Good news, I successfully obtained my green belt.
We went throught the black belt grading for the Midi-Pyrenees in the South of France.
It was hard work but good fun and well worth it!!

I agree that your videos are incredibly useful, especially for novices like me who are still starting out.

I especially found the tutorial given by Linden on Heian Nidan helpful because he was able to talk his viewer-students though each of the steps, with instructions and explanations along the way.

I was wondering if a similar tutorial has or can be made for Heian Sandan. Whilst there is a Sandan video on the website I do find it difficult to follow without Linden's "walk through" instructions.

Thank you Shotokan Unleashed for providing an amazing site.

Got my grading coming up next week so desparately trying to improve my katas!
Your videos are really useful for me so thanks very much!!

Gankaku is a black belt kata. The original name for gankaku is chinto. There are stories referring to a Chinese sailor named Chinto, he was supposedly shipwrecked close to the shores of Okinawa. In order to survive, this Chinese sailor took from the local Okinawan crops. A local Karate master by the name of Sokon Matsumura, was sent to stop this Chinese thief. They had a fight and Matsumura found Chinto to be an incredible martial artist, shortly after this Matsumura trained with Chinto to learn these starnge Chinese martial techniques.
Master Gichin Funakoshi changed the name from Chinto to Gankaku when he took Karate to Japan. Chinto, translates as 'fighter from the East' Gankaku means 'Crane on a rock'.

green belt test tomorrow our sensi is incorperating the junro katas into our program i don.t see any on this site does anybody else train in them