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Points to remember about Okinawan Kata
1. Look before you turn or step.
2. Inhale through the nose just before execution of a technique.
3. exhale through the mouth on focus or completion of a technique.
4. Make the kata real...visualize your attachers...feel their blocks...feel your own attacks penetrate...make kata a matter of life and death...100% concentration must be achieved.
5. Use the loudest/sharpest Kiai at the appropriate place.
6. Strive to attain balance and smooth change from posture to posture and from one technique to the next.
7. Strive for perfection.
8. Kata develops your Budo spirit (fighting spirit)- let the spirit flow and be rhythmic and unsurmountable.
9. the entire body must come into play when focus is practiced. Relax (while keeping stable body posture) between techniques.
10. Practice on varying surfaces (slippery, soft, uneven, sloping ) to achieve well-rounded ability.
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11. All Okinawan katas must be performed with one (1) identifiable movement at a time. Breathing is controlled naturally with the transition between each movement strong and visually powerful with a fluid and uninterrupted flow.
12. There shall be no audible (hard Ibuki) breeze or hissing exhalation on any of the movements in the Okinawan forms with the exception of those katas designated by the various Okinawan styles as breath forms. Examples: San chin and Ten sho, etc..
13. Basic Okinawan walking methods are visibly different depending on whether the particular Okinawan style was promulgated out of the original influences of either Shuri or Naha te.
14. All Okinawan styles must wear the traditional all white karate gi when competing or demonstrating in any and/or all karate functions and especially when in view of Okinawan masters while performing Okinawan forms.
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