Kihon Kata, or Takyoku Shodan, can be used to teach effective self defence against a range of commonly occurring attacks. Here we use it to deal with the following acts of aggression:

• Both wrists restrained (yoi)
• Same-side wrist grab (e.g. left hand to right wrist) (gedan barai, oi tsuki)
• Wrist grab from behind (gedan barai through 180 degrees)
• Cross-body wrist grab (e.g. right hand to right wrist) (oi tsuki)
• Double chest grab to be followed by head butt (gedan barai to 90 degrees, oi tsuki)
• Low punch/upper cut (gedan barai followed by (in this example) two punches)
• High straight punch (oi tsuki, 270 degree gedan barai, oi tsuki)
• Double-hand throttle from behind (gedan barai through 180 degrees, oi tsuki)
• Grab to chest (gedan barai through 90 degrees, oi tsuki)
• Aggressive posturing (i.e. raised finger/fist) (double (or triple) punch)
• Punch to head (punch followed by 270 degree turn gedan barai, oi tsuki)
• High swing (180 degree gedan barai followed by oi tsuki)

In these sequences, the initial aggressor will be called tori, and the defender will be called uke, because of their initial roles in giving and receiving aggression. Here tori is Mike Flanagan and uke is Zoltan Dienes. Some of the applications given use overlapping sequences in the kata.