Product Details

• Actors: Morio Higaonna
• Format: Color, Original recording remastered, Restored, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Dragon Associates, Inc
• VHS Release Date: April 1, 1994
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305434239
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,465 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Classical Fighting Arts magazine, Feb. 2004

excellent value for money, this program compliments, and should be used with his Power Training and Goju Ryu Technical Series.

Product Description

by Morio Higaonna, 9th Dan, Hanshi Goju Ryu.Filmed in Japan by Fuji TV in 1980 and re-edited for release on video.Includes all twelve Goju Ryu kata by this most famous of modern Karate masters.

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Must-Have video for all martial artists!, April 25, 1999

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[e-mail] (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Goju Ryu Karate Kata (Tsunami) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

How often can you watch a Karate master, filmed in their prime, demonstrating their art? Morio Higaonna demonstrates the twelve kata that make up the Goju Ryu Karate system, as well as applications of some of the movements. You do not have to be a practitioner of Goju to get a lot out of this video. And if you do practice Goju, you absolutely must have this video! An awesome reference guide, and very inspirational!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A true value for the money, March 31, 2000

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Travis Cottreau (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Goju Ryu Karate Kata (Tsunami) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

So often, the way a company does karate videos is to put one or two kata on each video and then charge an arm an a leg for each one. It's great to have all the Goju-ryu kata on one video.

Morio Higaonna is one of the premier Goju-ryu practitioners and everything that he does, every little detail of his kata is done intentionally and for the specific purpose of generating more power in his punches, kicks and strikes. One of the most impressive things that he does is turn around. His turns are precise and quick and stop on a dime. It is a sight to behold, that's for sure.

Having seen home video footage of Morio Higaonna adds even more to seeing this video production. He looks exactly the same doing kata in the back of someone's dojo in one take as he does doing kata on this video. I'm impressed.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Almost perfect..., March 14, 2004

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This review is from: Goju Ryu Karate Kata (Tsunami) (DVD)

Morio Higaonna's flawless performance of the Goju-Ryu Kata is nothing short of spectacular. He's certainly one of the finest practitioners in the world. PERIOD. The DVD is well put together, there is only ONE thing that I wish ~ and that is that had put in "chapters" for each of the Kata where the storyboard is. (They have a sign for example that says "Saifa" ~ but the chapter doesn't start THERE so you don't know which Kata you are watching! Instead it starts AFTER the storyboard, so you have to manually back up to find out! DUMB! DUMB! DUMB!). If they simply correct that, it's 100% perfect, as it is, give them 95% as you'll have at least 5% frustation trying to back up and find out what the heck you're watching!