Title: Embarrassing to Watch
Product review: Eihachi Ota is a talented karate instructor. A former student of Shoshin Nagamine, contemporary of Toshihiro Oshiro, and protege of Shima sensei he has a well-earned reputation as a fighter with a dynamic punch and endless spirit. It's disappointing therefore to see him in an amateur production like this-he deserves better. In addition to very obvious poor quality it is clear that this video was produced by people who know nothing about karate as the kata are full of mistakes. The sound of traffic in the background combined with a static consumer quality video camera were probably acceptable in the 1960s if the action was good, but in 2001, and with poor editing, it is not. Having seen Mr.Ota in action I have to assume that the producers left out the "good stuff" and omitted to delete the many, many, technical errors this video contains.If you get the opportunity to train with this instructor take it as has real ability, something that his producers were clearly not aware of.
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