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Azato
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Pyung Ahn Ee Dan (Pinan Shodan/Heian Nidan) Opening Applications

Hey everyone,

In this video I'm teaching some of my students the opening movements of Pyung Ahn Ee Dan (Pinan Shodan/Heian Nidan) along with the practical application of those movements. I've gotten to the point with my bunkai practice that I finally feel comfortable teaching these things side by side. Hope you enjoy. Thanks!

Iain Abernethy
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Great video! Personally, this is how I like to see kata taught i.e. solo-from, application, and drills (with resistance) all taught side by side as in integrated whole.

All the best,

Iain

PASmith
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It's so annoying to see a nice bit of bunkai or a drill but the version of that technique template/combination that made it into ITF TKD (the start of Won hyo) uses an inward knifehand rather than an uppercut type movement and so doesn't quite fit this. :(

Azato
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PASmith wrote:

It's so annoying to see a nice bit of bunkai or a drill but the version of that technique template/combination that made it into ITF TKD (the start of Won hyo) uses an inward knifehand rather than an uppercut type movement and so doesn't quite fit this. :(

Yeah, this is something that can be frustrating about the Korean versions of the forms. Many of the changes that were made seem to have been done purely for aesthetics and not with any kind of practical application in mind. I try to familiarize myself with different versions of kata so that I have a better idea of what is shared by all of them. I'll give my students some examples and explain the underlying principles. Although I'm not particularly found of the knife hand here I think it still works within the context of the other movements. 

PASmith
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Yeah sometimes the changes aren't that significant and good bunkai can still be accommodated easy enough.

But in this drill the uppercut quite clearly overcomes the barrier put in place to stop the overhand and you can go between the two to take advantage of transitory "gaps" in defence. But the inward knifehand in Won Hyo just doesn't do this in the same way the uppercut does here.