Feedback Session: Wado-Ryu kata

[Kusotare]

Is there a reason that your Yoko Geri just has a 3 count, instead of a 4 count. Your kick stalls, and drops straight to the floor without having to momentarily return back to the knee of the supporting foot?? Because of that, I can't tell if the kick is suppose to be a keage or a kekomi, had I not already knew what that kick was.

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The Back part seems to be missing...unless this is the methodology of the style!

What you have picked up on seems to be a difference between groups within the style of Wado-ryu.

In my experience, the JKF Wado-kai tend to withdraw the kick and place the foot next to the supporting foot before advancing into the Shuto-uke.

The Wado-ryu Renmei on the other hand seem to put the foot directly down without withdrawing it - effectively dropping backward into the Shuto-uke!

Worth asking the question whether you look at this technique as a kick or something else of course.

K.

[sensei8]

Is there a reason that your Yoko Geri just has a 3 count, instead of a 4 count. Your kick stalls, and drops straight to the floor without having to momentarily return back to the knee of the supporting foot?? Because of that, I can't tell if the kick is suppose to be a keage or a kekomi, had I not already knew what that kick was.

Up

Out

Back

Down

The Back part seems to be missing...unless this is the methodology of the style!

What you have picked up on seems to be a difference between groups within the style of Wado-ryu.

In my experience, the JKF Wado-kai tend to withdraw the kick and place the foot next to the supporting foot before advancing into the Shuto-uke.

The Wado-ryu Renmei on the other hand seem to put the foot directly down without withdrawing it - effectively dropping backward into the Shuto-uke!

Worth asking the question whether you look at this technique as a kick or something else of course.

K.

Solid post!!

To the bold type above...

That's something to consider, and something to understand because, like a block, it's not always a block. Same thing for a supposed kick within a Kata. If that technique was indeed suppose to be a kick, the kick was sloppy, imho!

[Kusotare]

I've always considered this closer to a Harai-goshi...

K.

[sensei8]

I've always considered this closer to a Harai-goshi...

K.

I wholeheartedly concur!!

[Melau]

What you have picked up on seems to be a difference between groups within the style of Wado-ryu.

In my experience, the JKF Wado-kai tend to withdraw the kick and place the foot next to the supporting foot before advancing into the Shuto-uke.

The Wado-ryu Renmei on the other hand seem to put the foot directly down without withdrawing it - effectively dropping backward into the Shuto-uke!

Worth asking the question whether you look at this technique as a kick or something else of course.

K.

That is indeed the case. In this execution I chose for putting the foot down directly. Often it is interpreted as a Harai-goshi in forms of bunkai we are taught. However, no fixed bunkai exist, so it is a matter of interpretation of the instructor.

just my opinion.

at this point, alot of technical things are just habits and will be hard to correct. You could spend more time on the tempo(not rushing) of the kata and executing each individual movement with more "feeling" and "commitment".

Technical corrections will only correct "ONE/PART of ONE" movement and a kata has thousands of corrections.

If you improve the "commitment", tempo and feeling you will be improving on "every" technique not just "one" of thousands.

Solid feedback. Thanks for that.