Seiyunchin Kata for Beginners: Learn the Steps

Welcome to Seiyunchin kata for beginners! This is the third installment in our ongoing walkthrough series - the Seiyunchin sequence made as accessible as possible for those who have just begun to learn this beautiful kata.

Sensei Jagger walks you through the kata, showing the sequence and talking you through each movement and its correct performance. For more detail, please check out all our other Seiyunchin videos!

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro to Seiyunchin kata
00:25 - Seiyunchin full sequence
02:05 - Walkthrough
06:55 - How to correct your angles in Seiyunchin
11:03 - Fixing the elbow strikes
12:29 - Breaking down the double block (rising face block and gedan barai)
13:55 - Ending move
15:14 - Fixing the kosa dachi/besoku dachi crossover steps before kiai points

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Zoe Jagger-Hinis

[UltimateDC]

Thank you so much sensei your step by step explanation helped me learn this kata well!

[siriusbontea]

Thank you, Sensei! These videos keep getting better. The annotations showing the name the techniques, the two simultaneous angles, etc. are very helpful! As always, the small bits of humour scattered throughout are always a fun part of all of your videos. Kudos for all the work behind the scenes with the editing, too. I love seeing how this channel has grown over the past year!

[whitepanda]

i am a self thaught karate guy but i can call this channel my sensei

[houshang]

That was complete and great thanks a lot

[victorrusin]

I like how you 1st demonstrated the Kata then did it again step by step.

[karatemomRedHawk]

I love the way this is setup with the two frames. Thanks

[k.z]

Thank you sensei, this helped me clean up my kata !!

[shafalikarim]

You are really talented! This is helping me for my blue belt test!

[jamesboydriver]

Osu, Sensei 🙏🏻 a superb demonstration and breakdown of the kata. Ive just got my brown belt (3rd Kyu) this weekend and Seiyunchin is my next kata. This video will be going in my saved for later 😊 awesome stuff. Arigato!

[ni]

Thank u very much for the clarifications Sensei, tomorrow i will present this kata in a tournament🙏

[SamanthaFrancene]

Thank you so much Sensei for the instruction and toturial, I am a beginner who join in the karatedo university games and this kata seiyunchin we will perform in the competition. (sorry for the wrong grammar)

[ivanmuniz]

Muito obrigado por compartilhar detalhes tão importantes, Sensei. Honra Sempre! Oss.

[ruhe]

Thanks for the great explanation Sensei! Best wishis from Amsterdam

[inkunzijay]

Still wrapping my head around Gekisaidai nii and Saifa but this is still mad interesting to watch!

[rayvandragon]

Osu! Arigato!🙇 Thank You Sensei, interesting details in this kata!!

[Emsworth]

Brilliant. Thanks so much for these videos.

[juancarlostyrlik]

muchas gracias sensei por sus exelentes videos

[terrysanders]

Hi, Here's another name for the reinforced middle block is kekkon uke [married block]. Worthy of a greeting card - one partner helps the other. Cheers, Terry.

[kyodai]

When doing a tutorial it's important to know that your left is the viewer right. So when instructing on video always do the form in the opposite direction so the viewer doesn't get lose

[Burvedys]

May I suggest, as we both are from the same Jundokan lineage and I'm just two sensei's short so what do I know, just a few small details to add? For a morote-gedan-barai, there is a short turn of fists' tettuis up at the end, not leaving them naturaly on the angle. And a first hojo-uke is just a half one, from the central line outside (the next one is a full circle, because these are two different bunkai). But DAYEICS (do as your editor-in-chief says, because she cuts and pastes here!), of course. :)