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rogue
01-30-2007, 04:31 PM
Some nifty karate kata ideas.

http://www.koryu-uchinadi.org/KU_HAPV.pdf

http://koryu-uchinadi.com/

http://koryu-uchinadi.com/thinking_outside_the_box.htm


#1.Use realistic acts of physical violence as a contextual premise from which to learn, rather than the impractical 3K rule-bound reverse punch scenario that permeates the tradition,

#2. Employ practical two-person drills to recreate those realistic acts of physical violence found in today’s empty-handed fighting scenarios and provide prescribed defensive templates ultimately leading to functional proficiency,

#3. Show how the prescribed templates [i.e. the composites which make up kata] not only culminated the lessons already imparted but, when linked together, clearly offered something greater than the sum total of their individual parts [i.e. Kata], and finally,

#4. To possess the ability to clearly demonstrate where these prescribed templates [mnemonic mechanisms] exist in the classical/ancestral-based kata and how they were linked back to both generic and specific acts of physical violence.

Oso
01-30-2007, 06:00 PM
Bunkai - breakdown and analysis w/o variation

Oyo - extrapolation of the movements into other, non-traditional applications

Henka - a non functional change to technique that shows how you want the technique to look. (i feel this is the artistic component)

Kakushi - ??? I'm apparently not ready to learn this level yet. :D


this breakdown was given to me by my jujitsu teacher after a discussion of forms one day. I'd not ever run into a codified delineation in CMA of the different aspects of form interpretation though I had roughly sussed out the above myself...which I think (hope) is why I was given some terminology.

Black Jack II
01-30-2007, 08:06 PM
I really like the third article. Good stuff.

Plus, I like the word contextual, its how I refer to my own training.:)