Iain Abernethy Course May 2017

5 of NAKC's Sensei's attended a fantastic course with 6th Dan Instructor, Sensei Iain Abernethy. Iain is a senior Instructor with the BCKA and a bunkai specialist. On the 4 hour course we focused on Naihanchi clinching and trapping drills.More photo's on Iain's facebook page.

Sensei's John Ward, Andy Bailey, Ryan Butterfield, Iain Abernethy, Steve Wilkinson and Martyn Butterfield.

Video showing Sensei's Steve and Martyn going through one of the drills.

Sensei Iain Abernathy Course - 3rd October at Thornaby

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.

Iain Abernethy Seminar at Thornaby.

Sensei Iain Abernethy will be holding one of his excellent seminars at Thornaby again on October 3rd 2009. The seminars are fantastic value at £20 per person . For those that are not familiar with him there is a link on the right of the blog to his web site. Full details of the seminar times and location are available by following this link :-

http://www.iainabernethy.com/news_page.asp#Seminars

If anyone wants to attend then please speak with Dave Blackburn and get your name down on the form on the notice board in the dojo.

Iain Abernathy Course, October 18th 2008

Sensei Dave Blackburn, Linda Croarkin and myself, Sensei Andy Bailey attended a seminar/training session at Thornaby on the 18th October with Sensei Iain Abernathy, 5th Dan. It was a well spent 5 hours. We concentrated on grappling and take downs. Sensei Iain went through the 9 throws that Shihan Funakoshi presented in a book to the Emperor when he went over to mainland Japan from Okinawa to show him the martial art of Karate that was being practised on the island. At the end of the session, Iain was kind enough to read them out in order so we could video them on my phone. Excuse the poor execution of these as we had only just been shown them and were still a bit unsure, but it was an excellent reminder as we would have forgotten most of them by the Monday as there was so much to take in. The throws are in order:-

1. To topple a folding screen - Byobudaoshi

2. Spinning top - Komanage

3. To encircle the neck - Kubiwa

4. Half Wheel - Katawaguouman

5. V Turning swallow - Tsubamegaeshi

6. To spear a ball - Yaridama

7. To push off a cliff - Taniotoshi

8. To encircle the arm - Udewa

9. To hammer upside down - Sakatsuchi

Apologies for the spelling. Blame Sensei Dave's writing.