I was at a seminar years ago, and early on we learned a bo kata. I didn't have a chance to write notes until that evening, and then I lost that note until just now, I remember thinking it was a pretty cool kata though, but I was just a beginner at the bo at the time also.

I was thinking maybe if I post the moves as I wrote them someone could help me out with the name or even better a video of the kata? I had written down "Chu Ren No Kon" but it doesn't come close to matching any videos I've been able to find.

I was very inconsistent with directions so I am "translating" those into actual degrees, with 0 being forward.

1. (I think we skipped the real opening)

2. Fwd (0) - Horizontal blocks - high then low

3. L45 (315) - LH Reverse Overhead Strike

4. R90 (45) - RH Reverse Overhead Strike

5. L135 (270) - Vertical Block, Down-Up-Side-Side combo

6. R180 (90) - Vertical Block, Down-Up-Side-Side combo

7. Fwd (0) - Bladed Sumo or Horse stance, Rising Strike, "reset" (??) into rising strike, poke

8. Step fwd into crouch, low sweep. Stand up, reset into downstrike.

9. Turn (L/R unknown) to 180.

10. L45 (135) - Reverse OH strike - 2x Figure 8 - Poke

11. R90 (215) - Reverse OH strike - 2x Figure 8 - Poke

12. L45 (180) - Rising Strike, reset into rising strike, poke

13. Step downstrike, high poke

14. Reset to forward (0) , reverse poke into feet

Sorry I can't do any better, I think I'd used my bo maybe a dozen times before that seminar.

“Kon” is a common suffix for many Okinawan kobudo kata, most with a Ming Chinese origin. The word itself means “staff or stick”. It may be helpful to your research if you could remember more precisely from whom and whence you learned it. Going only by similarities with the possible name it could be

Chou un no kon

Do you know which style (karate or kobudo) the seminar was through? Or maybe who taught the seminar? That would help with determining which lineage the kata came from.