katas

[firesong56]

how often dose your dojo make you practise katas for us its 2-3 times a kata and we do 2-3 katas difrent katas a night?

 

also how many katas do you need to now to get your 6kyu?

[Shorinryu Sensei]

Basically, we test one kata per belt, but there are a few extra non-test kata's recently introduced into our system. I've found those new kata to be excellent and well worth the time to practice.

 

My students practice all katas at every class and are expected to practice on there own at home. Depending on who is in the class that evening (small classes), we will run through each kata 1-5 times.

Edited February 11, 2004 by Shorinryu Sensei

[Tal]

At my old Shotokan dojo, the lower grades would do every kata they knew about 3 times each every lesson. The near black belt grades would do about 3 kata about 3 times each lesson. For the black belts it would vary a lot. I used to just do one kata each day and do it about 10 times.

 

To answer your second question; it depends on your style of Karate. Ask your Sensei.

[karatekid1975]

Not enough in my opinion (at my dojang). I teach kids classes, so I get to do them more. But in my actual training class, we don't do them much So I practice forms when I get a break in between teaching and my actual training class (45 minute break). And, of course, I practice them when I can at home.

 

My TSD dojang we did forms twice a week or more. The whole class would do all the forms up to their rank, then go in the back and practice their forms till the rest were done. We would do forms 2 to 3 times each, plus what we did when we had to back off.

 

Plus additional training at home.

[aes]

We are taught 3 katas per belt level and we have belts that go yellow, yellow/black, orange, orange/black etc

 

I am mid way through earning my Purple Belt now and will have learned about 14 katas. Some of these are not so much Katas but techniques put in the form of a Kata. Like Kihon Gerry, which demonstrates 4 different kicks with each leg.

[firesong56]

thanks your all very helpfull

[G95champ]

We do kata a lot. When I teach Id say we work and hr at least on our kata and prob get anywhere from 12 to 20 reps on it. When I traing under my new teacher in our advanced class we do all 29 katas one time each.

[krunchyfrogg]

We do kata almost every night.

 

In my school, you can only gain a belt at a Shiai, and they're held once every 6 months. I'm still a white belt, and I'm starting my 5th kata.

 

I've done (I apologize for the spelling):

 

Empi Kata

 

Taikyoko Shodan

 

Taikyoko Nidan

 

Taikyoko Sandan

[Karateka_latino]

When we train Kata we usually do them twice each. When we are learning a new one, you repeat until you learn all the steps correctly.

[aefibird]

We train in kata usually every lesson. Each kata usually is repeated between 5 and 10 times, although the number of kata that we do varies with each lesson. If we're learning a new kata then we keep going through it until the order of the techniques are learned by heart. Last week the black belts and 1st kyu grades learned Chinte and we spent about 3/4 of the lesson just repeating that kata.