Create your own kata

Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:15:13 +0000

Creating your own kata sounds like rather an advanced exercise to me since I am still struggling to learn the basic Heian kata's (at the moment Heian Sandan which is an odd beast).

But Dad bought me Shotokan Karate: Unravelling the Kata for christmas which I have been reading and it's got quite a lot of interesting history about kata and the development of karate generally.

The question of where the kata derive from and why they are the way they are is an interesting one. Perhaps each student discovers it for themselves in practice.

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Create your own kata