yantsu kata help

[Dizrythmia]

Originally Posted by Dent

Osu!

Another one I haven't heard before. How are you supposed to Kiai? (Visions of some frog-like breathing. )

Osu!

I was always taught that there was 1 kiai, which takes place with the first head punch during the 3 punch combo. This is before the koken blocks & strike. Then you pound the chest (just below), move the back foot across & turn 180.

[Dent]

Osu!

This is the official IKO1 version:

YouTube - Yantsu Kyokushinkai kata

If I was restricted to a single breath, I think you can see why I'd probably pass out before hearing the Yame! (Might explain the need for a shot of adrenalin afterwards though! )

Osu!

[bitterbut]

Yantsu
is a chinese based kata [white crane etc...] and thus it uses many strikes to the general same area quickly done.

As for the kiai, done [as we know it] is on all 3 punches done on both side

As for striking ones self in this kata un-hear of

[kakatootoshi]

Originally Posted by bitterbut

Yantsu
is a chinese based kata [white crane etc...] and thus it uses many strikes to the general same area quickly done.

As for the kiai, done [as we know it] is on all 3 punches done on both side

As for striking ones self in this kata un-hear of

Do you mean one Kiai for each single punch?

OSU!

[bitterbut]

no, one for all three

[seienchin]

Originally Posted by bitterbut

no, one for all three

Indeed, when I first learned this kata in the late 1980s, it and a number of other kata had prolonged kiai that were stretched over a series of punches.

around 1989 (I think), that was changed, and we were taught that the whole idea of a kiai was to be a short and very forceful explosion of Chi.

So ever since then, I have only kiaied on the last punch each side.

History is interesting, but I am now in the position of being able to choose not to change my kata any more. I have decided to become a living dinosaur, so that in the future, little children can point and me and be told by their parents that this is how kata looked "in the olden days".