Sanseiru "MMA Bunkai" Seminar

Visited some old friends on Saturday where I did brief seminar on Bunkai (applications) from the Kata Sanseiru. Because of the audience I showed how bunkai from Sanseiru could be modified to fit in with material that I had been taught in MMA seminars. This recapitulation of the techniques is designed to serve as an aide memoir for the participants, and also to stimulate discussion for others who are interested in Sanseiru.

Karate Sanseiru Seminar 31-07-2010

I have posted some video of Sanseiru applications before.

Technique 1 (Opening 3 punches)bunkai: pummelling for underhooks

Here is an example of pummelling



Technique 4 bunkai: single leg takedown.
(techniques 2 and 3 were skipped)

I went through a couple of variations, namely pushing with the left hand on the knee, on the hip, and using body weight to take down)

There are some examples of this here:



At the end, of this



And here it is done in a more MMA/wrestling oriented way



Combination 5 (the up-elbow, cross, front kick, turn-outer block combination) was done in a slightly changed order (to fit the MMA theme):

*catching a hook punch with the elbow (one can also dig into the attacker's arm);
*cross punch;
*use front kick to step past opponent
* turn for a winding throw (cross between Tai-Otochi and Seio Otoshi)

Have a look at this video for some more ideas on this:



For the "X-block" it was used as a Morote Gari. I have previously
described this technique.

Here is another video of Morote Gari being demonstrated:



Final technique (Morote Ko Uke) I used as a single collar grab, similar to that used in the wrestling ankle pick video above.