why always changes take place in kata?

 

Kashif Wazeeha why always changes take place in kata?

 

Victor Donald Smith A very good question.

 

The concept that forms are unchanging are just words after all. We really do not know much of the older, and older past.

 

However, forms are really individuals choosing to execute them

 

And clear observation of just the last 100 years, is that forms do move, for a wide variety of reasons,

 

Human differences, different principles being focused on, and of course for many other reasons.

 

Forms were originally meant to be private studies after all.

 

Often when given public performances they were intentionally altered for those performance.

 

It is even possible those altered forms gave others cause to consder new variations.

 

And today, ever more so as the arts moved from several hundred adepts on a small island, to what maybe 90,000,000 around the world, why would one not expect change.

 

Life moves on after all.