大愛館 DAIAIKAN SHURI-TE首里手

Naihanchi.

    Naihanchi is fundamental kata. Its goal - to develop good posture, learn the correct breathing techniques, to achieve harmony of breathing and movements. It teaches you how to focus your energy correctly. .In Kata are used close combat techniques. This kata was not originally developed for fighting back against the wall, although it can be used for this purpose. Despite the fact that the drawing kata line, right and left, all the equipment of the kata can be used to repel an attack from any angle.

   The exact origins of the kata is unknown. We only know that it was imported from China, but is not practiced there. We are studying the form that Master Ankoh Itosu gave name «Naihanchi shodan» after he changed the original shape, which, unfortunately, has not survived.