When I learned my Isshinryu, things like kata
strategy were not often discussed. Much more emphasis was placed on acquiring
good technique, And as I have discovered that alone takes quite a few years.
Of course I have read many times strategy contained
within the kata were the most important thing.
To me that did not resonate so much. And the more I
read such things, the less useful those ideas were to me.
Them as time passed I trained with a great many
others, some more deeply that the rest. Of course I was not their student, but
never In any of those school classes did I ever hear anyone discuss kata, of
other forms, by way of their strategy.
The further I went what I found was that any
technique could be inserted appropriately into any attack and end that attack.
Which I suppose could be seen as a strategy itself.
Which made the technique of more value.
Not to replace the form, kata in the least.
Rather they go hand in hand, the kata more as a
mechanism to refine the energies a technique could use.
And kata could be used in a state of movement, with
different timings, breath patterns etc. to continue to advance capability to
higher levels of execution. A thing alive.
Perhaps best expressed,
in the end there need only be one.
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