Saturday, September 05, 2009

Bunkai Difficulties?

Are you studying bunkai, and getting yourself lost?

Tip: don't do bunkai!

Another tip... watch aikido videos :) These techniques are uncannily familiar...



Irimi Nage is a favourite of mine.

2 comments:

markstraining.com said...

good post! Karate bunkai is very hard to acknowledge. Manyt imes they are just simple movments designed to easily defeat your opponant.

I especially liked the first video. A good bunkai to 2 shuto uke while stepping forward which is seen in Pinan Shodan and Kushanku

Stephen Irwin said...

Hi,

I do like aikido, there are some very nice techniques in there which translate well into karate terms.

Last night we had a session on Uke and worked on variations of Kote Gaeshio - a simple technique found in many kata.