Have you ever created your own kata?

If so please share some details.

Well, I'm not sure if it's a kata, but I created an excersise to sharpen up stances.  Start facing front (12:00) in "ready position".  Step back with right leg into a left front balance, left downward strike (we don't block, we strike).  Step back again, only this time with left leg and right downward strike.  You should be in aright front balance.  Slightly turn on the balls of your feet, counter clockwise 45 degrees, into a horse stance.  You should be facing the corner (11:00).  Step back again with left leg into a right front balance.  Turn your body another 45 degrees, into a horse stance (9:00).  Keep going, you can step forward or backward at anytime, as long as you start in right front balance.  Or, you can go clockwise, just change to all left front balances and downward strikes.  This also shows how important "C" steps are in kata.  It keeps students from stomping their feet, and puts them in the proper front balance for the next move.  I've created one for cat stances and water stances, too.   I'ts alittle hard to describe, but you still move in a circle (either direction), it's just a very small and tight circle.  Start in a left cat stance, then move left foot behind the right so your left shin is resting on your right calf, knees bent.  Step back with left foot into a right cat stance, and so on and so on.  Grand Master Dillman actually complimented our students' stances at the last seminar we attended.  Can it get any better than that??!!!!!!

I have a question: I see Chinese styles have diferent animal katas to attack the 12 shichen or horary cycles(12 animal forms or something I think), has Karate this kind of special katas? Are they 12 too?
I asked this in the past by email to Erle Montaigue and Rick Clark and they answer me "not exist", Karate not has this kind of katas but I believe those Katas exist. Could anybody answer me that question, and if somebody can tell which ones are they?  My kingdom for that answer! 

Erle told me "In Karate dont exist that katas because Karate is imperfect" he said that to me. I am not agree with him obviosly because I like Karate and I know this horary cycles  techniques maybe are hidden in some katas that we do and we dont know about it, I think.

In my opinion all styles are imperfect because all styles have not something that other styles have. Erle told me that meaning Kunfu is perfect and karate not. I am not agree with that.
He has a lot of knowledge I know, and he is a great guy because he always  answered the emails I sent to him in the past without know me. But I am not agree Kunfu is better than Karate, they are different styles and both of them have weaknesses like all styles.

And about the second thing, I am not looking for animal katas I am looking for horary cycles katas(shichen),in kunfu they are represent in 12 animal katas but I think in Karate must to be some katas to attack the 12 hours cycle too.

I sent an email to master Rick Clark to ask it and he asnwered me he doesnt believe in the 12 hours cycle but I think why not to believe?. This is the problem of Dillman students they dont believe in anything that Dillman did not teach.

Well, That´s all Folks! 
 

pauljush, You are right about Kung fu Vs karate It the man not the system that wins I personally disgree with anyone who speaks of there system or way as THE BEST. On the 12 animal question, Almost every body out there focus is on technique. when It should be on foundations. The foundation of the crane is to not get bitten or in combat don't get hit. So the crane moves quickly waves it wings and says clear of direct conflict and when the timing is right, uses the beak to ward off the preditor. the Tiger is different, It chases it's prey It has no fear, and distroys It's prey. The to animals have different mind sets, you see? So it goes with the 12 animal forms. and the foundation is to fight in the same way as these 12 animals.

  Now, when I asked an old master this same question Man is smarter than any animal, in Karate we stand like men and fight like men.  So in karate we think like men but we use animal tools to do the work. The fathers borrowed these animal tool and plcaed them in our TA.  In kara-ta in the all Kata you will find bits of all the 12 animals used together with the thinking proscess of a man, no an animal! The animal can and will do only what it know instictively, It can only do one thing, but the man can change at will. perhistoric man found ways to defeat all the animals, big and small and yes if the man is cough of gard of place the role of the pray the animal will kill that man, true But that is the answer to that problem, don't think as the pray. If the tiger chases you do you run? if you do you will become dinner! so what would you do? You would not think like animal prey, you would think like a man.

Although times and season work they are a small additional sub technique which causes the result to be magnified in all cases. Is the knowledge vital, No. In healing as it is with striking it can be use to amplify any result. In all school this would be learn as a side bar to the other teachings at a higher rank.
Thank you for posting your question. L.P.Lambert.

 I  know in interveiw  with Morio higannoa   goju ryu.He say Im against changing kata He also go to say I beleive that kata  is not just something made up.
they are hundreds and thousand of year  old . Their is alot of information in each one of them.Few  people know that there are certain katas to be practiced in the morning and other in the even in order to get the most out of them.He  say lot of the knowledged has been lost through the years
but it my responsibility to keep this important infomation alive for generation to come
ps  i hope these 2 post  help

The horary points, to learn more on these pp, pick up a standard text book on acupunture. it's all in there, and more.