Ive been spending some time today on the second instalment of my Seed of Shuri Karate book series. Even though its still very much work in progress, heres a paragraph from the current draft to give you a flavour of whatll be covered in Volume Two... Being able to demonstrate three or more combative applications for each movement of Naihanchi Kata may seem on the surface to be an impressive feat and a worthwhile endeavour. However, I have always felt that unless these discrete applications can be incorporated into a fully integrated strategy that helps to express the interconnected lessons and principles given by the form, then in terms of bunkai, you are merely scratching away consistently at the most superficial layer. I would like to suggest that there is not only a pragmatic reason for the movements themselves, but also a pragmatic reason for the particular sequence prescribed by the kata and it is this sequence, not so much the isolated movements, that holds the real potential, reveals the bigger picture and thus, is worthy of much deeper exploration.
Posted on: Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:23:19 +0000
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