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**GWRIeEQp** · 03-21-2006, 07:00 AM

Hi guys,

I find this an interesting thread, since I have a shinsa this sunday

! So do a bunch of my students (whom I am meant to teach the 'correct' method for kata et al). I teach what I have been taught but, unfortuanatly, kata seems to be 1 thing that changes quite dramatically from class to class, teacher to teacher. I know its not meant to be like this, but - mysteriously - it is. So, my caveat to my students is : "when in my class this is how Id like you to do it but, when in another dojo be ready for different interpretations; when at a shinsa, do it the way the panel want it ... or you will fail!"

Ive never been taught No.7 without the transition to wakigamae ........ and Paul Buddens "looking at a far mountain" explicitly states that you do it. I realise that this is 8 years old or thereabouts, but its 1 if not THE prime source for kata instruction in English (book format) ?!?!

On a similiar, yet different, note: I have direct access to a kitamoto 5-timer and how he describes placing the kodachi on the ground, and the swap between odachi and kodachi is ... unique. Ive never seen anyone else do it this way, including hachidan embu ive seen with my own eyes (approx 1 year ago).

Any changes that the ZNKR make to the kata dont seem to filter through very well to the masses, at least here in the UK.

All in all, I am confused.

[sigh]

03-21-2006, 07:00 AM	#15
GWRIeEQp Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 433 Senior Member	Hi guys, I find this an interesting thread, since I have a shinsa this sunday ! So do a bunch of my students (whom I am meant to teach the 'correct' method for kata et al). I teach what I have been taught but, unfortuanatly, kata seems to be 1 thing that changes quite dramatically from class to class, teacher to teacher. I know its not meant to be like this, but - mysteriously - it is. So, my caveat to my students is : "when in my class this is how Id like you to do it but, when in another dojo be ready for different interpretations; when at a shinsa, do it the way the panel want it ... or you will fail!" Ive never been taught No.7 without the transition to wakigamae ........ and Paul Buddens "looking at a far mountain" explicitly states that you do it. I realise that this is 8 years old or thereabouts, but its 1 if not THE prime source for kata instruction in English (book format) ?!?! On a similiar, yet different, note: I have direct access to a kitamoto 5-timer and how he describes placing the kodachi on the ground, and the swap between odachi and kodachi is ... unique. Ive never seen anyone else do it this way, including hachidan embu ive seen with my own eyes (approx 1 year ago). Any changes that the ZNKR make to the kata dont seem to filter through very well to the masses, at least here in the UK. All in all, I am confused. [sigh]
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