Tekki Shodan - Shotokan Karate Kata

Tekki Shodan performed by Sensei Tim Rosanelli. Visit us at www.maximpactkarate.com

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[kabutox0wnage]

I'd like to see you perform this now

[trosanelli]

@kabutox0wnage - Back then, I was not use to being in front of the camera. So my performance would probably visually look better on camera plus I am much better at editing. Also, I was not performing it all out, because this video was for my students originally and I performed it at half speed so they could follow along with the moves.

[kabutox0wnage]

@trosanelli Thanks for clearing that up =D

[trosanelli]

@BelloBudo007 - You make a very astute point. The over-ritualization of kata is a sad problem. I think the original designers meant the kata performance to be a self expression of the practitioner's quan or fighting style.

[BelloBudo007]

@trosanelli - I understand. Of subject slightly.......these days I look back at kata competitions and wonder about it all. How does a kata judge decide which kata was superior and which inferior? It seems to be to have been decided by criteria created and then called correct form. I'd wager that the original kata designer never intended for it to be put into some competition and awarded a medal if it looks the way someone demands. Surely an example of form over function. How did this happen? :(

[trosanelli]

@BelloBudo007 - I think that the thing that people fail to realize is that practicing kata is like a living thing. I would like to think that I am at the top of my game every time I perform, but that's totally impractical. This kata is just one point in my development as a martial artist. This was one of my first videos and I was very distracted by the camera plus I was experimenting with shots and editing so I can't say it's my best.

[BelloBudo007]

@trosanelli - I suppose if you post on You Tube you run the danger of 'expert comments' such as "Looked pretty weak to me" from 1232. To be frank after more than 40 years of Shotokan I've drawn the conclusion that what's going on in one's own kata is not for the benefit of the casual observer but more for the practitioner and what they were trying to achieve. IMHO kata should contain hard & soft, fast & slow as in Ying & Yang and Ju & Go. Keep doing kata as you feel like doing it.

[trosanelli]

@zimzam1232 - Not my best performance. I was concentrating on the cut in editing that I was experimenting with when I should have concentrated more on the kata.

[zimzam1232]

Looked pretty weak to me. The kiai was just there because it's supposed to be there. There was no power in the techniques and neither in the kiai. Didn't make me belive that we were watching a scare black belt :)

[Monster102636]

Just a tip: for the double punches make them even and not 1 behind the other