Left to right: Sensei Andy Bailey (me), Sensei Linda Croakin, Sensei Iain Abernathy, Sensei Dave Blackburn.
The course this time concentrated on the use of Shuto-uki within Kata bunkai. Sensei Abernathy started with a few drills which start off with both sides in left stance with a fighting guard. The attcking side firstly using the right hand to push away the guard on the others left arm then striking shuto to the neck. Then the left hand was used to open up the the guard followed again by a shuto the the neck. The attacker then stepped forward and repeated with the other side. Once completed the drill was repeated with the roles reversed.
The drill was then repeated with the left hand opening up the guard first and the shuto uki to the neck with the left hand, followed by the tight had pushing the guard away then shuto to the neck.
Again this was repeated on bothsides, then the roles changed over and repeated. The drill was meant to flow without any breaks. they were then added together to increase the complexity.
Following on from this the bunkai was used from Pinan Shodan , with the the follow up of the use of nukite after the shuto uki's. This was expressed as a smash into the chest rather than the use of a spear hand strike. It was also demonstrated with the hand on the hip as in Wado Ryu/Anshin Ryu and with the application from Shotokan with the right hand under the right elbow.
Linda kindly video'd myself and Sensei Dave going quickly through the drills in the break as a reminder. (No edits so a bit rough and ready).
We then looked at taking bunkai from different kata's and merging them together to cope with different situations. The following video's show the drills from this excersise.
