Practical Kata Bunkai: Naihanchi / Tekki Shodan 

John Gally I look forward to seeing you in April! I’m really pleased that what I do resonates with you! Thanks for the support.

He has a Wado-ryu background but he just calls it Karate in an effort of uniting Karate and evolve it as it was intended by Funakoshi. He doesn't really care about style tho he has said that in his classes when you do kata you can do any style version of it

Thanks for the comment and the kind words! Please re-watch the video as I’d like to highlight a few things that may help clarify. At the start I refer to the arm being a “push”, or “a clinch where we have ripped the arm off”, or “moving the arm out of the way”. At 31 seconds I talk about clearing the arm “pre-emptively.” At 1:14 I say, “you can do it defensively” and I show it off a hook punch (the only time in the video) and I then also add “IF you manage to get some control over it” (because it’s not easy to do). I then go on to say that, to start wit,h I want it done off a “neutral arm” because that can be anything i.e. “a flinch, an attempted grab, a push, a finger pointing” etc. Doing anything reactively is harder than doing it pre-emptively or proactively. However, to make that initial movement work all you need is a grip on the enemy’s wrist, and, as described in the video, there are many ways to achieve that (some easier than others). It sounds like you’ve assumed every demo is in response to a punch or a fast grab? If you watch again, you’ll see that the vast majority are off a neutral arm and I do describe the many things that arm could be when contextualised. Once the students have got the technique down, they can then practise getting the grip from a wide range of scenarios. All you need is a wrist grip. How you get it is irrelevant for the purposes of initially explaining the sequence. That’s the trouble with “edited highlights” on RU-vid; some elements don’t make it through and that can lead to misunderstandings. I hope this helps clarify though. All the best, Iain

​@@practicalkatabunkai thats it, reply I wanted :D thank you. I find wrist grabs very easy to do in offense, though I come from ​ consensual karate fighting, it is good for me to do it as a hand trap before the tsuki technique(any tsuki tech.) Then it is a lot easier to get into a clinch and do Ian Abernethy, thing :D(traditional karate).In global it is a karate concept, "get in fast and try to do maximal damage, however you want, in few first seconds, if you fail THEN start to look for good position in clinch". I just wanna say that you don't know how much I appreciate you, and what you done for karate, I don't know how to have an influence on people, they don't understand me when I am talking about practiacality of kata(even good "karatekas", they compete in kata but it is a waste of time, if you wanna know how to fight, to them, they say it is like a dance or something), but you are, on the other side so optimistic and positive about future of karate, maybe situation is better in UK, here in Serbia i am really scared for karate...) First thing I am gonna do when make some cash, is attending on your seminars, will you ever come to Serbia? (that would be helpful :D) Thank you once again

@@goodbuy7556 Thanks so much for the kind words! I’m delighted that what I do resonates with you. I love to travel, but I’ve no plans for Serbia at the moment. Hopefully our paths will cross one day. Thanks once again for the support!

@@practicalkatabunkai Is there any application in this kata that can be a reaction to a normal punch?