ALL TIME FAVORITE KATA

[kotegashiNeo]

yeah seiunchin is a great kata but I also enjoy but sometimes hate shisochin it has a great tai chi fell to it. I also really enjoy sanseryu, I feel it is a highly underated kata with quite posiibly the greatest two person application ever.

[aes]

My favorite currently is Passai Show.

[XxpengwynxX]

Tekke Shodan and Sienchin. (I'm pretty sure I spelled both of those wrong.)

[Shorin Ryuu]

I like Seiuchin a lot...I think I like Naihanchi the least.

 

I've gained a huge appreciation for naihanchi in the past half year. I've also seen a fascinating modification of it where it is down forwards and backwards as opposed to side to side.

[P.A.L]

shorin ryu, could you explain on that modification a little bit.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Erm...I guess. Like I said, I only saw it. I don't know it (they teach it at Doug Perry's dojo). I actually don't recall if it was all forward (every step forward for the first half of the kata) and all back, or every step right was forward, every step left was back, but it was something like that. I just remember it sticking out in my mind because earlier that day Doug Perry had just gone over some of the bunkai for the naihanchi kata and seeing it done to the front made it so much clearer.

 

Sorry I couldn't be too much help...I'll have to learn it maybe next year (I might ask him if he doesn't mind me bumming at his dojo for another week or so next Spring).

[harleyt26]

A couple of weeks ago I was training with two Isshinryu stylists,their Naihanchi started to the left besides that it was very close to what I do.They commented that their Shorin Ryu freinds start to the right as I do.Which directions do other styles step first?I assume the front and back version starts to the front? I would not think Naihanchi kata would start in a defensive type step to the rear. Tom Hodges

[Shorin Ryuu]

Yeah, it starts to the front.

[SaiFightsMS]

A couple of weeks ago I was training with two Isshinryu stylists,their Naihanchi started to the left besides that it was very close to what I do.They commented that their Shorin Ryu freinds start to the right as I do.Which directions do other styles step first?I assume the front and back version starts to the front? I would not think Naihanchi kata would start in a defensive type step to the rear. Tom Hodges

 

From what I have read; when Shimabuku put together the cirriculum for Isshin ryu he took the parts of the nihainchi katas that he like the most and combined them into one kata. Then he changed the direction the kata started it to differentiate it from all other niahinchi kata's done by other styles.

[Shorin Ryuu]

By some weird sort of chance, I learned Naihanchi to the front today...and I was pretty off on some of the stuff...I'll explain when I have more time.