Never saw a Shotokan version of Suparimpei Kata before. Evidently the Karate Dojo some of these old videos are from, incorporated Goju Ryu forms into their curriculum. Thank you so much for posting this.
I just saw a JKS performance of this kata. It was very dynamic and does look like a Japanese version of an Okinawan kata. I had been practicing Koryu Gankaku from Kanazawa's SKIF and I think I would like to learn this, too. It looks like it will not task my 70-year old knees too much. Thanks for the post. OS!
Rarely saw a shotokan do sanchin dachi like this. They always do zenkutsu dachi in all of their 26 kata. An old version shotokan kata, never saw this before.
Hundreds of variants but does anyone understand them? Lots of high dans charging about with full on opinions of where they come from. But again do they know what the hell on earth they are doing.
That is incorrect. There are two versions currently floating around called Hyakuhachiho. Neither one matches Shitoryu or gojuryu verisons. BTW - suparinpai was my godan test kata in shitoryu.
