shotokan kata training

[shotokan_italy]

Hi all,

we practice karate shotokan in Italy. We just started to record kata trainings in our dojo to share with other schools and to exchange feedback and comments

Here is one og the first videos, bassai-sho (in team execution)

...feel free to comment, especially about positions, kime, rhythm.

does anyone also share some videos?

oss

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[Kodakmint]

Very awesome, all three of them were in perfect harmony

[JohnnyB]

u need more puzzle mats in your dojo!

excellent performance keep it up!

[shotokan_italy]

ahah you are right JohnnyB!

thanks to all. the 3 have won a competition with the same kata (bassai sho) last week near Milano, here in Italy. I have posted the video of the competition as well

[BassaiNige]

Very impressive,good stances and timing.

[sensei8]

Yeah...they didn't acquire that crispness overnight!! Very nice.

[todome]

Shotokan so in tournaments embusen would have cost you a stack of points. You need to finish where you started. ITKF allows the first turn from back stance to pivot on the back leg now, so there's a stance to the front. It's a bit more challenging but very educational.

ITKF also allows a half-stance shift from the sweeping blocks to the first knife hand block. That buys you a half a stance back to the left.

Don't give up your back legs shifting from back stance to front stance at the end of the knifehand block series and the kick needs a more focused target.

there's a tendency for the side stances to be deeper than the back stances in this kata so that would account for some of the finishing behind the starting point. bassai-sho is traditionally a deep stance kata so look at staying deep in back stance rather than shortening up your side stances.

Cat stance is an inside pressure stance. I don't feel anyone's knees squeezing together.

good though. but you know that already.

[SimonAsh86]

That is awesome, its great watching people do kata, especially people who know what there doing.

[hiddendragon98]

nice work you were all together and you were fast and powerful

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[Dobbersky]

Sorry to hijack this thread but this is awesome

Proper Ole Skool