The Old Masters

i am sincerely surprised and to a degree ashamed that no one's mentioned this yet...:

http://lindenskarate.blogspot.com/2008/11/i-am-very-sad-to-announce-death-of-true.html

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2CrGP6Mz_I&feature=channel_page"]YouTube - Shotokan Kumite[/ame]

enjoy

 

0:57 - t3h BJJ!

 

watch out for the head kick to the downed opponent at the end. yahara was fricking vicious (this pleases me).

 

Ha! Knew that had to be Mikio Yahara! The "I don't care about karate, just want to kill" attitude gives it away

 

interesting to see that he was already spinning like mad back in the early 70's

 

'Mr Yahara, if you hadn't broken all my bones I would salute you'

 

Crikey, check this out:

Outdoor training in the park with Mr Enoeda in 1966

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruXWCdmTyoE"]YouTube - Sensei Enoeda "The Tiger" - Rare Footage (1966)[/ame]

Featuring a very youthful looking Andy Sherry and a still very large Terry O'Neill.

 

More Mikio Yahara, AKA the F'ing Japanese Merry-Go-Round Of DOOM!

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-tzlPSI--o"]YouTube - Mikio Yahara Haito[/ame]

 

he is only a shodan, but he deserves to be here.

gentlemen..... Karate-Do

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNIME4RfHE0&feature=related"]YouTube - Bassai Dai by 86 year old karateka[/ame]

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urpVofZOVY4"]Merry-go-round of DOOM. Take 2[/ame]

Unsu - not Bassai

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxASCRg6oAU&feature=channel_page"]YouTube - Teruo Hayashi[/ame] behold the awesomeness that is Teruo Hayashi! (minus the shutos to the tree thingy, that was Sadaharu Fujimoto, not Hayashi)

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x40H0x38a7M&feature=channel"]YouTube - Soke Yoshimi Inoue[/ame]
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytAoAAcL3cU"]YouTube - Soke Yoshimi Inoue[/ame]
reposting this from the video thread. Yoshimi Inoue, former uchi deshi to Hayashi, now soke of Inoue-ha ****o-ryu Keishin-kai

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cUDWEnpsEg"]YouTube - Suparinpei Kata by Mabuni Kenwa[/ame]

slideshow of Kenwa Mabuni sensei demonstrating suparimpei kata.

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfUxh3gt1w4"]YouTube - Oyama and the TKD lesson 1967[/ame] oyama apparently doing some stuff with tkd people

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWVROgQI_FI&feature=channel_page"]YouTube - Démonstration Karaté Shotokan - 1946 - 1/2[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKdmTonRwJ8&feature=channel_page"]YouTube - Démonstration Karaté Shotokan - 1946 - 2/2[/ame]

old skool shotokan, featuring Nakayama and Obata

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=622 Nishiyama sensei's last interview

http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=124
http://www.fightingarts.com/reading/article.php?id=123

some stories Funakoshi told about Ankoh Azato

 

http://seinenkai.com/articles.html

read till you bleed!

also, Kenwa Mabuni (because spamming ****o-ryu is fun)

http://****okai.com/****oryu.php

http://www.****oryu.org/bios/mabuni/mabuni.htm

http://www.****oryu.org/bios/mabuni/images/12kenwa.jpg

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SlrM7wUt1Q&feature=channel_page"]YouTube - Suparenpei : Masanobu Shinjo Sensei Shobukan[/ame]

enlightening

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1S6mcPr4ncM&feature=related"]Nakayama Shirai Self Defence 1968 - YouTube[/ame]

nakayama doing some funky moves

 

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMW7oxUt4dc&feature=related"]NAKAYAMA Sensei Training Course 1968 in Italy (full clip) - YouTube[/ame]

nakayama seminar in italy