Favorite Kyokushin Kata

[b3n]

My favorite kyokushin kata is probably Saifer of Gekisai sho.

Please share yours

[y2_sub]

Mine are Sanchin and yantsu .

[granmasterchen]

over here in japan, many of the traditional schools (kyokushin karate) are starting to quit teaching kata....they are changing their schools completely over to K1 style tournament fighting.....I think this is very sad, in the coming 20 yrs, if things don't change, much knowledge will be lost

[b3n]

y2_sub: Hey, i also like yantsu. What belt are you?

granmaster: That is very sad.

[Bloke]

Mine are Tensho and Sushiho.

It will be a great pity if kata are abandoned as there is some much to learn from them

Osu!

[A. Orstrom]

I agree. I will even go so far as to state that if they abandon kata, it is no longer kyokushinkai, regardless of their other curriculum.

[granmasterchen]

it is very sad to see it happening over here. It is something that is spreading all over Japan, the whole tournament thing.....many schools are dropping their old curriculums, not just kyokushin...numerous karate schools...it's sad to see. The whole art is just drilling some basic kicks and punches, and then full contact K1 style fighting, they have dropped pressure points, kata, beaking, and anything that doesnt have an immediate impact on K1

[MadMatt]

I believe Sosai Oyama used to warn against this happening and was very frustrated at dojos not teaching all the aspects of the original syllabus. To focus entirely on tournament fighting greatly reduces the effectiveness of Kyokushin as a martial art as a whole, if that is their desire, then fine but in that case they should not claim to be Kyokushinkai.

[MadMatt]

My favorite kata is skito or skino kata (sorry I don't know how to spell it), but I still have many to learn. Oh well training, training and more training...eventually I'll get there!

[b3n]

MadMatt: Traditionally called Tsuki no Kata, is it the one where the first move is a step backward into kibadachi, gedan berai then punch?