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Les Bubka
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Naihanchi - opening sequence

Hi all,

On last session we went through all the kata in our system, as I was recording some of the group practice my students asked me about Naihanchi.

For most this kata is a new one and feels odd, so I done some explanation on our interpretation, that's why the footage is not perfect. 

Few people sent me requests for Naihanchi, so I thought it would be cool to share unedited footage of my teaching style.

Kind regards 

Les

Jeb Chiles
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Excellent material! I like how you get Kazushi early and keep it, take into account their likely counters and funnel them where you want them!

All the best,

Jeb

Heath White
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Thanks for this, Les.  Some very useful ideas.

IDK how common it is, but our style's version raises the right knee during the salutation, which matches one of your applications.

Les Bubka
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Thank you guys, Jeb I really like your grappling drill for Naihanchi. Heath White, there is so many versions of this kata, that nearly any application you can fit in :)

Kind regards

Les

Mark Powell
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I really like your take on that sequence; thanks for sharing Les!

Iain Abernethy
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Very nice Les! I love how the dominance is maintained as the enemy tires to take their head off the line of fire. I always like bunkai that has a nice organic flow to it.

All the best,

Iain

Les Bubka
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Thank you for kind words, as this kata is quite new one form me but very interesting, there is quite a few "solution" nicked from Iain and others :)

Kind Regards

Les

Iain Abernethy
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Les Bubka wrote:
there is quite a few "solution" nicked from Iain and others :)

You can’t nick what is freely given and it’s nice to see these things thrive and adapt in their new home :-) Great to exchanges idea and there’s some ideas in your video that I’m defiantly having … thank you!

All the best,

Iain

Marc
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Thanks Les, I like it a lot.

The way you use the haishu-uke when your opponent slips out of your initial head entrapment fits perfectly, and when she slips back inside, you follow naturally with the empi.

This approach of dealing with the opponent's head ducking and slipping to outside or inside matches the two sideway strikes in the nami-gaeshi sequence. Iain briefly refers to this in this video (at 6:15):

So it seems there is a theme within the kata.

All the best,

Marc

Les Bubka
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Hi Marc

Thank you, yes I think so. If a will have more time I'll try to record more clips.

Kind regards Les

Marc
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Les Bubka wrote:
If a will have more time I'll try to record more clips.

Your clips are always very appreciated. :)