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Understanding Kata

Kanku-Dai

Kanku-Dai: Explanation of Moves

Illustrations

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Plate 4. Practicing the roundhouse kick

Plate 5. The application of speed

Plate 6. The components of fighting ability

Plate 7. Basic defensive movement

Plate 8. The relationship between basics, drills, kata, and fighting ability

Plate 9. Short-range technique

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Plate 11. The elements of winning strategy

Plate 12. Risk factors of the various stances

Plate 13. Roundhouse kick

Plate 14. Risk factors of various types of kicks

Plate 15. Short-range technique: palm-heel strike

Plate 16. The author and Frank Woon-a-Tai practice with Master Nakayama

Plate 17. Semifree-sparring

Preface

In the past two decades numerous karate training manuals have appeared in English, all attempting to achieve the same goal. That is, they strive to transmit to Western martial artists the principles so readily understood by their Eastern teachers. This is a difficult task. In past years, many of the Japanese instructors who came here found the language barrier a formidable obstacle as they attempted to spread their art to their American students. In many cases, students were lost as a result of this inability to communicate the essence of difficult physical and psychological principles.