{"id":2868,"date":"2017-03-31T07:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T05:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karatepraxis.wordpress.com\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2025-05-13T06:43:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T06:43:35","slug":"10-years-for-a-single-kata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/10-years-for-a-single-kata","title":{"rendered":"10 Years for a sin\u00adgle Kata. .\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"
thoughts by chris\u00adti\u00adan wede\u00adwardt, head of karatepraxis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A few weeks ago I star\u00adted a sur\u00advey on Funakoshi\u2019s quo\u00adte say\u00ading that he had lear\u00adned the Kata Tek\u00adki \/ Naihan\u00adchi for 10 years. What did he might learn?\u2028\u2028Final\u00adly I come to draw my con\u00adclu\u00adsi\u00adons, based on your ans\u00adwers and share the\u00adse with you.\u2028The sur\u00advey show\u00aded a high par\u00adti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adti\u00adon and also a gre\u00adat wil\u00adling\u00adness to dis\u00adcuss this topic on the web. I hope my fol\u00adlo\u00adwing artic\u00adle also meets your inte\u00adrest.\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

The ques\u00adti\u00adon of whe\u00adther Mas\u00adter Funa\u00adko\u00adshi had actual\u00adly trai\u00adned this Kata over a peri\u00adod of 10 years, or made it\u00b4s con\u00adtent to the sub\u00adject of his stu\u00addies will never be ful\u00adly cle\u00adared. I\u2019ve always asked mys\u00adelf the ques\u00adti\u00adon how it could have been suf\u00adfi\u00adci\u00adent\u00adly inte\u00adres\u00adt\u00ading for the lear\u00adner to remain in the kara\u00adte-do with such a redu\u00adced con\u00adtent over such a long peri\u00adod of time.\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

The pos\u00adsi\u00adble ans\u00adwe\u00adres in the sur\u00advey are cor\u00adre\u00adspon\u00addin\u00adgly pos\u00adsi\u00adble topics or con\u00adtents, which I could ima\u00adgi\u00adne being con\u00adtents for Funa\u00adko\u00adshi from my per\u00adspec\u00adti\u00adve. Your ans\u00adwers show that a high pro\u00adpor\u00adti\u00adon of the voters agree that Funakoshi\u2019s Tek\u00adki-based kara\u00adte edu\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon did not just only have a purely tech\u00adni\u00adcal approach, but rather also had been very prac\u00adti\u00adcal-ori\u00aden\u00adted.\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

In addi\u00adti\u00adon to the tech\u00adni\u00adcal qua\u00adli\u00adties such as tech\u00adni\u00adque, timing and breathing, many of you have sta\u00adted that they also belie\u00adve, it was a lear\u00adning goal to imple\u00adment the con\u00adtents of the\u00adse kata in num\u00ade\u00adrous part\u00adner trai\u00adning forms, whe\u00adther with locks, throws, blo\u00adcking or defen\u00adsi\u00adve move\u00adments, pun\u00adches and Kicks, appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adons of the con\u00adtent against seve\u00adral atta\u00adckers and pro\u00adofing the effec\u00adti\u00adve\u00adness on the pad. Some do even belie\u00adve that the con\u00adtents of the Kata were also used in ground com\u00adbat.\u2028\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

What does that mean for us?\u2028Is it useful for us prac\u00adti\u00adcing Kara\u00adte today to know and train all offe\u00adred katas? Or is the\u00adre actual\u00adly a litt\u00adle more to i? Would it per\u00adhaps be more hel\u00adpful for us as stu\u00addents to find a trai\u00adner or tea\u00adcher who is fami\u00adli\u00adar with Kata, to figu\u00adre out which Kata fits into ones own kara\u00adte and prac\u00adti\u00adce tho\u00adse few katas for a long time in depth?\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

My con\u00adclu\u00adsi\u00adon:<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

Sel\u00adec\u00adti\u00adve lear\u00adning is not a mista\u00adke in Kata, but a good decis\u00adi\u00adon. Ins\u00adtead of having the goal of pur\u00adsuing as many kata as pos\u00adsi\u00adble, we should redu\u00adce the scope and limit our\u00adsel\u00adves to a few com\u00adbat sys\u00adtems (Kata) and con\u00adcen\u00adtra\u00adte on under\u00adstan\u00adding this con\u00adtent. Your ans\u00adwers in the sur\u00advey show a cer\u00adtain expec\u00adta\u00adti\u00adon as to what Kata could teach us.\u2028\u2028The\u00adr\u00ade\u00adfo\u00adre my request:\u2028\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s go for it! Lear\u00adning, under\u00adstan\u00adding and app\u00adly\u00ading Kata, becau\u00adse Kata gives our mar\u00adti\u00adal-art soul. As a tech\u00adni\u00adcal gui\u00adde, it is not only the roots, but also car\u00adri\u00ades the know-how into the future.\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2016, I announ\u00adced that the Kata will be given a big\u00adger place in the future in karatepraxis-semi\u00adnars. Your ans\u00adwers in this sur\u00advey encou\u00adra\u00adge me. We are going to offer our exis\u00adting Kata-Effec\u00adti\u00adve-Bun\u00adkai cour\u00adses inten\u00adsi\u00adfied in order to share the fee\u00adling of how pre\u00adcious kata can be and to show the various pos\u00adsi\u00adbi\u00adli\u00adties of appli\u00adca\u00adti\u00adon.\u2028On the next level the\u00adre will be the Kata Bun\u00adkai Expert cour\u00adses. Tho\u00adse will focus on advan\u00adced stu\u00addents and the com\u00adplex lear\u00adning and tea\u00adching sys\u00adtem of this form. Par\u00adti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adti\u00adon in the\u00adse cour\u00adses is only pos\u00adsi\u00adble after pri\u00ador regis\u00adtra\u00adti\u00adon and for a maxi\u00admum of 20 par\u00adti\u00adci\u00adpan\u00adts.\u2028More infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon are soon to come on this web\u00adsite.\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

Karatepraxis is a modern tra\u00addi\u00adti\u00adon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Plea\u00adse also beco\u00adme a mem\u00adber of the Karatepraxis.com<\/span> Face\u00adbook group and sub\u00adscri\u00adbe to the same You\u00adTube chan\u00adnel. You can get infor\u00adma\u00adti\u00adon about Koshin\u00adkan Kara\u00adte on Koshinkan.de<\/span>, at Face\u00adbook via \u2018Koshin\u00adkan Deutsch\u00adland\u2019 and also by cont\u00adac\u00adting me of cour\u00adse.\u2028\u2028<\/span><\/p>\n

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A few weeks ago I star\u00adted a sur\u00advey on Funakoshi\u2019s quo\u00adte say\u00ading that he had lear\u00adned the Kata Tek\u00adki \/ Naihan\u00adchi for 10 years. What did he might learn?\u2028\u2028Final\u00adly I come to draw my con\u00adclu\u00adsi\u00adons, based on your ans\u00adwers and share the\u00adse with you.\u2028The sur\u00advey show\u00aded a high par\u00adti\u00adci\u00adpa\u00adti\u00adon and also a gre\u00adat wil\u00adling\u00adness to [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,48,73,110,114,121,123,137,166,168,182],"class_list":["post-2868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christian-wedewardt","tag-daniel-leinweber","tag-gene-dunn","tag-karatepraxis-international","tag-kata-bunkai","tag-kenwakan","tag-koshinkan","tag-michelle-gay","tag-sexual-assault","tag-shotokan","tag-tonfa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14400,"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/14400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.karatepraxis.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}