gyakuzuki73 (July 11, 2008 at 7:57 pm)

I'm not so sure this is Gichin Funakoshi too. oss

Simson616 (July 2, 2008 at 6:41 pm)

I bet you're just pissed because your trainer kicked you out cause you weren't willing to train hard and to learn understanding the meaning of the techniques and the bunkai of the katas. -.-"

malakiantube (June 20, 2008 at 12:53 am)

is that Funakoshi??

macktheknife888 (June 8, 2008 at 9:14 pm)

Karate is a waste of time to learn, because when you see them fight, all you see is kicking and punching. All the fancy moves they do in the kata is not used. You might as well learn boxing for your arms, and ballet for your legs, because that's all we see when we see karate students, and their teachers fight in competition. Bottom line, if you what to fight like a karate master, then go to ballet classes and buy a punch bag, that way you will not waste your time on useless kata. AMEN.......

Thiago150show (April 6, 2008 at 4:46 pm)

fake

Funkensteinlives (September 30, 2007 at 12:55 am)

I don't believe this is funakoshi...the stances and actual movements of the kata would have been unchanged in 1924. That is definately post 1935 karate. After it had been Japanized.

cumanagoto (September 26, 2007 at 3:17 pm)

This video has been authenticated by Sensei Hideteka Nishiyama. I bought this tape at one of Sensei Nishiyama's clinics several years ago.

shinsupersaiyan (July 20, 2007 at 9:33 am)

I think that's O-Sensei. He's small compared to his peers who spread Karate in Japan.

NewEnglandBudo (July 19, 2007 at 1:25 am)

No way this is Gichin, I believe that he did not modify his stances to a lower kibad dachi till after the 1930's. This clip is someone of the Shotokan era, post 1935. Too bad any badly scarred video of someone doing a later dated Shotokan kata is labeled as being him.

empowered2win (May 14, 2007 at 10:25 pm)

I don't think this is the real Funakoshi, Gichin because : he died in 1957 or thereabouts and 1924 he would have been quite fit, he was never appearing in photos as a larger man, this body type is more like Kase Sensei. or some other endomorph student from that timeframe.