MY KARATE CLUB

JION - (Temple Bells) A little bit of let's say history of thi great Shotokan Katate Kata.  There is a belief that this KATA was of Chinese origin because of the word JION, a bouddhist term found in the ancient books of China. Moreover the origin may be in the temple of JION where martial arts were practiced. Afterwards, it reached TOMARI. The movements in this KATA hide a strong fighting spirit. This KATA is actually practiced in SHOTOKAN and WADO RYU only. Not very difficult to perform, mastery of the HEIAN KATA will help in its study and perfection. A representative KATA in SHOTOKAN with basic stances: KIBA-DACHI, ZENKUTSU-DACHI and KOKUTSU-DACHI, the last movement is performed by using the opponent's strength grabbing the wrist and counter-attacking to the ribs simultaneously.  A compulsory KATA in the Federation of All Japan Karate Do Organizations, I recommend its practice. Check out the video clip:  Join on YouTube - Click here OSS! 🥋 Thanks For Visiting Doj

ENPI Enpi  - (Flying Swallow) A little bit of let's say history of this great Shotokan Katate Kata.  It is said that it was introduced by the SAPPUSHI WANSHU and was practiced in the TOMARI region. It is also believed to have been influenced by Chinese KENPO and OKINAWA martial arts. Much later, it was taught by SANAEDA followed by MATSUMORA.  These two variations were modified by ITOSU and MATSUMURA. FUNAKOSHI, in his KARATE-KENPO of the RYU-KYU des cribes it has forty movements thus confirming it is a KATA of TOMARI. In SHOTOKAN the name became ENPI when the characters of chinese hand were replaced by KARATE. According to the theory of MOTOBU, until the political and geographical change of the MEIJI era, both KATA WANSHU and ROHAI were only known in TOMARI. In  SHURI and NAHA, they were unknown.  Master KIYATAKE of the SHORIN-RYU style (influenced by SHURI-TE and NAHA-TE) includes WAN SHU and NANKO among other important KATA in his book "seven original KATA of t

Bassai Dai BASSAI-DAI – (Penetrate The Fortress) Little bit of let's say history about this great Shotokan Karate Kata. Many variations of this dynamic and powerful KATA exist in different RYU: ITOSU, TOMARI-TE, ISHIMINE and others.  There are two forms:  DAI  and  SHO.  The latter believed to be created by ITOSU is very distinct and the origin not clearly defined. Some claim it was introduced by master OYADOMARI but a more thorough study should determine whether it was more influenced by TOMARI-TE than SHURI-TE from ITOSU, creator of SHO. But we can definitely ascertain it is not from NAHA-TE. Powerful and dynamic UKE-GAESHI, JODAN, CHUDAN and GEDAN counter-attacks, YAMAZUKI are the distinct features of this KATA A representative KATA in SHOTOKAN with KANKU, it is taught after mastering the basics. Check out the video clip:   Bassai-Dai on YouTube – Click here OSS! 🥋 Thanks For Visiting Dōjō link