This is a right interesting film, the first part of it is Hirano's unusual rhythmic uchikomi and nagekomi exercises. The second part beginning at about 2:20 (that caught my attention today) is Hirano's Nanatsu no kata.
This rendition of Nanatsu no kata is interesting to me because:
- He does not do the crazy big wave arm swinging thing before each move. This suggests to me that the arm swinging thing was either a sometimes thing - an option, or it was a teaching/demonstrating thing.
- He appears to do different techniques than in his other demos. One of the most notable instances is the first ura technique is usually demonstrated as osotogari countered by ukiotoshi, but here it is osotogari countered by sukashi. This suggests to me that either 1) the kata was not finished when this film was made, or 2) the techniques might have been somewhat interchangeable. I have suspected for a while that the techniques were somewhat interchangeable... Something to think on for a while...
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