Albert Mady to Kata Exchange
: I enjoy it
: I like learning more about and developing further in my system
: it's a challenge
But I have done it and do it because of
how I think about martial arts, from my weapons training I can take the lessons
from these traditional weapons skills and pick up almost anything around me,
which I have, and use to fight with. Practical.
Victor Donald Smith Of course I do it because I do Isshinryu. But over the
decades I saw there was far more value than learing ancient weapons. I saw how
the study was also a force enhancer to develop karate skills, and once the
decades moved by those developed skills could replace some of what age withers.
I also observed the same from a friend in the Chinese Arts who also did a huge
number of weapons form. It did make a difference.
Todd Olson Weapons training also deepens and reinforces all
the principles that apply to open hand as well. Many Okinawan schools taught
the weapons first and then open hand.
Victor Donald Smith And
while each weapon develop different forces, that does not mean you must study
dozens of different weapons. For all practical purposes a few are enough to add
force enhacement. More does offer value, but realistically few have the time to
make such study. Time and effort count more than numbers with not enough time
for deep practice.
Albert Mady For me, Bo, Sai, Tomfa, Baton ASP, Katana (Toyama
Ryu Iaido). A few others at seminars, I like knives.
Michael Demeter Bo, Nunti Bo, Eku, Sansetsu Kon, Yari, Sai, Nunti
Sai, Tuifa, Tekko, Tichu, Tinbe, Gusan, Kama, Chizi Kon, jifa.
Robert Welch I do it for the reasons above, but mainly just
because i enjoy it.
Victor Donald Smith For my
efforts, I taught Bo, Sai, Tonfa, Bando staff & short stick. For
instructors I taught Kama and tanto, For private practice I worked with short
hand held sticks, Tai Chi Sword.
Dojo TokyoMushinkan as I really don't need karate/kobudo for
"fighting" per se, to me weapons training allows a connection to the
warriors of the past, allowing them to live on through our Kata, whilst
imbibing us with their understanding of proper combative biomechanics, just in
case we do ever need to "fight."
Bruce Johnson I think we all have the same philosophy on weapons.
I enjoyed learning them in the beginning of my Okinawan Kempo training but as I
progress I realized that the weapons were actually giving me a better understanding
of my Katas and an even greater understanding of my body and movements. Weapons
training has honestly made me so much more sharper and enhanced my techniques.
When I look at a kata and I start to
consider applications within the kata, I focus on motion or movement more than
the techniques themselves. When i define a technique, I define it as motion
applied to a target. What this does is allow me to broaden my horizon and not
be confined. Example being Gedan Barai, I can use this motion in a number of
different ways. But by only changing my target I get a different outcome each
time. Something to think about and play with.
Bret Gordon Exactly. Bunkai is the analysis of kata and it's movement.
Things are not always what they seem, and oyo has many layers.
Victor Donald Smith Before the term was being
used in the states by no one I associated with in any karate system in the
northeast, I learned the word through an Indonesian Shotokan instructor,
following his own families Shotokan tradition. His use of the term bunkai
followed a very different paradigm than anyone else uses, but that was what it
came to me, very powerful bunkai thei are, As the term came into use I realized
that what other were doing had nothing to do with the way I was shown, I was
not in that tradition but those teachings influenced my karate. Personally as
later I spent the rest of my life on this study, I adopted the term application
analysis, for bukai had a very different, quite clear meaning to me. Along the
way I realized application analysis was only part of the picture, There were
other layers to this to reach application realization.
Charles B. Stanley The
word Bunkai means different things to different people. What some people call
the Bunkai from their kata is to me nothing close to what I think of as Bunkai.
The word is over used and often misunderstood.
Victor Donald Smith A Japanese English
teacher and author of English/Japanese dictionaries in Japan (for students) explained
to me in Japan most people would not know what you were talking about, as the
term is most used in the context of a mechanic would bunkai a car to determine
what was wrong. Using bunkai in a very different context. I had to explain the
term to him, and while he studied Shorinji Ryu in college, they did not do
'bukai'. He further explained it was a specialized term used by specific karate
systems.
Originally Mabuni Sensei
shared the concept of bunkai in his first work on Karate in the 1930. When Mabuni
expressed the idea of bunkai for his book containing his kata Seiunchin he used
the term ‘bunkai’ to mean
Both I and McKenna Sensei have done translations. Mine from a French edition,
and his from the Mabuni original. I questioned Mario McKenna Sensei about the
use of the term ‘bunkai’ in ‘Goshin Karate Kempo’ and he described it’a use as
"breakdown/apart and explanation" from his translation efforts on
Mabuni’s book.
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