Unsu & Unshu history, kata & bunkai - Shito-ryu to Shotokan

Short excerpt video: The Shotokan version is called "Unsu" while the Shito-ryu versions uses the kata's original name "Unsu". Translation of kanji is "Cloud Hands". History, bunkai & three versions of the Kata are presented in this video online including the Mabuni family line style of Shito-ryu (Seito Shito-ryu), the tournament style shito-ryu version (popularized by Hayashi-ha) and the Shotokan pattern. Selected bunkai are also shown lead by 7th Dan Shihan, Jason Armstrong and other sensei supporting style variants and bunkai.

The full 1 hour video and Unshu (Unsu) webpage is at: https://sites.google.com/view/traditi...

Unshu classical bunkai is compared to street fighting emergency department & police statistics. An evidenced-based analysis (driven by data) allows one to create at least the following 4 categories of violence which may be relevant to karate-ka.

1. Male-on-male violence
2. Law enforcement (buncer/police) - which has different psychological considerations and physical relaities
3. Female domestic violence
4. Female violence derived related to a stranger attack

The aim is not to get away from classical karate, but given data is now available, to find the overlap of techniques which are both classical and practical based on statistics. The concept is represented in the below overlap diagram and is reviewed in detail in the book “Street Fighting Statistics & Medical Outcomes linked to Karate & Bunkai Selection”.