Matayoshi Okinawan Kobudo -d

Rating:
Summary: Excellent material. Shame about the DVD indexing!
Review: This DVD is a must for every martial artist interested in okinawan kobudo. It presents an impressive series of kata and kumite from the celebrated Matayoshi-ryu featuring the actual late "soke" Matayoshi Shinpo (just before his unfortunate demise) and his most talented pupils. The material presented gives a quite extended overview of the "ryu" covering even the most exotic unusual weapons such as the "kuwa", the "nunti", "san-setsu-kon" and the "timbe".
This "ryu" is a okinawan familiar tradition with some unique kata. Some of the other mainstream kata are performed slightly differently from the okinawan "standard". This DVD allows to evaluate some of those features. However, there is always the risk of some homemade "sensei" learning from this DVD, borrowing techniques to cheat others!

Negative note: A DVD menu indexing every kata and technique would have bee easy to implement, enhancing enormously the usefulness of this DVD. For this only I don't give 5 stars.