Hi Robb, I step back in the defence, mainly because this is an easy way to avoid an attack, I see your point about Katas moving forwards, most of them do, you however answered your question in your post to me about that, you step in to your knife defence with the wa-uke, kata movements can negotiate...

Thanks Bill, for your critique mostly. I too 'see' the stiffness you are talking about, and the unnatural oi-zuki attacks. The reason we used them (we spent a few hours yesterday in the dojo working on them, Daniel...yesterdays uke was a bit sore today! hehe) was to have a basis to start. Do you thi...

Hello. I have a drill that a few of us at the dojo (Shubenacadie,Nova Scotia) have been working on lately; I was hoping that some of you may read the description and give some advice on it. The drill was thought of to teach applications to the wa-uke block, our mindset was that we practice Kata to l...