Searching for Embusen

[Ni-Kyu Gweilo]

Hi fellow practitioners, im searching for an Embusen of a kata which i dont seem to find enywhere...

ive now looked up multiple websides to find it but got no resolt, therefor im aking if anyone has an Embusen of this Kata:

The name is Hyaku Hachi Ho and its the Shotokan adaption of the Goyu- or Shito- Ryu Kata Suparinpei.

[AlwaysInTraining]

Do you actually know the kata because one way to draw the embusen is to map out the direction of travel for each move? Thats not the 100% correct way to do it but it does give you the pattern well.

E.g. Taikyokosono ichi looks like this:

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--o-/

Yansu looks like this:

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-o-

o= start

/= finish point

Apologies for the look of it im typing this on my phone.

[Ni-Kyu Gweilo]

I dont know the kata myself, i just saw 2 awesome videos of it and because im doing karate myself and love doing kata i was searching for the embusen to not have to learn it from the videos...

[Nidan Melbourne]

First off welcome to the forum Ni-Kyu Gweilo.

I didn't know Shotokan had a version of Suparempei that is called Hyaku Hachi Ho. Which lineage [of shotokan] has it come down from?

I've looked your styles version; it appears to have the same or extremely similar embusen to to the Goju-Ryu or Shito-Ryu Versions of Superempei.

[bassaiguy]

I believe it was Kanazawa's group that first brought it in in the early 1990's , but I've seen different groups perform it since. Additions to Shotokan aren't unheard of though, even from Naha-te. Funakoshi wrote that Sanchin was one of the kata practiced in the early 30s in his classes. It seems that Shotokan has been playing with its syllabus for a long time.