One of the challenges I always find when taking a new belt is to learn the kata. It can often be hard to pick up all the technical detail in a busy class. When I was a beginner and middle order belt I would really have liked easy access to my styles kata on video.
With this in mind for my students (Shukokai style) I have started recording videos of me performing the club's kata's and putting them up on You Tube. The aim is to do the kata relatively slowly to try and develop technique and power rather than speed so the watcher can get an idea of what the kata's look like.
I'm aware that different styles perform the same kata's differently but my version are as per how I teach them at my club (under the tutelage of my own instructor : Sensei Tattersall).
Hopefully as we add more they become a useful library for students to be viewed as part of the process of their learning their new kata. So far I have recorded two :
Pinan Nidan
Pinan Shodan
Click on the above links to view them or you can go via the Yeadon Club website by clicking here.
Sensei Phil
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