Tekki Nidan
Tekki Nidan (iron horse, second level)
aka: Naihanchi or Naifuanchi, also known as Kiba Dachi Kata.
Like its parent kata, Tekki Nidan is made up of strong techniques that suggest a decisive response to a threatening entanglement. It introduces mae empi, and uses again the precision uraken found in Tekki Shodan.
History
While Naihanchi Shodan is a staple of Okinawan Shuri-te, the Nidan and Sandan forms are thought to be the late nineteenth/early twentieth century work of Yasutsune Itosu, developing the themes found in the original kata. It has also been suggested, as with the Pinans, that the three Tekki kata are the result of a much longer original sequence being broken up into shorter segments, though there is no foundation for this. ~ GE