Bunkai Course

The people who aren't subscribers to this Course will pay £247 (approx $382.85) for the Bunkai Bootcamp. In the Bootcamp you would get 5 days training in Bunkai AND get to join in with the Karate Academy classes that take place in the evenings during your course. Obviously, you'll still need to find somewhere to stay and we can recomend several of the local hotels or Bed & Breakfast establishments.

Now, with the DVDs you can watch again and again once you own it. You'd have to do a lot of seminars to get the amount of information contained within this Bunkai Strategies DVD Course.

YOUR BUNKAI STRATEGIES WORKSHOP WAS THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE MARTIAL ARTS SHOW FOR ME - DT, Birmingham

A DVD can be frozen to inspect the detail of a technique, but if you had a question the DVD can't answer like an instructor can. Our solution: fire off your email question directly to the "hotline" email that we provide to subscribers and Sensei will get back to you personally with his answer, and if it can't be done in writing he'll create a video download just for your query. Now Private Tuition is virtually priceless, but let's say you spent just a little time each week with me at £687 (approx $1064.85) or more per year, but here it's included in the Bunkai Strategies DVD Course.

Now these Bunkai Strategies Course DVDs are all NEW material, commissioned specially for this course. If you liked the information on my Kata & Application DVDs then you'll be pleased to hear that this series both takes things at a more "broken down" pace AND goes further to show just how these principles get put to work.

There are 12 DVDs in the course.

Module 1 shows the basic distances and why they are what we base our bunkai on. It covers the types of attack that we deal with, explains the first rule of application that makes sense of everything else (the one that SOOOOOO many other people get absolutley wrong). The basic moves that are taught in just about every Karate school in the world are given level 1 applications, and the importance of training in "thin air" is given it's grounding.

Module 2 teaches the next rule of application, how applications are built up to deal with the "uncompliant" and there are more examples of techniques with the clear difference of what you do in the dojo versus what you do in the street. Of the hundred gedan barai applications that we practice, the first 5 are presented here (if you know sensei then number 1 will surprise you!)

Module 3 reveals the purpose of turns and "mawatte". It also includes another 5 gedan barai applications

Don't you want to know what's on Disc 4 and onwards? "Assisted blocks"? Why breathing is so important (and how)? The art of triangulation. What those jumps in kata are for? How to use your bunkai on the floor? There's lots more.

Is this for everyone? No.
If you think you know it all then you shouldn't buy this; even the things that should surprise you in the Course are not for people like you.
If you you are more concerned with what happens in your "style" than effectiveness then this stuff will probably offend you mightily; best steer clear.
If you think that Karate is all about winning competitions and medals then you should probably leave this website alone completely, don't even think about taking the Course.

But if you are still learning- whether that's after one year or twenty -and still experimenting; and still finding effectiveness; and looking into your art for the sheer enjoyment of studying it then you will find this set of information useful.

So, how does this course work?
Invest in this course. We will send one DVD to your address every month. There might also be the occasional bonus DVD (yeah - like, with every module, duh). You have one month to evaluate and assimilate the information and fire off any questions you have before the next disc arrives. In the summer you can come and take part in the Bunkai Strategies Bootcamp at the special reduced price. The Course builds, bit by bit. Starting with the bare basics of Applied Karate in Self Defence and building up to show just why those moves occur as they do in the forms you practice. You might already know some of it. By the end you will have reasons for all the things you do in your kata - particularly if you take the time to ask the questions and work the answers into your regular training.

What of the cost? Well, we could be glib and say that this information is priceless.

We could justify it by calculating out all the parts and then you could weigh that up against what you would pay for courses/seminars and repeating the information many times before it sunk in during "live" classes.

The fact of it is, this stuff is specialised.

The average martial artist training a couple of times per week isn't really that interested in the content of this Course. Those of us who have travelled to other cities and other countries just to meet Masters and glean their "secrets" know that there are no short-cuts. But what you can do is gather resources, and this Bunkai Strategies DVD Course is a huge resource, worth much more than the price you pay. Let's break it down anyway:
12x DVD £360
Feedback tuition £687
Bunkai Bootcamp £247
makes £1294 (approx $2070)

You might tell us that you won't use the feedback all the time, or you live too far away to take the Bunkai Bootcamp (except that if it was something you really wanted you'd find a way to be there). Still, we understand that not everyone will use all that is available to them.
With this in mind, we're not asking for £1294.
When this thing appears as a complete package (instead of year-long course) it will be £997 (approx $1545.35). No discounts.

If you want to get involved in the Bunkai Strategies DVD Course now (get ahead of the crowd) we won't even ask for £997.

Nope, we're only after £850. You have to admit, that for the cost of the DVDs, the feedback tuition, the Bootcamp discount, etc that makes for a great saving, doesn't it?

The catch? This offer is for NOW.

At the end of 2010 it goes up to it's proper price of £997.

OUR GUARANTEE: If you watch all the DVDs, use the feedback system, do the course, (valued above at £1234 (approx $1912.70) and you feel for ANY REASON that this wasn't worth the measly £450 (approx $720) that we're asking then all you have to do is return the DVDs and associated materials and we'll give you a FULL REFUND. Anytime, even a year after this course has finished. We know it's that good.

Oh, yes, there are some extra materials for you, too, but they wouldn't be a surprise if we told you about them, would they? (Never before seen seminar footage, ground-fighting, old tuition that's long since out of production - more than 6 hours of bonuses across the course).

ACTUALLY it's not just six hours anymore. Those who join the the Bunkai Strategies DVD course in 2010 will receive more Bonuses. We started using the Bonuses in the non-public offering of the course, and they went down really well. For those subscribing now we've got more additional DVDs that the "dry run guys" didn't get at the time we tested this course out. Yes, they've had the material since, thanks for your concern. Now we're including a whole seminar of John Burke and Martyn Harris sensei with a surprise knockout included. You'll see Neil Ellison sensei with a class, and then frankly to the camera with his Directions lesson. Watch John Burke sensei's students working out Bunkai for themselves to see how the processes work. Yes, the Bonuses alone could make a whole course, but the subscribers get this information at no extra charge. And yes, there are still a few surprises along the way. Join today, before the price goes up, before the Bonuses get turned into a seperate "product", and before your fellow martial artists get too far ahead.