Comparing Karate

[superleeds]

I`ve just started training Shito-Ryu Karate. Can anyone tell me how it differs from Wado and other forms of Karate?

[superleeds]

Why was Shito replaced with a star? That sort of ruins the question

[superleeds]

This is not funny. S-h-i-t-o!!!

[superleeds]

I spelled it wrong too....

 

Its spelled with a C not an S

[KickChick]

I've seen it spelled both ways actually.

 

We have a built-in censoring here on the forum so you will see **'s now and then when someone tries to post certain "words".

 

Of all the traditional karate systems shotokan, goju-ryu, wado-ryu, shorin-ryu, kyokushin, isshin-ryu, and (s)chito-ryu among them (s)chito-ryu remains the most obscure. (s)Chito-ryu, along with goju-ryu, wado-ryu and shotokan, is one of the four major karate systems of Japan proper(the Japanese islands excluding Okinawa).

 

There are minor differences in the kata between the various groups, mostly due to the proclivities of their founders.

 

Chito-ryu is much like shotokan in that it relies heavily on the reverse punch and front kick. The style also seems to place a strong emphasis on sparring. In so doing, (s)chito-ryu stresses speed, and fighting is generally initiated from a higher, more upright stance than shotokan employs. On the other hand, because the style has so many kata... 40 to 60 forms!!

[Eye of the Tiger]

http://www.24fightingchickens.com/shotokan/101/02_karate.html

 

this link provides a good summary of the major styles of Karate. Go down the page till you find all the styles, at the top it will be karate vs.

[ZakariRu]

Chito ryu is not S h i to ryu.

 

its not spelled both ways its two different styles!

 

chito ryu is kinda funky looking by japanese karate standards. its a more okinawan style. they focus punches differently then japanese styles.

 

they do crazy kata like chinto with a jump, and seisan.

 

their bassai dai is reallly reallly scarry looking too.

 

I have a good good friend from the national team who does chito-ryu.

 

I wish i could be more descriptive but i cant =p

[Taikudo-ka]

My understanding was that Shi-To was an attempt to create a "unified karate" combining features of most of the original styles. Hence the vast amount of kata - they took just about every kata from every style that was going around Okinawa.

 

My question is - are you actually required to learn all those kata? Or does there come a point in a Shi-to ryu practitioner's life when they get to select the kata they want to learn from this massive library?

 

I must say, one aspect that attracted me to Goju was the fact that we only have about a dozen or so kata. I feel that for me personally, that's enough to last me a lifetime. As Sherlock Holmes once remarked, there's only so much data that can be stored in the mind at any one time.

[ZakariRu]

well when shi to ryu was first being taught there are was only goju and shorin ryu.

 

Sensei Mabuni and Sensei Funakoshi had the same plans for karate. they just taught different kihon (most of the same kata)

 

before the JKA, shotokan guys did superenpi etc.. (hyakuhachiho)

 

Chito ryu only has 13 or 14 kata.

 

Most shi to guys dont know all 52 or whatever.

 

personally im trying to learn all the japanese kata =p wado,goju,shotokan, and shito. i only have another 60 or so to go =p

[Karateka_latino]

Wow, that's a Lot of Katas.