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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 allow for block, parry, manipulation, throw, or strike, and that the form can be reordered without losing function. The tape covers the connection between upper and lower base in constant flux, how locked wrists and ankles create gaps a skilled opponent can fill, and the principle that any motion within the kata contains an escape, a strike, a throw, and a moment of decision.
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