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Keith Jones &
Rachel Pavlu
doing 1st half
Keith Jones &
Rachel Pavlu
doing 1st half
Summary/Background:
Mr. Deaton used to do competition kata he called, "Kanku Dai" that was made-up from selected snippets of the other blackbelt katas.
(not associated to the Shotokan kata also called "Kanku Dai" which is the Funakoshi rename for "Kusanku")
Mr. Jones had a video with this kata, and Mr. Taylor and he re-learned it back around 2000 or so at the old Brentwood Sugar-Drop Shop dojo. (then forgot it). This was round the same time that they found and learned Suparinpei.
This is the transcription from that time that Mr. Taylor had made, and as of now, no-one knows where the VHS tape wondered off to. It might be the same VHS tape that
Had the Shindo Yoshin Ryu Self-Defense Seminar by Joe Rippy, and the Page High School Tournament with a greenbelt Mrs. Pogue and a goldbelt Miss Warrick. It might have also been on the VHS tape with Mr. Jones football helmeting the goat, or jumping the creek on his Evel Kneivel sky-cycle bike. It could also have been on the illusive Lynyrd Zepplin Concert Rockband VHS tape, that is now being bootlegged across the ghettos and dark alleys of Vietnam, Tansania, and Pango Pango.
Those are the only clues I (Mr. Taylor) have to finding that old VHS tape, since it was before the internet age of storage.
Kata Walkthrough Transcription:
1 Bow (Masubi Dachi)
2 Ready Stance, Fists like Pinans (Heiko Dachi)
3 shoto blocks (Long Cat to West)
4) shoto blocks (Long Cat to East)
5) Formard Facing Sheeko Daci, Right downward Shooto, Left cover at shoulder
6) Slowly retract shoot to right hikite; left slowly extends to Shotei
7) Right punch, going into Kusanku moves 5-8 with dropping namami zenkutsau dachis, to West, then East (Right soto , left soto)
8) Step-up right jodan sidekick to East
9) Put kicking foot down in back into long left Cat with regular shotos facing North
10) Right yakazuki forward (left seisan dachi)
11) Left yakazuki forward (right seisan dachi)
12) Right yakazuki to Left NW corner, then Left yakazuki to Right NE corner (left seisan dachi)
13) Spin 270 Left to East on Right foot into Left Zen, then right yakazuki
14) Spin 180 Right to West on Left foot into Right Zen, then left yakazuki
15) Spin 360 to West into left Zen with Left lowblock, RIght yakazuki, doulbe punch
16) Slowly back to starting position, long left cat, with slow Bassai-like retraction
17) Switch hands, readying to sweep, Right up
18) Sweep (left cover head, RIght sweeps across) then right hiza, right mae-tobi-geri, left-right roundhouse combo
19) Left spinning sidekick, drop to riught knee (kneeling) right yakazuki
20) Stand to ready position
21) Turn left 90 South and do Kusanku Sweep, kick, Drop, dobule-punch, and pullup ending on left lowblock
22) twist front, Right shooto into left hand (like Wanshu)
23) Right Mae Geri into Yondon rollup backfist & reverse cat
24) Step back and do Kusanku 'Draw Sword' Right Soto, double punch
25) Spin Left 270 East and do Left kokutsa dachi, then jump landing facing South
26) Sping Left 180 into Left kokutsa dachi, then Godan jump landing facing South
27) Do Seisan's Left Big-Step, Left shooto uke double punch R-L
28) Right Rohai leg sweep with hands sweeping(L over R) twisting into left Zen with Tetsui to West then Step Right Punch
29) West facing Left Tomoe Zuki, slip step, another Left Tomoe Zuki
30) Spin backwards Left 360 to West Right long cat
31) Spin 180 Left to East to Left sagi-ashi dachi (Right Tae Uke, Left Hikite)
32) Turn Right South into Right Zen with Left Tomoe zuki spin 360 South into Right long cat (like Wanshu)
33) Turn Right East into Right double roundkicks, left elbo (right seisan dachi)
34) Turn Right West step-up Right sidekick, left yakazuki
35) Turn Left South into Left long cat
36) Step forward with Kusanku's Right Zen, Right Yohan, Left Yohan(?one knuckle?) to armpit
37) Slowly retract Right Hand, and extend Left Hand to North Jodan Level
38) Left 360spin with RightCrescent into extended left hand, returning full circle back to Right runner stretch, fists down
39) look left, look right, look forward
40) Step back still facing South into Left Kokutsa dachi, hands open and mid-level
41) Step back facing South into Right long cat
42) Spin Left North going tinto Jitte's Right Soto (left Naname) then Left Soto (Right Naname) move
43) Step North with Right long cat
44) Do Bassai's ending, to back right corner, then front left corner, doing slow hand parts
45) Finish in heisoku dachi with Bassai starting hand position
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