your school's kata requirements

[isshinryu5toforever]

Yellow - Seisan

 

Orange - Seiuchin

 

Green - Naihanchin, Wansu

 

Purple - Chinto

 

3rd Brown - Kusanku

 

2nd Brown - Sunsu, Tokameni No Kun

 

1st Brown - Sanchin, Kusanku Sai, Bo/Bo kumite

 

Black - Sanchin w/test, Urashi Bo, Bo/Sai kumite

 

2nd Black - Shi Shin No Kun, Chatan Yara No Sai

[Sparkey]

At our dojo we do both empty-hand and Kobudo. Both are required for rank. So the kata we learn are:

 

KARATE

 

Naihanchi

 

Shodan, Nidan, Sandan

 

Pinan

 

Shodan, Nidan, Sandan, Yondan, Godan

 

Seisan

 

Wansu

 

Ananku

 

Passai-do

 

Passai-gua

 

Gojushiho

 

Wanshin

 

Chinto

 

Kusanku

 

Hakutsuru

 

Ichiban, Niban

 

Uechi-Ryu Sanchin

 

And then for KOBUDO we have:

 

Shihonuke

 

Sakugawa no kun bojitsu

 

Choun no kun

 

Tokumine no kun

 

Matayoshi Shinpo no tonfa shodan

 

Ushi Komesu no nunchaku sho

 

Matayoshi Shinpo no tonfa nidan

 

Agena nunchaku

 

Hamahiga no tonfa

 

Agena no sai

 

Suis no kun ichiban

 

Kyan Chotoku no sai

 

Nicho kama: Shodan, nidan

 

Ko bo

 

Bo-tinbe

 

Bo-bo

 

Bo-tonfa

 

Bo-sai

 

Bo-kama

 

Tsuken aku cho no eiku ti

 

Nago Nakamura no sai

 

Of course not ALL of them are required for black belt, we have leave room to grow!

 

You can see the specific rank requirements if you want:

 

http://www.westsidemartialarts.com/curriculum

 

Good question! I like to see what other people are learning.

[Kieran-Lilith]

Ummm....I am only a poor yellow belt, and therefore know very little....I know a black belt kata, but that's besides the point.

 

I know, so far:

 

Nihanchi Shodan

 

Pinan Shodan

 

Ichikyu

 

Nikyu

 

and some Bo kata that I can't remember the name of.

[AngelaG]

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.

 

I'm Shotokan and we do 27 kata. I would suspect the post you are referring to is only describing the kata you need to get to Black belt, obviously to get to higher black belts you need to know even more kata.

 

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Angela

[italian_guy]

Go ju ryu up to green->blue.

 

white->yellow 3 taikioku (jodan,chudan,gedan)

 

yellow->orange Gekisai Ich,Ni

 

orange->green Sanchin,Tensho

 

green-> blue Saifa ....

 

then I don't know too far away from my current level.

[1kickKO]

Ah I see..haha the internet is bad for clarification.

[ninelivesarentenough]

yea we only need 7 to get our black belt (our regular curriculum is more self-defense weighted) but if you're in black belt club there are a disgusting amount of kata you can learn.

[vertigo]

Ah I see..haha the internet is bad for clarification.

 

oops, my bad.. Yeah, AngelaG's right.. those were just the kata we need to get to shodan.. past there? I have not a clue what we need to know..

[Kempohands]

Wow, I feel out of place. My school calls all the katas/forms by english names (well, most of them at least).

 

RANK/Kata(s)-Form(s) learned at that rank

 

WHITE/"White Tiger 1"

 

YELLOW/"White Tiger 2"

 

ORANGE/"White Tiger 3" and "1 Kata"

 

BLUE/"2 Kata"

 

2nd BLUE/"White Tiger 4(Cat 1)" and "Stature of the Crane"

 

GREEN/"White Tiger 5"

 

2nd GREEN/"Tiger Form(Cat 2)" and "3 Kata"

 

BROWN/"White Tiger 6"

 

2nd BROWN/"4 Kata" and "5 Kata"

 

3rd BROWN aka Black Candidate/"Mantis" and "Cat 3"

 

So that's 15 Katas/forms we must know before Black Belt. At Shodan the forms are "6 Kata" and "Hansuki" (sry about spelling). After that, I don't know.

[kataman]

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.

I aggree we do one kata per belt till we hit brown.then 5 for each dan.

 

Heian shodan-nidan-sandan-yodan-godan.

 

bassai sho-kanku sho-tekki shodan (from brown to black