What Katas do you know?

[granitemiller]

Yes, I agree, however it is interesting how the Okinawan parts have crept back in. My school uses Okinawan methods.

[Traymond]

Yes I am extremely greatful it has crept back in. I have been part of three shotokan dojos, and two were not okinawan based, the last one was...and that was my first exposure to traditional and how my sensei says "real karate", and I loved it alot better. And im happy to know that when I get older, I can modify the movements with my age (IE...no extremely deep kiba dachi when you 90)

[Espina]

What is crept? (sorry, my english is not that good)

[Traymond]

crept...creeping in?...Slowly coming into ...I dont know how to explain this well sorry...it is american slang more so...

[white owl]

That is a good explanation Traymond.

[ShoriKid]

Okay, can't spell for my life. You all should know that.

Fukyugata Ich, Ni

Taikyoko Sho

Pinan 1-5

Nanhanchi 1-3

Anaku

Wanhan

Rohai

Passai

Chinto

Empi

Bassai Dai

Kanku sho

Weapons:

Shiromatsu no kan

[Espina]

So that crept thing is like a slow transition from one movement to another?

[granitemiller]

What I meant by '"crept" is that while Master Funakoshi made changes to the katas and so forth for the mainland Japanese, the old school Okinawan katas came back into the Shotokan schools on mainland Japan over the years.

So "crept" here means "come back into". I looked up the Spanish and it said in the dictionary: deslizado but I am not sure if this is right.

What you wrote "slow transition from one movement to another" is the word "creep", meaning slow movement. Crept is the past tense, and the way I used it meant that the old forms slowly came back into Shotokan.

I should have used more standard English, sorry about that Espina.

[Espina]

hehehehehe, don't worry, this way I learn a little more slang

Oh, and for the spanish part... 'deslizado' is like glide on ice. For example "Se deslizó una hoja por debajo de la puerta" which mean "A paper sheet was thrown under the door" , Where "thrown" stands for 'deslizado'. The correct spanish term I think will be 'trasladado', wich means moved (the 'back into' part will have to be given by 'de vuelta').

so 'come back into'= 'trasladado de vuelta'

But now I get what you meant with crept. Thanks for the english lesson

[Grego]

My sensei decided to put more focus on less Kata.

So, while we might practice the taikyoku katas, our main katas are:

Seisan

Bassai

Chinto

kusanku

Which, of those, I only know Seisan. I'm looking forward to learing bassai though, because thats my next kata.