Katas!

[kanik]

Ok! I'm bored! and I like karate, also I had an Idea.... so here it is. I wanna get a list of the names of every kata you guys know of and a rating you'd give it out of ten, and if possible, somthing they help with, some of there characteristics, and maybe a little bit of there history. Though I wont expect that. I just have a real obsession for katas, forms, patterns, etc.

[Tant01]

Tant0waza?

Ok! I'm bored! and I like karate, also I had an Idea.... so here it is. I wanna get a list of the names of every kata you guys know of and a rating you'd give it out of ten, and if possible, somthing they help with, some of there characteristics, and maybe a little bit of there history. Though I wont expect that. I just have a real obsession for katas, forms, patterns, etc.

YouTube - Ogawa ryu Yoroi Tantojutsu

[Hardball]

kime no kata and nage no kata. Tanto ought to know these two.

[Tant01]

Could be?

kime no kata and nage no kata. Tanto ought to know these two.

Perhaps but does he know Kime Shiki?

Shinken Shobu no Kata?

Anything with a knife...?

[Jujujason]

Don't forget the kumite katas of Ashihara/Enshin karate.

[kanik]

How about some names of some katas? Rather than just generalisations? FOr example... Gojushiho, Naihanchi, Saifa, Bassa dai, etc. etc. FIrst two I remember seeing from Matsubayashi ryu, and saifa if I remember correctly comes from Goju, Bassa dai... cant remember... shotokan? Beats me =P

[Tant01]

You have the entire world wide web at your fingertips....

No excuse! Show me some Karatedo...(kata)

[kanik]

You have the entire world wide web at your fingertips....

No excuse! Show me some Karatedo...(kata)

Uh... Whaddaya mean? (dumb moment XD) gyahaha!

[Renaleo]

Woo, here's a list, albeit a short one: Shihotsuki (sp?) Pinan Nidan, Pinan Shodan, Pinan Sandan, Pinan Yondan, Annanku, Niseishi...er, gehirn ist kaput, or some such nonsense (was attempting to revise german today)

They're all included in Kimura Shukokai, but I can't remember for the life of me where some of them originate, and I have a feeling niseishi is the okinawan name. Going by my dodgy japanese, I think it's otherwise known as Nijushiho-twenty four steps?

[kanik]

Woo, here's a list, albeit a short one: Shihotsuki (sp?) Pinan Nidan, Pinan Shodan, Pinan Sandan, Pinan Yondan, Annanku, Niseishi...er, gehirn ist kaput, or some such nonsense (was attempting to revise german today)

They're all included in Kimura Shukokai, but I can't remember for the life of me where some of them originate, and I have a feeling niseishi is the okinawan name. Going by my dodgy japanese, I think it's otherwise known as Nijushiho-twenty four steps?

Yay! Thats what I like to see! Here's a couple! Gojushiho, so far, the impression I get is that its creater and origin are unknown (in china somewhere I think it originated... as a lot of katas did), then there is Wankan, cant remember anything about it =P I know Saifa, and used to know Bassa-dai or however its spelt. Saifa is a kickass Kata, dunno its origins, but I do know its awesome.

[Tant01]

Anything on U-Tube worth looking at or do I have to do EVERYTHING myself?

[jtweymo]

Hi guys,

I dunno if it will interest you but I'm an amateur translator, I got a small site of translation pages for various Japanese martial arts at the following address:

http://jtweymo.angelfire.com/Trans_pages.html

There you will find translations of web posted mokuroku containing kata of all kinds, There's some translators notes included as well.

Hope it helps ya.