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If your style does the Heian/Pinan kata, do you call them by their Okinawan translation (Pinan) or by thr Japanese translation (Heian)?

 

Just curious!! :D

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theve always been heian to me. altohugh i accept pinan is arguably the more 'correct'.

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Although the Heian kata's are derived from the Pinan kata's, they are significantly different kata's. So the question whether you call them Pinan or Heian is in fact irrelevant.

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Yes, but most people seem to lump these kata together as similar (which they are, even though there are differences). I was just curious as to which styles do Pinan and which do Heian.

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Yes, but most people seem to lump these kata together as similar (which they are, even though there are differences). I was just curious as to which styles do Pinan and which do Heian.

As far as I know only in Shotokan and Shotokai these kata are called Heian. In all other styles they are called Pinan or Pian or Pyung Ahn. Even in styles like Wado-ryu and Kyokushinkai, which can be seen as Shotokan off shoots, they are called Pinan.

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