Practical Kata Bunkai: Seienchin (Seiyunchin) Bunkai Drills

[@meaghanethridge9179]

I love kata. I love pulling self-defense applications from the kata that aren't necessarily traditional bunkai. This demo is fabulous bunkai. The secrets of Karate truly are in the kata. Its just a matter of study and imagination. Thank you, Abernethy Sensei for this bunkai.

[@MikeRenouf]

Been practising this kata for about 10 years and this is by far the most convincing set of bunkai I've ever seen. Many thanks for sharing Ian!

[@quintoncoert5438]

Fully agree. Could not have put it any better myself.

[@autism2artism]

This is got to be one of the most impressive bunkai techniques to Seiunchin kata! Love your execution & application Master Iain!

[@KobukanGojuRyu]

Better and more practical than what the vast majority of Okinawan masters teach.

[@claudes.whitacre1241]

Karate isn't my art, Kung Fu is. But the movements are very similar. And I watch Karate Kata. I never would have been able to work this out on my own. Thank you for your outstanding instruction.

[@diatonicone]

So much info in such a short video. I find myself returning to this one a couple times a year. Mr. Abernathy always rocks.

[@josetedesco440]

I'm absolutely astonished by the way everything makes perfect sense now. Many thanks!

[@NYKgjl10]

At this moment, I'm learning this kata and from other videos that I've seen here on KZbin, Iain's sensei bunkai applications is straight to the point with excellent over all assessment.

[@karatewithkhalil]

In coding you learn "If Then Else: principle, and this video definitely utilizes that mindset of following up if the previous action didn't give the desired result. Interesting interpretations of all the movements. Karate truly isn't linear

[@larrywadford263]

Wow the entire kata - you should make this a video you sell on your site.

[@nesking3115]

Very practical,and effective Bunkai ..

[@freelancerblitz2579]

amazing! seeing this makes me wanna attend your seminars more! 17th sept in durham 🤞🤞

[@SithV1]

Thanks for sharing this bunkai appplication for Seiyunchin.

[@kyalbester2838]

Love it. 5 stars. Coming from a goju/shotokan background, this is a Lara I've known for a long time, and never thought about half of what you're talking about. I've always taken it from a massively different point of view. Love your work. Love the podcast, guess its time to buy the books. Please let us know when you're in Australia next. :)

[@ghadeeradral8055]

this is the best and most logical bunkai, thanks a lot

[@nedim_guitar]

I've been doing this form (I'm talking about the first movements), and pretty well too, but with no understanding of the technique. I've been trying to figure it out, but it was difficult. I've had a variation that I've been thinking about, and it doesn't mean that it's not correct, but it's not as fluent and connected as this. Great stuff, really helpful!

[@sergeboyko8763]

In each of your videos, karate comes to life ! I am your fan !

[@saphteam]

I just discover your channel a few days ago, WOW !! As a full time karate sensei, your channel is very inspiring for me. OSS

[@JamalF11X]

Real instructor

[@demboys18]

Oh I love this series of videos on Bunkai. I'm coming from a Isshinryu background and I'm just eating this up (along with the book, "Bunkai Jutsu.") BTW, if anyone has any research material on Seienchin/Seiyunchin would you please pass it along? I"ve been looking around for the longest time on any kind of historical perspective on where it came from and it's influences. I suspect it had a heavy Chinese influence (since it's so close to "horse stance") but I don't have any historical sources to base that on. If anyone has the best idea of what sources to look at for Seiyunchin's background I would most appreciate it.

[@BenSmith-sb8mt]

i'm just hoping one day he gets curious and does the bunkai for sunsu :p

[@JeffMcDuffie72MeridianGate]

Came from internal systems. It even contains fusing yin and yang.

[@kenkongermany7860]

Nice. But I know a convincing version for the anti-bearhug explanation. The basic applications of this part of the kata are defences against grappling attacks from behind in my opinion. Because in other basic bunkai of seiyunchin, we give our back a little if they are jammed... . Maybe on the sideline of one of your seminars.

[@audex]

i agree, as a uechi and goju practicioner we understand seiyunchin is a wrestling kata, all the movements are aimed to take down oponents while clinching and hitting is not possible

[@miklos_369]

Did Ian come up with this bunkai himself? If not who where did he learn it from??? Ive never seen this anywhere else before.

[@RaulBaudin-uf3ey]

Tremendas clases esto para la calle esta bueno

[@jkrnewengland]

Excellent. Thank you for sharing!

[@KyokushinKichiKai]

Thank you for the bunkai! OSU!!!

[@mrtocard]

Great flow drill as always. Thank you very much for sharing !

[@papijelly]

Thank you very much sir. Ossu!

[@abderrahmanabouzia2914]

Muchas gracias

[@bonsaiviking]

Remind me never to volunteer as uke at one of Iain's workshops.

[@YOKO-lr4uj]

Un Maestro! Oss

[@tommydude1985]

Is this goju ryu? Please correct me if i'm wrong.

[@adammills9715]

thomas wildheart As far as I know the kata is found in goju ryu but also many other styles. But no reason people outside of that style can't practice it :)

[@daniel-san836]

Beeeautiful! A++

[@MrMisdemeanor1]

AWESOME

[@TheGweem]

Yes very good 🤙🙏

[@firemunky1980]

b b but karate doesnt have grappling.

[@trevinodude]

Fun fact... Jesse Enkamp (another Karate practitioner who is on KZbin) did some research (even going to Okinawa several times) to learn that modern karate is a incomplete martial art. It was never the most grapple heavy style, but old school karate has more grapples compared to the modern Japanese Karate that spread across the world. Thankfully since kata has been passed down regardless of learning karate old school, modern, or even the sport version, if you can find the practicality of kata (which is why this video exist) aka bunka, we could get closer to the completed form of karate as it was intended to be taught in the older days.

[@cahallo5964]

@@trevinodude Karate is like dirty grappling tbh, wrestling range but you cheat by hitting all the time.

[@theeastblendedvoices5201]

Nice all there Happy and Loughing! But Seriously Focus on Kata! I am Happy also to your good idea for Kata Sensei! Osu! I LOVE KARATE!

[@pablos.2110]

Un kata con una sola defensa y el resto hasta el final ataques........jajajaj, genial, creo que el contrincante ya esta muerto a mitad del Seienchi

[@practicalkatabunkai]

No es una combinación :-) Según el texto que explica el video: “Cabe señalar que también se cubrió la práctica de secuencias individuales y la práctica de técnicas" fuera de orden ". Este breve clip no puede capturar el seminario completo y no es un video instructivo. Como ocurre con todos los simulacros de flujo, son parte del todo y no reemplazan la necesidad de practicar técnicas individualmente (en línea con el concepto Ikken Hissatsu); practicar las técnicas en orden alterno; y practicar las técnicas dentro de simulacros en vivo y semi-vivo (de manera que se puedan aplicar libremente según las demandas de la situación). Los ejercicios de flujo son buenos para la práctica eficiente en el tiempo de un kata dado y para practicar el paso al siguiente método, sin perder ventaja, si el anterior falla. Sin embargo, deben ser una parte integral del todo ". Espero que eso ayude.

[@mariodominguez2011]

Is sad to see somebody changing the original meaning of the karate tecniques and every body approving all this mistakes. I practice Karate since 1989. These are not the meaning of this Katas. Very sad.

[@practicalkatabunkai]

I’ve been training since 1983, you must have learnt the new stuff that came out six years later :-) Joking aside, could you show us the documentation / evidence you have for what you claim is the “original meaning” i.e. the stated intention of the founder of the kata? Or by “original meaning” do you mean the stuff you originally learnt?