And yet another one

  

 

Very close to my beginning attempting to understand the use of kata technique I decided to concentrate on the opening of Seisan kata to discover how many uses I could find.  Quickly I came up with about 50 of them. Then over time I worked up many more. The count rose to 75 to over 100 actual uses, then to beyond. What I realized there was no limit to how that technique series could be used.

 

Now quite a few years later I have worked up another use these past few days.

 

The standard I have always used will the use put a determined attacker on the floor every time.

 

But knowledge of an application is not enough!  That is where the work starts to reach the ability to actually do it.  That requires more and more time till you reach that.

 

Let up take one attack situation.  The attacker steps forward toward you with their right foot and beginning  to  grab what you are wearing with their left hand,  or grabs your left shoulder,  and as they do that they are beginning to strike at you with their left fist.

 

The defense I am describing follows:

 

As you see the attacker begin to move toward you with their right foot and reach out with their right grab as they are reading to strike you with their left hand you begin your response.

 

1.     You shift your centerline to 45 degrees across the centerline of their attack by a shift of your right foot.

 

2.     Your right open hand crosses your centerline to press into their reaching right hand.

 

 

3.     As that occurs your left hand performs a left sucking  side block against their grabbing arm, pressing their attack and their body down.

 

4.     And your left crescent step draws alongside your right foot then completes its  outward step to behind their stepping right foot.

 

 

5.     As you complete the step your shin is behind their leg, and as your foot steps down at the same time your sucking left side block draw them down, that shin presses into their leg, further making their center draw down.

 

6.     As the sucking left side block concludes your right hand circles forward to strike into the joint of their shoulder and arm. Vastly weakening their grabbing arm.

 

 

7.     At your right strike ends you begin to fully chamber your right hand. However that returning hand to your right side chamber it first violently slashes against their jaw on the right side of their face. Then as that hand continues to chamber it also viscously slashes against the left striking arm they launched. Than moves their striking arm away from you.

 

8.     Simultaneously your  right crescent step begins then ends behind their left foot.  At the same time your left fist delivered a left hook punch into their right armpit. This combination further destabilizes their capability.

 

 

9.     Then the left fist moves into a rising left uppercut under their jaw.

 

100.                        Attacker falls down, goes boom.

 

 

Of course my mind does not stop there. For example I can see another use against an attackers right front kick, Then more and more.