by BillC Thu Jan 09, 2014 7:56 am
Ry guy,
You have an excellent eye ... but a bit of background here.
I had the good fortune to train several times with Okada-sensei at the Kodokan, and once he was a guest at our dojo here in SoCal. The ex-pat American uke in the first video is a friend of mine. The producer of the second video is a local California sensei of some note ... you will notice the "copyright 2007" note at the beginning of that video.
A few years ago, sadly, Okada-sensei's health failed, and I have not seen him on the mat since that time.
These videos were produced ... and sold ... just prior to that sad event. Certainly Okada-sensei was enthusiastic about passing along what knowledge he had, and i do not want to become too personal, but as an aging pensioner he also did not mind getting a few bucks for each copy of the DVD sold. YouTube as usual shortcuts that.
So posting it here ... do you understand my meaning? Unless you know that the poster on YouTube has sensei's permission, maybe a good response is to ask YouTube to take the video down.