Thursday, February 22, 2018

Steve Stark and Taika Oyata Video-From The Learning Channel Documentary

Short video clip of one of my instructors, Hanshi Steve Stark and our teacher Taika Seiyu Oyata.
Also included are Tasshi Jim Logue and Kyoshi Gerry Senese, two well known and respected senior students of Taika Oyata. This was filmed in Gerry's dojo.
This clip is taken from a documentary about martial arts on The Learning Channel.
This particular video keeps making it's rounds over the Internet and throughout Facebook.
I am reposting it because it shows two of my favorite people- our teacher Mr. Oyata and in my opinion the most talented martial artist to come out of his system, Steve Stark.
Watching this video always brings back a lot of memories of my teacher-some involve pain!
Mr. Oyata was an amazing martial artist and taught a lot of things to
many different people. His martial arts belong to all the people who trained with him for many years, not just any one person or group. Steve Stark is an extremely talented martial artist and is still teaching, still training.Our research group, Goshin Jitsu, has been fortunate to have him teaching us, training with us the last two years.

I named my research group Goshin Jitsu in honor of my teacher Mr. Oyata.
His interpretation of Goshin Jitsu was martial arts technique/understanding performed at the very highest level. This is the ideal, the brass ring we should all be reaching for in our martial arts and applications.
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