SaiFightsMS Posted April 16, 2003 Posted April 16, 2003 It is a tradition in many types of karate for students to pick a kata to specialize in as they become more advanced students. Do you have a specialty kata? Which one is it? I have two that I spend a lot of extra time working with as a sort of specialty. One is tekki shodan, (I know many hate it), and hangetsu.
Neil Posted April 17, 2003 Posted April 17, 2003 In Okiniwa even today teachers will only teach a student 2 or possibly 3 Katas. One for strengh and one for fluidity. When my teacher wanted to learn the 12 katas of Goju Ryu had to go all over Okiniwa and Malaysia. The applications a particular kata certainly do suit different people. In Goju Ryu Saifa is definatley a desendent from White Crane and is suited to a much smaller and agile person. But a kata like Saiichin is definatley a Tiger kata and is suited to a much bigger person. Also there maybe different interpretations of the same kata and some interpretaions may be taught to different people. My teacher is teaching a kata to the brown belts in the class who are great big blokes but has taught his 2nd Dan grade who is a very small female the kata differently, with some parts differant stances and sometimes doing a chudan instead of a jodan and so on. Steve Morris in Horsham easily the most devastations and feared people out there has 3rd Dans who only know 2 or 3 katas! Usually Sanchin, Saifa, and Gekisai Daichi. It is definatley about quality and not quanitiy, but in this modern Karate-Do world which genrally makes up 90% of the Karate out there have the all to familiar grading every 3 months routine, so you end up being a black belt in 3 years with 20 or so katas under your belt with not a single one understood, your just left with shapes. I think I would have to have many more years of training before I would ever know what kata would suit me, but I do like the applications from the kata Gekisai Daiichi. I love the simple fourarm attcks and the tearing techniques in it.
mArTiAl_GiRl Posted April 17, 2003 Posted April 17, 2003 Well, mine is Jion (wado-ryu), Pinan Shodan (shito-ryu), Rohai (shito-ryu) Kill is love
tenkamusou Posted April 17, 2003 Posted April 17, 2003 in my dojo, my sensei teaches all the katas gradually... i know almoust all of the kata... and then i choose one to practice... i'm doing Seisan a lot, but I used to train Empi and i'm learnin Nipaipo... If you could improve yourself in only three or two months, everybody would be invencible...
karatekid1975 Posted April 18, 2003 Posted April 18, 2003 We don't have "specialty kata" per say. But my favorites are Pyung ahn e dan (Tang Soo Do) and Taegeuk sah jang (TKD). Laurie F
Beer-monster Posted April 19, 2003 Posted April 19, 2003 Naihanchi, the bunkai is simple effective. The close combat karate kata Mind, body and fist. Its all a man truly needs.
karatekid1975 Posted April 20, 2003 Posted April 20, 2003 I can't wait to learn Naihanchi! It does look awsome. I have to wait till BB to learn it, though Laurie F
Karateka_latino Posted April 20, 2003 Posted April 20, 2003 The Late Okinawan Karate master Choki Motubo who was a great Karate fighter who always proved his skills in Real Fights said that the only Kata you ever need to be a good Fighter is Naihanchi.
hobbitbob Posted April 20, 2003 Posted April 20, 2003 Probably Jion and Chinto. There have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm!
monkeygirl Posted April 21, 2003 Posted April 21, 2003 You'll have to excuse my highly Americanized spelling of these kata names; I never see them written down. I'm going for phonetic spellings I've probably spent the most time working on K-Beck, simply because it's the 1st dan kata, and I've had my black belt longer than any other belt. It's not my favorite though. There's a tie for that : Pinyon 5 (red belt--3rd kyu) Chung-Mu (1st brown--1st kyu) I love them because they're complex, difficult, flashy and powerful. Pinyon 5 starts off slow, with power moves, then switches into a high-speed series of movements. A lot of people tend to make this kata look sloppy, so I take extra pride in doing it correctly with proper form and sharp movements. Chung-Mu is a nice, advanced kata. It's best done with a lot of attitude and a really ticked off expression on your face, like this: 1st dan & Asst. Instructor TKD 2000-2003No matter the tune...if you can rock it, rock it hard.
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