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Hachimon – another Asai-kata?

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Hachimon – another Asai-Kata?
I got a comment on one of my posts about the Asai-katas.

Asai Shihan, who died last year, was the chief-instructor for IJKA and JKS Shotokan world organisations. He introduced more katas than the traditional shotokan katas.

These new katas are different from the traditional shotokan katas and thats why they often are called Asai-kata.

I know Asai Shihan found that many Shotokan practioners became rather stiff in their moves. He wanted to make the karatekas to relax.
I think one reason why he introduced these katas was to make us faster and teach us to relax.
Another reason was to open our minds for more way to perform karate techniques.

Thanks to one of the visitors here I did find another kata in a video in YouTube, if think it is Koike Sensei who demonstrates an Asai-Kata. It is called Hachimon.

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The not so known katas

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

Its always nice to have a dojo to go to during the days between Christmas and New Year Eve.
Its nice to practise after three days of Christmas celebrating.

Tonight we were not that many, I suppose a lot of karatekas have holiday from training too. Sometimes its time to rest too, of course.

But we, the little crown who went there got a nice introduction of one of the Asai-katas: Jindo Yondan – that kata is also known as Yonro Yondan (I am not sure about how to spell it).

Asai Shihan, who was the chiefinstructor for that Shotokan Karate organization our dojo belongs to, has created or introduced some special systems of katas, not belonging to the traditional Shotokan katas.

The Jindo – or Yonro – system includes five katas: Jindo shodan, nidan, sandan, yondan and godan.

The first one is for practising basics. The second one for pracitising double-techniques. With that I mean doubleblocks, doublepunches and so on.

The third one is for practising, well I dont know.
But the fourth, that one we practised tonight, is for practising turnings.
Number five is for practising different way of stepping.

Jindo – or Yonro – four starts with a turning backwards to zenkutsu-dachi and performing an uchiuke. Then turning aroung backwards to kokutsu-dachi and performing another uchiuke.
Then withdraw the frontleg into nekoashi and performing a gedanbarai. Then kick a maegeri with the front leg.

Well – I will not write down the whole kata. I wish I could find any information of it on the Internet, but it seems impossible, although I have been searching with Google.

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