Originally Posted by
dancingbears101
My eight year old daughter will be going to Disney World next October--in classical karate. She wants to do kata kusanku with Okinawan hairpins (ji-kuwa, gifa, kanzashi, jifua). This was mainly because we read that it was said that Hohan Soken practiced this kata with the hairpins. However, after recently talking to an elder Grand Master that learned under Hohan Soken we were told this was not the case. We are unable to find these older style ji-kuwas anywhere.
Any thoughts to help us out? Or comments?
Thank you, Sharyn Rohder