Does your school have he unique form..

[yireses]

Does your school have he's unique form, maybe made by your grand Master our someone from your linage?

 

I know that Hung Gar has one that Wong Fei Hong made some Changes, what about yours?

[delli04]

Aside from small varitations in the kata everything we do has remained the same over the years.. Meaning no one has made up new katas or drastically changed any of the ones that we have. Same is true for the Tai ji, Xing yi, and Ba gua that I do.

[yireses]

Would changing our making a new kata our form break the tradition in a style?

[pineapple]

Kajukenbo katas were created by one of it's founders, Adriano Emperado. Some branches have katas created by his students. Many have modified the original katas.

 

I was recently invited to watch a Shorin Ryu class by a friend of forum member, SHORIN RYUU. The katas that they performed had the same names as the ones that I learned in Shotokan but were extremely different. Same sequence of techniques but every stance and hand position differed from how I was taught by Sensei Kenneth Funakoshi so I guess that even in traditional schools, katas change.

[Shorin Ryuu]

Yes. While there are variations amongst the Okinawan styles of karate due to different teachers and lineages, many of the core principles and biomechanics of the kata themselves were changed during the transmission of Okinawan karate to the Japanese mainland. Even during Funakoshi Gichin's lifetime, he noted (lamented) the change the kata done by his students underwent, a process that continued even more so after his death.

[taiji fajin]

Grandmaster Feng Zhiqiang created the 48 forms I practice from the "long form." He got rid of replicated parts and added in forms from pao cui. My laoshi is a formal disciple of Grandmaster Feng, so we stay close to Grandmaster Feng's training style.

[Chaz]

One of the things I really like about my art is that everybody seems to develope there own sense of style in San Soo. All the Masters I've seen are truly amazing but theres always something that seperates them and all there students.

 

Sometimes I wonder if thats where the "San Soo thug" steriotype came from, some peoples style in practice remind me of what a thug would do...a smart thug, even if they're not like that at all.

 

But after all, San Soo is also known as "Chinese Street Fighting". I'm getting way off topic, sorry...just a thought...