Any Goju-Ryu people out there??

[Sandhoppa]

White belt in Okinawan Goju ryu

 

Part of the Temple of Sand dojo

[dingyuan]

Can anyone here list the full sets of Goju Ryu kata? Thanks.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Well, according to one book I have (which means the list may vary slightly from school to school), here goes:

 

Gekisai 1 and 2

 

Sanchin

 

Tensho

 

Shisochin

 

Saifa

 

Sanseiru

 

Seisan

 

Seipai

 

Kururunfa

 

Suparinpei

 

There may be more or less, but John Sells in his book Unante: The Secrets of Karate (There's something about the word "secret" that compels almost every author to put it in the title of a book about karate...) says these are the usual Goju Ryu kata...

 

This book is perhaps the most exhaustive book on karate history, masters, lineages, and random info I have seen out there (In English, anyway...not that I have really looked for books in any other language).

[dingyuan]

Thanks man, from what I have seen so far, Shotokan seems to have the most Katas.

[kotegashiNeo]

It missed one seiunchin one of goju's most famous kata

[Shorin Ryuu]

Nah, Shito Ryu has like 50 or something like that...

 

Shorinkan Kobayashi Shorin Ryu has 15 empty hand kata and 13 weapons kata (not including kihon and fukyuugata). There's seven empty hand kata and 2 weapons kata that I care to keep from other styles that I have learned (and even these I practice much less than the others). I can't imagine learning over 50 empty hand kata. After a while, there really is no point in learning tons of different kata, in my opinion, since it isn't so much the individual techniques that are important as the concepts behind them.

[dingyuan]

Wow...those guys in Shito Ryu, are they able to remember all 50 of them??

[ShotokanKid]

I do Shotokan which they say is a lot like Goju... we also have tournaments with goju people.

[Shorin Ryuu]

That's interesting, as Funakoshi's teachers were both disciples of Matsumura (Shuri-te).

 

What aspect are said to be similar?

 

I'm not attacking you, I just never really heard that said before, so I'm curious.

[P.A.L]

1- I have seen some very high rank karate-ka who starts with a kata and finishes with another kata, IMHO 10 kata correct is better than 50 soso.

 

2- Shotokan has nothing to do with Goju ryu.

 

3- Gekisai kata has two parts the second one also has two parts ,so goju ryu practice

 

Gekisai dai ich, Gekisai dai ni

 

fukyugata ni should be same as gekisai dai ich

 

some body correct me if I am wrong here.