After hiji-ate zenkutsu-dachi, you lean back with shuto (kokutsu-dachi?), the left leg is fully extended, the back right foot should be facing 45° out, away from your left foot, and body should be fully back included - all your body on one plane leaning back 45°. Okinawa 1998
Then your hands/arms straight up, set down jigotai-dachi and double shuto to the neck (kyobu-soete shuto-uchi), curl rotate circle (like inside uraken-uchi), double shuto to the neck (kyobu morote shuto-uchi). Okinawa 1998
The next move is not a breaking hold move, but is considered a double chest block (chudan wari-uke) to two incoming punches. Then fists hit thighs and then do search. Then as you do the in-strike with left arm (application: break elbow with left arm), your hips need to twist into it. Okinawa 1998
When you go to do the kick (after the wari-uke-uchi split double punch) and the arms come out (sayu-zuki), then you click your fists - just before doing this kick, both fists should be in armpits. As you do the fist touch/click they should rebound 2 inches or so. Okinawa 1998
On the last move, as you break elbow/right arm, the flip under punch should happen at the same time as the kick. Okinawa 1998
Has 18 counts. Okinawa 1999
Pause on the second slap knee/open 2 chest block. Okinawa 1999
First move "tennis serve" keep left arm inside. Okinawa 1999
After the first move, when you have the buddha stance up and you are ready to do your first spin, your right foot should take a 1~2 inch spring.
When you do the big lean back, your left leg should be completely straight, no bent knee. Okinawa 1999
Next move, need to start (from outstretched arms) swinging from right side of body all the way until straight up over your head. Next it's rather not two side shutos, but one long shuto and the inside arm, the right should be placed palm up and in mid chest. Okinawa 1999
Then when you turn jigotai-dachi to do double chest block, don't overemphasize the fist hits on your thighs, more emphasis should be placed on the two blocks and the squeeze-down under the armpits. Okinawa 1999
After this move you need to do inner block with left arm into palm of right, then left hand comes down and slaps right arm midway. Okinawa 1999
Then when you do the kosa-dachi double high block face the 45° line. Next drop from full height and your body does turn in a very little bit, but certainly not turned parallel. Okinawa 1999
After you do the double chest block, the next move the hammer punch distance should be a little longer than before with nekoashi-dachi. Osaka Temple 2000
After the second double crossed low punch, when you turn into the oi-zuki, don't set up again into the chest; just do it from the lower position. Osaka Temple 2000
Remember, after the search, drop your right foot as you strike into elbow, and TURN YOUR KOSHI into the straight position. Osaka Temple 2000
The wari-uke-zuki is height level, with fist in tateken form, not 45° angle; just drop the elbow straight down. Osaka Temple 2000
After the zenkutsu-dachi gedan-uke, stand up kosa-dachi, face your 45° Chinto line straight, and drop and turn your shoulders, still 45° but with a slight angle. Osaka Temple 2000
When you go to do the kick-step-step, do not set up in chamber as a separate count, but simultaneously with the kick. Osaka Temple 2000
After the double chase punch, as they close, rebound your fists. Osaka Temple 2000
The footwork after this, when you are kicking for kosa-dachi, changing from one direction to the next, the foot spacing is not tight, but natural. Osaka Temple 2000
Toward the end, before the two oi-zuki moves, after you do the two elbows, double-chest high-uke/strike face here: do your double hikite/chamber and kick at the same time. Okinawa 2003
Change end move after uchi-uke the left arm goes into chamber as per Soke/shinza change. Okinawa 2003
Higa Sensei
When you set up legs criss-crossed (kosa-dachi after zenkutsu-dachi), both fists in armpits, and set down jodan wari-uke double high block - shoulders 45°, on the Chinto 45° line, for both of these moves you (head /face direction) should be facing that basic 45° Chinto line. Okinawa 1998
After this double high block (see above) your tateken/high block combination (wari-uke-uchi) your shoulders should be 45°, with your left shoulder leading with the high tateken - level of tateken is high up to face level. Okinawa 1998
Kiai is at the first Nidan-geri flying kick and secondly at the last move - knees on ground, punch to ground. Okinawa 1998
From gedan kosa-uke to oi-zuki do not pick up height of fist; go directly from the block to the strike. Okinawa 2003
Don't lean to far back on the kokotsu-dachi hasami-uke kamae. The arms drop to the right side, then take the direct path to above the head. Don't pull in to the chest first. Similar feel, more arc. Okinawa 2003
Turn the body first, before the kyobu morote shuto-uchi. Okinawa 2003
More koshi on the supported chudan uchi-uke, then move directly in to the supported gedan-uke. The placement of the hand is the middle of the forearm, not the bicep. Okinawa 2003
Make sure the shoulders are facing directly in front of you for the kosa-dachi kamae, and then rotate them for the jodan wari-uke. Okinawa 2003
Last comment on finishing where you start: take a step after the gedan-uke kosa-dachi; it is a good adjustment to get back the starting point. Okinawa 2003
Nakamura Sensei
When you do the nidan geri the wari shuto-uke should collapse to chest when you kick, then spring out 45° a bit, all during kick. He says your techniques should be snake like, very fast. Shuto hand if lands and doesn't do well and collapses, better to collapse into a punch rather than fingers bending back and breaking. Techniques must avoid the push effect and strive for snap, that's how a block can become a strike that breaks an arm. The punch is centered in between the first two knuckles, so drive point is not the general first two knuckles but actually in between them. Okinawa 1995
Kadekaru Sensei
The strikes to the ribs and neck are swooping wide and circular; think big bird wings. So throw up the person, jigotai-dachi, big strike to ribs, turn zenkutsu-dachi wide strike to the neck. Okinawa 1995
On nekoashi-dachi shuto-uke posture is not good unless you are will to take the pain from the back supporting leg, if you compensate for that pain the upper body will be thrown forward resulting bad posture. Okinawa 1995
Shinjo Sensei
After the first (breaking hold move) nekoashi saguriete with right hand the left hand does a uchi-uke into the palm of right hand (at elbow level), then as you turn around into zenkutsu-dachi the left hand slides along and the right arm has down a right leading zenkutsu-dachi gedan-uke, so now the left hand is grabbing the right arm at the elbow level-supporting. Ok, application is right arm at the search has grabbed the oncoming punch, then left hand breaks their elbow with the uchi-uke/strike move, then the right hand keeps hold of their broken arm and as you turn into zenkutsu-dachi you pull them with you onto the ground. Make sure that the zenkutsu-dachi is tight groin covered heal and toes aligned. Okinawa 1995
On the last moves of Chinto, the search with left arm (grabbling their arm twist and expose their elbow do the uchi-uke and break their elbow following by a swing under punch to their armpit/ribs. Okinawa 1995
On the jodan-uke with tataken to face: application is you are slipping to the outside of their forward punch, so its not rally a jodan-uke per se but a covering as you slip to outside the jodan-uke is neutralizing their arm and the tataken is actually a hammer punch to their ear, or side of face-temples@
Ending of Chinto, your left foot that is out draws up to the right foot. (in Book it shows the opposite but that is a mistake in the book) Also when you twist 30 with hands in chambers and straighten out to do double jodan-uke your body drops an inch or two as you execute the move. Okinawa 1995
Yaga Sensei
On the tennis serve my arms should not go wider than/outside my body, but stay inside. Okinawa 1999
