How many kata or forms to reach Shodan

[P.A.L]

yes i used to practice at sensei darrell craig's dojo but the most knowledgable Ryubokai sensei i met was Howard High

That's cool. How long did you stay in the system? Why did you get out?

Howard High is a 6th Dan and my Sensei is "only" a 5th Dan but I think he's quite good (though I have nothing to compare him to) except I think he's a little *too* involved in the whole Shindo Jinen Ryu thing in that (as I had complained about in another thread in a different part of the forum) for a while he would go away too frequently for my tastes to teach at/participate in this thing or the other.

But, he seems to have managed to keep his butt here for a while and either my "complaining" to him worked or the other aspects of his life have managed to settle down... so I'm a lot more content now and he has started to make better arrangements with his black belts to fill in for him when he will be away again when he goes to take two of his black belt girls to the Konishi Cup World Championships (which he will apparently also be teaching at the Gassuku (sp?) beforehand).

yes i remember your thread, i am glad things are getting better for you,

I didn't like the kind of karate that Darrell Craig teaches,it was too rigid for me,i was there for a year and he promoted me to 4th kyu after 6 months, one day in the class he said "i don't care and i don't need to remember your name before you stay for 2 years" i left the next day.

i prefer a softer style , the only kata i really liked was Seirou. and they didn't like the way i was doing katas in high stances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5ZZieam_c

i was not able to transform my okinawan shorin ryu to Japanies Ryubokai way.finally 3 years ago i found the sensei i was looking for ,out of no where and it's been great since then.

[DisgruntledGirl]

yes i remember your thread, i am glad things are getting better for you,

I didn't like the kind of karate that Darrell Craig teaches,it was too rigid for me,i was there for a year and he promoted me to 4th kyu after 6 months, one day in the class he said "i don't care and i don't need to remember your name before you stay for 2 years" i left the next day.

i prefer a softer style , the only kata i really liked was Seirou. and they didn't like the way i was doing katas in high stances.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di5ZZieam_c

i was not able to transform my okinawan shorin ryu to Japanies Ryubokai way.finally 3 years ago i found the sensei i was looking for ,out of no where and it's been great since then.

Wow! Thats a shame that his attitude was the way it was. My sensei feels bad if he has trouble remembering your name by the second class you go to. I've only seen him truely forget one new guys name once and after asking the guy to remind him of his name, he said "I will not forget again!"

I do find it odd that they promoted you to 4th Kyu after only 6 months though... especially if they had issue with your stances (yup stances are expected to be pretty low at least in the beginning/intermediate katas but can raise slightly by the time you hit the really advanced ones). Woulda figured they would have just waited the normal lenth of time between promotions (for us it would have been a total of three years to get to 4th kyu... well for someone who had not done a similar system before anyway, possibly less for someone who had a lot of knowledge already) untill you had amended that to suit the style enough.

I think I am probably well suited to a fairly hard style though. I dont posses the "grace" for soft styles I wouldnt think though I really dont know... I just know I'm an absolute mess at tai chi the few classes that the other sensei at our school taught in my senseis absence... though I'm sure thats a little bit different than what you're talking about.

[Shotokan-kez]

all the heian kata's and tekki shodan and bassai dai. We also have to know kanku-dai, enpi, hangetsu and jion. Although we dont need to know them thoughorly but we need to have knowledge of them.

[bushido_man96]

I think I am probably well suited to a fairly hard style though. I dont posses the "grace" for soft styles I wouldnt think though I really dont know... I just know I'm an absolute mess at tai chi the few classes that the other sensei at our school taught in my senseis absence... though I'm sure thats a little bit different than what you're talking about.

How can you really judge your performance based on just a few classes? Perhaps if you really wanted to put the time into it, you might do really well. You may think about trying it again, if it truly interests you. Just a thought.

[DisgruntledGirl]

How can you really judge your performance based on just a few classes? Perhaps if you really wanted to put the time into it, you might do really well. You may think about trying it again, if it truly interests you. Just a thought.

What you say is indeed true. I cant judge how I would do in the long run by just a few classes. But the few classes I did have made me realize that I really didnt have enough interest in it to persue it further.

Karate I was not very good at when I started *but* I had the interest, so it still feels *very* worthwhile (even though I still stumble quite frequently on the simplest of tasks ). Just dont know if I could feel the same about Tai Chi.

Also it may have just been the "way" the Tai Chi instructor was teaching since she was just "filling in" she knew that this might not be something we'd continued with so she might have gone through some of the movements differently (more quickly) than with a class she "knew" would keep coming back. 2 of our new white belt Karate girls go to the Tia Chi class on a regular basis now though and they seem to like it well enough.

[bushido_man96]

Ah. I understand. Good point.

[Sensei Rick]

this is covered here

http://www.karateforums.com/how-many-kata-s-till-sho-dan-1st-degree-in-your-system-vt23938.html