katas which one are you on?

[Jay]

jion and kanku dai

[darkness]

darkness<

do you mean naihanchi?

as in naihanchi shodan, nidan, and sandan?

I just checked the spelling and it is "Naihanchin", so I dunno." My sensai says that it means something like 'sideways fighting'

[Uechi Kid]

Right now my rank kata is Kanchin.

[jarrettmeyer]

I am working on Pinan Nidan. Of the first 3 Pinans, I have to know Nidan for yellow; Nidan and Shodan for orange; and Nidan, Shodan, and Sandan for green. That includes bunkai for the listed kata.

[Kinson]

In my style:

White: taikioku shodan, nidan, sandan, hein shodan

Yellow: hein nidan, gedan borai gedan zizuki, gedan borai gedan zizuki hidori (sp.)....

I'm ranked white because I coincidentally missed the senior instructor's last few visits to the club at the university I attend, and although the club is sometimes taught by a brown belt, he does not have the authority to promote me. So for the last couple of classes before I came back home he would make me do all the white belt katas, harp on me a bit to fix very specific things, then work on me with yellow belt katas. Hein Nidan is awesome.

But it's kind of nice to be a white belt for the summer. I can really focus on technique for the most basic kihon. And it's a good ego killer too

[emma]

I am doing Heian Godan (I'm a purple belt) at the moment and I am not looking forward to the high jumps, twist and turns etc

In my karate club which as recently joined a world karate academy. Adults now do single grade ie single purple/brown/ and higher grade (brown and red)

But surely if an adult is really really good at karate do they need to single grade aswell.

[Koji-Kabuto]

Taikyoku Sokubi sono ichi ni san, and Pinan sono ichi

[Super_Coo]

Since my yellow belt I've been learning Heidan Shodan.

[emma]

According to the uk karate belt system, heian sandan (yellow) is a bit like heian Godan (purple) exept its a bit more difficult and different moves, for instance kihon (white) is a bit like taikyoku shodan (blue) and heian shodan (orange), and heian nidan (red) is a bit like heian yondan (green)

I remember all the katas like this...

white and blue belt kata- to many turns

Orange belt kata- I love the hammer fist/throw

red belt Kata- I love the outar blocks

yellow belt kata- reminds me of losing my temper or being angry

green belt kata- I love doing the sword in the air

purple belt kata- Going across the room alot

Another way of remembering all the coloured belts is like this... using food etc

white- milk

blue- blueberrys

orange- oranges

Red- strawberrys

Yellow- custard

green- salad

purple- ribena

brown- chocolate

brown and red/ higher grade- strawberrys and chocolate

black- liquence

I hope this helps if anyone is having trouble trying to remember everything about coloured belts and katas, in a way its helped me too

Edited August 20, 2005 by emma

[Koji-Kabuto]

Just learned Pinan sono ni.