Kata

[Valithor]

Over the years I've become familiar with most of the katas from Shotokan and Goju.

 

The kata I practice most now are my two favs from each style: Kanku Dai, Unsu, Kururunfa, and Seisan.

[Ises]

I was talking to one of the higher belts in my dojo Tuesday night and they had mentioned something they do to attempt to learn their katas is to try to do them doing only the foot/leg positions and then to do them only doing the hand/arm parts. I tried to do it last nite and you try to use your full kata all the time. I makes you think about it a lot closer becuase you have to analyze it. He told me that it works really well because for the most part you're so busy on concentrating on the moving around and punches, etc that you forget your feet. Doing them this way makes you do the motions much more precisely. Try it! lol

[mArTiAl_GiRl]

There is a similar jump in the Wado kata Wanshu, but you land in back stance.

 

motoko

 

I used to do that Kata at competitions, and this jump works really fine on me, but Unsu......... still gotta practise