Kata-Ha-Jime

 

Supplemental Kata studies before Seiunchin Kata

 

Softie that I am I wanted to give my students a break between

Seisan kata and Seiunchin kata.

 

So I decided to go Goju ryu this time.

 

When one of my students went to college and studied Goju Ryu

At Ithica College with Ed Savage,

I met and also trained with him several times.

 

He made the point that for them the order of kata

Placed Saifa kata before Seiunchin kata.

 

 

Remembering that I decided to use Saifa as our next supplemental kata.

 

But having trained with so many in Goju I no longer recall

Where this version came from.

 

But after decades teaching it I remain convinced I made  the right choice.

 

 

Saifa Young and Mike

 

 

 

Youth Performance of Saifa

 

 

 

After all I am not teaching Goju

Just using the form as a supplemental tool

Allowing my students to gain some understanding of Goju.

 

Then we follow with the Isshinryu Seiunchin kata.

 

 

Young Lee Seiunchin1989  

 

 

 

Michael and dad Seiunchin kata

 

 

Kata Seiunchin Young Lee

 

 

The white belt kata movement potential development.

 

 

 

 It came to me to use Supplemental (mandatory) kata at white belt.

 

Originally the use was to permit development of youth kata, but in practice all in our practice, young and old follow the same path.

 

The order we use is as follows.

 

 

Kata Sho (an Isshinryu modification ot Fyukata Sho

originally developed by Nagamine)

 

 

Kyozai (the form developed for school physed classes)

 

 

 

Kata Annanku  (from the Shimabuku Ezio lineage)

 

 

 

Kata Seisan

 

 

They serve many purposes:

 

1.     Allowing more time to let the beginner develop stronger kata skill.  

 

2.     Second to let them touch other systems and thus not be worried about their existence. If only through a brief touch.

 

3.     Where adequate performance is expected of the white belt by shodan it is expected there will be skilled performance.

 

But they are also an important part of Dan training.

 

1.     They can be used for study on various skills timing development.

 

2.     They can be used for study of a variety of different breathing modes.

 

     3.     They can be used for test beds to work a wide variety of multiple striking  
           practices.

 

4.     More importantly they are useful to allowed skilled use for attacks using techniques from those kata which they have developed skill in which to work against in the study of Isshinryu kata application potential and then application realization.

The Drunken Fist

 

One of the more unique fist forms I have played with comes from Drunken forms in the Chinese arts. Popularized in the movies as Drunken Fist Systems,

Or in modern WuShu competition.

 

But as I understand it while various systems may have their drunken forms,

There is no Drunken fist system.

 

What I have found is a valuable unique striking tool.

 

The hand position as formed is akin to holding a cup in your between

Your thumb and your forefinger.

 

And I have found out in my own research that visualizing

That cup as being held between your fingers

Helps form a stronger fist formation.

 

 

Make a fist and hold it up like you were holding a cup with one hand. Extend your index finger into a hook shape, and position your thumb so that your index and thumb make a "C"

 

You NOT striking with those two, thumb and forefinger.

What you are striking with is the last joint of the index finger,

Keeping it aligned with your wrist.

 

What that does is make a very sharp striking position.

 

Capable of delivering a very sharp penetrating strike

To a vital point of your choosing.

 

Making it a most unexpected tool.

 

You do not have to study Drunken Boxing

 To use this, It just takes some first slow

Then more serious faster practice.

 

https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Drunken-Fist

 

Supple Dragon

 

Another supplemental kata studied at brown belt

is the Pai Lum form Lung Le Kuen

or Supple Dragon.

This form was shared with us by Ernest Rothrock.

 

Again these studies give my students some idea

of what others do.



Nijushiho - Gojushiho

 

In our studies we utilize two supplemental kata in our training,

They come from the Sutrisno family Shotokan.

However these versions from his family sustem 

were in addition to the standard Shotokan versions.

 

At the brown belt the student studies the supplemental kata,

 Nijushiho.

 

 

 

 

 

And for more advanced Dan study the supplemental kata

Gojushiho.

 

 

Supplementary kata gave more knowledge of what others did.

 

The Stack - Naifanchi Kata

 

 

A different way to approach training

Kata Naifanchi

is to perform it in a stack of practitioners.

 

 

This allows the instructor to obtain

a different view of what everyone is doing.