ALL TIME FAVORITE KATA

[isshinryu5toforever]

My favorite katas are Chinto and Sanchin. Sanchin is very difficult to do correctly, and Chinto is just fun with the balance involved.

[neji84]

bassai dai is always pretty fun to do/watch, although i'm pretty partial to the ryuei-ryu advanced katas (heiku, paiku, anan), but only if they're done correctly. otherwise they just look really awkward.

[P.A.L]

neji84, welcome to KF, it's cool that you know bassai and also practice ryuei-ryu. I love all the ryuei ryu kata although I practice shorin, what version of bassai you practice? we practice Itosu no passai and Matsumura no passai. I have watched Sakamoto doing Anan in 1984 karate world cup , he is a great karate-ka.

[neji84]

hey PAL, thanks for the welcome. i think a few visiting senpais in our dojo are shorin-ryu. i've just started practicing bassai dai, getting it to competition level, although it was never really specified which variation we were practicing (itosu, matsumura, etc) we practice a version very similar if not identical to the bassai kata practiced in shito-ryu, since our styles match are relatively similar. i had the privelege of meeting sakumoto-sensei when he came to california a few summers back. if i can get half as good as he is, i'd be extremely content. haha.

[harleyt26]

In the shito ryu that we practice we do Bassai sho, Bassai dai,Bassai san and Tomari Bassai

[Son Goku the monkeyking]

even though I take kungfu my faviorite FORM is 8 dorfus.

 

holla

[P.A.L]

why they call it bassai san? i've seen tomari passai it's a old kata.

[harleyt26]

I have always suspected that someone had put our bassai san together for tournament reasons,it incorporates a flying sidekick.I did not maintain this kata and now I do not remember it completely.

[Omega14]

Well, my favourite probably has to be, sochin

[delli04]

Gojushio