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Wastelander
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Transitional Passai Dai to Passai Sho Application

Hello, everyone,

As a teaser for our upcoming seminar in California this month, this week's Waza Wednesday takes a look at transitioning between an application for Passai Dai and an application for Passai Sho. As usual, the attack isn't really the important part--it just gives you an example to start from. The same movements fit just as well into haymakers, hockey punches, shoves, and clinchwork. We'll play around with that sort of thing in the seminar, too.

Iain Abernethy
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Hi Noah,

Sweet! I feel one of the roles of the “sho” versions is to be a collection of back-up options and to show alternate expressions of the methodology encapsulated in the “dai” version. This fits nicely with that. I like it!

All the best,

Iain

Wastelander
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Iain Abernethy wrote:
Sweet! I feel one of the roles of the “sho” versions is to be a collection of back-up options and to show alternate expressions of the methodology encapsulated in the “dai” version. This fits nicely with that. I like it!

Thanks! Admittedly, our Passai Sho/Dai arrangement is different from most other Shorin-Ryu styles, since Chibana dropped Itosu's Passai Sho, moved Itosu's Passai Dai into its place (and renaming it to Passai Sho in the process). Our Passai Dai is the version that Chibana learned from his brother-in-law, "Megantu" Tawada Shinkazu, who was a Peichin in his own right and learned Passai from Matsumura. I do suspect that Chibana altered it, a bit, though, to be more like the karate he learned from Itosu. Still, I find it to be an interesting look at alternatives! And being able to transition between kata is both useful and fun :P

Lionel Froidure
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Thanks for sharing  Long live Waza Wednesday :-)  Lionel