Goju Ryu Technical Series Part 1 DVD by Morio Higaonna

Morio Higaonna is widely regarded by karate instructors of all styles as the ultimate Goju Ryu practitioner. In addition to being incredibly strong and a superb karate technician, he is a scholar of his art as we have seen from the publication of his book recently. I don't think that there was another choice for the author of this particular video, nor would I have wanted to review it if their had been. This should not be taken as anything other than an indication of how much I enjoy watching Morio Higaonna "at work," as it were.

This new series of programs is a combination of the JKF Technical and Bunkai series. In its new guise as the Goju Ryu Technical Series, of which these two shows are Parts 1 & 2 it will when finished show all the kata of Goju Ryu with their bunkai.

Volume 1 includes the mandatory Goju Ryu Kata Seipai and Saifa. Nobody can perform them better and clearly Higaonna Sensei had trained very hard in preparation for filming these programs. However, what sets these videos apart from all others are the lectures by the author in which he goes into incredible detail about every part of the kata and applications. Given in Japanese with a first class English translation as a voice over, you will learn more from these in an hour about technical aspects of kata then you will in a year in the dojo.

70 min.