In Levels of Training, I used the three levels of Shoden – Chuden – Okuden as the framework. In Japanese, there are other terms of distinction that describe a progression of waza through a hierarchical framework would be: kihon, ki no nagare, oyo, henka, kanren, and kaeshi-waza. I prefer to collapse these distinctions and callContinue reading “IKKYO – HENKA WAZA”