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Naihanchi and Kanku Dai
Hi All,
This was posted by Carl Hooi in response to my explaination regarding the meaning of Karate bunkai.
"Thanks to you 2 for the lovely insight. I thought when I read your web that you sworn that Naihanchi is the kata of all kata. In my Enshin style of karate, we do practice this kata as a two man drill. Enshin is not a sports karate. This is hardly any retreating movements. Sometime we do a shift backward by withdrawing the leading foot so that attacker has to extend a little more to hit the target, when he does this, he is actually off-centered and then you hit him when he is adjusting. This is very similar to your Kissaki-kai. Our blocks are very circular, much like Goju-ryu and similar to Patrick McCarthy's description in Bubishi. To make your training complete, I suggest that you do add kanku (or kankudai) to your kata. Pre-1900's, naihanchi was taught as the beginner's kata, kanku was the advanced kata or the mother of all kata as far as strike, kick and grappling was concerned. Itosu intentionally disect this kata into the pinan/heian series so that school children could learn the steps systemically during their schooling life b4 moving to kanku itself. Hence, even if the kids (primary to secondary) did get the chance to study kanku, they would learn part of it in pinan/heian."
Regards,
Carl.
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Re: Naihanchi and Kanku Dai
Hi All,
This was my reply to Carl Hooi's email regarding Naihanchi and Kanku Dai or Kushanku.
"In a way, that was my message. The trilogy of Naihanchi is indeed effective and deadly. But sometimes both are NOT reconcilable. I'm more interested in what has the highest chance to work in real life BEFORE what kind of damage it can do. In the heat of a fight or life threatening situation, typically gross motor skills are all that you can muster, as shown in many police statistics and live testimonials. So, we are very much for using the 80/20 rule, where 80% of the situations can be covered by 20% of the techniques, ie. less is more. In this aspect, Naihanchi trilogy really excel, although Kanku dai have a wealth of Karate techniques. A simple forearm strike from the Naihanchi can be used against a myriad of grabs, pushes, shoves, chokes, punches, strikes, kicks and other common acts of violence. That is why Naihanchi is our staple (coz it's simple and effective), and we have a variety of ways to practice it other than solo performance. Again, we have in-depth knowledge of the evolution of Karate from Itosu to Funakoshi to the current JKA-SKIF styles but nowadays we are not so concern with lineage and history. Most of our moves or techniques are incorporated from our training, sparring and combat experience (Vince Morris teaches the Police and SWAT teams in Europe) so some of the things we do does not resemble Karate at all.
One of Kissaki-Kai rules of combat is to move 45% off the centreline. We do not retreat, but neither do we retract the leading foot, although I must say Enshin way seems logical and good as what you described."
Cheers,
Charles.
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