About Me
- Gordon Richiusa
- The owner and director of Five Birds Industries, has been a martial arts student for almost 50 years. He has also been a teacher of English Composition,Film as Literature, Creative Writing, Scriptwriting and Martial Arts for 2/3 of that time. Like any good journalist, he never made himself the story. On June 19th, 2010, Gordon was inducted into the Martial Arts Masters Hall of Fame. The next year he published his first novel, SHIDOSHI:The Four Ways of the Corpse and was then inducted into the U.S.A. Martial Arts Hall of Fame and the Legends Hall of Fame, both with Book of the Year awards. Barbara Rich, his wife and Gordon have been working and writing together for 10 years. She is the author of The Gradual Diet and is known as Ageless1der to family and friends. She is also one of 15 contributors to The Five Principles of Everything.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Seinchin Kata
I first learned of Seinchin Kata, while studying Goju Ryu, as taught by Mike Eaves of Santa Barbara. It is the perfect kata for understanding the meaning of Goju ryu...the "hard-soft" style. Not only are there crisp movements with hard breathing in sanshin stance, but the double hand movements, 45 degree angles, the open hand blocks, soft breathing in one legged stances all demonstrate many "soft" concepts. This kata cannot be mastered from this video or by merely reading a book or having a "map."
To truly understand the value of this kata, you should learn from a skill instructor.
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