Bunkai as Mario McKenna defines it

 

Bunkai as Mario McKenna defines it on his blog at http://okinawakarateblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/bunkai-vs-oyo.html . “The word "bunkai" does not mean "analayze" or "analysis" in the strictest sense. It literally means "to break apart.

 

I find it interesting how in Japan the term ‘bunkai’ came to mean the meaning of kata, or the application of a kata technique.

 

Thinking about bunkai as breaking things apart,