Finally someone who's not teaching nonsense fantastic work

First I became a fan of your book. Now this bunkai of Kanku Dai just blew my mind - just opened my eyes to new possibilities. OSU!!

This is an eye opener. It shows that there are more similarities between different martial arts systems than there are differences!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the information!!!!!!!

Skillful manipulation of the adversary makes sense for all styles.

Brilliant. You bring new life to the art.

lol, a healthy dose of humorous sarcasm is essential to keeping it real when exploring legitimate practical applications/options in traditional kata.

Its funny that after moving away from karate years ago and taking up Krav Maga one of the first techniques taught was the dive in as demonstrated by Iain at the start of this flow drill.

Abernethy Sensei, just ran across this video this evening. I really enjoy your interpretation. This is the glue of what holds us together. Thank you!

great video (as usual). I love your approach to this particular part of the kata

Sensei Iain Abernathy's style of karate is Wado Ryu. I can determine it by his blocks. superb self defense techniques thru bunkai. Oss

Great job, in the sequence of the arm bar right before the trow, you will be in front of uke and you are open to his free hand. And is correct the kata tell you to do an atemi strike before you go under the controlled arm. That atemi strike is most important or uke will hit you with his free hand. Then you go under the control arm to do the trow. In jujitsu and aikido you always do that punch to soft him off. At the begining when you nail the armbar and apply gravity to push uke to the ground uke will be out balance and his natural reaction is to regain it. Then you do the atemi strike and the trow. Super i am glad to find this video.

AMAZING bunkai!

this is perfect. i could swear that you are a wing tsun man.i intent to go though all your videos. highly recommended. thanks

Love it! Great drill!

Truly insightful!

I don't wanna mess with this man

This looks alot like Tony Blauer's Spear. Very cool.

Excellent!!! Thank you sensei!

Very nice - thanks for posting. GB

Great drill, thank you.

You have opened my mind since I've discovered your youtube Chanel I feel like a nincompoop for making fun of Karate.

The hands circle at the beginning of the kata is a practice of peripheral vision. The hands should just barely be seen as the karate-ka completes the full circle, everything in katas are lessons , this beginning practice of using peripheral vision should be utilized throughout the kata, even the bow at start and the bow at the end. A state of mind during combat. Boxers, good ones, very much understand this. I will add, once the state of mind is achieved, it can become dangerous to remain in no-mind [ a combat mind}. A true karate student who has spent years in the art knows exactly what has been described

Very cool! Thanks for the post!

Very nice!

Makes karate look useful

Oss, Great, Practical Bunkai and Oyo.

In the beginning. Why do you bring your arms down, if you are going to move to left and catch opponents arm? Why don’t we practise the move as they are done?

Superb :-)

Hi Iain, I’ve been studying this drill for a couple of weeks over Christmas with a mind of including in my syllabus, do you have other drills for the rest of the Kata? Or is this the main drill you would use from it? (I am aware that your core is Pinans and Naihanchi).

very interesting , oss

Kata is to make you think of each movement applied in a self defense situation. Each practitioner should have a different blend on what fits them as an individual. Every time you see Instructors showing bunkai, or Oyo for Kata, It’s going to be what works, and not work.

Shuri Te !

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27 people who think they are magical beings who can defeat someone with a single punch to the stomach disliked this video!

i was told a story about a cave and a bear with Kusanku

Ah, not bad. You are not toooo far from the truth. Do you really think that the early karate masters who learned from the Chinese Masters their deadly moves of Wu Shu, Kung fu and Dim mak (vital point striking) would make lame katas to practice or are they deadly techniques that were passed down from family member to family member. Just think about it! Would you as a real master, who has destructive power in each hand and foot, practice these moves and breakdowns that you practice and use in secret or your seriously deadly moves? Ask yourself, “would you make a kata with these kind of explanations or breakdowns? Would you try to use these lame explanations against multiple attackers or armed people? There must be some deeper more powerful explanations for these moves? These early karate master were so deadly that they rarely fought one another because someone was going to die. Do you think your breakdown could Kill or seriously injure someone, who is also a skilled karate fighter like you, with these kinda weak and kinda lame explanations of these kata moves? Think again, there are real hidden deadly techniques in these katas and guess what, you never learned them. Why? Because either you instructors don’t know them or they won’t teach them to you! So sad that you only learned sport karate and not the true hidden meanings of kata! Look at the bubishi and ask yourself why are there things in there that you never learned or heard of (like the six (6) Ji hands)? What are they for? It’s a book of karate what does it mean? Or look at the back of Gichin Funakoshi’s book “Karate - Do Kyohan,” and ask yourself how do I do the techniques he describes in the section on vital points of the human body. If they were not important why would he, a Karate Grandmaster and the Father of Shotokan Karate, put them in his book, for us to ignore them, I don’t think so? Dude you better dig deeper or else you would have wasted a lifetime of study in martial arts with techniques that are not even good enough for a yellow belt!

You don't make sense, charlatan.