Showing posts with label kata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label kata. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 August 2011

Dances, War and kata

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Again my interest is piqued by something I read linking the ideas of dance to martial movement. This time the sources is not from the far Ea...
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Wednesday, 20 October 2010

Kata, Hyung tonifies the body

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I was asked to do Pyung Ahn Oh Dan yesterday. In fact, I offered as it's a hyung I need to practice, so I executed it three times: once ...
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Friday, 29 January 2010

Bassai Dai with explanation by Sadashige Kato, 9th dan.

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Brief bio of Sadashige Kato here .
Friday, 4 December 2009

Last days fencing and ki ken tai

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The fencing course culminates with a competition with the rest of the club. This includes fun atmosphere and prize giving so I was fairly r...
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Monday, 23 November 2009

Counter riposte

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The counter riposte in fencing refers to a continuation of an attack after the first riposte has been parried. The first attack has been def...
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Saturday, 17 October 2009

Teaching at Tang Soo Do

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Tuesday night's Tang Soo Do was less sweaty and more cerebral. It's good to explore lesser taught aspects of the art and tonight mea...
Friday, 10 July 2009

More on music

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Dave Russell 08 July at 08:11---- Hey up Chris, I'm trying hard to learn a piece of country guitar at the moment which comes off a tuiti...
Thursday, 11 June 2009

Applications within Pyung Ahn Ee Dan

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I needed to move. I'd missed Shorinji Kempo on Monday and despite an energetic session on Tuesday at Tang Soo Do I felt like I'd mis...
Tuesday, 17 March 2009

Korean kicks (all through the night)

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This is a post in reply to Dan Prager 's comment here and follows on from my previous post about which kicks are used within hyung (for...
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Saturday, 14 March 2009

Forms and their kicks

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I read recently an interesting point put forward by Vince Morris in a book 'Karate Kata Applications' (Vince Morris and Aidan Trimbl...
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Saturday, 14 February 2009

Rhythm in hyungs (kata)

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A brief training session in the garden today threw up the idea of rhythm within hyung or kata. Although my main focus currently is Shorinji ...
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Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Sōjutsu

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Whilst reading Dave Lowry's Autumn Lightning I was intrigued by his mention of sojutsu or the techniques associated with spear ( yari in...
Saturday, 15 November 2008

Okinawan -> Japanese -> Korean forms

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Some time ago I was researching the origin of the matial art of Tang soo do, particularly the forms we practice (or Hyung) and I came across...