What Katas do you know?

[Espina]

I don't have that much experience regarding katas, so I´m not a good comparative point

[KataChic]

Well im only beginner and I study Shorin-ryu joshinmon, I know Pina, shodan, pinan nidan and everyone know taikyoko shodan lol

I love katas, i like kumite too but katas more

I have a belt test coming up I am sooooo excited

[SlowHands]

so far I know-

taikyo 1 - 3

heian 1 - 5

naihanchi 1 & 2

bassai dai

chinte

Jo 31 (short staff)

[nanook660]

I know the following

Kihon Kata

Pinan Nidan

Pinan Shodan

And am learning right now Pinan Sandan

[Sokusen]

I study Uechi ryu and I am so ignorant of other styles Katas. The ones I study are:

Sanchin

Kanshiwa

Kanchu

Seisan

Seichin

Kanchin

Sansei ryu

[Josie]

I know:

Heian Shodan

Heian Nidan

Heian Sandan

Heian Yondan

Tekkishodan

And half of Bassai Dai

I used to know the first few moves of Jion as well...

I'm mostly focusing on Heian Yondan at the moment so that I can get better at it

[wouldbemaster]

i know 15 katas and nore movement from 15 the true path of half and master of none

[still kicking]

I had been begging one of my sensei to teach Jion, because I love it, and finally I got my wish. (For some reason I seem to particularly like kata that come in sets, i.e. Jitte Jiin Jion, Rohai 1, 2, and 3, and the Bassais). Speaking of which... recently in the advanced class they taught a new kata, Matsamura-ha Bassai. This is another variation on the Bassai kata, and is considered to be more advanced than Bassai dai or Tomari Bassai. I went through it with the others, and learned the basic movements. Then I thought, "this is crazy". I realized that I had 4 other relatively new kata to work on -- Jion, Bassai dai (not totally new, but I think there is a lot to it), and 2 bo kata, Rohai no kon and Sakugawa no kon syo. There are only so many training hours available, after all, and I would rather focus on these others. But it was a little bit hard, because the other green and brown belts are working on the Matsamura kata along with the black belts. The funny thing, though, was that I told my sensei that I wanted to focus on the more basic kata, and then was feeling kind of proud about how humble I was being to pass up the opportunity to work on this really advanced kata with the other advanced students. I don't know, I just think it's funny to be proud of being humble. But maybe some of you know what I mean.

[isshinryu5toforever]

Isshin-ryu:

Seisan

Seiuchin

Naihanchi

Wansu

Chinto

Kusanku

Sunsu

Sanchin

and all the weapons katas

I also know the Taeguk forms from Iljang to Keumgang.

[FushinRyu]

I have never heard about gion. Could you please tell me more about it?

it's either spelled jion or gion (Jee-on)

the starting move is stepping back breaking an arm,

then someone is grabbing you, so you reach inside the grab and grab their gi,

kick (you know where ) and three punches....

so those are the first few moves

here i'll put a link

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

i don't like the way he does it though

My son is learning jion too. He is the only student that I've seen learning this kata right now and I've not seen any of the older students at his school do this one so I was wondering if it is not a "common" kata.

well yes it depends on who's doing it. In my style, Jion is considered a blackbelt kata.

Edited May 24, 2009 by FushinRyu