Masao Kagawa Sensei explaining...
Well, I am still on the same subject. ...almost. I have created two videos to ask the following question.
Like many other karateka I was taught to use the hips rotation (here performing "gyaku-tsuki" as an exercise). And as the one of the important points the spine should be always in vertical position becoming a natural axis for the rotation.
On the other hand some of my karate colleagues and some web-sources mention the traditional way of tobukuho ("falling tree") when the rotation is still the same but the body actually leans in the direction of the attack. I saw higher rank karateka using this way whilst working on makiwara as well.
I am trying both. The both ways go pretty natural. Any ideas? Correction? Explanations? Any comments on the video would be very welcome. Just please try to explain your point of view as clear as possible (in any language - http://translate.google.com/# will help me). I am trying to learn. Ossu!
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