Pacificshore Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Interesting how a weapons kata is taught so early in the lower ranks. Most systems reserve the weapons katas for the intermediate to advanced rank. Hmm.......interesting Di'DaDeeeee!!!Mind of Mencia
karatekid1975 Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 I learned three in a month and a half. Kicho 1 - 3 in TSD. TKD I learned one. TKD MDK, I re-learned three, and learned one more in a month. Laurie F
G95champ Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 Well advanced ranks are a bit differant. (General George S. Patton Jr.) "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory."
SaiFightsMS Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 When I first began in shorin ryu we started kata the first night. After doing the basic blocks and punching drills.
karate_woman Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 We were introduced to the first 3 kata in our first month - saying I'd learned them by then would be a bit of a stretch; we needed them in order to get our yellow belt, which you needed to train about 3 months for. That was when I was taking Japanese Goju so it was Taikyokyu Gedan, Chudan and Jodan that we learned. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. -Lao-Tse
BKJ1216 Posted June 12, 2003 Author Posted June 12, 2003 I didn't mean learned them, a better way to put it is I've memorized what movement comes next. Then again if I had meant that I was done with them and I knew them I would've said I had mastered them. Oh well who cares I just know the movements of them, and I guess I can execute the half of th shun pon ton fairly well. White Belt- Shudokan Karate
j0rge Posted June 12, 2003 Posted June 12, 2003 I think...it was heian shodan and heian nidan... Just as it is the clear mirror that reflects without distortion, or the quiet valley that echoes a sound, so must one who would study Karate-do purge himself of selfish and evil thoughts, for only with a clear mind and conscience can he understand that which he receives
BKJ1216 Posted June 12, 2003 Author Posted June 12, 2003 shun pan tan that's what it's called White Belt- Shudokan Karate
shotochem Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 Its funny, its been years and I still am not totally pleased with my first Kata (Heian Shodan). The more you train the more you look to improve yourself. Pain is only temporary, the memory of that pain lasts a lifetime.
Guest Posted June 13, 2003 Posted June 13, 2003 I understand what you mean. Some katas just never feel right no matter how much you practice them. The opening sequence of Pinan (okinawan, Heian for japanese) Shodan doesn't feel natural to me. As for katas in the first month; We learned one kata. Tai kyoku 1. It is so basic it is rediculous, but we used it to teach proper stepping, and so that when we began learning a *real* kata we would have a little experience with it.
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