Which Kata Wins? Seisan vs Kururunfa

Tell us who you think wins and leave a comment below as to why they won your vote.

It doesn’t even matter if you don’t know these kata because you can base your decision off universal karate principles listed below.

One way to improve your own kata performance is to actually judge others. This is because viewing kata through a Judge’s lens will help you realise what you need to work on in your own kata to make it more impressive in your next tournament.

Judges have much to weigh up in making their final decision. A few examples include:

Who has the best overall technique?
Who has the better stances?
Who transitions in and out of stance better?
Who has the better hip movement?
Who has more power?
Who has more speed (in either legs or arms)?
Who is more balanced?
Who has better posture?
Who is more fluent in movements that require this?
Who is breathing better?
Who is more focused?
Who has the better timing?

Even among these, as an example, one competitor may have superior stances in one section of their kata while the competitor has superior stances in another section.

Or one may have more speed yet the other is more technical.

In this video we even asked one of the competitors to make a deliberate error during a Kiai move to give our more experienced judges more to ponder in their decision making process.