Which kata best represents your style?

[ShoriKid]

I think Nanhanchi and Kusanku(which I'm really bad at right now). Chinto I love(everything on a 45 degree angle) and see where the angled applications come in at, but if I only get two, I can't say it's one. No. 3, sure though.

[DWx]

There's also only 24 Hangul letters. And 24 is the smallest number to be divisible by exactly 8 factors (again an important Asian number) but I think that last one is just coincidence.

I didn't realize that Hangul is a letter system. When you stated that 24 is the smallest number to be divisible by exactly eight factors, DMx, it got me thinking to solve it (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 24), and as you stated, eight is an important Asian number.

There was a book called The Celestine Prophecy that was popular back in the '90s. One of its thought-provoking claims was that there are no coincidences.

I don't know whether "letters" is the right word for it. I think the proper term is "Jamo" (sp?) but anyway there are 24 bits that you put together.

And thank Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/24_(number) , for the number fact. I'm not that clever to just think these things up.

I don't know whether Gen. Choi would put that much thought into the whole 24 forms for his system. I would expect that most of the mathematical properties just like an added bonus after the idea of 24 hours.

[Dobbersky]

Tekki for all okinawan styles!!

Okinawan? Wouldn't that make it Naihanchi???

Ah, its semantics, isn't it??

For my TKD style, I think Choong Moo.

exactly only japanese styles use the name Tekki, Naihanchi is the okinawan name and the okinawan kata are much different from the mainland styles

Not 100% certain but I think it may only be Shotokan that refer to it as Tekki as Funakoshi is credited with changing the names.

Other mainland Japanese styles either don't do the Kata or refer to it as Naihanchi - its original Okinawan / Chinese name.

I always believed Wado Ryu was a Mainland style but Wado still lists it kata in the original Okinawan format

Wado also uses the term Kushanku instead of Kanku Dai, Seichan instead of Hangetsu and Chinto instead of Gankaku etc

I wonder why this is.

[Zanshin]

Tekki for all okinawan styles!!

Okinawan? Wouldn't that make it Naihanchi???

Ah, its semantics, isn't it??

For my TKD style, I think Choong Moo.

exactly only japanese styles use the name Tekki, Naihanchi is the okinawan name and the okinawan kata are much different from the mainland styles

Not 100% certain but I think it may only be Shotokan that refer to it as Tekki as Funakoshi is credited with changing the names.

Other mainland Japanese styles either don't do the Kata or refer to it as Naihanchi - its original Okinawan / Chinese name.

I always believed Wado Ryu Was a Mainland style but Wado still lists it kata in the original Okinawan format

I wonder why this is.

Because Otsuka Sensei decided that he wanted to use the "On" (Chinese) reading of the Kanji rather than the Japanese "Kun" reading to reflect their origins.

But yes Wado is a Mainland Japanese Karate as the wording "Wa" describes.

[FushinRyu]

My style Fushin Ryu's style's kata would have to be kushanku. it basically blends all of our katas together. i know that this kata is used in other styles too!

[bushido_man96]

For my TKD style, I think Choong Moo.

What is it about Choong Moo that connects it to your style?

Is it the movement, speed etc.?

I would say Choong Moo hyung because it has a flying side kick in it, a back leg round kick-to-spin side kick combination, that characterize the kicking elements of TKD, along with the many hand technique attacking and blocking combinations that link it to its Karate heritage.

Does that help?

[bushido_man96]

I would pick Tong-Il. Its a powerful form and makes use of both slow and fast motions. But I wouldn't pick it just because of the physical aspect but more because what it represents philosophically. It is the last and 24th tul of the Chang Hon system and in simple terms represents the unification of Korea and peace across the peninsula which was one of Gen. Choi's dreams. Whereas for all the other dan grades (in ITF) you learn 3 tul per rank, Tong-Il is the only one learnt at 6th before you grade to 7th & become a Master so it represents mastery over the style and the whole cycle starting again. It being the 24th pattern also has special significance because Gen. Choi specifically used 24 tul to represent how, compared to eternity, we only have 24hrs to make our mark on the world.

I think I may have seen Tong-Il performed once, and my instructor is learning it now. Since I had no experience with it myself, I couldn't really say.

I do like the analogies of the meaning of the form, though. General Choi was quite philosophical, and I would be willing to bet that there aren't many coincidences about that form.

[DWx]

Its a nice form. You don't really get to see it a lot though because its only the more senior people who do it.

Here's GM Choi Jung Hwa doing it but I've seen videos of better.

[moriniuk]

Brilliant. A headless man performing a Taekwondo form.

[Dobbersky]

In my teaching Style I would say that Jissen kata 1 and 2 would be the best kata that describe my style.