Japan karate association shotokan kanku and jion, shitoryu seienchen and bassai dai. Shotokan karate international kata volume 1 and shotokan karate international kata volume 2 are complete references for the all 26 shotokan kata. Download pdf the shotokan karate bible 2nd edition. Brilliant bunkai for shotokan on you tube iain abernethy. It made me a happy camper, as kata practice is one of my most loved components of karate, along with application, or bunkai. Shotokan has 26 katas, each with a different idea and focus. It focuses on kata, punches, elbow strikes, knee strikes and kicks. Imo kata was made for recording methods to deal with reality. As a student at takushoku university, he became the disciple of masatoshi nakayama and the founder of shotokan karate. In the seminar you would get to feel the techniques, which is something that a dvd cant do for you. Many products that you buy can be obtained using instruction manuals. The master kata described in this book belong to the advanced part of the repertoire and carry on from the 17 basic and advanced kata introduced in volume 1. Your perception of this publication shotokans secret.
Nl shotokan karate on kataon kata hidetaka nishiyama was asked by interviewer darren warrener 1999 what he looks for when judging kata in international competition. Rob redmond isnt a bunkai enthusiast so you wont applications in his book. The experimental overcapture footage was captured with the gopro fusion 360 camera in 5. When karate is taught properly you learn the basics and principles first, then you adapt the karate to suit yourself. The karate player begins by standing at attention, bowing, and then by stepping in. Unsu or unshu in okinawan is one of three shotokan kata that can be traced back to seisho aragaki. When gichin funakoshi brought karate to japan, he renamed the kata to heian, which is translated as peaceful. Jiin, jion, and jitte belong to one group of a total of 27 kata in shotokan, jiin is often being referred to as the forgotten kata, because it is rarely practiced and seen in tournaments nowadays. Sundomei karate sundomei refers to all the noncontact styles of karate, including shotokan has kata and bunkai at its core. My journey into the martial arts began by me joining a local judo club at the age of 10. Unsu also contains a 360degree spinning doublekick with a doubleleg take continue reading unsu shotokan.
Heian shodan 21, 917 heian nidan 26, 1126 heian sandan 20, 1020 heian yondan 27, 25 heian godan 23, 1219 tekki shodan 29. It contains many intricate hand techniques, such as the ipponnukite in the opening sequence. The hidden truth behind karates fighting origins, by bruce d. This kata and bunkai was shown at the 4th nikolauscup of karate dojo lich in hesse, germany. Numerous photographs with explanations in english, french, spanish, german, and japanese. Hence all of the karateka who contributed to the formulation of kyokushin who had prior karate exposure, including especially mas. There are two bassai kata, the other one being bassai sho, and although the sho translates to. Deuxieme kata 26 mouvements environ 40 secondes groupe 1 telechargez heian nidan au format pdf merci a carl lavalle note.
The repertoire of shotokan karate contains 26 kata in all. Budo kai, kyokushin karate at times known as kyokushinkai, judo, jiu. Shotokan karatedo student manual the dojo kun rules of the. Unsu, literally cloud hands, is the most advanced kata found in the shotokan, shitoryu and karate styles and is generally taught to karateka at the 3rd to 4th dan. Beginning shotokan at sensei asanos shotokan karate international ski on moving to nottingham in 1975, training at sensei morris university of nottingham dojo. Kyokushin kata bunkai shihan okazaki, from the kyokushinryu, is explaining some special techniques used in kata.
Without an understanding of the information and techniques included within kata, karate is a very limited art. The closest relatives of the karate kata in other sports are shadow boxing, dancing, and gymnastics floor routines. Pdf follow your bliss jesse enkamp and iain abernethy talking. Shotokan karate kata 17 katas with bunkai by grandmaster kancho hirokazu kanazawa 10. The bunkai part is solely against karate techniques and not against haopv actions or whatever you may call it. It is by this name that the kata is known in shotokan today.
Shotokan karate kata with kancho hirokazu kanazawa 10. Each team is exclusively male, or exclusively female. This pdf on the heian shodan kata and bunkai is an extract from the book. Others teach karate kata bunkai that is only suitable for demoonstration and sporting application.
Dan grandmaster hirokazu kanazawa was born in iwate, japan 1931. In the jkf, 8 kata are considered while in wuko karate there are 17. The shotokan kata kyodo, kiai 1, kiai 2 classification. As one of the motivating publications, this book will certainly offer the. Naihanchi shodan bunkai one minute bunkai presents 6 videos about naihanchi shodan or also called tekki shodan as a bunkai serie. Katabunkai maitrisez les techniques du karate shotokan. I actually bought a physical copy of the book when it first came out. A good example of this is the kata chinto or gankaku as it is referred to by shotokan practitioners. Vol 2 pdf shotokan karate international kata vol 2 are a good way to achieve details about operating certainproducts.
Heian sandan, kata, bunkai, defense par didier lupo. The principles for understanding kata were largely unknown. Bunkai, the art of analyzing a kata bunkai in japanese means analyze, demonstrate or decompose. Modern karate is moving away from the bunkai in kata practice. The kihon, or basics, of kyokushin budo kai have evolved through the merger of techniques from. Welcome to the official shotokan karate union website. Karate should really be for anybody over 5 years of age up to any age, regardless race, gender, socialreligiousclass background or fitness level. In his early years he was already interested in different martial arts. In 1986 he joined sensei aiden trimbles a kata and kumite legend federation of shotokan karate fsk at.
Any traditional karate kata may be performed with the exception of weapons kata kobudo. Here i show a short introduction clip of the kanku bunkai. Naslagwerken, katas en overige informatie over karate vereniging. Fairfax shotokan karate club part of the international shotokan karate federation iskf, fairfax virginia shotokan karate dojo, tysons karate dojo, washington dc shotokan dojo, world bank karate dojo, mclean virginia shotokan karate dojo. Actually, i dont even believe we have shotokan kata, wadoryu kata. Karate is a popular japanese martial arts that was originally developed on the islands of okinawa, japan. Full text of karate kata and applications volume 3. A kata is a series of defensive and offensive moves. Many karate schools also conduct kobudo weapons training i. This superb book is essential reading for all those who wish to understand the highly effective techniques, concepts and strategies that the kata were created to record.
At first everyone in the class, from the lowest rank to the black belts began together, starting with taikyoku sono ichi, and continuing on. For another example, close study will reveal that the shotokan. Kata is a japanese term meaning mold, model, style, shape, form, or datatype. The individual kata match consists of individual performance in separate male and female divisions. Ltd an imprint of random century ltd 20 vauxhall bridge road, london sw1v 2sa random century. In that book all 5 of the heian pinan kata are examined in detail from the solo performance of each kata, to the two person bunkai sequences. The analysis itself is bunkai, the application or use of a movement is oyo. Step forward with the right on the same angle and repeat the same stance and arm sequence. Kata kion, heian shodan, heian nidan, heian sandan, heian.
Kyokushin budo kai the ultimate beginners guide revision 2. The following videos are excerpts from shihan kazumi tabatas video shotokan through blue belt, no longer in current production heian shodan with bunkai. This ideo is from the series about shotokan kata in which we are going to demonstrate heian. Itis movements of the forms are mastered students concentrate on kata bunkai, the deepanalysis of kata. Search so when we talk about bunkai for a kata, it is in fact to do a research, to analyze this kata to give meaning to the movements that compose it the goal is to find in each technique a real application of selfdefense so that each kata. A karate kata is a set number of basic techniques arranged in order. Pdf for this jomar interview iain abernethys and jesse enkamps. First of all, why is he making the distinction between bunkai and reality. The points of the kanku represented by the fingers means the ultimate. Internet archive bookreader 27 katas for shotokan karate. Kata kion, heian shodan, heian nidan, heian sandan, heian yondan, heian godan, tekki shodan, bassaidai, kankudai, empi, jion, hangetsu, bassaisho. Clayton phd will certainly lead you to obtain what you exactly require. For this jomar interview we decided to combine iains and jesses talks from. The different kata applications shown in this book are possible defense solutions, which will supplement or partially reinforce the existing knowledge of the reader.
Dan advanced grades from 1 to 10 hajime start johakyu the concept of rhythm within the kata. The kanku is our club logo gothenburgs karate kai, it originates from the kanku kata. Karate kata applications are often referred to as bunkai. Shotokan karate kata bassai dai bassai dai, literally translates to storm a castle, major or to penetrate a fortress, major is a kata practiced in shotokan karate and is one of many variations of the passai kata.
The 8 jkf kata were chosen because they clearly demonstrate the kihon of the major styles of international karate. This completes the list of all the shotokan karate kata. Bunkai tekki shodan bernard bilicki 9e dan karate youtube. The tekki family of kata form a central theme running through the grades. Doshikai shotokan karate member handbook yokogeri side kick mawashigeri round house kick bunkai the application of the technique, a description of the realworld scenario around which the kata is formed. Heian shodan is the first kata in shotokan karate, and is taught during our special course shotokan through yellow belt three times a year over a one month period. However, they are not the only way to interpret the kata. Bunkai the analysis and understanding of a technique or kata is an integral part of karate.