Kuen, Kata or Giya?

Below: Luc de Graeve – Businessman and Kung Fu practitioner executing a mid-level strike with the long staff (bo). He explained, “While practicing an openhand kuen, a Chinese master pointed out to me that some of the movements originated from weapon routines.” Food for thought!
Right: A Zulu bridegroom performing his Giya (Kata) at a wedding ceremony in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Johnny Clegg, social anthropologist and famous entertainer, known as the "White Zulu” says, “Performing Giya means displaying my manhood – trying to present myself courageously – a fight against imaginary enemies (see back cover)
Taking up a weapon is an extension of karate. What I am presenting to you below and on the next page may or may not upset some people. Taking into account the potential of karate kata and the fact that South Africa at present has the highest (violent) crime rate in the world – I have, with the help of others, formulated bo (long staff) and nunchuku techniques which can be applied in conjunction with shotokan kata (one through to Tekki Shodan). I have called this kata Shoto-Bo Number One.

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