Product Details

• Format: Collector's Edition, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Tapeworm
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2000
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B00004TJI3
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #686,456 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

For the first time on video, Master Eihachi Ota teaches the difference between Matayoshi and Umani Ryu Kobudo bo kata as well as two kama katas.

In 1997 Grand master Shoshin Nagamine passed away and in memory of his teacher Eihachi Ota has created a special kata called “The Black Pine Tree Ni Kama Kata”. This beautiful spinning kama kata demonstrates the basic to complicated techniques taught by his teacher. You will also learn several bo forms and applications from the forms for both kama and bo.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not even 1 star!, December 24, 2007

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James M. Wilkinson "ozman" (slc, ut) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vol. 6-Part 1 Wado's Otsuka [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I got the DVD(not the video) as a gift but it was clearly just a dupe of the video. Here the summarization: There is a 5 minute speach/introduction while two people on of which could be Otsuka is doing Kihon Kumite in the background. After the first five minutes there is no longer any commentary and the quality of the footage gets progressively worse. By the end you can barely see what is going on. This is the complete commercialization of the Martial Arts and is not worth the DVD/Video Tape itself.