Mental Benefits. While they come at it from completely different directions, practitioners of karate and tai chi both benefit from mental health benefits as well as improvements in awareness, self-esteem and confidence. Most of the overlap between karate and tai chi occur at a higher level of development.
To me these two sentences says it all, on how important Kata is to the practice of Karate. So without Bunkai the Kata is not entirely useful, and without Kata, Karate (or in fact Kobudo) is not complete! I have already in the history pointed out where the Pinan (meaning Peaceful and Calm) series of Kata, and Kushanku came from.
Perhaps the same was true when karate was introduced to the mainland and the Okinawan karate masters decided to only teach the most basic katas. In other words, they were influenced by the so-called traditional Japanese practice of Mongai fushutu or Isshi Soden (Not letting the body of knowledge to be known outside the school, or passing on the Shokku Banned Banned. Karate is not useless. Every style of the martial arts has something to offer, even if the same is offered in another art. Karate is by no means the most combat effective style, however it is not useless. I don't care what this thread is actually about - the title is an incredibly ill-chosen one. We have written a number of different articles about karate, different styles, origin, effectiveness, and more, and probably in every single one of them, the word Kata has been mentioned. However, none of them specified what it is, nor what it means, its significance to the whole world of karate, its origin, or anything else. No karate instructor these days can definitively say what each technique in their kata was originally designed to do. The way to get it back and to reclaim the kata is to learn classical jujitsu and reverse engineer the movements in the kata. Or create new kata based on classical jujitsu and an understanding of the original karate kata. Motobu liked to get into street brawls, and so he thought that most Kata were not important for learning how to actually defend oneself, this is one of the reasons that he was unsympathetic to Funakoshi sensei and his emphasys on Kata. If YOU are looking for a "Straight-to-the.point" Karate, I may recommend you search for Uechi Ryu schools. cEBG.
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