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Leigh Simms
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Seienchin Kata Bunkai Drill

Hi all!

I recently recorded a video on a sequence from Seienchin Kata.

The sequence shows the progressions from the initial “predatory traps” (ude-uchi uke + gedan barai and open handed motion); to how to adapt to the enemy’s possible defences; then finally to a finishing technique depending on the enemy’s position.

Hopefully you can see how the concepts of the kata (positional advantage, using two hands proactively, efficiency in motion, adapting to predictable responses) can be used.

Please let me know what you think and if you have any videos of your ideas please feel free to share them here!

Iain Abernethy
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A nice drill that Leigh! A nice set of limb-control options which can be easily be developed into unscripted trapping practise.

All the best,

Iain

Leigh Simms
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Hi Iain,

Thanks for the comments and the share on social media :) 

Leigh

 

Dear all,

Just a quick note on the drill itself -

Whilst it should be obvious (but from some of the feedback I get it isn't) I do want to point out that drills like the one I demonstrate are a series of connected techniques that can be used in the order taught but after that, they are MEANT TO BE RE-ARRANGED & ADAPTED so that they can be applied in various in-fight scenarios in different orders to what is initially taught. 

One way of ensuring that this happens is to allow the enemy more freedom in how they can respond to our techniques, this being the semi-unscripted or unscripted sparring practices that Iain mentioned. 

The more unscripted the sparring practice, the more possibilities of in-fight scenarios occur and the specific techniques become less important when compared to the concepts the techniques contain due to the fact that the concepts can be manifested into numerous practical techniques, not just the one shown by the kata. 

I'm hopeful this explanation doesn't add anything new for the members of this forum, but I think it is useful to explain the theory/process beghind the drill nonetheless, as you never know who's reading/watching ;) 

Leigh!

Iain Abernethy
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Leigh Simms wrote:
Whilst it should be obvious (but from some of the feedback I get it isn't) I do want to point out that drills like the one I demonstrate are a series of connected techniques that can be used in the order taught but after that, they are MEANT TO BE RE-ARRANGED & ADAPTED so that they can be applied in various in-fight scenarios in different orders to what is initially taught.

I often have that problem with YouTube videos too. People watch them with their own misunderstandings firmly in place, and assume you think and practise as they do. The don’t use drills as a template for options to be employed in live and semi-live training; so, they assume you don’t and critique the drill from their own flawed vantagepoint. This is why Sensei YouTube is a bad teacher :-) Add in his assistants “Dunning” and “Kruger” and misunderstandings are rife. Not a lot can be done about that, and still worth sharing for those who do get it.

All the best,

Iain