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My lesson for the week


ESA-Shotokan

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Having had a hard week of karate training, the week can be summarised with the expression:

 

"Execute kumite as you would kata and perform kata as you would kumite!"

 

It does make sense. When you watch some people perform kata, it is just a set of moves to them...step this way, do that block, make that attack, step that way...

 

It is nice to see kata done with spirit and I don't mean just fast and hard, that's not fighting spirit, that's just exercise!

 

:karate:

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Yes! Slowing the katas down shows more control, allows you to use more power, get in time with your breathing, etc.. It can also be more difficult holding a tough stance for a bit longer, instead of flying through it. We stress slow, smooth control with a second or two between each move or set of moves.

 

Nothing is more annoying to me than seeing someone speed through a kata - totally ruins it, IMO.

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Nothing is more annoying to me than seeing someone speed through a kata - totally ruins it, IMO.

 

I agree. Kata done too quickly and without thought really annoys me. I feel like saying "that wasn't a kata, it was a glorified dance routine"

 

It's a good 'lesson for the week', ESA-Shotokan!

 

You gonna make this 'thought for the week' into a regular slot?? :brow: :D

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Ah, we hear this advice at least once a month doled out to all different people. Hyungs/katas/forms are not just to be memorized & reiterated. They are to be done with purpose & spirit. Speeding through them also usually means that you're not performing the techniques cleanly & fully.

 

This is sound advice for anyone from a white belt to through black.

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It is nice to see kata done with spirit and I don't mean just fast and hard, that's not fighting spirit, that's just exercise

Nothing is more annoying to me than seeing someone speed through a kata - totally ruins it, IMO.

 

I agree. You have to "fight" the kata, not just performing it :karate:

Never think that Karate is practiced only in The Dojo. The entire world is a Dojo, and true Karate training takes place twenty-four hours a day.

/Gichin Funakoshi Sensei

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I have just been instructed to slow down my kata, after years on all of them (at least 3). As you reach higher ranks, you are usually expected to show more power in your kata, plus slowing them down, as I said, makes them a lot harder. The learning never ceases :D
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I was doing heian shodan bunkai-oyo with a partner last Monday and I honestly felt like a beginner again. It is when you 'study' even the most basic kata that you realise just how much there is within it.

 

Very good stuff.

 

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Kata done all out as if you were fighting is prehapas the best training ever lol I know it winds me everytime.

(General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."

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Seiunchin done slow and correctly is like poetry I never get tired of mentally doing the bunkai while performing the kata. It really gives you a mental edge. Kata does a body good !

Kisshu fushin oni te hotoke kokoro

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