[Pypeassesty]

Thanks to everyone for your extensive repsonses. I agree with the many comments about the importance and value of kata study.

As a by product of all of this, in addition to the specifics of kata, we are accumulating some good data on what is going on around the world with kata study.

This data is of value now, to local feds, to national feds for planning and curriculum considerations, and the IKF for the same reasons. It will also be of immeasurable value historically, as much as the data on the evolution of the koryuu, Meiji period kata, etc., that we rely on now.

I do not by any means wish to thwart further postings on this subject, but I again suggest that this subject might be best compiled in the form of some kind of survey, or another string that deals specifically with each doujou's kata regimen (pct time, periodicity, etc..) I prefer the information specific to each doujou, as opposed to only statistical data that a survey would produce. What do the editors recommend?

MK