I received an interesting message from a fellow who is planning to attend the Summer intensive in OKC this year. He asked if the Nanatsu no kata that I planned to lead was the same thing as Hando no kata. I had to look it up, but sure enough - there are groups of people doing Tokio Hirano's exercises under the name Hando no kata. (Unfortunately, that video can't be embedded in my blog, so follow the link for an interesting performance.)
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It's neat to see other interpretations by people with different ideas. Even the name, Hando no kata, is interesting because it is yet another lens on what Hirano might have been thinking - my dictionary says the name Hando means something like "reaction or recoil or kick-back or back-lash" - and this is very much an exercise of inducing a reaction in uke and then amplifying that reaction until it overwhelms uke.
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