2/3 Understanding bunkai youtu.be/_IuODXgOg3A Charles C. Goodin: Bunkai thoughts Excerpt: I have seen bunkai where a person blocks a punch and then turns to block another attack. This is usually to follow the flow of the kata. However, it makes no sense at all to me to block one attacker and then turn to block another attacker. If you did this, the first attacker would punch you in the back of the head! In my mind, each movement must seriously injure the attacker, and it is hard to do this with a single block (executed as a block). If a kata consists of a block, a turn, and another block, this does not mean that the application must follow that format exactly. When you block the first attacker, you should also strike him so that he will be incapacitated, then you can turn to take on the second attacker. I think that many people are way too literal in interpreting kata. Karate is self defense. In what kind of self defense would you turn your back on an attacker who is still standing and can continue to attack you? Full article: karatejutsu.blogspot.ca/2011/04/bunkai-thoughts.html
Posted on: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:40:01 +0000
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