newbie question....

[moneygqj]

I attended my first Karate class on Saturday and I learned the basics. I know some of the other newbie's that have been there a couple weeks are doing something called the 22 or 27 moons. Actually i'm not sure what it was called but it's pretty much a bunch of blocks and punches and they count when they do it.

Does anyone know what the actually name of it is because I would like to look it up on google to practice it on my own before my next class. I might be way off in the name i'm sorry.

thanks

[24fightingchickens]

You saw kata practice, I believe.

A kata is a pre-arranged routine of techniques performed in a stepping pattern almost like a choreographed dance. Kata have their origins in Chinese arts - particularly those of Fuzhou, China, where kata were called quan. Each quan was felt to be the central training device of a complete system. Today, the kata have all been adjusted by the Japanese so that all of them are basically pieces of a greater whole, with far less variation between them.

[Jay]

might be kihon/tennokata???

[White Warlock]

what type of karate and what is the name of the school?

[shorei_kai_student]

that sounds like something we do as a way to help strengthen our legs and warm up by getting into a horse stance and we do the the 3 basic bocks then 2 sets of punches. while doing this we count out loud in japanese

[Mark]

There is so many different Kata,At the Dojo I attend we do alot of it ,The style i practise is Taiyo Washin Ryu

[b3n]

There is so many different Kata,At the Dojo I attend we do alot of it ,The style i practise is Taiyo Washin Ryu

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