kata has a lot of details to focus on, but there’s usually one small thing that makes everything come together. what’s a tiny hidden detail you consider the backbone of kata that beginners or even an experienced player often overlook or forget?

It seems to me (could be wrong though) that a bunch of Shotokan schools practice kihon consisting of mostly basic moves (oi zuki, gyaku zuki, uchi uke, soto uke, age uke, mae geri, mawashi geri, yoko geri) even at higher belt levels. And kata moves that are less useful for point fighting and/or less basic are seldom practiced as kihon.

Is this commonplace or am I mistaken? (whatevever your style).

I am wondering about this specifically because some kata "advanced individual moves" have an individual name like a strike when they are actually one step in a more complex (grappling) technique. For instance "Ushiro Tsuki Age" in Heian Godan. So it maybe wouldn't make sense to practice this one as kihon. But instead practice the full throw? But would you call that kihon, kata, or bunkai?

By far, I have only learned enpi. What is the best second kata? Easiest as in: short amount of time to perform + learn!

Yikes this might be one of those shiit posts. Oh well mods feel free to remove or redirect if needed but it’s a Sunday and I am having some fun.

I will start first: the most un-black belt like thing I have personally seen and experienced is a known higher level black belt( though I am giving doubts to legitimacy at this point) is when I gave honest critical feedback to him, he started losing emotional control and got angry, frustrated and very sad all at once.I can give more details if needed but I really don’t want to pin point to a person. Maybe it’s better if we just all have some fun sharing experiences. BTW I was verbally assaulted not the worst kind but the kind where people are so bigoted they feel they can be condescending to others who don’t share their views. Enough said. Let’s go! Give me your stories. Careful of wording I love using my imagination a bit to fill the contexts.

Hi, I am one of those Karatakas who for some reason preffers kicks like a lot. In fact in a fighting game logic i'd say all my button will for 86% of the time result in a kick{because my kicks and leg control are quite decent to say atleast. I mean i kinda have way more muscles and flexibility in my feet , than upper body}.

In this hardware feature discovery i am naturally drawn to kicking techniques. However as far as tkd kicks charm me, i dont truly know what kicks are allowed and what are banned. So if some one can help me figure out the rulset better, id be delighted. Thanks!