The second section of the Miyama Kata works with gliding movement, like a mountain range with climbs and plateaus, transitioning between long, intermediate, and close range. Hanshi Juchnik focuses on the shuto and how it functions as both a strike and a parry, and demonstrates timing and gliding motion that allows a practitioner to cut into an opponent's movement before it completes. The tape covers block and takedown applications, the connection between the form and bladed work, transitional postures, and the way the same hand motion can serve as defensive parry or power strike depending on which hand carries the intent.
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Miyama - Three Mountain #3
The third section of the Miyama Kata deals with rooted technique, peaks rather than rolling hills or plateaus, and incorporates work from the sanchin and otoko atemi along with movements drawn from the jo, sword, and bladed technique. Hanshi Juchnik emphasizes that the form is frozen but the tran...
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Miyama: Three Mountain Revisited
This more advanced look at Miyama, primarily Miyama One, breaks through some of the barriers that arise when practitioners view the form through their existing assumptions about martial arts. Hanshi Juchnik emphasizes that kata and kumite are not separate, that any movement of the form should all...
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Nekobuto
The Nekobuto, or cat dance form, was passed from James Mitose to Robert Trias and named in respect for Yamaguchi, founder of Japanese Goju Ryu. This tape presents Nekobuto Shodan, Nidan (also called the Geri kata for its early high kicks), and Sandan, with attention to low stances, double strikin...
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