Fantastic demonstration from Asai Sensei
Fantastic demonstration from Asai Sensei — Seminar footage featuring Tetsuhiko Asai, founder of Asai-Ryu karate. Preserved as part of the Asai karate video collection. #karate #asairyu #shotokan #seminar
About Asai sensei
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| In the photo: jog in park with Nakayama Sensei |
Tetsuhiko Asai was born on June 7, 1935, in Ehime Prefecture on Shikoku, one of Japan's four main islands.
At twelve he walked into a neighbourhood karate dojo and began training. At high school he took up judo as well, joining the school club and working his way up to second dan. Even as a boy he showed a clear gift for the martial arts, and training in the two disciplines side by side — judo's grappling together with karate's striking — laid the groundwork for the advanced karate he would go on to develop.
He then moved to Tokyo to study at Takushoku University, where he soon became a leading figure in the university karate club.
Lightly built and quick, he came up with attacks nobody else was using. The best known was his "submarine": slipping low beneath an opponent's kick and striking back before the opponent could regain balance. Moves like this brought him to the attention of the wider karate world.
Kumite demonstration 1987
Source: the official biography of Tetsuhiko Asai, International Japan Karate Association (IJKA): http://www.ijka.jp/en/master/locus.html
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| K.Funakoshi, M.Nakayama and T.Asai |
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