Dive into the heart of a living, breathing, traditional martial art with Colin Wee’s award-winning book Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata.
This non-fiction martial arts application book offers a comprehensive look at twelve combative applications with over 200 vibrant photographs. Step-by-step traditional methods come to life, encompassing traps, striking angles, seamless takedowns, and nuanced combative principles often overlooked in modern martial arts training.
- Winner of 2023 Best Indie Book Awards in Non-fiction Martial Arts,
- Sports Finalist in the 2023 International Book Awards.
What sets this book apart is the fusion of both hard-style efficiency, and soft-style fluidity.
When instructors and students link the martial arts applications from Breaking Through to how Colin and his Black Belts got there – the logic of why the applications work, and how they address a dynamic situation – you will be able to fill in the gaps often created by modern hard style training.
While this book centres on Bassai Dai, you will find it has nothing to do with Karate. This irony was not lost on my martial arts friend and historian Author Ørjan Nilsen from Traditional Taekwondo Ramblings who says this is “the best Bassai book ever written” and is listing it as recommended reading for his Taekwondo students.
With it as a guide, picture-perfect techniques blend into combat-ready defense strategies. Feel free to apply this offering to any other form in any other system. Equip yourself and your students with the insight to explore tactics and body mechanics that complement your own practice.
Title: Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata
Author: Colin Wee
Publisher: Moosul Publishing, LLC., 2023 Website
ISBN: 0996264051, 9780996264051
Length: 160 pages
Originally published: 23 March 2023
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