AB

Here's some footage of Tou'on-ryu inheritor, Kanzaki Shigekazu [who studied under Kyoda Juhatsu], performing their version of Go Kenki's Nepai kata. Gokenki was a Chinese Merchant and was instrumental in disseminating White Crane Kung fu in Okinawa having befriended Kyoda, Migai, Mabuni and others, teaching at the groups "Research Institute".

Listen and watch carefully for the sounds and movements of the "White Crane":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDFzJjlGiw