Gekisai Dai Steps 1) Bow into Mokuso and slide out into Yoi Dachi. Looking to your left, step back with your left foot, turn your hips to the left 90degrees into sanchin dachi SD and perform JU with your left hand. Step into right ZD and punch jodan level with your right hand. Step back […]
Tsuki No Steps 1) Bow into Moksu and come out in yoi dachi. Step back with your right foot into KD as you turn your hips to a 45-degree angle. Perform a GB with your left hand and follow with a right reverse punch chudan level, across your body due to hip alignment.2) Step through
In our Black Belt Kata class this weekend (7/16/2022) we focused on the the last (on our list of black belt katas), the longest, and the most complex kata, Sushiho. According to Shihan Cameron Quinn’s book, “The Budo Karate of Mas Oyama”, Sushiho 五十四歩 translates to Fifty Four Steps. In his book he writes: This
