Arkon

this is another quite different version, you may agree it's almost Ryuei Ryu version, but some positions are different (facing North and then South, at the beginning after Kake Uke, Shotei Uchi sequences, where Sakumoto used to have an uncommon feet position, in this clip Neko Ashi Dachi is performed)... I saw this version performed by a girl from Croatia in an European competition... I just wonder why there are so many different versions of this kata, everyone claiming to be the one... There's another clip: Anan kata performed by Javier Rodriguez This is almost the same as Colaiacomo's one, more then the previous video, and claims to be Hayashi-ha shitoryu version... I can just think i'd better practise this kata the way my local federation rules say... if I were looking for the original form i think there'd be no problem, just Sakumoto's kata is the one, thought he learned it from the founder of the style Nakaima...

Thanks... I knew about Scott Mertz' video, but his version is still very different from any other.. Please look at this clip: Shitoryu Anan It is just the same as performed by Italian team... I'd like to know if the version you practise agrees with this one... in particular about the final sequence facing south (steps 58, 59, 59bis in Colaiacomo's above picture)...

Hello! I'm new on this forum... I'd like your great help to solve this problem... I learned this kata some time ago, with some Philipinos friends (from their national team ), it was the Ryuei Ryu version, the same performed by sensei Sakumoto... and this is OK.. I'm Italian, and in a clip from a competition I saw Anan performed by the Italian team... and it's a bit different, it's the hayashi shitoryu version... I'd like to catch the main differences, I hope somebody here knows well this kata and can help me... please can you answer me on these points about shitoryu version? 1. after the two kiais on the west-east line, face north with right yoko uke (hand in ippon nukite), then nukite forward and back to the same position in yoko uke, but now the finger is up or the fist is closed?? 2. not longer after that, repeat the same sequence facing south. Then you go diagonally in Shiko dachi, what is the technique? A kind of Soto Uke like in Sakumoto's version? 3. after the following sequence facing north (double ura kake uke, maegeri, double nukite), and facing south, you go again diagonally in shiko dachi. Is there the same technique as before? Or punches to chamber and then down, before the kick? 4. at the very end, is there just kake uke stepping back, like sakumoto's kata, or yoko uke (fist in ippon nukite) and then kake uke?? Your help would be extremely helpful... waiting!!! PS. what about this explanation? Anan performed by Cinzia Colaiacomo Is this like the one you practise?