Version française! - Sensei: Masters of Okinawan Karate #6 Kenyu Chinen
Version française!
Sensei: Masters of Okinawan Karate is a crowd-funded YouTube documentary series about the legendary martial arts teachers of Okinawa, Japan.
Sensei: Masters of Okinawan Karate is a crowd-funded YouTube documentary series about the legendary martial arts teachers of Okinawa, Japan.
In this sixth episode, Kenyu Chinen sensei talks about his teachers of karate and kobudo, and his own philosophy of martial arts. He spends half of the year in France, and half of the year in Okinawa.
This video was made possible with the kindness of Chinen sensei's students for allowing me to film at their seminar, and for their assistance with interpreting and translating.
Will all the videos be on YouTube?
Yes the videos will be available for free on YouTube to anyone who wants to watch and learn from these great sensei. This video is the sixth in a series of at least 12 interviews with Okinawan karate masters. Hopefully individuals, dojos, or karate organizations would be willing to help sponsor or support the project to allow us to keep making videos.
How can you help?
Give the video a thumbs up, comment, and subscribe to the channel.
Share the videos through social media with others who are interested in Okinawa, Japan, martial arts, history etc..
If you, your dojo, or your organization is interested in helping sponsor the series, I’d love to hear from you.
This documentary series would not be possible without the help of the international karate community. Thank you all.
Main Sponsors
Fusei Kise, Isao Kise and the OSMKKF-USA
Jerry Figgiani - Shorin Ryu Karate Do International
Beikoku Shidokan Karatedo Association
Grant Campbell - USA Karate Federation
Series Sponsors
Cezar Borkowski - Northern Karate Schools
Marguerite Peggy Hess - Jensen Beach Uechi Ryu Karate Do Dojo
Reece Cummings - Cummings Karate Dojo
Michael Quinn - Okinawa Shogen-Ryu Karate-Do Europe
Martin Pinto - Essex Goju Ryu Karate
Mark Spear - Black Bear Dojo
Series Supporters
Tim Herlihy
Robin Ross
Joshua Simmers - Okinawa Karate Podcast
Jeff Perkins - Okinawa Budo Kai
Paul Punshon
John J. Strangeway
Gerry Campbell
K V Manoharan - India Uechi Ryu Kenyukai
Phil Butler
Danny Smith - Boone Trail Isshinryu/Tokushinryu Kentucky
Justin Rathert
Adam Carter
Mike Powers
Miguel Da Luz
Robert Roberto Curtis
Josh Ryer
Belgi Serin
Igor Vakos
Lisken Dus
Andrew Pearce
We are now shooting with two 4k cameras (FS5 and A7Sii). There are still many improvements to be made, and hopefully we'll keep progressing with each video. Ideally we'd get a proper boom mic and audio recorder to improve audio, cinema lenses, and we need greater data storage as we're working with huge 4K Pro Res Raw files.
More information?
To see images from the Karate Masters Portrait Project you can visit my Facebook page
or the website
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