I agree: katas can be both meditative and physically taxing. In my experience as a practitioner of Tang Soo Do, I feel that katas contribute to sparring skills because they teach you balance, proper breathing, and fluidity of movement.
The purpose of kata in karate is the same as purpose as shooting drills in basketball or running routes at football practice. You develop muscle memory with the techniques in a controlled situation so that performing certain combinations or techniques in a real life scenario is more efficient and second nature. As Bruce Lee said about his fist, “it hits all by itself.
I feel like I am not getting enough of my taekwondo training. I can't go training higher poomsae though before my sensei thinks I'm ready. That's why I thought of learning the old palgwe poomsae!
You're right. Kata is becoming more popular now because of this. I see many posts on social media. Unfortunately, this makes it more difficult to drill the application part of bunkai while most dojos are closed depending on your region.
Kata, poomsae whatever you call it is a waste of time. Anyone who actually thinks it is usefull “dosent understand the purpose of it” (to waste lesson time). It’s the main reason I quit taekwondo and decided to do kickboxing instead. I never signed up to do ballet movements 75% of the lesson time.
Kata is still useless. You're just doing imaginary movements with a non existent opponent. One punch in a fight will give someone who only does kata a check of reality. Sparring and drills are the way to go. Kata makes Karate among the most boring martial arts.
The only katas that are some what useful are the ones that insinuate a combative movement like punching forms,kicking forms and blocking forms or anything like that but a lot of katas they teach in karate schools don't help with anything because they consist of a weird movements that you won't use to defend yourself.
The video is not suggesting you do only kata. Who is doing only kata? Some one you know? The video is trying to explain the original purpose of kata, which is only one part of a martial art. Application is the bulk of the training, if it is truly traditional. If it is just a kata-school, then it's incomplete.
Itf taekwondo is also up there. Man those poomsae/kata patterns were boring as bat sh*t and served absolutely no purpose. Only thing I think it drilled into was stance “feet a shoulder width apart”. Thats about it.
I agree: katas can be both meditative and physically taxing. In my experience as a practitioner of Tang Soo Do, I feel that katas contribute to sparring skills because they teach you balance, proper breathing, and fluidity of movement.
The purpose of kata in karate is the same as purpose as shooting drills in basketball or running routes at football practice. You develop muscle memory with the techniques in a controlled situation so that performing certain combinations or techniques in a real life scenario is more efficient and second nature.
As Bruce Lee said about his fist, “it hits all by itself.
But you're not fighting anyone. Sparring is essential to be effective. You won't be ready in a real fight if you just do kata
I feel like I am not getting enough of my taekwondo training. I can't go training higher poomsae though before my sensei thinks I'm ready. That's why I thought of learning the old palgwe poomsae!
Now every one do Kata, thanks to the pandemic :)
You're right. Kata is becoming more popular now because of this. I see many posts on social media. Unfortunately, this makes it more difficult to drill the application part of bunkai while most dojos are closed depending on your region.
Kata isn't useless. Practicing kata without the knowledge of it's movements and only solo practice is useless.
Kata, poomsae whatever you call it is a waste of time. Anyone who actually thinks it is usefull “dosent understand the purpose of it” (to waste lesson time). It’s the main reason I quit taekwondo and decided to do kickboxing instead. I never signed up to do ballet movements 75% of the lesson time.
Kata is still useless. You're just doing imaginary movements with a non existent opponent. One punch in a fight will give someone who only does kata a check of reality. Sparring and drills are the way to go. Kata makes Karate among the most boring martial arts.
The only katas that are some what useful are the ones that insinuate a combative movement like punching forms,kicking forms and blocking forms or anything like that but a lot of katas they teach in karate schools don't help with anything because they consist of a weird movements that you won't use to defend yourself.
The video is not suggesting you do only kata. Who is doing only kata? Some one you know?
The video is trying to explain the original purpose of kata, which is only one part of a martial art. Application is the bulk of the training, if it is truly traditional. If it is just a kata-school, then it's incomplete.
Itf taekwondo is also up there. Man those poomsae/kata patterns were boring as bat sh*t and served absolutely no purpose. Only thing I think it drilled into was stance “feet a shoulder width apart”. Thats about it.