Making up your own kata

[E0richt]

Not just as creative dance, but also as dynamic meditation. Yet by making up your own Kata, your making a statement that you have learned and are practicing techniques that you have proven in a life and death street fight or actual hand to hand combat situation, not in a ring or tournament.

Those classical kata's that you learn are from actual proven fighting techniques.

Well over the centuries the kata forms movements have changed, no longer truly representing the form of what is really happening. And kata has been intentionally changed.
Choki motobu (one real bad karateka) only practiced one kata... He put more emphasis on kumite. At 52 he signed up for a competition against a western boxer and won.

 

[skribs]

I think its better than traditional Kata as students don't understand what the application of traditional movements are. Add in the fact that gichin funakoshi changed traditional Kata to make it simpler for children while trying to get karate in schools.
If there are self defense 2 man forms, they could be a basis for kata that would be easier for students to remember.

The thread you're replying to is so old, it's almost old enough to drink in the US.

 

[E0richt]

The thread you're replying to is so old, it's almost old enough to drink in the US.

Yes guess I need to check the dates more closely...