What Are the Official Katas of Shotokan?

[Chitsu]

Are these the katas used under the SKIF Shotokan organization?

Not wishing to be rude, but there is no such word as katas.

It's a bit like saying Sheeps.

Chitsu

[quinteros1963]

Thanks I am new to Shotokan, this is useful info.

[Shizentai]

Are these the katas used under the SKIF Shotokan organization?

Regardless of your conjugation preferences, the answer to your question is yes. lol ...not that I'm SKIF or anything.

Although I've also heard that Kanazawa has added several other advanced katas as well, including

. Quoth he on the Kata of twenty eight steps: "This kata is from Shurei, like Gankaku, Chinto. This kata developed from the White Crane and all these kata developed from the same family."

edit: on another note, my original post should have read that for ranks 3dan and up, Any kata may be performed, but the randomly chosen kata is one of the sentei or below (though usually sentei)

[skullsplitter]

Our kata list is similart to Shizentai's except that first 7 are all performed at first black belt test.

[Chitsu]

on another note, my original post should have read that for ranks 3dan and up, Any kata may be performed, but the randomly chosen kata is one of the sentei or below (though usually sentei)

I noticed that also, didn't want to say anything - well done you.

Chitsu

[bub4444]

At my dojo they don't really teach tekki. We do it like this:

Name of Kata (The level you must know it at)

Heien Shodan (10th kyu)

Heien Nidan (9th kyu)

Heien Sandan (8th kyu)

Heien Yodan (7th kyu)

Heien Godan (6th kyu)

Bassai Dai (5th kyu)

Jion (4th kyu)

Empi (3rd kyu)

Kanku Sho (2nd kyu)

Kanku Dai (1st kyu)

Sewyushi No Kon (2nd and 1st kyu)

[Blade96]

ours goes

heian shodan (8th kyu) yellow

heian nidan (7th kyu) orange

heian sandan (6th kyu) green

heian yondan (5th kyu) blue

heian godan (4th kyu) brown

then to get their ShoDan shotokankas have to know

All heian Katas, Bassai Dai and Tekki Shodan

Which puts, incidentally, my 4th Kyu friend in trouble because she dont know either one of them. neither bassai dai or tekki shodan. Fortunately she isnt testing yet.

btw all this from the website of our association.

[mel]

I've always had the personal view that all the kata present in the works...

- KARATE DO KYOHAN(The Master Text)

- KARATE JUTSU(The Original Teachings of Master Funakoshi)

...were quite sufficient. Anyway, just my personal opinion

I was just blown away with excitement and much satisfaction when I saw the old black and white shots of Shotokan katas being performed for the first time some time ago

[Chuck]

What Shizentai states and list below are standard KATAS of any traditional SHOTOKAN style (ISKF, JKA, etc...)

There are many Shotokan (non traditional) schools that use the list below as a model; however, they do not follow it strictly and changes (elimination of KATAS) to the list are made to meet the needs of the school/instruction.

Below are the 26 basic kata recognized commonly in Shotokan. I have also listed what kata you need to know to pass each of the below ranks in my dojo (Please keep in mind that this order varies a lot from dojo to dojo, especially when it comes to testing for 3rd kyu and higher):

Heian shodan (平安初段) - need to know for 8th kyu test (yellow belt)

Heian nidan (平安二段) - ntk for 7th kyu (orange belt)

Heian sandan (平安三段) -6th kyu (green belt)

Heian yondan (平安四段) - 5th kyu (purple 1)

Heian godan (平安五段) - 4th kyu (purple 2)

Tekki shodan (鉄騎初段) - 3rd kyu (Brown 1)

Bassai dai (披塞大)* - 2nd kyu (Brown 2) & 1st kyu (Brown 3)

Jion (慈恩)

 

Empi (燕飛)

 

Kanku dai (観空大)

 

Tekki nidan (鉄騎二段)

Hangetsu (半月)

Jitte (some call it "Jutte") (十手)

Gankaku (岩鶴)

Tekki sandan (鉄騎三段)

Nijūshiho (二十四步)

Chinte (珍手)

Sōchin (壯鎭)

Meikyō (明鏡)

Unsu (雲手)

Bassai shō (披塞小)

Kankū shō (観空小)

Wankan (王冠)

Gojūshiho shō (五十四歩小)

Gojūshiho dai (五十四歩大)

Ji'in (慈陰)

- blue = the Heian katas (you perform one per test as listed above)

- blue + green = katas you have to know to test for shodan (1st black belt) (you choose one, and a second is chosen at random)

- blue + green + purple = katas you have to know to test for nidan (2nd black belt) (one is your choice, a second is chosen at random)

- Any kata may be called during a test for sandan (3rd black) or above (one is your choice, a second is chosen at random)

*note: many people choose one the four other sentei kata (instead of bassai dai) to test for 3rd kyu to shodan.

[benjamin]

Very similar at my club (part of the TISKA association) however we also have Taikyoku Shodan (a very basic kata for 9th kyu gradings) that only involves one block and one strike. But introduces Karateka to the idea of Kata gently!