What is your favorite tonfa kata i recently went to traditional tourniment and didnt see many people runing tonfa kata myself and maybe one other .just wondering neither of us did very well even though the kata looked very good . the tonfa kata that i know curently are jushi no tonfa and hama higa no tonfa .

 

 

I only know one tonfa kata - Tsun Kuwa Kata Ichi

 

I believe it was a kata designed by Matayoshi for the syllabus up to black belt

 

 

Wow I didn't even know that there were katas for the tonfa. My understanding was that the tonfa is a fairly modern weapon akin to the billy club or nightsticks that those security guards carry around.

 

But then I watched Kenshin and then I realized otherwise

I have a video somewhere of some Okinwan Karateka doing Tonfa Kata - from the BBC Way of the Warrior series done in 1980. Certainly looks like a traditional thing rather than modern.

 

 

The Shiho, Kihon Ichii, Kihon Ni, and Kobu Shodan I know I think are specific to my school. Many schools have their own forms done only by them.