The 3 Types of Bunkai (Omote, Ura & Honto) What do you know about bunkai? If you are like most people – you know a little bit. You know that the an...
Exclusive Interview: Iain Abernethy – UK’s Leading Expert on Practical Kata Bunkai (pt. 1) Thirteen. That’s how many letters Iain Abernethy’s name contains. Thirteen is also the number of l...
The Reason for Triple Techniques in Kata Sitting at my computer, sippin’ on a protein shake. An e-mail pops up. It went something like this [slig...
The 2 Types of Karate People – Which One Are You? This weekend I visited Berlin – the capital of Germany – for the first time. In case you havenR...
Why There’s (Still) No “Secret” Moves in Karate Kata & Why You Should Care Now People claim they can see the face of Jesus Christ in a three-cheese pizza. Are they crazy? I think so. People...
Jesse’s Super Functional 4-Step Guide to Choosing the Right Kata for Your Next Bunkai Adventure It goes without saying that we’re all in this Karate thing for various reasons. Some of us want to execu...
7 Reasons Why Your Bunkai (Probably) Sucks Continuing on the bunkai (practical applications of Karate’s kata) theme from some of the last posts (to...
Theory & Application of the Karate 4 Point Principle This weekend I was at a seminar with no-gi submission wrestling/Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu wizard Eddie Bravo. HeR...
How to Defend Against the RNC (Rear Naked Choke) for Karate Do you remember that time when literally everyone in martial arts circles wanted to know what this mysterious ...
72 Bunkai to Juji-uke Today I decided it would be time for yet another post consisting of ridiculously many different pictures of ...