Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata is the culmination of a four-year kata obsession—one form, studied to exhaustion, until it gave up its secrets. This isn’t about choreography. It’s what happens when you strip tradition down to its bones and ask: How does this actually work?
Inside, you’ll find:
- 12 combative lessons, with their applications broken down with step-by-step clarity
- 200+ annotated photographs showing traps, angles, takedowns, and transitions
- A blend of hard-style efficiency and soft-style adaptability
- Tactical insights that challenge assumptions baked into modern training
When instructors and students link the martial arts applications from Breaking Through to how Colin and his Black Belts got there and how it addresses dynamic situations, you will be able to fill in the gaps often created by modern hard-style training.
This book isn’t Karate-centric. It’s kata-centric. And that irony wasn’t lost on martial arts historian Ørjan Nilsen, who calls it “the best Bassai book ever written,” going so far as to recommend it to his Taekwondo students.
Awards and Recognition
Winner – 2026 American Legacy Awards (Sports)
Winner – 2025 Literary Global Book Awards (Non-fiction-Sports)
Winner – 2023 Best Indie Book Awards (Non-fiction Martial Arts)
Finalist – 2023 International Book Awards (Sports Category)
Book Details
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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