Gankaku sho Commentary

[sensei8]

Hopefully, many will enjoy this commentary video of Gankaku sho as done by Sensei Paul Walker...

As slow as he's doing this kata; what Bunkai did YOU see?

[sensei8]

Now that I've thought about it...this thread's pretty bad. Sorry!!

[DWx]

I thought they were pretty good thread ideas Bob. I don't know the kata and we don't have the concept of bunkai in my school but I was waiting to see what people thought of. Why don't you get the ball rolling and suggest some ideas of what you see?

[Patrick]

Thanks for starting them, Bob.

Patrick

[sojobo]

It's not bad Bob, it's just that it is hard enough to understand / realise this stuff in the dojo, let alone over the ether.

Sojobo

[bushido_man96]

I'd been shown by someone once how the ready position, with the hand over the fist, is like a move where someone grabs the lapel, and its a techique to secure that hand, and then slam it down as a control technique.

We do a similar wrist-twisting motion in Yoo-Sin, simulating a wrist locking motion. The manner he brings it around, from the top, seems odd to me, though.

I see from the elbow strike, into two hands grabbing the head, then swinging and thowing the opponent down across the leg as a sweep.