your school's kata requirements

[ninelivesarentenough]

what kata are you expected to learn as you go from rank to rank in your school? i'll do my school to show what i mean.

 

white to yellow- none

 

yellow to orange- none

 

orange to green- taikyoku

 

green to blue- Gekisai

 

blue to purple- Heian Yondan

 

purple to red- bojutsu-sho

 

red to brown1- bassai-dai

 

brown1 to brown2- 5 animal kata

 

brown2 to black- jukito-sho (spelling?)

 

i don't know what's above that. i mainly want to get a feel for what are considered beginner, intermediate, and advanced kata and such. also just because for some reason i like seeing rank requirements.

[Chado]

I'll try to 'stay within the box' because my school has some variations for certain 'special circumstances' but since you wanted to know for rank requirements...we'll assume were talking about 'joe student off the street who wants to be a black belt as soon as possible (insert laughter here)'

 

white belt - start learning gekisai dai ichi

 

yellow - continue working on gekisai dai ichi

 

gold - gekisai dai ichi

 

orange - gekisai dai ni, start working on san chin

 

sr. orange - perfect gekisai dai ni

 

green - saifa

 

purple - seiyunchin

 

blue - Sanseiru

 

brown - seipai

 

black - depends

 

This list again isn't quite correct since my sensei changes his mind about things alot...(saying you need to learn more than 'required' for your next belt) It takes a long time to get belts at my school...

Edited February 22, 2005 by Chado

[Colonel_Reb]

2 Green stripes - Seisan

 

3 Green stripes - Seiuchin

 

Green Belt - Naihanchi

 

1 Brown stripe - Sanchin

 

2 Brown stripes - Wansu

 

Brown Belt - Chinto

 

1 Black stripe - Kusanku

 

Black Belt - Sunsu

[G95champ]

Ok you can check out the following 2 sites.

 

https://www.angelfire.com/wv2/wvka thats the way we do it.

 

each style may be differant but usually the Heian series is always done first in any shotokan style.

[1kickKO]

COLOR OF BELT KATAS WEAPONS

 

WHITE 1-2

 

YELLOW 2-4

 

BLUE 4-6

 

GREEN 5-7

 

PURPLE 7-8 1

 

BROWN 9-10 2

 

BROWN + 1 TIP 11-12 3

 

BROWN + 2 TIPS 13-14 4

 

Black 15-20 5+

 

The names of our kata and the order in which they are taught/learned are as follows:

 

Fu-Ku-Gata-Ich

 

Fu-Ku-Gata-Ni

 

Pinan Sho-dan

 

Pinan Ni-dan

 

Pinan San-dan

 

Pinan Yon-dan

 

Pinan Go-dan

 

Saisan

 

Jiian

 

Bassadai

 

Bassasho

 

Kanku-dai

 

Kanku-sho

 

Empi

 

Go-Ju-Shi-Ho-Sho

 

Go-Ju-Shi-Go-Dai

 

Shinto

 

Hangetsu

 

Unsu

 

Sainchin

[billycamaro]

This is to much to list but i'm a white belt in shitoryu and i know 5 katas and working on a 6th they are shihono , kihon kata ni , kihon kata go, heian shodon, heian nidan and i'm working on chino kata i've been working on them for awhile and i'm very good , will be testing soon and hope to learn more but to get your black belt it will take about 20 to 25 katas.

[1kickKO]

Well good luck testing...hope ya pass and have fun with those katas. P.S. The Heian katas are the same as our pinans...only probably with a few minor variations.

[vertigo]

(all kyu ranks)

 

9th to 8th - Heian Shodan

 

8th to 7th - Heian Nidan

 

7th to 6th - Heian Sandan

 

6th to 5th - Heian Yondan

 

5th to 4th - Heian Godan

 

4th to 3rd - Tekki Shodan

 

3rd to 2nd to 1st - Choice of Bassai Dai, Jion, Kanku Dai, Enpi

 

That is as far as I know for our belt testings

[1kickKO]

Wow you only practice 10 katas? In Shotokan? Or is that only for the testing and you practice more..because I know that shotokan generally practices about 20 something katas.

[P.A.L]

We have 14 katas

 

Naihanchi shodan,nidan,sandan

 

Pinan shodan to godan

 

passai sho,dai

 

chinto

 

Kusanku sho,dai

 

Gojushiho

 

before 14 katas we have 6 kihon katas for warm up.