Flashback to a seminar with Sascha Wagener and Heero Miketta in Manchester years ago in 2013. Topic: Kakie Waza and the five elements in Karate.
Combat often looks chaotic. Especially in unarmed fighting, many things happen at once: movement, striking, pressure, balance, clinch, interruption, disengagement, re-entry. Because of this density, fighting is often experienced as unpredictable. But experienced practitioners frequently notice something else. Beneath the apparent chaos, recognizable structures begin to appear. Not fixed techniques. Not scripted sequences. But recurring […]
Keep what survives contact. This article shows how constraints, cycles, and partner pressure turn values into behaviour — and training into something that lasts. Sandro Sandten teaches partner-contact–oriented Karate with a pedagogical and sustainable design focus. His work centres on training systems that remain functional under real-life variability — honest partner interaction, clear constraints, and […]