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Heian Shodan Full Tutorial | Shotokan Karate Kata | by Jason Leung~⛩ HEIAN KATA SERIES ⛩1. Taikyoku Shodan: https://youtu.be/jH6bv4GDpp02.
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Heian Shodan is the first Shotokan kata and is followed Heian Nidan and Heian Sandan. It is a Shotokan kata for color belt (non-black belt) Shotokan Karate students. The information on this page is designed to help students pass their belt tests.
Shotokan kata Heian Shodan, performed from three different angles for the benefit of students learning the kata.
Heian Shodan is the first Kata in the Heian series and is usually the first Kata that a beginner must learn. It has 21 movements and its embusen is roughly I-shaped. This Kata takes the student through a similar floor pattern as Taikyoku Shodan, but incorporates different techniques including a hammer fist and a knife hand block.
Heian Shodan is the first kata of 5 in the 5 Heian Kata series. The first Heian kata focuses on stances zenkutsu dachi (front stance) and kokutsudachi (back stance). Strikes oi zuki (stepping punch), Tettsui uchi (hammer fist strike) and blocks age uke (upper block), shuto uke (knife hand block).
Heian Shodan is the first kata of the Heian series. The term Heian is the Japanese version of the Okinawan term Pinan. Our lineage of Shito-ryu use the Japanese term and the Japanese order of these forms. The original order of the Pinan kata has the first and second kata reversed from the Japanese Heian. So this Heian Shodan was originally ...
The first kata in the Heian series and the first kata to be learned by a beginner is known as Heian Shodan. The embusen of it is roughly I-shaped and it comes with 21 movements. Oi-zuki (lunge punch) and gedan-barai (down block) with which over half of the kata is comprised of are the essential points to be learned in H1.
Heian Shodan (平安初段) is an Itosu-kei kata, created between 1902 and 1905 by Itosu Ankō for training by students at Shuri Junjō Chūgakkō (Shuri Standard Middle School). According to tradition, Heian Shodan, like the other four Heian kata, was derived from an ancient and more complex kata called Channan. Its purpose was to provide ...
Heian shodan is an excellent kata for shomen (square facing) and hanmi (side facing) practice. The body and hips should be square (shomen) for the stepping punches and (side facing) hanmi for the blocks.