JKA Karate Videos

No joke - the best place to see JKA kata videos is at YouTube.
Just go to YouTube.com and search for something like, JKA kata Heian shodan (or Heian nidan).
Here are the basic JKA kata as performed by instructors of the JKA Honbu Headquarters in Tokyo:

Heian Shodan
Heian Nidan
Heian Sandan
Heian Yondan
Heian Godan
Tekki Shodan
Bassai Dai
Kanku Dai
Jion
Enpi

During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020 Bob Jacobs conducted weekly Zoom kata seminars where he covered all 26 JKA kata. The resulting videos are not rehearsed or polished, but do go into depth on how to correctly move, common mistakes that beginners as well as advanced students make, the evolution of movements since the JKA was founded, and the most common bunkai (applications). The purpose of these seminars was to get black belts to think of kata not as rote exercises to be superficially understood, but as objects of lifelong study.
You can search for "JKA Karate Kata Seminars" on YouTube. The links to each kata are below:
Heian Shodan
Heian Nidan
Heian Sandan
Heian Yondan
Heian Godan
Tekki Shodan & Tekki Nidan
Tekki Sandan
Bassai Dai
Kanku Dai
Jion
Enpi
Jitte
Hangetsu
Gankaku
Nijushiho
Sochin
Meikyo
Chinte
Bassai Sho
Kanku Sho
Gojushiho Sho
Gojushiho Dai
Unsu
Wankan
Jiin

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