I've recently seen a video of my net friend with yellow belt doing kata Heian Nidan. For yellow belt kokutsu-dachi is a new stuff and as I watch many advanced karatekas, also a very hard to perform even for advanced. I tried to remind myself having a yellow belt but it was so long time ago that my memory reconstructs only my belt :) But to the point. I had decided to work on my kokutsu dachi, then in the evening I was training Kanku Dai at home: the part with mae geri and manji uke. Kokutsu dachi wasn't the main part of my training but my attention naturally was focused a bit on it because of the earlier decision.

To read the rest of this article, sign up for FREE membership now!CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP NOW!FREE members have instant access to hundreds of exclusive shotokan articles and videos.