JKA Kata Gankaku

JKA Kata Gankaku
http://www.jkasa-honbu.com.au

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• JKA
• Kata
• Gankaku
• Shotokan

[DavidBlair1]

Who is doing this Kata?

[risborg]

Tanaka Sensei

[blueswailing]

Masahiko Tanaka, JKA master, yeah, he's been doing kata before your papa was born. You best keep your ridiculous 20 yr old comments to yourself.

[ptboyindenver]

Mr Tanaka does not care what anybody thinks of his kata. He is a fighter - one of the best ever. This was an official JKA instructional video, made in the 80's, so something must be right about doing the kata this way.

Pronchik is right - his technique is made to hurt people, not look pretty. It is compact, direct, powerful and efficient. Any excess motion that would slow him in reaching his target has been drilled out of it. He's a pit bull, not a poodle.

[Kwimalo]

@ShowYourWorking It was the old-time Karate masters vomiting in their graves that caused the earthquake in Japan.

[koufaxrules]

Karate is a martial art not a ballet dance. Kata is an important integral part of advancing in training, each having specific reactions to teach. Only committed practice can establish "muscle memory", conditioning specific reactions to various situations without having to think it through..

Some may view training as a shell, but you should spend years at the black belt rank before fully understanding all that is to be learned. If you make black belt in a year or so, its BS - change styles!!

[IEKUKATAKA]

THIS IS NOT KARATE! A warning from a JKA life member: I spent a long time training and teaching this activity. Because of many contradictions I saw and heard, I began a study of karate from it’s beginning; what it really is, why it was developed, how it was taught, what it’s general syllabus was. The JKA is a shell, they have eliminated much of original karate and have invalidated it as a martial art. Read comments my site, the truth is obvious through study if you are willing to see it.

[vfranad]

@bushidoartss: you got that right, my friend!

[bushidoartss]

@vfranad traditional martial arts only for money busines..japanese making money selling belts..it is not art it is bulshit..noithing better then kudo karate muay thai sambo brazilian jui jutsu..

[bushidoartss]

@blueswailing  is he been doing karate?and what?is he grandshitmaster?karate is not art anymore 20 years ago people understund this is bulshit gymnastic..

[loolooface]

gotta try this :)

[vfranad]

@ptboyindenver: i'm asian & i should know better, right? of course, i have a blackbelt and "kata" or forms is a must to earn your BB with 4-5yrs(or more) of training. It's just my own opinion! My own kids are taking conventional martial arts but something they could use in a real world situation - like Gracie-style jujitsu(20 yrs to earn a BB, no kata either), Thai Muay thai(kata is minimize) & Krav-maga(Israeli Martial arts). Did you ever watch MMA? I didn't see any karate/TKD winning a fight!

[ptboyindenver]

@vfranad Your key words are said out of ignorance. When Funakoshi turned karate into physical education for the Japanese government and the JKA turned kumite into sport for fun and profit, kata as self-defense was ignored..

The JKA and the Okinawan styles do nearly all the same kata. Okinawan training has taught self defense from kata all along. Many JKA people are going back to that kind of instruction using modern karate technique. Your words simply show how little you know about this.

[ChristopherMonti]

@ptboyindenver

you love him