Tachi no Kata was taught this year. Shihan Flynn and his Students do this kata so gracefully. I unfortunately still notice that my sanchin back leg is not pointing toward my forward leg's big toe. Now I could blame this on my back leg and back problem, but since this issue is most likely here to stay with me, I will need to learn to adapt. I also notice that my forward leg's heal in Kokutsu dachi is very high. I am sure we can find many other problems.....
I had to cut the Tachi no Kata in half. We would turn and repeat the sequence of the dachi in reverse order back all the way back to hesokudachi. Shihan Quinn talks about this tachi kata in the back of "The Budo Karate of Mas Oyama. As I was learning this kata, I was thinking of the dachi drills that you gave me, and wondering if they came from this tachi no kata? I enjoy working on this with the new students, we have been working on it for about two weeks now. Hoping that they began to see the relationship of each dachi to the next dachi. Wonder what you think?? A few more thousand times and maybe I will get better dachi...(^^)
