This DVD features the founder of Shotokan Karate Isao Obata, actually performing ippon kumite techniques.  This classic footage has never before been seen by the public.  Reportedly, this footage was originally in the archives of the JKA.  It was filmed before the JKA was even formed.  Pre JKA Masters such as Nakayama, Kanazawa, Okuzaki, and Nishiyama are shown performing when they were in their teens and early twenty's.  This footage comes from the 1940's or early 1950's.