The katas are at the heart of the history of karate. They are the legacy we bequeath the great masters. Each kata has a name. Names like Bassai, Empi, Jion, Sochin or were given their through the centuries. The names of the kata are often echoed their Chinese origin, either by their naturalistic poetry, the name of the master who has sent or when modified recently, with more Japanese references.
For various reasons, the creators of kata have not written a lot about their passion for martial arts and the concepts they wanted to go into creating them. A number of katas were lost in history, when a master could not find a suitable successor, he sometimes preferred to see his kata away with itself. It then remained only the name of kata whose contents remained unknown. Sometimes the transmission did not end completely when the master died, or the disciple simply abandoned his practice. Virtually no writing could not be found, because the transmission of knowledge of knowledge from teacher to student was done orally, over at the time few could read or write. Usually, a master had a student house (uchi-deshi) and an external student (Soto-Desch). The official successor was the Soto-Desch, yet it is not the holder of all the key knowledge contained in the kata of the Master. These secrets were held by the Uchi-Deshi, resulting in a loss of some lessons.
The very idea that you are conducting a technique that has been passed from master to student for 50 years and in some cases for 400 years, is fascinating and can bring humility. These exercises provide much more than sweat and fatigue karateka ...
Kata formed until the last war with conventional attacks, the only form of karate instruction, they contain transmitted by all techniques teachers and allocating time, the karateka can discover an important source of growth. Thus, some techniques of karate were developed in a particular context, such as tobi-geri (kick skipped) were used to unseat a Samurai ...
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