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    Karate the True Kata: Wado Meridians
    Karate the True Kata: Wado Meridians
    Karate the True Kata: Wado Meridians
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    Karate the True Kata: Wado Meridians

    By Paul Phillips

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    When you own this book you will buying a piece of history. The katas date back to China nearly 1500 years ago. This book will give you the true meaning of the ancient katas and why the monks created them. But more important by studying this book your martial arts will develop to a greater level.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris UK
    Release dateJan 29, 2020
    ISBN9781984593429
    Karate the True Kata: Wado Meridians
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    Paul Phillips

    Paul Phillips is the Gretchen B. Kimball Director of Orchestral Studies and Associate Professor of Music at Stanford University. He is the author of A Clockwork Counterpoint: The Music and Literature of Anthony Burgess, published in 2010, and essays on Burgess published in six other books, including the Norton Critical Edition of A Clockwork Orange. He has led performances of many Burgess compositions in concert, including numerous premieres, and conducted the first commercial recording of Burgess's orchestral music, released by Naxos in 2016.

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      Karate the True Kata - Paul Phillips

      Copyright © 2020 by Paul Phillips.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      The knowledge shared here is for educational purposes only. The author and publisher do not take any responsibility for any harm caused by people using this book for any purpose other than educational study.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Getty Images are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Getty Images.

      Rev. date: 01/29/2020

      Xlibris

      800-056-3182

      www.Xlibrispublishing.co.uk

      807564

      CONTENTS

      Chapter 1 Introduction

      Chapter 2 Pinan Nidan

      Chapter 3 Pinan Sandan

      Chapter 4 Pinan Yodan

      Chapter 5 Pinan Godan

      Chapter 6 Kushanku

      Chapter 7 Seishan

      Chapter 8 Chinto

      Chapter 9 Pinan Shodan

      Chapter 10 Acupuncture Measurements

      Chapter 11 Meridian Kata Key

      Chapter 12 Extra

      CHAPTER 1

      Introduction

      Introduction

      In this book, I’m going to explain the true art of the katas and their relationship to the Chinese meridians. I’m going to open your mind to a new level of karate, a level that most teachers or students don’t reach in kata. First of all, let’s look at a brief history of the katas. We are now in the 21st century and are still performing the ancient katas and relating the techniques to bunkai. Bunkai is when there is a set of moves in a kata and the teacher explains what the moves are performing. Now let’s go further back, to the birth of wado ryu 1939 and founder Grandmaster Hironori Otsuka. When Grandmaster Hironori Otsuka created wado ryu, he restored the katas back to or as close to their original form as possible. Grandmaster Hironori Otsuka knew the true value of the original katas and what was hidden in the katas. So where did the original katas come from? Let’s go deeper into history. Back to the year 527 in China, where a Buddhist monk from India named Bodhidharma created Shaolin kung fu. This is where the magic of the katas started, and this is where I’m going to start. We are going to look deep into the katas, which were created a long time ago by Buddhist monks. Hidden maps of the meridians were put into kata form by the monks. They hid the meridian scriptures in the katas so no one could steal them, and looking at the katas, it just looks like a lot of punching and kicking. Doesn’t this seem odd already? The monks are pacifists, vegetarian, and non-harming people. They trained their bodies and minds. This was the beauty of what they did. Body and mind, like metal and water. The katas are very important in the arts. There are very few people in the world who knew that the meridians was hidden in the katas, Grandmaster Hironori Otsuka was one of them, and the secret was kept to the elite few. There is a second part to the meridian katas, floor mapping which is more advanced and gets confusing if you don’t know the first part.

      This book has no pictures, so I will explain each movement of the kata. Each movement of the kata represents a meridian point. I will then explain where the meridian point is on the body. As you are performing the kata, you should visualise the meridian point on the body. For example, pinan nidan has 27 moves in the kata. Pinan nidan is the kidney meridian kata. The kidney meridian has 27 points. So move 1 on pinan nidan relates to kidney 1. Move 2 of pinan nidan relates to kidney 2 and so on. As you travel the meridian lines through the katas, there will be signs in the katas to relate to the key. All good maps have a key. The key is important—it will help you learn the meridians as you travel the meridian lines. At first, you will find it difficult to pick up because you were not taught this way. But in time, all the meridian katas will come together, and you will learn the meridians and dim mak. Through movement memory and all the kiais, X symbols and more will link up. I do highly recommend that you invest in a good picture acupuncture book. It will develop your knowledge about the meridian points. I think all top martial artists should own a good acupuncture book. Also, you can observe all the wado ryu katas on social media. I must state again that these Katas were made by monks who are not violent people but people of science. They were highly educated people who created a system for their own use and nobody else’s. When I was first shown these Katas,

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