Discovering Tenkara Vol 2 Japanese Kebari shoul be available soon

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I'm not a Twitter ,Facebook guy. But today for the first time in months I took a look at a few twitter accounts I check now and again and I discovered that Paul Gaskell and the Discover Tenkara guys in the UK will be launching Discovering Tenkara Vol 2 Japanese Kebari patterns & principles DVD and Blu-ray disc this week end at the BFFI.

I was familiar with the BFI, which I first encountered in Freeport Maine 25 years ago on a motorcycle trip. I was first told its common name, is the Big __ Indian. ( I'm sure you can figure it out) Later I was told the official name is the Big Freeport Indian.

But what is the BFFI ? Well its the British Fly Fair International. Which will be this weekend.
http://www.bffi.co.uk/

The announcement about the new DVD was posted on Paul Gaskell's Twitter account on 4 Feb, with a post on 5 Feb that included pictures of Vol 2. The claim that it is the first tying video is a bit of a stretch because Tying Tenkara Flies Vol 1 came out a couple of years ago, that predominately featured Chris Stewart. I guess their out in Paul's post he calls it the - First Fly Fishing/Tying documentary. Since it does state it was filmed in Japan and the UK I do expect to see both fishing and kebari tying sections on this video. Paul does have up a short fly first video on vimeo posted 4 months ago which I suspect may also be on the DVD.

I know I will look forward to getting this DVD when it becomes available. Hopefully it wont be to long before it is available in NTSC format. Unfortunately I did not see any notice if the initial release would only be in PAL format or if PAL and NTSC formats would released at the same time. At least I am assuming that Vol 1 in NTSC format sold in numbers that justify making both formats available.

https://twitter.com/PaulNGaskell/sta...25444645859329


The Fly First Cast
http://vimeo.com/106923471

I did not see any announcement about it yet on the discovertenkara webpage.

fwiw,

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[dwalker]

One step closer. And Vol 2 is the First of a Trilogy.

"However, Vol. 2 is just the first stage to understanding fly selection and performance ? so do look out for the rest of the trilogy as we complete and make the pieces available. .."

http://www.discovertenkara.co.uk/bui...of-fly-design/

I'm impatient and ordered the PAL format. At least I hope I did. When i placed the order it said, 4 available.
Still no ETA for the ntsc format.

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[dwalker]

Mike the mailman was very good to me this week. Friday he delivered 弘道?富士、 Hiromichi Fuji?s book Modern Tenkara （現代テンカラ）. I?ve never been quite sure how to translate the rest of the title. It is something like ? anyone can swing (oscillate-shake) catch Amago ? Yamame (using the) Sutebari Method. (捨てバリ釣法）, and Saturday he delivered the Discovering Tenkara ? Japanese Kebari DVD.

The DVD contrast how we in the west think about flies in general and Japanese kebari in particular vs. how the Japanese think about kebari. We want to name the flies, they think of them as ?just kebari?. A misunderstanding of Fujioka website seems to the source of our thinking that in Japan the kebari are widely known by the region names of the kebari on his website.

Most of the DVD discusses misconceptions we have about the traditional tenkara flies. There are more varieties of Takayama flies than we recognize. And their versions have short stubby bodies, not the longer tapered bodies we see on the kebari we call Takayama kebari.

Both John and Paul tie different flies the way they saw them tied in Japan. There is a nice discussion with Go Ishii and Makino 牧野さん。aka Himano. He was asked to tie a kebari without having his magnifying glasses to wear. Being a year old than him I could emphasize with the trouble he had seeing well enough to tie the kebari to his usual standard. He ties the body of his kebari using the feather fluff most of us discard. I thought it looked quite buggy. Masami Sakakibara ties his yellow kebari with little to no comment. Though it is mentioned that a future DVD will feature a more in depth discussion with him about his philosophy of kebari design. Go Ishii ties a small brown dubbed body fly I liked. You can see a picutre of a similar fly in the interview of Go on the tenkara-fisher forum. They also visite Hirata's fishing tackle shop where he hand ties a fly but not the mumushi snake skin body fly he is known for.

Here is the break down. The DVD is 87 minutes in length. Plus a bonus section with two parts: John describing the camera gear they used during their trip to Japan and more of the interview with Makino and Go.
0:00 introduction
4:41 Dr Ishigaki on Kebari Design
11:23 Okumikawa Style Kebari
24:30 Discovering Takayama
26:15 Takayama style kebari ? Paul G.
35:14 Go Ishii interview and fly tying (also included Makinosan)
53:50 Masami (Tenkara no Oni) Sakakibara
54:40 Oni ties his yellow sakasa kebari
57:55 Makinosan and the ?almost? kebari
1:10:45 Hiratasan hand tying demonstration
1:16:20 John ties Hiratasan?s mamushi kebari （マムシ毛鉤 ・まむし毛鉤）
1:24:45 Final thoughts

The DVD has me anxiously awaiting the delivery of:
右田政夫　Migita Masao?s (reprint) book
正統テンカラ逆さ毛バリ（ Seitō Tenkara sakasa kebari)
Legitimate (or Authentic) Tenkara Sakasa Kebari

It seems to match the myth or misconception theme of the DVD, because appartently sakasa kebari were not always in wide spread use in Japan, as we may have assumed.

He is recognized on the tenkarakebari web site with the achievement of spreading the acceptance of reverse hackled flies nationwide in Japan.
一部の地域（飛騨地方）で使用されていた
「逆さ毛鉤」を、
全国的に広めたのは右田先生の功績だと考えます
It has been used in some areas (Hida)
The "upside down fly",
Was spread nationwide is I think achievement of Sensei Migita

A couple links about the book and Migita
http:// http://tenkarakebari.jugem.jp/?eid=139

http://homepage3.nifty.com/somame/c-seitotenkara2.htm

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