KANKU-DAI

Kanku-dai (To Look in the Sky) the most important and conyretensive kata of Shotokan system, belongs to Shorin-ryu style. Favorite kata of Gichin Funakoshi, renamed by him (the original name was Kushanku the name of Chinese e[pert, who introduced either this form or his own style in Okinawa in 18th century). Including all major techniques of our style, this form is of ten deferred as «kata of fighting eight enemies», indicating the ability to move in all possible (literally eight) directions. One of the