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Paulenfield
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Drills and Oyo

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Drills and Oyo

Here we look at how drills (in this case Taira Hanshi's open/close drill) are used to create a framework for practicing from different positions. We look at the common elbow/back fist sequence in the drill, and then from a simple punch defense. As the exercise progresses different positions are presented so allowing for further learning opportunities (with the help of kata).

Posted by GKCgoju Film and DVD on Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Mark B
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Really nice concepts.

Les Bubka
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Hi Paulenfield

I really like your videos, and concept of Taira bunkai :)

Kind regards 

Les

Iain Abernethy
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Thanks for sharing Paul! As awesome as always.

All the best,

Iain

Paulenfield
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thank you

Mark F
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Love this! Thanks for sharing.

As my karate journey evolves and I spend more time researching bunkai, mainly on the katas I practice, I see many more examples online of longer range techniques than these close range ones.

I’d be interested in people’s thoughts on clips online where bunkai is shown only from either formal positions or long range. I’m starting to dismiss them out of hand. Is this wrong?

I am concerned though where I see old masters doing this that they are not showing the “real” techniques. Is this what they believe the bunkai is or are they hiding stuff and if so why not share it? 

Hope this isn’t off topic.

Regards,

Mark

Iain Abernethy
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Mark F wrote:
I’d be interested in people’s thoughts on clips online where bunkai is shown only from either formal positions or long range. I’m starting to dismiss them out of hand. Is this wrong?

The kata were created to be used in self-protection as opposed to mutually agreed up exchanges with fellow martial artists (Itosu, Motobu, et al). So I think we can reject long-range, formal and choregraphed exchanges as being both pragmatically and historically wrong.

Mark F wrote:
I am concerned though where I see old masters doing this that they are not showing the “real” techniques. Is this what they believe the bunkai is or are they hiding stuff and if so why not share it?

Many of the books were written for the audience of the time. They are generally clear that the karate shown is different from the karate of the past i.e. Funakoshi wrote: “Time change, the world changes, and obviously the martial arts must change too. The karate that high school students practise today is not the same karate that was practised even are recently as ten years ago, and it is a long way indeed from the karate I learned when I was a child in Okinawa”.

They are often showing the revised karate that had spread through the Japanese education system. However, what is crucial for us are the refences to the karate of the past. They can often provide very useful keys.

All the best,

Iain