Sensei: Masters of Okinawan Karate #9 Tetsuhiro Hokama 外間 哲弘

Tetsuhiro Hokama, Hanshi 10th-dan Goju-ryu Karate Hanshi 10th-dan Hokama Kobudo.
外間 哲弘 範士十段 剛柔流空手 範士十段　　　　外間古武道

Footage recorded on May 20th 2020 (interview) and September 13th 2020 (mura-bo seminar and his birthday celebration). Hokama Sensei discusses his memories of the masters that gave demonstrations at his grandfather's home, his own teachers Higa Seko, Fukuchi Seiko and Matayoshi Shinpo. He also talks about the creation of the first ever karate museum.

Sensei: Masters of Okinawan Karate is a crowd-funded YouTube documentary series about the legendary martial arts teachers of Okinawa, Japan.

Will all the videos be on YouTube?

Yes the videos will be available for free on YouTube to anyone who wants to watch and learn from these great sensei. Hopefully individuals, dojos, or karate organizations will help sponsor or support the project to allow us to keep making videos.

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Fusei Kise, Isao Kise and the OSMKKF-USA
Jerry Figgiani - Shorin Ryu Karate Do International
Beikoku Shidokan Karatedo Association
Grant Campbell - USA Karate Federation
Cezar Borkowski - Northern Karate Schools

Series Sponsors

Marguerite "Peggy" Hess - Jensen Beach Uechi Ryu Karate Do Dojo
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Michael Quinn - Okinawa Shogen-Ryu Karate-Do Europe
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Okinawa Karate Podcast
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Tim Herlihy
Robin Ross
Joshua Simmers
Jeff Perkins
Paul Punshon
John J. Strangeway
Gerry Campbell
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We are now shooting with two 4k cameras (FS5 and A7Sii). There are still many improvements to be made, and hopefully we'll keep progressing with each video. Ideally we'd get a proper boom mic and audio recorder to improve audio, cinema lenses, and we need greater data storage as we're working with and archiving the huge 4K Pro Res Raw files.

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