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Konnichiwa.

Just a general question for you all.

What is/are your favourite Kata within Wado Ryu and/or any other style for that matter and why? I understand some people may learn Kata from other styles to note differences and practical application etc.

I am currently enjoying Bassai and Wanshu. Bassai, as it is a good strong kata. Wanshu, as I find it is pleasing to look at and is quite flowing to execute (whether you execute it with or without the kicks).

Ichiro

Ichiro wrote:Konnichiwa.

Just a general question for you all.

What is/are your favourite Kata within Wado Ryu and/or any other style for that matter and why? I understand some people may learn Kata from other styles to note differences and practical application etc.

I am currently enjoying Bassai and Wanshu. Bassai, as it is a good strong kata. Wanshu, as I find it is pleasing to look at and is quite flowing to execute (whether you execute it with or without the kicks).

Ichiro

My favorite kata is/are KIHON KUMITE! ))))

Ichiro,

What i like And what i should practice are two different things. At Some point my Sensei said that niseishi And wanshu are my best Kata among THe extra ones. By now i quite like seishan. I like actually all Kata, cant really say i have à favorite i guess. Perhaps this Will change over time.

AJ - your iPhone correction is really funny :-)

WadoAJ wrote:Ichiro,

What i like And what i should practice are two different things. At Some point my Sensei said that niseishi And wanshu are my best Kata among THe extra ones. By now i quite like seishan. I like actually all Kata, cant really say i have à favorite i guess. Perhaps this Will change over time.

AJ, I think, Seishan forever!!)

I must be really odd... I have no favourites - they all irritate the hell out of me.

Gary

Gary wrote:I must be really odd... I have no favourites - they all irritate the hell out of me.

Gary

Brilliant Gary, just brilliant.

Ah you're not so odd Gary... What is odd is this 'favourite stuff' bit. I think it is better to think it terms of 'yield' with kata rather than likes and dislikes. Likes and dislikes in wado ryu seems a bit inane to me.

oneya

I would not call it my favourite but the one I always come back to is Naihanchi. The others I can occasionally fool myself into thinking I have performed them well, but with Naihanchi I never have that and it irritates me endlessly. The ones I like performing from time to time are Kushanku and Seisan, but most of the time something irritates me about them as much as the others.

From other systems; I enjoy Jurok from Shito Ryu, the Shorin Ryu variation of Bassai and Sanchin, Saifa and the variation of Seishan from Goju Ryu. Yet at the end of the day, they are not what I am graded on so I think I feel more free to enjoy them for the sake of them, where as my Wado kata there are the external pressures and the resultant internal pressures I place on myself, so that might be the root cause of my not having a favourite kata.

I like all the katas. They start teaching me if I allow them to become projects, concentrating on just a few. The feeling is concentrating on just one at the time. I have trained Pinan nidan and shodan plus Naihanchi the most. They are so fundamental that I don't feel it's a good idea for me to try to cover quantity too much if I do not get some feelings out of those.

In a session I feel I start learning something in the third or fourth performance of a kata, if I have stopped in a few parts repeating individual moves and if I have done basics previously. If I have done the kata a lot recently maybe I can feel I start learning on the second performance. Anyway, my feeling is it's usually better for me to do one kata six times than two katas three times each. With six repetitions I get something a little deeper out of three or four. Then I can train the other kata the next time instead. Only, once I get it going with a certain kata, why change then?
So I end up doing these three katas the most and sometimes the others as projects. If I get a lot of instruction on a certain kata, it becomes a project for some time.

Of course it's also important to have the quantity-approach, but that's not training in the same meaning. It just keeps the options alive and the mind open.