Bassa Dai is the first brown belt kata practiced by new brown belts in many Shotokan karate Dojo. Here at SKO we have five brown belt kata, with Bassai Dai being the first.
Bassai Dai means to storm a fortress or to penetrate a fortress and starts with a very strong move that perfectly represents the meaning of the kata.
Bassai Dai contains many basic movements that can be found in the five Heian kata, but along with these basic karate techniques there are some really quite advanced techniques.
Some of these advanced techniques include the grab and stamping kick at the first kiai point, the slow double hand pull up, then double hammer fist and straight punch, along with the two sweeping blocks/throws and three yama tsuki (U punch).
This is one of our basic kata tutorials and we will have a more advanced Bassai Dai tutorial coming to the Dojo soon.
Bassai Dai Kata TutorialMoves 1 To 14 In Detail In this Shotokan Bassai dai step by step tutorial we are working on kata moves 1 to 14 in detail. Bassai Dai Move 1 A few different ways to practice this first move of bassai dai ~Land block/strike with the front foot.Land block/strike with the baack foot.Lift the
Read MoreLive Class Video Recording Of Bassai Dai In this live karate zoom class, Sensei amos worked on the brown belt kata Bassai Dai. With Bassai Dai being the first brown belt kata practiced, the aim of this class was to get everyone to understand the order of the techniques and be able to go from the
Read MoreBassai Dai Kata Tutorial Click to play In this karate class, Sensei Amos worked on the Shotokan karate kata Bassai Dai, which translates as ‘to storm a fortress’ or ‘breaking through an enemy’s fortress’, characterized by the very strong first move in the kata. Bassai Dai is in most Shotokan Dojo, the first shotokan kata to
Read MoreBassai Dai Kata Moves 9 to 13 Click to play Sorry for the poor quality, we are soon going to re film all the zoom tutorials. Moves 9 to 13 of Bassai Dai requires a strong leg and hip rotation. There are several applications for this combination but we will just refer to them as being a block
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