Breaking Through

<p>Dive into the heart of a living breathing traditional martial art with Colin Wee's award-winning book <em>Breaking Through: The Secrets of Bassai Dai Kata</em>. This is not just a kata manual-it's a practical guide to understanding combative principles encoded in traditional forms.</p><p></p><p>If your training feels like it's missing tactical clarity kinetic power or logical flow this book offers a framework to bridge the gap. Rooted in the JDK Method each technique is designed to address attacks from both left and right sides-because in real combat you can't predict where the strike will come from. And since every opponent's job is to oppose <em>Breaking Through</em> emphasizes counters and workarounds preparing practitioners for the moment their initiative is stopped.</p><p></p><p>With twelve combative lessons and over 200 annotated photographs <em>Breaking Through</em> reveals traps angles takedowns and transitions that challenge assumptions baked into modern hard-style training. Wee's approach blends hard-style efficiency with soft-style adaptability helping instructors and students move beyond rote choreography to real-world application.</p><p></p><p>While centered on Bassai Dai the book isn't Karate-centric-its insights apply across styles and forms. As martial arts historian Ørjan Nilsen notes it's the best Bassai book ever written recommending it even to Taekwondo practitioners.</p><p></p><p>Whether refining your own practice or guiding others <em>Breaking Through</em> equips you to explore structure mechanics and the logic of application-bringing tradition to life under pressure.</p>