I am really sorry to hear that this will be your last martial arts video as I’ve greatly enjoyed all of your Tenshin Shōden Katori Shintō-ryū videos and found them immensely helpful and tremendously instructive! Hopefully, you’ll want to leave all your old videos on YouTube, though, even if you won’t be making any new ones.

Thank you so much for all you’ve shared over the years and for the incredible clarity with which you have done so! 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Great video.  I've enjoyed your channel very much.  Sorry to hear that it's the last one.

Sorry to see you giving up on YouTube, I personally will miss your videos. As a forever student of the martial arts, I am always looking for tips, tricks or any other aspect of any ryu, kata or technique that may improve my own knowledge or ability. I have found your videos useful towards this goal on multiple occasions. However, I think, most of all I have just enjoyed watching your expert execution of techniques. Properly executed technique is a fine art to me, I find it beautiful. Like watching Mike Tysons early fights, I appreciate the beauty of your movements and your will to share your art with us. Thank you. You will be missed.

I have always appreciated the time you have taken to with your videos. I hope to meet you in your travels  soon🎉 you have made a positive impact on this late bloomer !

Even though I've never been there, your gym is a place I like to lie down and breathe.

I will miss you, my teacher, you've opened the amazing Kendo world for me.

Ill like to see you practice with a light saber in the future but Ahh bummer. You still have my sub.

Thank you for this video and your all KSR content, it is a gem. I practice for 2.5 years, recently aquiried 3rd kyu. I can tell that especially on group trainings there isn't much of explaining and the knowledge is very very sparingly distributed. As a result it's hard to grow with a lack of feedback and lack of synthesis. Your videos helped me to get better foundations and saved many months of practice.

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The ongoing, endless debate over whether a certain kata (technique or the like) is 'more correct' than others simply proves that the debaters lack a fundamental understanding. They fail to realize that all classical martial arts of China and Japan approach the process of learning holistically—meaning they rely on a specific set of core principles that form a cohesive, overarching worldview.

These principles are studied through technique and physical conditioning (as well as mental cultivation at higher levels). This practice develops specific qualities (which, as I understand it, the video's author refers to as 'skills') that eventually allow one to manifest these principles even 'beyond technique.'

For instance, the 'Great Ultimate' (Taiji) in martial arts is a stance (structure) through which one discovers their center, wholeness, and coordination. Moreover, training this "stance" allows a practitioner to master 'rooting' ('Earth Force') and power generation ('Heaven Force'). This is the absolute foundation, but it all sounds far too complex for the majority of people, who just want to quickly become Bruce Lee. As a result, their understanding remains superficial, and their skills flawed. Yet, they will still argue about 'correct' technique forever...

How much KATA do boxers/Muay Thai/MMA ever do? So does KATA really apply to contact reality? Maybe just dancing to an out moded and useless play time.

Not buying any of this.