Goju Ryu katas.

[Goju_boi]

so yamagachi sensei came up with sanchin part 2?

[thesasafras]

im not sure ill ask my sensi tommorow and get back to you but it is the same exept when your going up the middle to punches and blocks then a turn, then you turn back and continue basicly im not going to go into details.

[Goju_boi]

It doesn't sound to different from the sanchin I've seen performed at my dojo.

[thesasafras]

well theres 2 turns, just one more than normal. im going tonight ill ask.

[Goju_boi]

I haven't done it a while, so I guess I have to get my instructors to teach me more.

[angus88]

I'm going to have to go back and reference Seikichi Toguchi's book on this one, but if I'm not mistaken, Sanchin always had two turns, but right before Myagi died, he changed it to only one turn. Something about not wanting or being able to walk around to see both sides of the kata. Like I said, I'll have to check.

Then when Myagi died, his successors changed it back to the old way.

I'm paraphrasing the details on that one, but I'm pretty sure that's correct.

[Goju_boi]

well katas can be different from organization to organization and from school to school

[thesasafras]

ok here it is. One of them (my sensi is not sure which) was made by myagi and the other by hegiona sensi, myagi's teacher.

[Goju_boi]

oh ok,but I thought that nobody does higaonas style anymore?

[thesasafras]

well aparently we do use some of his katas, or my dojo does i mean.