Kanku Sho Seminar at MIT

Kanku Sho Seminar at MIT T-Club Lounge

June 26, 2022

We had an exciting kata seminar in the MIT T-Club Lounge in late June! Vazrik Sensei taught Kanku Sho to students of all ranks in this special kata seminar. It was wonderful to be back in the T-Club Lounge and to train indoors in this historic place. Vazrik Sensei taught the kata as he usually does, by breaking the kata down into chapters and bringing students through each chapter step by step until the full kata is pieced together. Students from beginners to advanced learned the kata in accordance with our vision of sharing knowledge and proving that even beginners can learn complex choreography and use it to gain confidence and a better understanding of Karate as a whole.

This kata is a new favorite among some of our new black belts in our group! The kata has both high speed punches and blocks, athletic jumps as well as very graceful, slow movements. Going through the choreography and understanding some of the advanced hip mechanics together was a good way to put the kihon that students have trained together throughout June to use in this kata. We are aiming to build a team kata with Kanku Sho in the near future!