We will examine the kata Gankaku to illustrate these traditional bunkai and also explore oyo for certain techniques.

Funakoshi Sensei left Shotokan with twenty precepts or concepts of training. The second of these concepts is: “Karate Ni Sente Nashi” or, loosely translated, “There is no first attack in karate”1 This precept seems to be simple, and yet has hidden depths of meaning.