FIGHT WITH KATA (35 minutes with English subtitles)Tatsuya Naka explains how to fight using the movements of Kata.★Buy on Vimeo ️ ondemand Kata encodes one side of a set of partnered self-defense drills. It's a mnemonic. It was NEVER meant to be practiced solo, to the exclusion of those actual drills. But, karate as "Do" made it about "polishing the mirror" and forgot its martial purpose, and the advent of kata competition changed the way we trained it, and graded it. The karate techniques demonstrated in these kata consist of many karate strikes and karate blocks, as well as karate stances. The main karate stances in the kata are zenkutsu dachi, Chinto is an advanced kata practiced in Shito Ryu, Wado Ryu, Shorin Ryu Shotokan and a few other styles. The Shotokan version of the kata has a number of differences compared to the Shito Ryu version. Its name was also changed to Gankaku, meaning "crane standing upon a rock" by Gichin Funakoshi. Chinto is an advanced and dynamic kata with a In this video Sensei Jumoke goes through Kihon Kata. This is the first kata we learn at Zen-Shin, and is often the first kata in other clubs and styles.'Kiho Background. The four major karate styles developed in Japan, especially in Okinawa are Shotokan, Wado-ryu, Shito-ryu, and Goju-ryu; many other styles of Karate are derived from these four. The first three of these styles find their origins in the Shorin-Ryu style from Shuri, Okinawa, while Goju-ryu finds its origins in Naha.Shuri karate is rather different from Naha karate, drawing on .

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