Martial arts workout

Usage examples of kata.

Chinese ideographic code list, and codes bearing kata kana names, such as ta, ji, or hen, it relied in the main on four systems.

They did randori that was almost like a kata, or judo playlet, alternating throws.

He made a wooden bokken and went through the motions of the practice forms, the katas, he had studied with Father Ribaud at the Brotherhood.

Then he went through one of the basic katas Ribaud had taught him so long ago.

No kata tataki out here, no tapping on the shoulder to tell you that you have been voluntarily laid off.

The Kata are formal exercises consisting of predefined sequences of moves.

The blade picked up speed as the Amerind samurai launched himself into his kata.

I studied, the katas were my reward: the fluid dance, the grace, the hot whistling power of punching tight air, of using my whole body.

Where the snow was level, I did some katas, slowly at first, then faster, and faster still, until the movements were mere lightning sketches of killing blows and someone watching from a distance would have thought there was a whirling dervish on the ice.

The first two weeks were devoted to learning proper falls, the katas or dance steps, and the means to unbalance an opponent.

Swindapa was still hard at it, doing the kata long after Alston had gone in to oversee dinner.

It was as if he were a karateka who had mastered kata, but had never faced an opponent in actual combat .

It was a kind of historical piece, harkening back to the frenzied, kata routines of the turn of the century, with some break dancing and pelvic thrusts thrown in for variety.

Yes, I ogle the girls, especially the shy ones who need it more than you might think, and yes, Kata still purrs and preens when some rich old fart tells her how talented she is .

And I'm probably too old anyway for all the rigorous debates you'll have to sit through, after you milk Kata for all she's worth and then hire a dozen or so of the best Emerald philosophers to give it all a respectable polish and proper terminology.